Robert T. Schimp
Contact Information
Rob Schimp
11430 McKenzie Pkwy
Carmel, IN 46032
(317) 815-8967
[email protected]
Resumes
Work Samples
Please note that none of the links on the following pages will work (since GrabABargain is no longer in business).
These "snapshots" were taken in January, before the web site went down.
GrabABargain is a fixed-price marketplace, specializing in books, music, movies, and video games. GrabABargain provides product information, and acts as a venue for people to buy or sell items. GrabABargain also handles all monetary and customer service issues.
The GrabABargain.com Web Site
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GAB Home Page
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The GrabABargain.com Home Page highlights several products from each product category. These products are changed by a staff member using the "Management Center".
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Orange County
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This page is a sample of one of the literally millions of products GrabABargain.com had on it's web site. To sell this item, someone could simply click onto the blue "Sell Your Item" button in the top right hand corner of the page. Or they could buy the item from one of the sellers.
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Shopping Cart
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This page is an example of the shopping cart page, if you were interested in buying "Orange County". Here you can change shipping options and see what your current total is.
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List An Item
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This page shows the selling page for "Orange County" (if you had clicked on the "Sell Your Item" link). Here you can tell us the condition of your item, and any comments you would like to be included in your listing. This page uses advanced HTML, and will no longer work with Netscape.
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DVDs Home Page
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This is an example of one of our section home pages. The products on this page can also be changed by a staff member using the "Management Center".
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DVDs - Action Page
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This page represents a category home page. These pages are very database intensive, so they are actually static HTML pages that are "generated" daily. A background process creates these pages at night, when there is less site traffic.
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My Account Home
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This page is where members would come after they have first logged in. At this point, members can access any of their account features.
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Purchasing History
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This page shows all of the purchases a member has made. The member can also contact the seller from this page, rate the seller, or let us know that there is a problem with their order.
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Message Center
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This page details any communication that a member has had with other members on either purchases the member has made, or on items the member has sold.
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Sales Activity
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After a member has made and confirmed a sale, that sale will appear on this page, to show them the monetary details of that transaction. Here a member can see when their next check will be mailed and their monthly totals.
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Inventory Manager
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This page shows all of the items a member is selling, and gives them the chance to change the price, condition, or comments of any of their items. They can also enable or disable their items.
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Zippy Loader
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This page is a small subset of the GrabABargain web site. The Zippy Loader pages allow a seller to upload literally hundreds of thousands of items at once. Sellers simply upload either a text or excel file, and their inventory will be changed later that night. Uploaded files were only processed at night because of the large strain it put on the database.
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Corporate Home Page
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This the home page for the Corporate section of the web site. This section contains a Press Room, a Media Kit section, Inverstor Relations, as well as a way to contact GrabABargain.
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The GrabABargain.com Management Center
The GrabABargain Management Center is an intranet designed to help run the GrabABargain.com website.
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Sign In Page
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This is the first page staff will see when they get into work in the morning. Each staff member must sign in before being allowed to do anything in the Management Center.
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Home Page
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This page is the first page staff members see after they have logged in. Navigation is generally done through the links on the left, which are database driven. Each staff member has different responsibilities, and as such, will only have permission to certain pages within the Management Center. For example, a marketing staff member might only have links to the "Marketing" and "Lil' Extras" sections of the Management Center. The staff member logged in is an Administrator, and as such, has access to all areas of the Management Center.
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Morning Jobs
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This page is an example of a "job" that a staff member has created. Jobs enable a staff member to easily keep track of daily duties. Jobs can even make call to external web sites and services. This job calls a web page that creates the daily statistics for the website.
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Daily Stats
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This page shows the daily statistics that are available to staff members. Statistics display everything from registration information to sales info. Also available are the top referring URLs (URLs that users clicked on to first get to GrabABargain), as well as the pages users left GrabABargain from the most often.
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Lil' Extras
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This section of the Management Center basically has smaller, helper applications that would make life easier on staff members. Extras included reminders, notes, jobs (described above), and a quick response section.
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Inquiry Center
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This section holds all of the member questions we receive from GrabABargain members. Whether a member writes directly to an email address or contacts us through the web form, the inquiry will be sent to this section, where a staff member can view the inquiry and respond accordingly.
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Accounting
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This section details any accounting activity that has taken place recently on the website, including General Ledger totals, any refund activity, and any credit card actvitity.
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Change Home Pages
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This section allows a staff member to change the items that appear on both the main home page for GrabABargain.com, as well as the home pages for each of the individual sections (Books, DVDs, etc). The staff member has to simply cut and paste the product code for the product they wish to see.
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Weekly Specials
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This section allows a staff member to create and publish a Weekly Special. Weekly Specials are emails that are sent out to GrabABargain.com members and prospective members detailing four products picked by the staff member that GrabABargain.com has available at a great price.
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Administration
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This section has all of the administrative function needed for the Management Center itself. This includes being able to create a new user, assign permissions to that user, and other various functions.
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If you have any questions regarding any work samples, please contact me at:
[email protected]
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