To provide professional and expert consulting and/or training on Microsoft database, middleware and server systems.

As a database and C++ consultant, Michael is leading development on the next generation of Summation's flagship product, iBlaze™. The primary focus of this effort is to expand the iBlaze product line to access to SQL Server, in addition to Summation's proprietary embedded database engine. 

As Project Lead (Database), Michael was responsible for all database design, implementation and administration on Uplister’s music playlist-sharing system.  The data tier was three SQL Server 7.0/2000 databases, running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server.  Middleware consisted of J2EE EJBs running in WebLogic 5.1.  In addition to managing a team of up to four full-time consultants and two interns, he worked closely with marketing, middleware developers and testers on all key product features, including song/artist/playlist searching, user activity tracking, data importing and playlist editing.

Michael was one of four software engineers on the Silo Music Player, a WinAmp-like music player that shipped with Aureal’s OEM soundcards.  His primary responsibilities were client/server communication over HTTP and MFC client development. He developed COM objects in Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Basic 6.0, designed the client’s Playlist Manager window, and developed a client registration database, complete with internationalization features for sixteen language-specific OEM versions of the product. 

As a consultant to Schwab Retirement, Michael revolutionized the way Visual Basic and Visual C++ developers interacted with the legacy Pascal/BTrieve retirement plan system.  He did this by inventing a C++ system that translated Pascal BTrieve data into Visual C++ data objects, and vice versa.  He used this system to implement a batch process to update status information on retirement plan members, a nightly process that was benchmarked at 90,000 member checks per hour.  Furthermore, he provided training on the data access system, as well as COM, MTS, ActiveX, ASP and other development topics.

Michael was one of twelve developers who worked on Hyland’s document management system, OnBase. He worked primarily on high-speed data imports, but also developed ActiveX controls for viewing documents and images securely over the web.  He also developed a programmable ASCII file parser that could be configured to parse nearly any text format, thereby reducing development effort on new file-parsing projects.

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer since November 1999
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator since November 2001
•  Designing and Implementing Databases with SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Ed. (passed in beta)
•  Implementing Distributed Applications with Visual C++ 6.0
•  Implementing Desktop Applications with Visual Basic 6.0
•  Installing, Configuring and Administering SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Ed.
•  Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows 2000 Server
•  Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures (passed in beta)
•  DB Design/Implementation on SQL Server 6.5
•  System Administration of SQL Server 6.5 

Case Western Reserve University  Cleveland, Ohio                            August 1993 – May 1997

•  Master of Science in Computer Engineering & Science	GPA: 3.90 out of 4.0
•  Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering	GPA: 3.97 out of 4.0