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Taras Y.
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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Online presence expert: websites, servers, SEO, security, paralegal

Higher pedagogical & philological education (MA degree). Full-time employment in North American webhosting/sites/servers industry since the times of graduating from university, on the positions of level 1 & 2 customer support agent in industry-leading hosting companies and in abuse department of one of the best datacenters in the USA, as junior & senior specialist & supervisor. Top skills: 1) WordPress-powered sites: years of experience with all administrative operations and processes that one might come across during the usage of various variations of WordPress (including but not limited to proper security and performance or turning sites into multilingual), plus a collection of tested tips, tricks and solutions that help to do the work more efficiently (including but not limited to a selection of plugins for various cases, and a collection of the under-the-hood tools, like WP-CLI & .htaccess, wp-config.php tuning); 2) shared & VPS WHM/cPanel servers: years of experience with all administrative operations and processes that one might come across during the usage of shared and VPS WHM/cPanel hosting (including but not limited to proper security and performance), plus a collection of tested tips, tricks and solutions that help to do the work more efficiently; 3) anti-compromise measures & uptime (applicatios/websites security & data consistency): years of practicing various methods and tools that make it possible to protect sites and servers from unauthorized break-ins, and reduce negative impacts of malicious bots attacks, like DDOS, and vulnerability probes that any publicly accessible sites and servers encounter on daily basis (primarily refers to WHM/cPAnel and WordPress, but there is also sufficient amount of experience with other hosting server control panels, like Virtualmin, and CMS', like Joomla & OpenCart); 4) CloudFlare (3 in 1: hides real hosting server IP and provider, enhances performance, gives out free SSL certs) - familiar with CloudFlare and how it interacts with various site systems and elements very well since I manage a couple of dozens of sites that resolve to hosting servers via CloudFlare pass-through network; 5) brand/domain email configuration: ensuring proper deliverability, setting up email software and delivery chains, filtering spam; 6) white-hat, organic SEO: years of practicing various methods that make it possible to get a site ranked high by Google algorithms without paid ads or anything that's against Google's TOS & AUP (including but not limited to optimizing meta data in accordance with the situation with keywords in the niche, creating Schema.org structured data markup, getting the most of sites by maxing out performance/speed, blogging, integration with social media channels, with the help of tools like Google search console, Google analytics, Google tag manager, Semrush or Moz Pro); 7) paralegal (proactive protection against internet abuse like spam, phishing, attacks, copyright & trademark infringements; acting on behalf of customers in disputes, including DMCA & counter-DMCA notices; brand protection against phishing and other brand abuse cases by monitoring the internet with advanced Google search queries): almost 5 years in abuse department of an American datacenter, during which I've handled thousands of complaints, and also numerous of successfully handled paralegal projects as freelancer on freelancer.com.
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Skills

  • SEO Audit
  • WordPress Malware Removal
  • Page Speed Optimization

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