Resume

Rick Graner’s Career Highlights

Here’s the quick highlights of my career, it’s been filled with webmaster type roles, consulting, start-ups and large corporate types like Microsoft and HP.

Rick Graner Resume in Word Format (.docx)
Rick Graner Resume in Word Format (.doc)
Rick Graner Resume in PDF (.pdf)

Social Media Planning Document (.pptx)
Interactive Marketing Strategies (.pptx)

• First Webmaster job was at Zeos Computers in 1994
• Web developer using .NET C# currently and have always developed websites using Microsoft technologies dating back to the first Visual Studio products.
• I currently have four iPhone applications that I scope out the requirements for, managed and outsourced the work with the development staff to bring in on-time and on budget (ucook.com, flavortownusa.com, localbanana.com and fantasydemon.com).
• Search Marketing, Social Media and trying to get more traffic to websites has been my focus for the last few years. I helped the Grocery Shopping Network group bump up their Google traffic with better on page SEO tactics and lowered their bounce rate to 30% by making sure that the content people were looking for was easily found.
• Spent time as a Quality Assurance script developer and for the launch of BizTalk Server, I wrote test scripts for the admin tool that were initially coded to run in 4 hours but after I tweaked the scripts, I was able to run the suite of tests in 20 minutes.
• Worked at Carmichael Lynch Advertising to do more work creatively along with developing my craft as a developer and try out the Advertising arena. It was a blast working on sites like Harley Davidson, Jack Links, American Standard and Tractor Supply Company. The fast paced results-only type of environment was exactly the environment that I enjoy and flourish at.
• I’ve been involved in four start-up companies (schoolbell.com, nazcainc.com, gridsixty.com and groceryshopping.net) where I was able to wear all the IT hats (development, architecture, project management and product management).
• Worked with VMWare to help facilitate the installation, setup and maintenance of a backend database with 6-12 web servers. I helped do the work to get the migration setup correctly and working on the new platform.
• Spent five years as an Hewlett-Packard software consultant traveling to client sites and helping bring in small project for the CupLab in Des Moines, IA to large projects like BizTalk Server QA testing at Microsoft.

I could go on and on but take a look at my resume links above and contact me with all your questions.

I have a very diverse background technically which allows me to work on many different aspects of the business and makes me valuable in the fact that if I don’t know something I quickly find it but most of what you will want me to do I’m very familiar with.

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