John Sisler

Experience

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  FirstMerit Bank

  Jul 2000 - Aug 2006

  Senior Developer

  Design and implementation of a defect tracking and resolution system used for Consumer Loans, Mortgage Loans, Commercial Loans, and Deposit Services.Design and implementation of a system used to manage marketing to prospects or customers based on a dozen campaign varieties by distributing the calls to branches.Design and implementation of a system used to manage claims from cc and dc used to track trends that identify fraudulent activity and alert customers of the process by generating form lettersManaged a development team to implement a vendor application that electronically manages the mortgage process from loan origination through processing and closing.Managed a vendor system by promoting enhancements and increasing service availability through the Internet Banking channel. Show less

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  Brulant / Rosetta

  Oct 2006 - Jun 2008

  Technical Architect

  The top interactive agency in Northeast Ohio, and recognized industry leaders in Consumer Products & Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Technology & Media, B2B and Travel & Hospitality.• Designed processes to deliver superior results in organic SEO and digital strategy for more than 30 clients. • The clients were in diverse verticals including manufacturing, finance, consumer products, retail. • Promoted the organic performance in search engine results pages (SERP's) by applying white-hat governing values of SEO.• Designed and trained internal Interactive (media design and usability), Java, Microsoft and SEO consultants in organic SEO architectural design.• Key projects included the extensive conversion of Borders eCommerce website from Amazon, a portal solution to maintain corporate branding for Marriott, SEO digital strategy project for Moen, education for Progressive Insurance marketing teams on SEO benefits and best practices, and a website redesign for TTI (Dirt Devil and Hoover). ]Tool Overview: Visual Studio, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php), RegEx, Python, Drupal, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Cold FusionSkill Overview: Training, Consulting, SEO Practice development Show less

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  GTP Travel Group

  Jul 2008 - Feb 2009

  SEO Technical Architect

  The top interactive agency in Northeast Ohio, and recognized industry leaders in Consumer Products & Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Technology & Media, B2B and Travel & Hospitality.• Designed processes to deliver superior results in organic SEO and digital strategy for more than 30 clients. • The clients were in diverse verticals including manufacturing, finance, consumer products, retail. • Promoted the organic performance in search engine results pages (SERP's) by applying white-hat governing values of SEO.• Designed and trained internal Interactive (media design and usability), Java, Microsoft and SEO consultants in organic SEO architectural design.• Key projects included the extensive conversion of Borders eCommerce website from Amazon, a portal solution to maintain corporate branding for Marriott, SEO digital strategy project for Moen, education for Progressive Insurance marketing teams on SEO benefits and best practices, and a website redesign for TTI (Dirt Devil and Hoover). Tool Overview: Visual Studio, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php), RegEx, Python, Drupal, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Cold FusionSkill Overview: Training, Consulting, SEO Practice development Show less

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  NSA Technology LLC

  Feb 2009 - Nov 2009

  Online Marketing Executive, SEO

  NSA is an Internet company that leads the Affiliate Marketing vertical. Products include tools that allow customers to manage their own businesses by providing education, training, and software solutions for ecommerce storefronts as well as a library of how-to electronic books.• Managed digital strategy, and implemented through teams of programmers, developers, graphic artists and media artists. NSA grew from 15 to 150 people in 9 months and John’s role included establishing standards and implementing best practices at every stage of product development and fulfillment.• Mentored developers as well as designing and conducting training for the programmers and developers.• Managed 50 developers. • Established partnerships with eBay, DOBA and PayPal to create an administrative interface that allowed our customers to own and manage a website which could maintain inventory, post auctions onto eBay, collect money with PayPal and fulfill with DOBA. The complete solution included 10 courses on how to run an ecommerce website and understand eBay. Within one week of launching we were supporting over 400 new customer sign-ups daily.• Designed and implemented an application to support Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns. By downloading our keyword information we were able to automatically produce landing pages and other support pages. A practical example is that for 1200+ keywords, the application produces thousands of landing and multiple support pages in a few minutes.Tool Overview: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php), WordPress, eBay API, Doba API, PayPal API MS OfficeSkills Overview: Technical Management of Developers and Designers, Managed QA, Managed Implementations, Reputation Management Show less

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  DataSage Inc.

  Sept 2009 - Jan 2011

  Solutions Architect

  DataSage is an application development company that focuses on SEO and the Search experience.• Designed a repeatable training course to train Marketers, IT Professionals and Sales consultants on the aspects of search and how to present a profitable model to their clients while maintaining their own bottom lines.Tool Overview: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php), MSOfficeSkill Overview: Internet Hosting, Application Consulting, SEO Consulting, Link Building, Social Media, Analytics, Development, QA, Implementation, Maintenance, Reputation Management Consultation Show less

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  Perficient

  Nov 2009 - Jun 2010

  Senior Solutions Architect

  Perficient is a growing and dynamic company of over 1100 people that have a broad range of consulting experiences and domains of knowledge. Specifically, John was brought on board to build a national SEO practice and to share how search engine algorithms’ function and change over time to enhance the Enterprise Content Management practice.• Consulted and develops strategies for enterprise level architectures• Performed as enterprise search strategist using multiple vendor frameworksTrained by Microsoft/FAST University for• FAST administration and tuning• FAST integration for SharePoint• FAST custom application developmentGoogle GSATrained by Google for• 2-Day JumpStarts• Custom Interface design• Tuning of result sets by virtue of biasing based on how customers actually searchDesigned Perficient’s SEO offering for ECM• Organic• Analytics• PPC• Social Media• Link BuildingBlogged articles at Perficient about topics such as• Why SEO is actually work, and• The Synergy between Organic Optimizations and Paid Optimizations Show less

