Michael Rathe Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Determine and identify high-level functional and technical requirements on the basis of interactions with the user community and knowledge of enterprise architecture, including cloud technologies. Architect, develop and implement software programs, hardware and communications to support the total requirements, as well as to provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces• Supervised the development and design of Parental Planner application using Agile/Scrum by automating a manual process and increasing performance by 50%. • Collaborated with a team of architects and lead part of a software team to convert a custom Verizon PeopleSoft application to Amazon Web Services platform using Angular and JAVA Spring Boot speeding up the development process times. • Spearheaded cloud deployment of the RESTful API and User Interface by automating migration process and creating a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline.• Developed RESTful APIs using Test Driven Development and security by design for JAVA and NodeJS minimizing development bugs and security risks by 40%.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Develop complex solutions to all business problems along with customer engagements by detailed analysis, negotiation and coordination with main decision makers on the Payroll, HR, and Benefits teams.• Analyzed and developed changes needed to convert 3 PeopleSoft HR systems into 1 PeopleSoft HR system along with upgrading to the latest version. Reducing hardware and software costs by 60%. • Supervised 3 consultants to convert the MCI PeopleSoft HR and Benefit systems to Verizon’s PeopleSoft. Reduced hardware and software costs by 50%. • Improved the employee’s Annual Benefit Enrollment experience by designing a new system using an MVC design in .net and Oracle PL/SQL from a JAVA servlets and ASP system. Improved benefit transactions by 80%.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology Project Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems, Business Administation