John T. C. Lester Email & Phone Number

Zion, Il

Brought in to help K-Log acquire new business outside core specialty of education market. Past projects include - GSA contract (now a good chunk of business)- Amazon Business (yeah, that didn't work out - but we didn't lose money on it, so there's that).- Facebook Ads (not really right for us. Good to know)Current projects:- Managing/making Google (and Bing) ad program(s).- Managing sales tax compliance with 44 states.- Member of American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) Sales Tax committee (I'm the data hound).- Part-time lobbyist for above - been up to the Hill a number of times now. (I'm the quiet one on the team).- Space planning & rendering. Self-taught and semi-fluent in AutoCAD, Revit & Giza - putting that high school mechanical drawing learning to use 35 years later. And thank you Paul Watt of Capac Jr-Sr High for those years of instruction.- Whatever else needs done. Picking up the slack. One day it's assembling furniture samples, the next it's putting together a full page ad for the county Little Miss Beauty Pageant (because a co-worker's niece is in it). (Oh, also - self-taught and semi-fluent in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign). - I also handle the office recycling - printer carts, batteries, etc. And take out the trash. And make coffee.Yep: Utility Player.

Greater Chicago Area

Consultant for hire - your basic utility infielder. And outfielder. And, occasionally, pitcher.-- Programming (COBOL, FORTRAN, SQL, C++, php, PERL) - though not so much anymore.-- Website development and implementation for small businesses (realtors, manufacturers, distributors and non-profits). Semi-fluent in Cold Fusion, Active Server, Javascript and pounding my head on the desk because why isn't this working?-- eCommerce and online payments, again for small businesses.-- Office manager, marketing department, daycare and janitorial staff. (Well, someone has to do it ... and in a company with 2 employees that someone is me).

Terra, Sol-Jupiter System, Orion Spiral Arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo Supercluste

Founder. Starship Modeler is an internet portal and an eCommerce (B2C) platform. And social media platform before it was cool (Forum app was started in early 1996, when the cool kids were all still using newsgroups). Kept a roof over our heads during the Great Recession, so there's that.Still going, still selling. Visit www.starshipmodeler.biz and buy one of everything.

Greater Chicago Area

COBOL programmer assigned to Allstate Insurance account. Programmed various upgrades & modifications to existing mainframe applications, including some Y2K work (i.e., add two extra spaces to all these fields. Yes, all of them). Decided the partner track was not for me ... and considering what happened to Accenture a few years later, that was a good decision.

Worldwide

Communications Officer (2502), Intelligence Officer (0202); Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm, Restore Hope. JTF-160.Yeah, I got around. I could tell you about it but .... you'll have to buy me a beer first. Buy me a dozen and I might actually tell you something approximating the truth.Or not. Perhaps more beer?

Master Of Science - Ms, Systems Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, Made It

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering