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You need to go back to the drawing board a little bit.  I'm not sure what you mean by "tuned" but your deck looks really inconsistent.

Here's some issues right off the top.

Land - way too few, even the most aggressive decks don't run less than 20 lands. You're deck tops out at 4 and has serious activated abilities to invest in.  You need a minimum of 23-24 lands.

8 Forest - 3
4 Overgrown Tomb
5 Swamp +4
+2 Golgari Guildgate
+4 Mutavault

Creatures - Deathrite shaman is not a standard card.  I know it's standard legal, but it's performance in the format is very lack luster.  You're counting on grisly/commune to get stuff in your yard to exile, but you also want to scavenge? these strategies are kind of counter productive.

I think this deck is more of an aggro deck.  You should really be looking at things like Experiment one and lotleth troll. A set of elvish mystics is okay to ramp to a 3 drop on turn 2, if you're playing dregmangler or something, or even corpse jack on turn 3.

Despite how it looks Jarad doesn't play well with scavenge and other exile mechanics from the yard.  You basically make him weaker every time you scavenge something unless you scavenge on to him.  You're better off just making bigger creatures with lotleth/exp 1/varolz. 

Slitherhead is just too weak.  The only reason you want it is to scavenge it and that means it does nothing for you on the board. 

You may or may not have enough devotion to turn on nylea. I don't know if the buff she provides enough reason to play her even at a 1 of.

Desecration demon.  Not really the right deck for desecration demon, he belongs in a control/midrange deck.

Honestly I think I'd cut all the ramp, unless you go big golgari aggro, kalonian, mystcutter.  Then maybe something like reaper of the wilds or desecration demon would also make more sense.  I thin your one drops want to be some combination of exp 1, tormented hero, rakdos cackler.

4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Elvish Mystic
4 Slitherhead
4 Scavenging Ooze
2 Sylvan Caryatid
3 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
4 Corpsejack Menace
2 Desecration Demon
2 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
1 Nylea, God of the Hunt

Spells - run grisly or commune not both.  (hint, grisly is the right answer in this deck). Drown in filth isn't what you  need here.

Abrupt decay hero's downfall, those are the cards you need to be running for removal.

The bow is unnecessary.  It's very flexible, but does a lot more work in a control or devotion shell.

4 Grisly Salvage
1 Bow of Nylea
4 Commune with the Gods
3 Doom Blade
3 Drown in Filth

Please try to keep in mind that I'm pointing these things out to help keep the deck consistent and on a plan. Like it or not you're on an aggro plan.  You're trying to kill people with aggressively costed creatures that can get in damage early but have enough resilience to stay in for the long game.  Scavenging ooze, varolze, corpse jack, are all aggro cards.  You could go "big" with these cards and do something like mystcutter hydra or kalonian hydra.  That chagnes the curve of the deck a little. But these counter doubling interactions are just cute and generally not considered consistent enough for really well rounded decks.

I was thinking about this and I wonder if he could use whip and go Grixxis.  It'd give him access to more removal and whipping a chimera with a full yard could be deadly.  Also, it'd give him access to some needed lifegain.  Potential list below for consideration.

what's a better burn spell than rakdos's return?

Creatures - 8

2 Pack Rat
4 Spellheart Chimera
1 Prognostic Sphynx
1 Aetherling

Sorcery - 5
3 Divination
2 Rakdos Return

Instants - 20

3 Essence Scatter
3 Lightning Strike
3 Dissolve
3 Far // Away
4 Steam Augury
2 Hero's downfall
2 Dread Bore

Enchants - 2
2 Whip of Erebos

Lands - 25

3 Island
2 Rakdos Guildgate
2 Izzet Guildgate
2 Mountain
4 Steam Vents
4 Blood Crypt
4 Watery Grave
4 Temple of Deceit

Alternately I think you could go with a few more creatures and the thoughtseize package and play it like a midrange deck if you wanted to go fewer counters.

Very format dependant.  There are several modern and legacy decks that don't play (or very few) colored cards.  Affinity for instance.  It plays the artifact lands and the Inkmoth/Blinkmoth Nexus.  It only plays 1 basic to combat Path of Exile.

Keep in mind that Gum is talking about EDH here too.  Some of the concepts are the same but it's not the same as a 60 card constructed deck.  It's not feasable in a 60 card deck to include some of the cards mentioned.  You have to have a plan and stick to it and execute it as consistently as possible.

EDH is a horse of a different color.  While there is strateby and you do include synergistic cards it's quite likely that you will never see a given card in a matchup.  There's a strategy to it, but it's not the same.

