Rafael (Rafi) Hecht

Current

• Web Programmer at 9th Sphere

Past

• Programmer Analyst at SearchLinQs
• Student at Search Engine Academy Toronto
• Freelance Networking and Web Development consultant at Freelance

• Lab Technician at Touro College
• Technical Specialist at Dynamic Diamond Corp.
• Intern at Orthodox Union

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Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology
• Touro College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Summary

Web programmer analyst, specializing in client side, server side, and database programming. To view my full web profile, visit www.rafihecht.com.

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Specialties:

Software: Dreamweaver CS3, Visual Studio .net 2008; SQL Server 2000, 2005; MySQL, SQLite, Access; Sitemap Generators; Web Analytics (Google); Blogs (WordPress).

Languages and Scripts: ASP/VBScript, PHP, T-SQL, Access SQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML

General: Programming Database Generated Websites, Analyzing website tracking.

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Experience

• Web Programmer

  9th Sphere

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2009 — Present (1 month)

• Programmer Analyst

  SearchLinQs

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 5 months)

  I am a Programmer Analyst. I'm contributing to the company's goals and objectives in the following manners:
  
  - Assisting in the continuing development of the company intranet site modules that involves strong demonstration of 1. ASP, 2. Javascript, and 3. operation of a SQL Server database along with views, stored procedures, and proper planning and documentation.
  
  - Improving new and existing various client websites by performing organic Search Engine Optimization, website development, content deployment, and metatagging. Languages would range from ASP and ASP.NET to PHP with MySQL and Javascript. In some cases, clients would have websites designed around templates like Joomla and Smarty. Would manage and tweak various company Content Management Systems and blogs.
  
  - Setting up and analyzing Analytics software for various clients, monitoring website behavior and assessing if goals are met, and why.

• Student

  Search Engine Academy Toronto

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — November 2008 (1 month)

  Search Engine Academy Toronto was an intensive 5 day workshop where the latest and greatest techniques and tools for Search Engine Optimization were discussed. For more information, check out http://www.seotrainingtoronto.com/

• Freelance Networking and Web Development consultant

  Freelance

  (Computer Networking industry)

  July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )

  Serviced small business clients in the Greater Toronto Area by manually setting up wired and wireless networks, routers and switches. Also developed interactive Webites with ASP, PHP, Javascript, CSS MS Access, and MySQL.

• Lab Technician

  Touro College

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year )

  Assisted students and instructors on various software and hardware related issues across 6 campuses.

• Technical Specialist

  Dynamic Diamond Corp.

  (Retail industry)

  July 2005 — March 2006 (9 months)

  Performed Systems Administration by administering and maintaining 2 MS Exchange 2000/2003 servers, 2 firewall/filtering programs, 1 virus detection/ prevention program, some Active Directory, and daily backups/restores across 5 servers. Maintained 75 workstations, printers and scanners. Also programmed a ticketing system with MS Access.

• Intern

  Orthodox Union

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2004 — April 2005 (6 months)

  The Orthodox Union is the largest "Kashrus" organization in the United States. "Kosher" for the uninitiated means ensuring that a product meets all dietary requirements as prescribed by the Five Books of the Torah (Jewish Bible). With over tens of thousands of products on file the OU along with a highly successful track record, this is an organization with high regard in the Jewish community at large. They also have sub-organizations like NCSY, which focuses on bringing spiritually unaffiliated Jewish teens to their roots, and Yachad, which focuses on helping special children in coping with society.
  
  My role there as an intern for the MIS department was to ensure optimal technical support for the rest of the employees, as well as upgrading the workstations to the latest software and hardware at the time.

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  M.S. , Information Security , 2007 — 2012 (expected)

  Stevens is a Tier 1 graduate school. According to CollegeToU (http://www.collegetou.com/us-top-100-universities.html) as well as the US News and World Report, Stevens ranks number 80 as of 2009 in overall universities.
  
  I am going for my Masters in Information Security, which I hope to attain as of 2012.

• Touro College

  B.S. , Management/Information Systems , 2002 — 2005

  Touro College is a multi-campus institution focused in the Greater New York area, as well as the rest of the world. Not to be confused with a regular college, Touro is a full-fledged university that has a number of PhD programs.
  
  My Bachelors degree involved taking numerous Programming and Networking classes, as well as an intensive core curriculum. I have been fortunate in that I am able to use my studies from here as a base for overall skills that I'm picking up in the "real world."

  Activities and Societies:

  Lander College ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) club, 2003-2005.

Additional Information

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Interests:

web and database development, planning, and coding; sports statistics and trends; chess; reading

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Groups:

ACM (Former)

•    Lander College Alumni
•    Touro Alumni

Rafael (Rafi) Hecht’s Honors:

- New York Lottery "Leaders of Tomorrow" Scholarship Winner, 2001 (http://www.hstat.org/news/New%20York%20Lottery%20-%20Leaders%20of%20Tomorrow.htm)

- Certificate in Advanced Search Engine Marketing Strategies -- "Search Engine Academy Toronto," 2008
(http://www.searchengineacademy.ca/)

- First person listed in "SEO Training Toronto" "Recent Graduates" testimonials video on the right side
(http://www.SeoTrainingToronto.com)

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