Community Involvement
President and Illustrator
2019 - Current
Kids Draw Bob believes that strengthening a child’s well-being is about more than just academics. Our illustration lessons are designed to teach artistic techniques while keeping kids focused, engaged and entertained! Throughout these sessions, we incorporate positive lessons that revolve around the various factors affecting children’s mental health in today's society to achieve a happier, healthier mind.
Career
CTO
2009 - Current
Co-Founded in 2009 and built to a successful acquisition in 2021, HLM has grown to over 20 million in revenue with 100+ employees. I'm currently the leader of R&D, platform, infrastructure, and information.
Web Director
2007 - 2009
Wireless Toyz - National Wireless Franchise Company
In 6 months increased organic search engine traffic from under 6,000 unique visitors per month to over 55,000 unique visitors per month. Developed a rate plan comparison tool to allow customers to compare all possible rate plan, text, and data packages available from all possible carriers.
Advisory Boards
Specs Howard School of Media Arts
Graphic Design Program
Specs Howard has a very high job placement rate for graduates.  I assist those graduating students in prepping for interviews and preparing their portfolios for success in the interview process.  My biggest achievement in that process is getting students to understand how they can be great assets to a business, not just great designers.  In addition, I advise on the curriculum and technologies that future students will be using to best prepare them for the job market.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
1999 - 2004
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Trademarks and Patents
MYCE
September 10, 2009
IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: Application service provider (ASP) featuring customizable software for use in updating and maintaining a users own website, to track customer usage of the users website, and for use as in database management to track the user' associated costs. FIRST USE: 20071230. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20071230
Batman’s toolbelt can’t compete with mine.
(His car is a lot cooler though.)

Design & 3D Animation

  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign
  • Wireframes & Navigation Flowcharts
  • Autodesk Alias
  • 3D Studio Max

Marketing & Leads

  • Branding
  • Copywriting (Specifically copy designed to sell)
  • A/B Testing
  • Email Marketing (Constant Contact & MailChimp)
  • Content Marketing & Social Media Strategies

Mathematics & Reasoning

  • Advanced Calculus - Differential Equations
  • Experimental Statistics
  • MATLAB

Agile Development & Servers

  • HTML5, CSS, SASS, Javascript, jQuery
  • PHP
  • LAMP Stack, MySQL
  • Responsive Frameworks - Zurb Foundation
  • CMS: MYCE, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal
  • Many E-Commerce Platforms including MYCE, Shopify, and Magento
  • Any RESTful API
  • Email Systems
  • Shipping Integrations: Fedex, UPS, USPS

Google

  • Apps Setup, Usage, & Integration
  • Many API Integrations - OAuth 2.0
  • Analytics, Search Console, GTM
  • Adwords
  • Google My Business
  • Search Engine Optimization: I survived through all Panda, Penguin, & Hummingbird updates.

Business Development

  • Improving Profitability & Forecasting
  • Company Org Structures
  • Operations Manuals & Documentation
  • EOS

Leadership & Management

  • Team Training & Skills Assessment
  • Long Term & Rapid Project Delivery
  • Employee Reviews & Performance Assessment
  • HR Onboarding & Communications

Office

  • Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access
  • Open Office Draw and Suite
  • Editable PDF Creation and Deployment
  • Google Apps (Usage & API Integration)
  • Box.com

Workflow & Project Management

  • Teamwork PM
  • Zoho Support Desk & Projects
  • Basecamp
  • JIRA, Scrum
  • Git, Gulp

CRMs (Usage & API Integration)

  • Salesforce
  • Zoho
  • Pipedrive

Accounting (Usage & API Integration)

  • QuickBooks
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Authorize.net
  • PayPal
  • Stripe
On a personal note,

I currently reside in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan with my beautiful wife and two kids who are the inspiration for me every day.

I love to draw and play golf. You can often find me holding a Bic pen which I prefer as the best tool for business, drawing, writing, and sand sculpting.

Jon with his wife and children