Kevin Smith

President at Leaderstone

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
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Kevin Smith is a results-driven president and consultant with 12+ years helping organizations boost performance by aligning People, Processes, and Performance Management. He founded and leads Leaderstone and The Kevin Shabaar Smith Co., designing leadership programs, internal coaching, and quality management systems for faster, measurable business outcomes. An MBA from Penn State and multiple certifications (SPHR, HCS, Maxwell Executive Coach, MBTI, Lean, and quality auditor) underpin his practical, systems-oriented approach. A former U.S. Marine and tactical communications operator, he blends disciplined operational rigor with facilitation skills developed across regional industry partnerships. He also contributes hands-on technical problem-solving in open-source projects, notably troubleshooting platform-specific process spawning in the forever-monitor library to improve cross-platform reliability.
code11 years of coding experience
job15 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration at Penn State University
bookRobert Morris University
bookB.A. Business Management, B.A. Business Management at Mercyhurst College
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Github Skills (8)

windows10
process-management10
nodejs10
resolutions10
paths10
rpath10
javascript9
command-line-interface6

Programming languages (3)

CJavaScriptRuby

Github contributions (5)

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foreversd/forever-monitor

Aug 2014 - Aug 2014

The core monitoring functionality of forever without the CLI
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on addressing platform-specific issues within the `forever-monitor` library. They made multiple attempts to correctly handle absolute paths on Windows systems when spawning processes. Their efforts involved modifying the command execution logic, adjusting how arguments are passed, and ensuring the correct use of platform-specific properties. The commits demonstrate debugging and iterative refinement of the path resolution.
monitoringmonitorcli
shenanigans/PornViewer

Sep 2015 - Nov 2018

Contributions:4 releases, 60 commits, 43 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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Kevin Smith - President at Leaderstone