Ryan McDonnell

Summary

Experience

• Technical Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

  Mystery Tackle Box

  May 2015 – Present (2 years 8 months)Greater Chicago Area

• Technology Advisor

  Mystery Tackle Box

  April 2012 – May 2015 (3 years 2 months)Greater Chicago Area

  Helped develop customized solutions on Magento ecommerce platform. Provide guidance on technology strategy, growth planning and improving processes through automation.

• Co-founder and CTO

  CraftJack

  February 2011 – May 2015 (4 years 4 months)Greater Chicago Area

  We help contractors grow their business and find new clients through lead generation and online marketing. We also help contractors better manage their leads and win more jobs.
  
  We focus on providing better leads, better service and better pricing to contractors. We also provide tools to help contractors better manage their leads and grow their business with simple and powerful lead management tools.

• Founder, CEO

  Binary Factory

  October 2008 – June 2012 (3 years 9 months)

  Provide strategic consulting and development services with an emphasis on advertising and marketing analytics.

• Web Application Developer

  Independent Consultant

  January 2000 – October 2008 (8 years 10 months)

  Provide a full-suite of a services throughout the development lifecycle including strategic planning, requirements gathering, design, development, deployment and maintenance services to many types of clients, from enterprises to small businesses. Effectively multi-task to complete projects and meet deadlines while delivering outstanding quality. Interface with sales personnel on pre- and post-project support for outsourced projects.

• Senior Web Application Developer

  Rhythm Interactive

  August 2006 – May 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  Develop and deploy a wide-range of web applications written in ASP.NET and PHP. Create information architecture diagrams to outline application functionality, workflow, and processes prior to development. Provide guidance to production personnel regarding use of emerging technologies such as AJAX, CSS frameworks, table-less HTML layouts, and search engine optimization.

• Web Developer

  GTO Financial

  April 2004 – July 2006 (2 years 4 months)

  Design, develop and deploy in-house web applications for customer relationship management (CRM), prospect tracking and loan processing. Organize and automate a database of over 1.5 million loan scenarios into a user-friendly search application to enable employees to match customers with the best programs available from over 150 mortgage lenders.
  
  Design and develop corporate web site and micro sites. Manage pay-per-click marketing campaigns with Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN adCenter. Implement advanced customized analytics solutions to effectively track marketing costs and lead value.
  
  Build and maintain corporate Active Directory environment including 40+ workstations and 10+ servers using Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 and Exchange 2000/2003. Provide remote access to agents in the field with VPN access via Microsoft ISA 2004. Provide hosting for all corporate internet web sites internally under IIS and Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005.

• Web Developer

  OCWebSolution.com

  July 2000 – April 2004 (3 years 10 months)

  Designed and developed a full-circle hosting service control panel including account management and service creation. Automated tasks such as deploying new web sites in Microsoft Internet Information Services, establishing DNS records, establishing e-mail accounts, creating SQL databases and billing customers. Seamlessly deployed and migrated solution for over 300 client accounts and resellers.

Certifications

• The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

  Coursera Verified Certificates, License ATSXWWW3XT

  August 2015 – Present

• R Programming

  Coursera Verified Certificates, License VEYXDEZGKT

  August 2015 – Present

Groups

• ITA Members-Only Group