Israel Kloss

Cell Alert

Cell Alert

Cell Alert is an information tracking and delivery tool that sends alerts to your cell phone and email when anything you want is located for you online (sales lead alerts, apartments, iphones, reputations, crimes, travel alerts, transportation)

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Beta

I'm passionate about explaining to people how Cell Alert can help them eliminate Internet Information Overload worldwide.

I'm passionate about innovative thinking, simplicity and business and personal efficiency and advancing all 3 through Cell Alert's simple, efficient and innovative tools.

People tell me that my enthusiasm is contagious and my persistence is an indicator of why we're already seeing success.

Employer:	Battelle Memorial Institute, Stafford, VA
Position:	Research Scientist
Time period:	February 2006 - Present
Description:	• Granted Secret clearance. • Created and administered the CSS and HTML templates for Battelle's DMIS ASP (Web release) version of the DMIS Emergency Responders software product -- see www.dmi-services.org • Completed all the Department of Homeland Security DMIS ASP (Web release) (Disaster Management Interoperability Services) graphics and HTML customization requests for prototypes, for Battelle's first nationwide ASP (Web release) of the DMIS software -- including all 508 compliant XHTML, CSS redesigns, some JavaScript coding and other changes. • Completed web site graphics and HTML design to all Department of Homeland Security specifications set by the DHS Executive Correspondence Tracking. • Designed numerous Illustrator-quality, JavaScript-enabled navigation buttons and implemented numerous Struts and Tiles XML-based configuration changes to the DMIS ASP (Web release). • Redesigned an entirely new Battelle marketing web site in JSP, Struts and Tiles. • Completed all graphic design for new Battelle CD logo, new Battelle CD, new Battelle jewel case, new Battelle installation manual and new Battelle PageMaker insert. • Prototyped, designed, coded and completed troubleshooting of HTML, CSS, DHTML, XML, Struts & Tiles & XHTML of www.dmi-services.org.

Employer:	Freealert.org, McLean, VA
Position:	Founder, Web Developer & Marketing Director
Time period:	June 2005 - Present
Description:	• Designed company's web analytics strategy through transactional analysis of geographic traffic spikes as they intersect with client orders by region. Thus allowing prediction of emerging trends as follows: isolating geographic visit clusters, targeting advertising and networking opportunities through reverse link popularity and search engine based smart partner-site marketing. • Researched and implemented Google Analytics, Google Ad sense, MSN Ad Center and Yahoo's Overture campaigns for numerous clients, expanding their visibility and revealing their emerging geographic customer clusters and geographic, regional and local smart partnerships. • Completed prototype stage (troubleshooting, designing, coding, etc.) of freealert.org with the use of PHP, HTML, CSS, DHTML & XHTML. • Created company’s first non-profit marketing strategy (www.freealert.org) • Began and completed the first stage of concept testing of freealert.org in cooperation with S.E. Washington DC non-profit organizations. • Began beta development and QA phase for volunteer testers.

Employer:	Midlandsrestaurants.com, Columbia, SC
Position:	CEO, Web Developer & Marketing Director
Time period:	December 2001 - Present
Description:	• Created company’s first web marketing strategy (www.midlandsfood.com) • Created company's web analytics strategy through transactional analysis of geographic traffic spikes intersected with client orders to watch predict and market toward emerging trends as follows: new geographic hit counts, targeted advertising and networking through reverse link popularity and smart partner-site identification. • Tracked and improved search engine positioning from 6,000 hits/month to more than 51,000 hits/month. • Created a strategy to attract regular online users with rewards as follows:  More than $500 in Monthly Free Food Drawings, Online Coupons, Online Menus, Location Maps & Coupons e-mailed to registered users. • Raised new restaurant contracts by 5 per month. • Increased the database of loyal registered regular users by 500+. • Raised web site usability and convenience from 0% return usage to 66% return usage by registered users.

Employer:	Custom Multimedia, Columbia, SC & Fredericksburg, VA
Position:	Web Developer
Time period:	January 2000 - Present
Description:	• Researched and implemented Google Analytics, Google Ad sense, MSN Ad Center and Yahoo's Overture campaigns for numerous clients, expanding their visibility and revealing their emerging geographic customer clusters and geographic, regional and local smart partnerships. • Provided customers with web design, commercial and personal photography, flash programming, graphic design and HTML, CSS, DHTML, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP- and PHP-based e-commerce programming with SQL and MYSQL databases. • Samples of work can be viewed at www.custommultimedia.net. • Installed and deployed both www.toothbone.net in Drupal for a customer and and www.freealert.org in Drupal as a non-profit project.

