Michael Major Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Manage 1 Software Engineer• Work directly with Portfolio Managers, Investment Analysts, Operations, and other team members to understand and document requirements to complex problems. • Design flexible solutions and implement, test, document, deploy, and support the solutions inside a Spring/Java web application environment using SQL, Ext.js, Hibernate, Gradle, Git and Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Stash, Bamboo, Bitbucket) as a part of an eight person team within a much larger organization. • Notable projects include dynamic file uploads, Liability Driven Investment setup and processing, margin analysis, derivative roll calculation and user interface features, and portfolio setup.• Understand use cases from both a business and technology perspective. Articulate key decisions clearly and accurately to various stakeholders, including time estimates and distributing work to team members for implementation.• Hire and manage two Software Development Interns for the summer of 2023.• Motivate and empower junior members through ongoing feedback and coaching.• Create unit, integration, and functional tests.• Organize, plan, and lead a book club for Microservices: A Practical Guide.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Design, development and integration of technology solutions for Parametric's proprietary software application that supports all aspects of the investment management business.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

• Gained agile development experience as a part of a 10 person software team. Worked closely with QA, customer service, and marketing to define, design, and implement software solutions in a Java/J2EE environment primarily using Spring Core, Spring MVC, JavaScript, HTML, and some C++.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Provided production support for revising and updating technology ­enhanced courses and projectssuch as: digitizing paper course materials, putting digital materials online into Moodle or media repositories, creating online quizzes, setting up course grade books in Moodle, setting up online collaboration tools including Google Sites or LMS­ based collaboration tools.• Investigated new technologies and prepared guides. Some examples of these technologies include virtual reality, 3D modeling and visualization, 3D printing, embedded devices and Internet of Things and WordPress. Modeled and 3D printed around 30 desktop computer power button gaurds to avoid research subjects accidentally powering down workstations during data collection.• Responded to instructor support needs by handling service desk tickets, answering emails and telephone calls, and when needed, by going directly to instructors’ offices to provide real-time directsupport of common good instructional technologies.

• Gained an understanding of the variety of teamwork dynamics and roles that mustexist within a successful startup medical device company by performing warehouse and officetasks for the Finance and Operations department.

Hayward, Wi, Us

• Advanced leadership and management skills by fostering community, mediating conflicts and encouraging self-improvement within a cabin of eleven 14 year-olds.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Worked in a three person team with two of my classmates from a leadership course. Developed leadership skills by entering People Serving People, observing and investigating the current internship programs that they offer and presenting the organization with recommendations based upon research that our consulting group conducted.

• Developed strong communication and organizational skills by collaborating with a team of 10 managers and 8 coaches to prepare facilities, equipment, and players for practices, games, and team events.

Northridge, Ca, Us

• Demonstrated strong communication, leadership and organizational skills bysupervising a team of 20 event staff members at Vikings games, Gopher sporting eventsand concerts to ensure the security of TCF Bank Stadium.

• Gained communication and management experience by teaching literary, mathematical and social skills to 6th, 7th and 8th grade special needs students.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

High School