Michael Read Email & Phone Number

Focus on enablement, Reactive software architecture design and development.* Enabling large teams of developers on Reactive architecture design and development in Scala and Java with Akka, Akka Streams, Play, and Lagom* Guiding the digital transformation of large enterprises from monolithic application to event driven systems of microservices* Developed.

As part of an effort to create an open source marketplace for professional buyers and sellers of travel I was tasked with architecting and building a worldwide hotel directory to assist in bringing these two groups together. This effort leveraged the following technologies: Scala, Akka, Akka Streams, Play, Elasticsearch, Slick, Kafka, and MariaDB.

Irvine, California, US

Tasked with architecting and building ResortShare's next generation software platform. The Lightbend (formerly Typesafe) platform was chosen for it ability to assist in the facilitation of elasticity, resiliency, and responsiveness in a message driven environment while leveraging the existing Java JVM and ecosystem.* Worked closely with the executive.

Team lead / de facto Chief Architect of the last software development team @ TABS. Effective April 1st, 2014 my team has moved from IT to Marketing and I now report to the Chief Marketing Executive.We've got some great cutting edge projects in development. We're wrapping up Phase II of the HTML5 based Encompass Mobile Web Application which introduces a new.

• Principal Responsibilities:
• Works with department leaders and end users to analyze operation procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements
• Configure system settings and options; plan and execute unit integration and acceptance testing and create specifications for systems to meet business requirements.
• Study existing information processing systems to evaluate effectiveness of system functionality and infrastructure and develop new systems to improve production and workflow as required.
• Design details of automated systems and write documentation.
• May provide consultation to users in the area of automated systems.

a cloud-based, enterprise class, bandwidth management system targeted at rural ISPs and WISPs. The DBS gives these ISPs a chance to effectively manage and monetize the high bandwidth demands placed upon their networks due to the success and popularity of websites like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube.

• A secured private bridge fund that offered secured bridge loans in amounts of $500,000 to $12 million for terms of six to twelve months.
• Identified aims and boundaries for business systems
• Designed and documented systems and process flow diagrams that were core to the management of the business with special emphasis on underwriting bridge loans
• Managed day-to-day operations
• Liaison with investors
• Conducted client meetings

J2EE Technologies Architectural Evaluation - Web Frameworks - Web Services - Messaging – an ongoing, comprehensive evaluation of migrating many of RSWeb's PERL based CGI MVC/model 1 systems to a Struts or JSF based MVC/model 2 implementation using EJB for transaction processing with MySQL e-commerce database, web services and / or messaging for.

On assignment at Paciolan, IrvineClient Maintenance Billing System / Client Contract Repository – an enterprise class multi-tierv application built upon the open source JBoss Application Server, SalesForce.com, and SQL Server 2000.Enterprise Integration Project – evaluation of potential data integration opportunities as a result of implementing.

• Founded Read Technologies, Inc. as a software sales and marketing company.
• Premier Reseller for WRQ's terminal emulation software Reflection with annual sales of $2m.
• Provided Reflection sales and technical support.
• Provided integration consulting for connecting host applications to emerging technologies.
• The WRQ business was sold to Mycom (a publicly traded company in Cincinnati, OH) in 2000.

Sales / Speaker / Writer / Developer. Published in Interact Magazine (HP3000 International Users Group) Linking HP3000s and PCs - the many software choices July 88, Creating Transferable Applications Nov 86