Michael Kalinowski Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Denver, CO, US

• As the Senior Web Architect and Manager, I direct technology projects, including data system development. Some of my key achievements/duties include:
• Delivering elite customer service through responsive interfacing, problem assessment, prompt determination of corrective actions and comprehensive follow-up.
• Architecting a scalable solution, training the staff on the technology and guiding them through learning the methodology.
• Developing an interface into data on clients' systems that could be displayed on the new website.
• Increasing eBook sales by over 35%.
• Championing a 94% reduction in calls to the customer service department.

I was hired to give more direct management to a team of three developers and to ease transition into an agile development methodology and away from waterfall. I was instrumental in getting the company transitioned to Azure for all DevOps related activities. I also supplemented the development staff during sprints by performing any dev an QA tasks needed to.

• At Visa Inc., I was tasked with the build out the DevOps team. I conceptualized, developed and integrated new systems and mentored new team members, positioning them as knowledgeable developers. Some of my key.
• Formulating a solution to help speed and simplify deployments of code to all environments using extensive knowledge of the.NET applications.
• Architecting the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment solution.
• Maintaining availability of the non-production environments for the Quality Assurance Team (QA) and performance testing.
• Significantly cutting the time from development releases to implementation and removed human interaction for installations by developing an innovative continuous integration continuous deployment process.
• Recommending and enforcing changes to the development process to integrate with new CICD processes.

• As the Web Engineer, I guided the build out of a new team to migrate old client/server green screen applications to web based solution. Notably during this role, I headed an international effort to gather security.
• Reducing project costs in some cases as much as 15%.
• Decreasing company expenditures by 5% on projects by developing a process that ensured Visa's Secure Software Development Lifecycle process is followed.
• Developing training program to cross train and grow the development teams.
• Working extensively with QA to implement coded UI test and test lab using Microsoft Visual Studio testing suite.
• Identifying capability gaps in the COTS products and design and develop custom tools to fill those gaps.

Developed asp.net web applications. Managed legacy.Net development team of 4 software engineers.

US

Developed web court case management solution.

Started first Agile type development program at Interlink. Worked with team of engineers in a bullpen format, developing web software in a large collaborative environment.

Led team of 12 developers working on large database application migration for Union Carbide Corp. Responsible for interviewing, hiring and managing team. Assigned work to appropriate resources. Performed performance evaluations of team members. Worked with client to incorporate their feedback into our evaluations and to ensure they were getting the level.