If you're going to push forward with the card, I think it needs to go in some sort of Jund (Red black Green) ramp/ undying deck.  You want a few removal cards like doomblade and a way to ramp these out and some draw to try to get to your cards.  Black is going to get you undying creatures, removal and draw.  Red gets you warstorm and access to more removal.  Green is your ramp color, it has a few more undying creatures too.

Tempo in magic refers to the natural rhythm at which you play spells.  1 mana, 1 drop, 2 mana, 2 drop... etc.   There are ways to increase tempo with ramp (mana dorks, fetching extra lands), or "cheating" cards out into play without casting them etc.  Drawing additional cards is a kind of tempo too.

There are also ways to decrease your opponents tempo.  Cards like azorius charm are tempo cards. they put an attacking creature back on top of your opponents library.  This makes them sink additional mana into the same creature and limits the new draws they get it essentially sets them back a turn.

Decks that build around this strategy, seek to stall/control the game and slow it down to a point that they can manipulate the board and just generally take over. Tempo decks are just a kind of control deck really, but it's not usually permission/denial based with counters.

Yeah, jace memory adept is awesome and I have 3 for trade...  

You can totally make the list without Jace, but I think you're missing out on all the advantages that he can provide.  Jace is great against agro and generating card advantage in grinding matchups.  he can steal games if you're able to -2 him more than once.

You can jam other cards in but they won't be jace. 

IDK what you're inventory looks like if you have/could trade for ashiok, but you might be able to splash black for him or even neighbor specter if it's not already in your build.

You would need something similar that created card advantage and provided a threat.  Neither of those is as flexible as jace IMO in the deck, but it could work. 

You have to understand that the mono blue that came out of the pro-tour was developed and highly tested by the SCG team which is a group of high level players with a proven track record.

looking at your inventory, you have a few really good cards.  I think my suggestion would be to trade some of the cards you have to get closer to the deck you want to play. 

This red green aggro/ramp deck was top 8 at the pro tour and is a good deck to shoot for.  That being said however, i would try to figure out your local meta a little and tweak it some for that.  If you have more control maybe a maindeck miscutter hydra would be better. 

60 cards
   
9  Forest
2  Mountain
4  Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4  Stomping Ground
4  Temple of Abandon
23 lands

3  Arbor Colossus
4  Burning-Tree Emissary
4  Elvish Mystic
2  Nylea, God of the Hunt
4  Polukranos, World Eater
3  Scavenging Ooze
4  Sylvan Caryatid
4  Voyaging Satyr
28 creatures

3  Domri Rade
4  Garruk, Caller of Beasts
2  Xenagos, the Reveler
9 planeswalkers

Sideboard
2  Burning Earth
2  Chandra, Pyromaster
1  Destructive Revelry
1  Mistcutter Hydra
3  Mizzium Mortars
2  Nylea's Disciple
1  Sylvan Primordial
2  Wasteland Viper
1  Xenagos, the Reveler
15 sideboard cards

There's a couple reason's why I suggest doing this. 

1. You've been out of the game a while.  It doesn't mean your a noob, but you probably don't have your thumb on the pulse of the game anymore and this would be a way to get into the game and mix it up, without having to do hours and hours of play testing on your own brews.

2. Your current red green build just flat out lacks the power you'd need to be decent at some FNMs or game days.  Your area may be different, but I would expect my play group to be at least 1/3rd tier one, 1/3rd tier 2, and 1/3rd pile of random cards (IE: your deck). 

3.  It's competitive.  You can weed out most of the last 1/3rd of the decks by just playing better cards than they have access too.  This will get you up to playing the tier 1-2 decks where you'll see more interesting interactions and learn more. 

I'm not saying you need to go out and spend $400, but you're deck needs a more consistent plan, you've got one of just about everything you could find in your deck, and the cards don't synergize well.  Use Makihito Mihara's deck as  template and work off it.

I opened a trade with you on deck box for some BS cards.  You can make offers and counter offers, and if you create a wish list and click on the card name you can see a list of people who have the card for trade.

You also need to decide what cards you want to keep and which are for trade and make a "trade list"

turn/burn is a fantastic card.  It kills some of the most powerful creatures around.  Paying 5 to kill an obzedat is an okay investment.  I think we're looking at the cards from different perspectives.  Name another card that cost 5 that's instant that can kill an obzedat by itself?

and IKD about the shocks.  Steam vents are the cheapest shocks and he's got a couple value cards that could be traded for some.