Designed and built a web site hosting platform, an e-commerce platform, billing system, marketing system and call center sales system meant to interface with a predictive dialer. Directed project flow with engineers and contractors. Was also the primary engineer and coder for most of these systems. Worked with strategic partners for business alliances and to outsource parts of projects. Worked with business partner, Steve Torkos, to set business direction and marketing goals and determine corporate structure. Made presentations about the company and it's technology to investors and other business partners.

Skills Applied: Business planning, Management of a team, Sales forecasting, Presentation of ideas and strategies, Technology built in Perl/PostgreSQL.

Designed and built accounting/billing interface supporting more than 60,000 paid web hosting subscriptions. Worked with marketing and finance managers to create a recapture system for credit card declines which increased recapture rates by more than 150%. Engineered a scalable provisioning solution for all 4 million hosted web sites and a server farm of more than 80 servers. Migrated 50,000 paid accounts from an older billing system to a new more scalable solution. Integrated with third party API's for real-time credit card processing (AuthorizeNet, CyberSource, and ProPay), registered domain administration (Register.com), and billing systems (Extent, EclipseNet).

Skills Applied: Engineering for system scalability, Accounting/Finance engineering, Understanding of corporate revenue models, Technology built in Perl/Oracle

Designed and built many e-commerce, intranet and extranet solutions for clients. Met and worked with clients to determine business needs and functional requirements. Wrote an embedded web framework and programming language we named Synoma. Inetz decided to market and spin off Synoma as it's own standalone product and company. Worked with investors and outsourcing firms in Syria to plan Synoma's architecture, business positioning, and roadmap to an initial public offering in 2002. Late in the plans however, things fell apart.

Skills Applied: Versatility in handling many projects and clients, Business planning, Interviewing of technical candidates, Technology built in Perl/MySQL,

After a previous hosting business, LiquidOrange.com failed in the end of 2003, my partner and I set out to rebuild the platform from scratch to make it more scalable and robust. We tried to use some of the old code from LiquidOrange.com, but in the end started completely fresh. I laid out a completely new hosting solution which included a reseller model, a billing solution, site builder, e-commerce application, and hosting administration system. The billing solution was designed to allow strategic partners or ourselves to easily monetize the hosting accounts and run all types of promotional offers online or offline. The site builder included a powerful and flexible site template system, an image manager, and advanced frameworks to run photo albums or other popular applications. The site builder also included a multi-lingual engine to allow language switching for an entire web site. The e-commerce application included advanced product sub-categorization, inventory management, international-standard tax and shipping algorithms and a modular checkout system.

This was a programming language for web systems that greatly increased the speed of development for Inetz projects. The language is HTML-embedded and is designed to streamline database integration and common web operations. The database access methods were simple enough to empower basic HTML coders to develop feature-rich dynamic shopping carts, intranets, and web portals. Inetz's low-end HTML people became mid-level application developers, and soon the majority of new Inetz projects were coded in Synoma. In early 2000 we began preparation to build Synoma into a stand-alone product and company in competition with Cold Fusion. Investors were secured and we selected programming teams in Syria. The new company was positioned for launch in early 2001 and an initial public offering in 2002. Late in the planning phases however, the investors felt we would not be soon enough to market and the plans were abandoned.