Michael Baker Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Waltham, MA, US

Jackson, MI, US

New York, NY, US

• I left school to join a new team of three, responsible for transitioning a midsized financial services firm to web-based applications. As the team grew, we built and maintained half a dozen apps from scratch, including.
• Oversaw creation and development of generalized front-end component libraries for use throughout the organization.
• Influential in organization-level UI architecture and design.
• Worked frequently with the firm's creative director as a sounding board on UI/UX issues throughout the firm's portfolio.
• Evaluated new front-end technologies (e.g. Ember, AngularJS, D3) for firmwide adoption.
• Introduced and advocated for adoption of UI best practices, including SVG injection, perceptual color scaling, touch/click abstraction, and unified keyboard event delegation.

Tewksbury, MA, US

• I answered an informal call for technology help on this fledgling farm-to-table CSA's website, and began consulting on a nights-and-weekends basis, initially in exchange for meat. My responsibilities grew as the.
• Worked directly with the founder and executive team.
• Primary point of contact for all technical operations.
• Responsible for all systems architecture decisions.
• Designed, built, maintained, and operated the company's main customer portal using Heroku, MongoDB, Node.js, and Ember.
• Responsible for technical and presentational aspects of the company's email marketing campaigns, conducted via Wufoo.

Boston, MA, US

• Worked in the Administration and Finance (ANF) division.
• Part of the team responsible for preparing the governor's annual budget proposal under the Romney and Patrick administrations.
• Built financial research and analysis tools for use within administrative departments throughout the Commonwealth.

• I began working for this local software company as a high school student and eventually joined them full-time.
• Designed, built and maintained a full-stack web application that allows visiting foreign nationals to enter their visa credentials on a self-service basis, for use by their host institutions in complying with US visa.
• Shipped code to hundreds of universities and think tanks throughout the US, which was deployed to tens of thousands of users.
• Led a project to transition generated documents from PCL to PDF. Emerged with an intimate knowledge of the PDF file format and specification.
• Became certified in SQL Server 2000 database design.

Education record

Education record

Education record

High School Diploma