I live in my own world and play by my own rules. Constantly thinking and analyzing, there aren’t many topics that I haven’t thought about and formed my own opinions on. This is neither a good thing or a bad thing. It’s just me.
Yep — I’ve worked in many different fields. Tech. Music. Fitness. Photography. Authoring. Didn’t do too bad in them, either! Who knows what’s next?
Leads planning efforts; gathers product and project requirements
Assembles project plans and detailed timelines
Collaborates with team members for sprint planning, prioritizing and assigning work, and breaking down business requirements to functional requirements for development and QA processes
Monitors work efforts on a daily basis
Manages and performs quality review and regression testing
Creates test plans to ensure comprehensive coverage across all environments and stakeholder teams
Escalates functional, quality and timeline issues appropriately
Conducts retrospectives and lessons learned in an effort to improve future projects
Manages, mitigates, and communicates risks with project scope, budget and resources to team members and stakeholders
Tracks key project milestones, suggesting adjustments to help ensure plans and resources meet the needs of customer
Establishes and maintain lines of communication with outsourced staff and stakeholders; and with IT staff and resources involved in collaborative projects
Manages development work contracted with external vendors
Taught HIIT classes including treadmill work, strength training, and boxing
Recruited and trained fitness level employees in their respective job duties
Prepared weekly schedules and work assignments for Fitness Trainers.
Ensured customers were given high quality services and assistance when needed
Assisted in developing and maintaining workout programs
Stayed abreast of latest updates in fitness industry and implemented when possible
Monitored the initial workouts of new clients and provided feedback
Monitored and controlled expenses within the allotted budget
Offered various fitness programs to new clients’ specific needs
Worked with other staff to disseminate monthly revenue targets
Ensured that all staff followed corporate procedures and policies
Provided training to staff for professional growth
Developed personal training programming for clients of all demographics
Led all personal trainers in client retention and monthly revenue
Taught 4 weekly Sports Conditioning Classes that included interval training, calisthenics, beginner boxing routines, and plyometrics
Direct accountability for all fitness operations, sales and systems, hiring and developing, service offerings, as well as execute education and training programs to enhance the success and experience of all concerned.
Manages all Personal Trainers, Group Exercise instructors, and Fitness Sales people including hiring, performance evals, write-ups, professional development, and payroll
Identifies business needs, performs assessments, determines solutions to business problems, and develops business processes
Developed marketing strategies for in-gym membership engagement as well as corporate engagement such as speaking engagements, presentations, etc.
Manages, monitors, and evaluates all personal training business reports including Active Client Penetration, Sales Reports, Membership Retention, and Total Service Revenue Projections
Creates various advanced MS Excel worksheets to analyze and assess business budget needs, using company sales and revenue reports and projection tables
Trainer development (exercise science, client management, and membership engagement)
Ranked a top 10 manager company-wide in the area of department revenue
Created and presented an in-house health and wellness guide for the corporate staff onboarding process. Topics included:
Created algorithms for implementation in PHP. Developed complex components of websites using PHP, MVC frameworks such as CodeIgniter, and WordPress. All projects used several inhouse PHP plugins for WP including APIs to various external applications. Mentored and assisted developers with in-depth technical issues.
Developed a developer guideline for PHP standards and best practices, including general PHP syntax and style, commenting, and security guidelines such as mandatory server-side form validation and XSS filtering. This ensured that all new code would be easier to maintain and understand moving forward.
Learned and utilized an underused web application called Advantage to organize the entire company workflow, including estimates (internal and vendor), purchase orders, timesheets, project schedules, and day to day tasks.
Created an environment of intrinsic change leadership. Cultivated developers and others to foresee process and workflow problems and be proactive in figuring out solutions.
Managed approval of both print and interactive projects, client interaction and presentations by working with the Director of Account Services (Account Executives)
Responsible for predicting work overloads and contracting outside vendors to supplement drastic work increases.
Successfully managed and launched the first public-facing DHS ICE-level content management system
Reviewed developers' code before migrating changes to the production server
Oversaw transition from physical servers to Cloud hosting (Akamai as CDN); Manages LAMP servers within DHS Public Cloud from OS level to Application level (CMS)
Helped develop technical specification documentation, including PHP classes and methods/functions (FRD, SRD, SDD, etc.)
Implemented custom jQuery modules for various aspects of the project, including slideshows and front-end data manipulation.
Managed project milestones and tasks such as designing the WordPress framework for an Enterprise level project
Successfully managed several web development projects for Department of Defense (DOD) Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) developers located all over the world using the CodeIgniter MVC framework
Ensured that all technologies conformed to the many government and international standards
Managed a medium-sized multidisciplinary team to develop web-based applications and solutions that address the business/customer strategy and produce measurable results for the client
Developed a PHP Employee timecard system sing a standard LAMP stack and Agile development workflow
Created and implemented code change processes
Oversaw LAMP stack development server Virtual Machine templates
Instructs several web development courses ranging from beginner to advanced topics including PHP, WordPress, and CMS management
Develops lesson plans and course evaluation guides specialized for each course and class
Monitors student comprehension through coursework and observation of progress
Brainstorms with other instructors to create new and innovative ways to introduce various lessons and web technologies
Held TS/SCI clearance while developing and debugging Enterprise-level software for government agencies
Provided C++ object-oriented design, programming and implementation support to the classified client system.
Designed, developed, tested, and debugged software that contained logical and mathematical solutions to business/mission problems or questions in computer language for solutions by means of data processing equipment.
I’m currently looking to network with potential business partnerships related to any of my active projects — my book, More Than Pushups, my tech startup drinktheTown, or professional non-studio photography.