What I’m currently working on
Entrepreneurship: I have been making money online since 2002. The main draw of Internet marketing for me is the portable income aspect of it. Currently, I’m teaching myself PHP/MySQL in order to be able to make my own spiders, Webbots, scrapers and Web apps to automate various aspects of my business. Some of my Web apps are also planned for commercial release.
I’ve long held that a good Internet marketer is someone who understands emotional direct response marketing very well and can also deal with the tech part of the equation. However, I understand that not everyone can operate as both a marketer and a tech guy. I think that, in the not so distant future, most successful Internet marketers will be teams of 2 or more. To aid that, I plan to develop a site where hackers and marketers can meet, socialize and work together. The site will not be a freelance site but instead a place for real business partnerships to come to life.
Resiliency: In 2007 when folks were using the “R” word (recession), I was already using the “D” word (depression). I believe that George Carlin was right when he stated that this country (the U.S.) had fallen off a cliff and we were just waiting for the repercussions. I’ve taught Internet marketing to a few people in the past but in 2012, I’ll be launching a site specifically aimed at folks completely new to making money online. My goal is to add additional income streams to what folks are already working on making for a resilient income. I want to help as many people as I can successfully weather what lies ahead.
CV / Work experience
I have lived and worked in Texas, New Mexico and Oregon and my travels have taken me to Mexico and Central America.
Manufacturing:
The majority of my working years (before I started my own business) were centered around high-volume manufacturing including a stint with Mars Inc. At their Waco, TX facility where I interned during college.
Following that I spent 15 years with Intel at their high-volume facilities in New Mexico: Fab 7, Fab 9 and Fab 11X as well as one of the R&D facilities in Oregon: D1-C.
My first 9 years at Intel, I operated, worked on and improved equipment and processes for CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) running Tungsten Silicide and blanket Tungsten, PVD/Sputter (Physical Vapor Deposition) running Aluminum silicide and Vapor Oxide Etchers running various processes on 150mm silicon.
I followed that up with 6 years covering multiple processes on 300mm copper electroplaters.
Education
If you added up all my college credits you’d have a degree… but I don’t.
Computer Science:
I initially studied Computer Science but upon coming to the conclusion that COBOL was nothing short of punishment my interest in computers receded to occasional hobby status.
Laser Electro-Optics
I shifted gears to Laser Electro-Optics where I studied vacuum systems, digital electronics and optics as well as pulsed and cw laser systems ranging in power from “supermarket scanner” to “able to set your house on fire from space.”
Licenses, Certifications and fun
I’m a D licensed skydiver with 300+ jumps
I’m a certified private pilot: VFR, single engine land.