Mike King
Newark, CA 94560 HireMikeNow@hotmail.com
Objective: Product or Project Management Position, Software Development.
Professional SUMMARY:
Presently: Self Employed as a successful Real Estate Agent with CENTURY21 Oliver-Jackson & Associates in Fremont, California
Previous Related Experience:
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Over 15 years management experience developing and delivering software products. |
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Participated/led all aspects of product development, specializing in product strategy and extending the interoperability of strategic operations management (OM) tools, improving performance and quality. |
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Negotiated contract with a major Japanese computer vendor to bring their strategic NT OM platform to US market. |
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Broadened Tandem's OM interoperability to include IBM’s NetView, NT and Microsoft’s Cluster Server OS, and CA's Unicenter |
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Built and led teams that ported and enhanced strategic Japanese NT OM product and the first Web based cluster management tool for Compaq. |
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Physics, University California Berkeley
Skills:
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Operating Systems: NT, NSK, WBEM |
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Data Base: NonStop SQL, Enscribe |
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Languages: TAL, Java |
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DeskTop utilities: MS Office Suite, MS Project, FrontPage |
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Assorted Utilities: WinFTP, WinZIP, IE |
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Software Development Disciplines: |
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Complete Lifecycle for software development, including organizational responsibilities, deliverables, interfaces from Market concept to End of Life planning and execution. |
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SEI CMM process improvement |
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Project design and tracking |
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Application architecting and design |
Management Disciplines:
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Hiring and Firing – |
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interviewing, |
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performance reviews, |
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progress tracking, |
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training, |
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morale boosting |
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promotions |
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team building |
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task assignments |
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delegation |
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reporting to management |
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representing our customers to the team |
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capital acquisition and tracking |
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decision making |
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Virtual Team management |
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Contract negotiations and management |
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Performance goals and tracking |
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Requirements definitions |
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Delegation |
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Infrastructure setup |
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Liaison with local organizations |
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Legal issues resolution |
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Remote conferencing |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CENTURY21 Oliver-Jackson, Fremont, California 7/2001 - Present
Sales Associate
Member of National Association of Realtors® and local Realtors associations, familiar will all aspects of Real Estate Agency including selling, buying, escrow, negotiating, marketing etc. Managed the successful completion of over 20 property transactions (client testimonials available on request) , developed new markets, created a network of associates, Attended local marketing and educational meetings, provided useful educational and technical assistance to office mates.
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Wineshopper.com / Wine.com, San Francisco, California 8/2000 - 4/2001
Server and QA Engineering Manager
Manager of server Java software engineering and QA, responsible for all new server-side Java development and for all QA for the website and some of the back.
Accomplishments:
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. Integrated two Java groups after the merger of wine.com and WineShopper.com |
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. Delivered over 10 software projects in 8 month period, including Q4 with 3x growth |
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. Took over and reorganized QA teams to improve productivity and efficiency |
Technologies used:
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- typical Microsoft Office suite, plus project |
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- Borland's JBuilder Pro v4 |
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- ATG's Dynamo 4.1 basic Application Server, JHTML, Java and JDBC (Sun OS and Wind OS versions) |
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- Netscape web server |
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- Apache web server with Jserve (JSP, Java and JDBC) |
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Legato Systems INC. Palo Alto, California 10/1999 - 8/2000
Software Development Manager
Manager of software development for serverless and NAS (fiber optic SAN) attached Backup and Restore products. Responsible for development of new and enhanced products on schedule, maintenance of old products, effective liaison with marketing, support, quality assurance, line engineering management and peer software development organizations.
Accomplishments:
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. Shipped major enhancement to current product |
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. Planned Year 2000 product development and maintenance schedule |
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. Grew team from 7 to 13 engineers (trained 5 new engineers) |
Technologies used:
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- typical Microsoft Office suite, plus project |
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- GNU C compiler |
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- Server OS: Solaris, |
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- Fiber Channel Switches; Crossroads, Brocade, Pathlight, Gadzooks, |
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- Fiber Channel Controllers; Emulex, JNI, Finisar, |
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COMPAQ COMPUTERS INC. Tandem Division, Cupertino California
1996 - 1999
Software Development Manager
Technical manager of software development teams for operations management software on Tandem NSK and NT operating systems using Tandem Proprietary languages, C++ (on NT) and Java.
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Assist in establishing initial market requirements. Hire, train and motivate designers. |
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Establish deliverables and schedules. Manage capital acquisitions and planning for desktop and laboratory equipment. Handoff working product to quality assurance and distribution. |
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Establish improvements in processes to increase SEI CMM level. |
Accomplishments:
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. Turned around Safeguard |
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. Developed proposals on how to make CA Unicenter Fault Tolerant |
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. Turned around performance and quality of strategic OM product (NNM) |
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. Developed first web based NT cluster management product |
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. Established new documentation and testing processes to improve Quality of Java based product. |
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. Ported Top Japanese NT OM product to manage Tandem Clusters |
Technologies used:
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- typical Microsoft Office suite, plus project |
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- Microsoft Visual C++ |
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- Borland Jbuilder Pro v3.5 |
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- Compaq Insight Manager XE |
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- Java applets, "servlets" |
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TANDEM COMPUTERS Inc., Cupertino California
Software Program Manager
1992 – 1996
Program manager for $10million software development program. Managed finances (expenses and capital). Managed offshore software development organization.. Negotiate new contract terms and changes in development team support.
Software Product Manager
1988 – 1992
Product manager in charge of product direction for several Operations Management product lines including Performance, Security and Batch processing.