- About Me -

My name is Jarrod Christman, I also go by Jarrod or Jarrod1937. I enjoy learning as many new things as i can, and then passing this knowledge to others. And so you will often see me frequenting the forums of gamedev.net, avsforum.com, startupnation.com...Etc.

For More Information About Me Read Below

Education

Currently i am working toward a degree in Electrical Engineering

Employment

From 2002-04 I worked at GSN as an Office Assistant
From 2006-Current I have been employed by Factory Direct Craft Supply.
Main Tasks include:

Graphic Artist
Network Administrator/Computer Repair
Web Designer
Web Programming (php)
Search Engine Optimizing
Website Usability Optimizing
Online Marketing
Database Administration And Optimizing

Skills

I am continually learning new skills, but some of my major current skills include:

Website Conversion Rate and Usability Testing Through AB and Multivariant Testing.
Advanced Computer Repair, Both Hardware and Software.
Computer Data Recovery and Security (secure data erasal, encryption...etc).
Advanced Hard Drive Repair (platter swaps, head replacements...etc).
Web Programming, PHP Based.
Building Dynamic Website Content
Building Dynamic Customer Targeted Website Content
Display Technology Calibration (setting of correct grayscale/gamma/color gamut/contrast/brightness calibration based on standards).
Advanced Sound System Calibration and Room Treatment Placements (by use of correct band absorbers and diffusers in conjunction with an RTA setup).
Website Search Engine Optimization (based on Understandings of every facet of search engine indexing and algos).
Advanced Photoshop Use and Editing, In Conjunction With Wacom Tablet Use.
Understanding Of Real-time 3d Rendering Techniques and Technologies and Building Realistic 3d Environments That Perform Fast.
Understanding of Non-Real-time 3d Technologies and Building Realistic Environments and/or Logos.
Understanding of Skeletal 3d Animation.
Basic Database Administration.
Experience With Setting up and Maintaining Virtual Servers (Vmware based).
Experience with SSH and Linux Based Servers for Remote Configuration (In particular Redhat Enterprise running Apache).
Experience with Setting up IIS for Web RDP with SSL (browser based remote login).
Experience And Knowledge With Online Web Marketing. I Am Also a Member of The American Marketing Association (AMA).

Skills in progress:

Currently learning c++
Currently learning Microsoft Exchange
Currently learning Advanced database administration (More Advanced Techniques Of - MS SQL Server, MYSQL, SQL Syntax)
Currently learning advanced network security testing (penetration testing)
Currently Learning Electrical Engineering (admittedly a more long term goal)

Recent Accomplishments :

Custom development and integration of a customer review system and accompanying backend management application for website. The design allows anyone, no matter registration status to post a product review. All reviews are easily moderated and approved/disapproved from a friendly backend management interface.
Integration of new image loading software.
Alteration of current work website structure and programming to be better optimized for search engines. The result was an increase from 7,000 to 50,000 indexed urls in google due to an increase in search engine visibility. This has also lead to a 30% search engine traffic increase thus far, with evidence showing future increases.
Designed a home page targeting system that takes search engine keywords a customer had typed in to get to our site from a corresponding search engine. These keywords were then displayed as the pages heading to increase the customer's apparent page relevancy, thereby decreasing home page landing bounce rates. Even further regular expressions were used to extract predefined "key" words to display premade themes based on the customers actual search theme, thereby decreasing home page bounce rates even further.
Design a UPS integrated system into our online cart software that allowed batch processed exporting of chosen customer orders to import into UPS Worldship. This system increases order processing productivity by a large amount.
Completely redesigned cart software's customer checkout process to decrease steps and info needed to be entered to decrease checkout abandon rates.
Increase "apparent" and real speed of website loading by decreasing http calls, ordering site structure/aesthetic code first, decreasing file size of html code/image file sizes to be loaded by customer, http gzip compression (when supported)...etc.
The creation of a search engine friendly url system for main work website. This system takes existing variables, with the new addition of the category and product name variable, and restructures the url to have the appearance of "old school" technology url's. This acts to mask the underlining technology of the site to increase security, to add key words in the url for search engines, and to mask the appearance of a site loading by use of variables to make each page seem unique to search engine spiders.
Creation and implementation of a generic page caching system for dynamic content, with a variable caching time. A dynamic page is loaded once, cached, and then any consecutive calls to that page will be loaded from the cache file while the cache file is not expired. After page cache expiration the system automatically updates the cache file and the process repeats. This both serves to decrease server load by decreasing the amount of server-side processing that needs to be done per page call, but to also reduce database load by decreasing needed database queries per page call.