Employer:	Invisible Children, San Diego, CA& Washington DC
Position:	Volunteer Developer and Volunteer PR Promoter
Description:	www.invisiblechildren-dc.com

Employer:	Compassionate Action, Stafford, VA
Position:	Founder, Editor and Moderator
Description:	www.compassionateaction.org

Employer:	Voxant, Reston, VA
Position:	User Interface Engineer
Time period:	May 2007 - October 2007
Description:	• Conceived, created prototypes and developed all Ruby on Rails-based site designs. • Primary party responsible for all corporate Web 2.0 site’s CSS, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, animated gifs and graphic designs. • Designed all Illustrator-quality, JavaScript-enabled navigation buttons. • Deployed all test applications to test and staging servers for evaluation by test team and Quality Assurance. • Co-developed a corporate marketing campaign with a matching grant program to benefit Darfur and created all the PR text and all the campaign graphics. And recruited Darfur organizations and Darfur bloggers to contribute to the campaign.

Employer:	BVTI, Haymarket, VA
Position:	Contract Web Developer
Time period:	June 2004 - June 2005
Description:	• Worked for the NSA to bringing nsaarc.net into compliance with section 508 standards. • Granted interim level security clearance and top-secret level was in process. • Completed troubleshooting, design, coding and correcting of numerous PHP and HTML, CSS, DHTML & XHTML errors in www.nsaarc.net • Conceived, designed and implemented NSA-approved (National Security Agency) PHP upgrades to nsaarc.net • Conceived and designed NSA-approved programming and data processing flowcharts of www.nsaarc.net • Coded or altered MYSQL queries for www.nsaarc.net MYSQL database. • Designed & developed new help and visual tutorials for nsaarc.net • Handled unclassified public sector e-mail inquiries. • Corrected nsaarc.net errors reported in public-sector e-mails.

Employer:	Selling Power Magazine, Fredericksburg, VA
Position:	Web Development Temporary Consultant
Time period:	June 2003 - January 2004
Description:	• Designed, coded and completed troubleshooting of HTML, ASP, CSS, DHTML & XHTML changes to www.sellingpower.com. • Designed and developed animated gifs, graphic designs, banner ads & art collages. • Hand-coded MS SQL 2000 database queries and data extracts from company's MS SQL 2000 Server database of subscribers. • Monitored and did troubleshooting of MS SQL 2000 stored procedures. • Designed and developed magazine's monthly English and Spanish online newsletters. • Monitored, calculated and compiled weekly web site statistics through Web Trends Analytics. • Produced, converted and edited Real Audio files for online multimedia newsletter. • Handled online subscriber telephone questions, changes & updates. • Recommended and evaluated changes to company web site. • Compiled company's weekly web revenue reports. • Wrote company's technical documentation.

Employer:	Computer Dimensions, Florence, SC
Position:	Web Developer & Lead Graphic Designer
Time period:	January 2000 - March 2001
Description:	• Designed, coded and completed troubleshooting of HTML, CSS, DHTML, XHTML, ASP and SQL for online application called WebACS (www.webacs.com). • Designed all Computer Dimensions, Automated Church System and HeadMaster graphics, advertisements, logos and Macromedia Flash and Director graphics (see www.acstechnologies.com for samples).

Employer:	The State Newspaper, Columbia, SC
Position:	Freelance writer
Time period:	June 1999 - January 2000
Description:	• Wrote features for special sections including the USC Welcome Back section in August 1999 and pursued story on Bell South’s Y2K conversion.

Employer:	The State Newspaper, Columbia, SC
Position:	Freelance photographer
Time period:	December 1998 - January 2000
Description:	• Photographed and scanned photos of three featured homes weekly. • Wrote three descriptive columns for the Home Sampler section of the Sunday Homes insert and photographed Friday night high school football games and various community sports events.

Employer:	The State Newspaper, Columbia, SC
Position:	Sports agate clerk
Time period:	May 1998 - April 1999
Description:	• Compiled and completed layout and design of all national and international sports scores with QuarkXpress 4.1.

University:	University of South Carolina System - Columbia
Time period:	1996 - 1999
Degree:	Journalism, BA

Awards:

THE FREE TIMES, Columbia, SC • Won Third-place in the Free Times’ Capture Columbia! photography competition. THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Owings Mills, MD • Published in the International Library of Photography’s Anthology Lasting Illusions as a semi-finalist.