Robert Thomas Consulting and Employment Experience
| Dates | 7/15/08 - 2/7/09
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| Job Title | Designer/Developer Web Enhancements Team |
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| Employer | Consultant - Capital One, LLC |
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| Address | 1009 Capital One Drive |
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| Richmond, VA |
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| Type of Business | Online Banking / Credit Cards |
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| | Duties | As an in-house consultant at a major national financial institution, I was part of a highly specialized Agile development "swat team". This elite team was responsible for the ongoing daily, weekly and monthly enhancements to the web site of one of the fastest growing and most successful online financial institutions on the planet. Was intricately involved in all aspects of every new release of this site, one of the world's most secure and active web marketing tools.
My work on this team encompassed a range of duties, from interfacing with client expectations, developing requirements documentation, coordinating both graphic and technical solutions, to working with BAS testing strategies to maintain and enhance the effectiveness of the marketing goals for each Line of Business. This site was worth hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business for the company. |
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| Skills Used | Web 2.0 User Interfaces; W3C standards, Flash, Photoshop, Javascript, Perl, PHP, jQuery plugins, Mercury Quality Center Testing Suite, Agile Management procedures. |
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| Dates | 1/29/07 - 6/15/08
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| Job Title | Alternative Markets Architect |
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| Employer | GroundWork Design, Inc. |
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| Address | 9601 Gayton Road |
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| Richmond, VA 23238 |
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| Type of Business | Rich Media Application Development |
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| | Duties | Took employer's expertise in Rich Media Applications Development with only one marketing channel - college tours - and parlayed that into a mid-six figure joint venture for health care industry a $2.2 trillion dollar market. Also opened marketing channels in the Hospitality, Golf, Resort and Museum industries and a potential revenue stream of over $100 million dollars. Co-initiated with founder, the marketing concept of "gifting partners" to use use financial resources otherwise spent on company PR and advertising to assist non-profits by donating a pilot application for use in raising capital for a larger, well funded application to allow museum clients to "Transcend Their Physical Space". |
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| Skills Used | Used over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience in new business development and Industrial Design consulting combined with deep knowledge of web based application development featuring Flash ActionScript and High Definition Video software to open new vertical markets for this national Rich Media and Interactive Applications Development Group. Flash, Adobe Premier Pro, Soreson Squeeze, Photoshop, Javascript, Perl, PHP. |
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| Dates | 9/2003 - 1/15/07
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| Job Title | Founder, Managing Partner |
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| Employer | Klik Home, LLC |
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| Address | 1303 Westridge Road |
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| Richmond, VA 23229 |
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| Type of Business | Online Furniture Design, Retail and Manufacturing |
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| | Duties | Founded the very first online furnishings B2C in 2003 where the customer can design their own furniture piece and have it shipped within 1 week. Developed IT infrastructure to allow customers to design their own furniture on the company's cutting-edge web site: www.klikhome.com. Used computer programming and 3D design tools to automate the order processing for the above site. Created "design-it-yourself" order form featuring "lego set" of furniture parts. |
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| Skills Used | Computers, computer-controlled routers, laser-cutting and woodworking machinery, hand tools, hand-applied patinas/stains. |
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| Dates | 1/1/00 - 7/1/03
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| Job Title | CEO |
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| Employer | Vision InfoSystems, Inc. |
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| Address | 501 E. Franklin St. Suite 624 |
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| Richmond, VA 23219 |
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| Type of Business | web-based software development |
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| | Duties | Firm developed web-based business automation solutions tools using high-level multimedia and graphics modules such as Flash and GPL in an Open Source, RDBMS environment running in Linux. Developed interactive personal website software for the Realty industry saving Realtors thousands of dollars of wasted time per month while automating many tasks still done by hand in this hot market. Automated MLS uploads, IDX standards and information retrieval for several major Realty firms by linking them to Richmond Assoc. of Realtors database. |
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| Skills Used | Software: Flash and LAMP (Linux, Apache, Perl, mySQL) technology combined with Industrial design principles to yield a Rapid Development Prototyping environment for low cost business solutions. |
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| Dates | 5/8/00 - 12/30/00
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| Job Title | Consultant |
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| Employer | TeeTimes.com |
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| Williamsburg, VA |
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| Type of Business | Online golf scheduling |
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| | Duties | Worked as outside consultant to integrate the ERP models of TeeTimes.com and it's new partner Golfnet to provide a complete Fulfillment Process Tracking application based on Design Patterns similar to CORBA/ORB.
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| Skills Used | Used Flash 4 as the web front end and Oracle as the back end to track entire process from Lead through installation and Grand Opening of each golfcourse added to TeeTimes and Golfnet s joint network of over 1600 courses. |
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| Dates | 1/24/00 - 5/8/00
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| Job Title | Acting Director of Software Development |
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| Employer | TeeTimes.com |
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| Address | Jamestown Rd. |
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| Williamsburg, VA |
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| Type of Business | Online Golf Scheduling |
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| | Duties | Initiated in-house software upgrade from 2000 Perl scripts to a web-based database application using Oracle 9i. Hired Oracle Database Designer to put company in a stronger position with regard to Life Cycle and Quality Assurance. Was first to recommend the use of Flash 4 in conjunction with an Oracle database to input over 19,000 different variables necessary to book a tee time online. Developed, published and instituted the first Quality Assurance Manual for this largest independent booking agent for golf tee times online.
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| Skills Used | Used Flash 4, Oracle 8i, Perl, Erwin, Dia and several Linux based development tools. |
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