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John Doss
13021 N. 17th Place
Phoenix, AZ 85022
jdoss@rock-n-rod.com
602-494-6338

PROFILE
I have many years of business experience ranging from running my own companies to working in a large corporate structures. I have managed large teams and been responsible for hands on design, development and operational support of a variety of business application. Over the last several months I have spent a lot of effort upgrading my skill in the areas of Social Media, Social Networks, Blogging, WordPress and WordPress plugins on the internet. This combined with my years of experience with the development and managing of Direct Marketing and Campaign Management business systems give me a unique and valuable perspective I can bring to your company.
My current objective is to find an employment opportunity that will allow me to contribute many years of business experience to a company’s business objectives.

My passions are Artistic Blacksmithing, Running and the Environment/Sustainable living.
My Blogs are: 

http://rock-n-rod.com,

http://1stmarathonplan.com,
http://teamocrun.com,
http://enviro-art.com

EXPERIENCE
BUSINESS OWNER, ROCK N ROD, LLC; PHOENIX, ARIZONA — 10/03 – PRESENT
Responsible for website development and social media/network building for the Arizona Artist Blacksmiths Association, The Virtual Assistant website, and several other social network blog sites. Thorough understand of WordPress, WordPress plug, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), as well as, E-mail Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, and Campaign Management.
Responsible for day to day operation, art and product design, creation and sales. I also have responsibility for maintaining the Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association website and I’m an active member of the Board of Directors.

LEAD PROJECT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT , STATE OF OREGON; PORTLAND, OREGON — 9/01 – 1/03
Design, development and operational support for web-based front-end application to present data warehouse database information for Justice Department’s Sentencing support system. Used by courts to show offenders records across agencies’ past history for sentencing and recidivism rate base on individual demographics.

DIRECTOR OF OUTSOURCE DEVELOPMENT, SYNTEL, INC; BEAVERTON, OREGON — 2/00 – 2/02
Responsible for building contracting practice for Syntel in the Oregon and Northwestern United States. I was responsible for several accounts and over 50 contract placements in the Oregon and Northwestern US.

BUSINESS OWNER, ROI SOLUTIONS, INC; PHOENIX, ARIZONA — 2/95 – 5/01
Led teams, design and developed business systems. Used a variety of design methodologies. I was responsible for full life cycle development including conceptual specifications and business strategy, detail design specification, application development, system and integration testing and production implementation.
Business systems included Interactive Services and Web development, back-end Direct Marketing Data warehouse database and front-end Campaign Management. Also had responsibility for leading and developing data warehouse for Establishment Services to prospect for potential Business affiliations.

LEAD PROJECT ANALYST, AMERICAN EXPRESS; PHOENIX, ARIZONA — 2/87 – 10/95
Led teams, design and developed business systems. Used a variety of design methodologies. I was responsible for full life cycle development including conceptual specifications and business strategy, detail design specification, application development, system and integration testing and production implementation.
Business systems included Interactive Services and Web development, back-end Direct Marketing Data warehouse database and front-end Campaign Management. Also had responsibility for leading and developing data warehouse for Establishment Services to prospect for potential Business affiliations.

EDUCATION
Computer Science; Oklahoma State University at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 09/77 – 05/79
Computer Science; Oscar Rose Jr. College in MidWest City, Oklahoma 09/75 – 05/77
Computer Science; Devry Institute, Phoenix, AZ 09/95 – 12/95
US Army Veteran – 11/72 – 11/74

SKILLS
Direct, Email and Affiliiate Marketing, Campaign Management, Project Management, Project Management Methodologies and life cycle, PHP, Microsoft Visual Basic Script and Java Script Oracle and PLI, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, and IMS, Cobol, JCL, HTML, ASP

REFERRALS
Upon Request.