Mission:

Seeking a position connecting social networks, socio-economic statistic analysis, commerce, advanced technology, and foreign policy to provide profoundly simple, refreshingly optimistic, and efficient long-term strategies for future-focused businesses, financial institutions, and think-tanks, where the market-savvy, adaptable, and driven are needed.

Professional Summary:

Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran with four years Army experience, military intel/Arabic linguistic support for special forces unit. TS/SCI cleared.

Over 10 years of experience in design, programming, and database integration in a web site environment.

Six years experience trading equities in the U.S. stock market and a strong background in languages including Arabic, Latin, ancient Greek, French, Spanish, and some Swedish.

Proven ability to diversify my skills competently and change settings, adapt to new information, and motivate others to become more productive than they thought possible. Track record of distilling ideas and energy into products clients love.

Selected Skills & Accomplishments:

Honor student selectee, 2008 Academy of Achievement Summit. One of two representatives sent from the Georgetown MSFS program. 250 honor students attending.

After developing a reputation and portfolio, attracted new clients to parent web design company as head designer for original designs, database infrastructure, and advertising for fabGORGON (a New York/Philadelphia advertising firm), a Philips Electronics cell phone promotion, Blue Ball Philadelphia, Flash Flood Productions (radio promotion production), and the Austin Powers Official Collector's Club.

Managed 700% increase in equity trading portfolio during two-year stint as daytrader.

Served in Iraq as an Army paratrooper and Arabic linguist in the U.S. Army. Deployment, responsibility for, and maintenance of hundred-thousand dollar computer equipment.

Have written close to 350 essays primarily about society, but also about politics, the stock market, war, love, education, and gadgetry. Only available in private now.

Maintain an award-winning, well-trafficked web site with extensive underlying mySQL database integration via PHP, dHTML, Ajax, and external APIs, linking over ten years of over 300MB of data together.

For benturner.com: winner of the Project Cool Site of the Day. (10/98) Reviewed in The Net magazine. (6/97)