Point Vantage

Software Engineer
http://www.myinks.com
From: 1/1/2005 To: 1/1/2006 Location: Burbank, CA

Initially hired as the Senior Software Engineer over a team of two ASP.NET (C# ) developers. I was quickly promoted to Director of IT over the IS and IT departments with a staff of 7. Later promoted to the VP of Operations over the IT, IS, QA, and Fulfillment departments. In charge of strategic planning, infrastructure, and development. Selected, placed, subcontracted, and managed programmers, DBAs, network engineers, and other supporting technical staff. Provided services in the following areas: business planning, Internet business strategy, project planning and management, business process analysis, requirements analysis, software requirements specification (SRS) creation. Led all development efforts for the Challenger One family of companies (Challenger One, Point Vantage, Color Laboratories, and JDI Technologies). Migrated all systems from ASP classic to .NET (C#). Took a sister company’s B2B platform to the internet by integrating its business methodologies into our e-commerce platform with ASP.NET (C#). Integrated our e-commerce platform with Great Plains using MS eConnect and C#. Developed the first Customer Loyalty Program to enhance the existing customer relationship and make better use of internal marketing efforts (www.bointz.com). Extended the Loyalty Program into a Partner Program. Implemented the company’s first data warehouse to provide better reporting capabilities of past trends to allow the marketing department to be able to focus in on click campaign successes and failures to improve future advertising capabilities. Successfully oversaw the migration of the company’s many websites from ASP classic to ASP.NET (VB.Net, C#). Smoothly managed the technical integration of newly purchased company’s (JDI Technologies) and remote locations (Calabasas, Brazil, China). Managed the integration of the Intermix ink brands on to our e-commerce platform (www.allyoucanink.com, www.premiumink.com, www.2for1inkjet.com, etc.). Was the lead architect for the ground up redesign of the company’s proprietary e-commerce platform (www.modcart.com). Managed all technical aspects of the ground up development of the new office building to house all of the company’s office, shipping, and warehouse resources. Drove the migration of all of the company’s resources from multiple physical locations to one centralized warehouse/office facility. Planned, purchased, and oversaw the installation of the company’s new data center. Researched and managed the installation of the new VOIP phone system. Designed and configured the call-center capabilities of the VOIP system for each of the sister entities. Researched and installed the company’s first wireless environment. www.pointvantage.com, www.myinks.com, www.77colors.com, www.allyoucanink.com, www.2for1inkjet.com, www.premiumink.com, www.bointz.com, www.c1admin.com, www.2saveoninkjet.com, www.bointz.com, www.whiteboystore.com, www.vitaminboost.com, many more

My Tweets

Andrew Siemer (7/28/2010):
@elijahmanor congrats!
Andrew Siemer (7/28/2010):
@damienguard the number of downsides of R# compared to its upsides are small!
Andrew Siemer (7/27/2010):
SQL Search from @RedGate is a wonderful tool when in someone else's schema
Andrew Siemer (7/25/2010):
Fungus cure may cause water to have a "slight" color change! SLIGHT http://tweetphoto.com/34749788
Andrew Siemer (7/24/2010):
Even Ales likes looking at the Arowana and Oscars! http://tweetphoto.com/34517472
Andrew Siemer (7/24/2010):
#reasonsToMoveToTexas - RT @nickriley222: @asiemer ain't that a kick in nut$. Gas is $2.30 in Texas
Andrew Siemer (7/24/2010):
My youngest got her ears pierced today! http://tweetphoto.com/34493013
Andrew Siemer (7/23/2010):
The downside of having a big family - and therefore a big car: http://tweetphoto.com/34441053
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
Phil Haack @haacked is answering questions in room1 of #MvcConf
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
Phil Haack @haacked is answering questions in room1 of MvcConf
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
(really? serious cool points...) RT @theimp67: Wow, @shanselman took time out of his vacation for the #mvcconf keynote - what a great guy.
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
@jbogard you are gonna make the 5 star rating for sure from what I read on twitter...can't wait to see the recording
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
RT @JamesKovacs: I would have thought that a down vote on a Jon Skeet answer would have resulted in an InvalidOperationException.
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
!!oops..missed the 0 -> RT @jglozano: awesome we have 530 people on the #mvcconf keynote with @shanselman! (and growing!!)
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
RT @jglozano: awesome we have 539 people on the #mvcconf keynote with @shanselman! (and growing!!)
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
#mvcconf - How much did LEGO pay to be a sponsor of MvcConf??
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
#mvcconf 490 people watching hanselman virtually! Great job @jlzander @ehexter @jongalloway
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
as usual @shanselman rocks. His slides really help get his point across! #mvcconf
Andrew Siemer (7/22/2010):
RT @gil_zilberfeld: No need to wait too long - less than 1.5 hrs. live webinar "Unit Testing in the Wild" via #LIDNUG http://bit.ly/9YZphv