SanDiegoGrocer.com was one of the first direct home delivery online grocery services in the Nation. The consumer logged onto our dynamic leading edge Flash based web store (one of the first conceived) and completed purchases for next day delivery entirely online. SanDiegoGrocer.Com was a four year development effort by a skilled forward looking team. Using unique systems, internally developed, addressing specific online requirements for ordering, warehouse management, picking, packing, and direct home delivery SanDiegoGrocer.com was launched in it's test phase trials in May of 2000 with targeted profitability by the end of the year. Investment conditions at the time (the "Dot Com" meltdown) forced the company to close after just five months in actual operation due to failure to secure the necessary financing to expand the service beyond the initial test phase.
Primary architect and team leader responsible for building the leading worldwide promotional marketing support services firm that offers products that include coupon redemption, analysis, retailer reimbursement services, data capture services, product sampling, data base marketing services, promotion related research, list management, and advanced promotion design & execution consulting services for Consumer Package Goods (CPG) manufacturers & large retailers. 4,800 employees worldwide, operations in seven countries. Now a division of Valassis Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VCI)
One of the earliest sites designed to support CPG Brands in promoting their products through online, targeted media using CRM methodology. Offers executed many early "first of their kind" online promotions, ranging from cents off grocery coupons to pick-pack-ship premium fulfillment direct to the consumer.
Meals.Com was the first Food based online recipe web site to reach 1 Million registered users. Meals.Com is presently owned by Nestle Foods.
Meridian Technology designed & published software for the IBM PC platform, including it's leading product, "Carbon Copy." Carbon Copy was the first Windows Remote Desktop communications product, and lead the way for a whole new industry segment to follow. At it's peak, Carbon Copy enjoyed an installed base of over 50 Million copies, mostly from it's installation on every Compaq computer after Meridian Technology was purchased in 1997. Meridian Technology was also responsible for introducing Deja-Vu, an early quick recovery post crash tool that preserved the users work in progress by saving a RAM image to disk, and allowing restore post reboot.
Inventor of the MultiNetâ¢, the first multi-user microcomputer business system to house integrated tape backup, high capacity centrally accessed small RAID hard disks as NAS, and an internal âNetwork In A Boxâ connecting each user to the others.
Photography, Graphic Design, Marketing, Technical Marvels, Travel, Meeting Interesting People.
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