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  First Niagara Bank

  Jul 2010 - Oct 2010

  Consultant

  First Niagara is a financial institution that starting with $20B in assets intends to grow to $100B in 2 years’ time. John’s duties were to evaluate software and staffing to forecast scalability of working systems and to make recommendations of alternatives where needed. The goals included interviewing the LOB resources, technical staff and vendors to determine the scalability of the current systems. Reports were organized into Visio and MSWord and delivered to the CIO.Recently FNFG has completed the first acquisition and are $40B.Tool Overview: Ektron CMS, MSOfficeSkill Overview: Corporate Resource Evaluations, System Feature and Scalability Evaluations and Results Reporting Show less

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  Rockett Interactive, Inc.

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2011

  Technology Architect

  Rockett Interactive is an online marketing agency that uses Google DFA to track online behaviors related to ad placement and determine an optimized ad spend. The process was created and developed over years and was in the process of being migrated to MS SQL Server. John’s duties included managing the migration and contracted resources as well as developing a deployment strategy. By automating manual steps and managing the workflow in MSSQL John was able to reduce work for employees at all levels. In cases report delivery time was reduced from 8 hours to < 30 seconds. Further the additional Business Intelligence (BI) layer included development of reports for trending analysis.Tool Overview: MS SQL Server 8.0, Report Builder 3.0Skill Overview: Architectural Review, Application Standards Definition and Deployment, Product Management, BI and Process Improvement Show less

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  Perficient

  Jul 2011 - Aug 2012

  Solutions Architect

  John served as a Business Analyst to gather requirements and organize documentation to prepare and help execute SharePoint 2010 environments for Health Care groups that included dozens of hospitals each. The documentation included wireframes and story boards to help determine the efforts required to deliver the desired features.The projects were defined to brand the hospital group as an enterprise level entity and build out each individual hospital as a SharePoint sub-site of the enterprise site collection. After working with the clients to determine search scopes for sub-sites John served to brand the sites using SP2010 and SP2010 Designer (including XSLT, CSS, JavaScript using the Jquery lib and other technologies) to deliver the branded Master Pages and the Layouts that were defined by the earlier designed requirements’ definitions. Show less

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  Youth Fitness Charitable Organization

  Apr 2012 - now

  Elite Ultra Endurance Athlete

  Youth Fitness is a charitable organization that teaches/sponsors nutrition and exercise education to curb the childhood obesity epidemic America is facing today.John coaches youth on nutrition and exercise and also runs around a lot to raise money that help sustain the charities efforts.Follow us on http://facebook.com/RoadTo100 !!Read about our Press in Cary Magazine at http://www.carymagazine.com/features/one-mans-road-100 .

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  AICPA

  Sept 2012 - Nov 2019

  Senior Business Analyst – Enterprise Business Solutions

  The role of the Enterprise Business Solutions Web Business Analyst Consultant includes responsibilities throughout the entire range of the Project Development Life Cycle (SDLC).As an Enterprise Web Business Analyst, John gathered requirements from business users translating business vernacular into functional requirements that could then be worked on by the project teams. This included inputs, requests, and feature descriptions from individual and group stakeholder meetings to formulate the requirements. John worked directly with technical resources such as the middleware development team, application architects, and database architects to identify solutions to meet business requirements.Once business requirements were consolidated, John documented customer facing presentation aspects of several projects.After requirement definition, John built Axure models and web proof of Concepts to demonstrate to business users what could be accomplished once projects were completed, to drive buy-in and shorten approval cycles. In addition John leveraged full featured web presence proof of concepts using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) as well as incorporating fully responsive design.John created feasibility assessment documents, approach documents, and functional requirement documents for 28 projects such as implementing Search Engine Optimization, Roadmap, Digital Strategy, Google Analytics, an Ideation Platform, and migrating application/hardware architectures.John conducted On-Page Search Engine Optimization Reviews of AICPA.org and CGMA.org and helped by instructing the implementation team and coordinating the implementation schedule. Show less

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  Transcend Endurance

  Oct 2017 - now

  Counselor

  At Transcend Endurance Running, we offer completely free, and totally comprehensive run coaching to individuals and their loved ones who have struggled or are struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues.​We are not licensed clinicians, therapists, doctors or priests.We just know a lot about running and about how it can be an additional tool in treatment or recovery.We understand and want to help.That’s it. No strings.Just run and transcend.

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  (ISC)2 Raleigh-Durham

  Feb 2018 - now

  • Webmaster

    Feb 2018 - now

  • President - Retired

    Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
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  Accenture

  Nov 2019 - now

  • Cyber Protection AppSec Manager

    Dec 2022 - now

  • Cyber Defense Services Consultant

    Sept 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Advanced Attack & Readiness Operations Team Lead

    Sept 2021 - Sept 2021

  • Business & Integration Architecture Specialist

    Nov 2019 - Sept 2021