Michael Tai Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Developing products using React, typescript, etc. for web and mobile applications.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Software development manager managing a team developing products for Amazon's hourly and salaried workforce. Products developed include Shout-Outs, a recognition and reward program that allows Amazon associates the ability to recognize one other via the Shout-Outs iOS and Android mobile applications and website. - Manage the career development of the team’s software development engineers. Built a new team to full capacity by hiring and developing new talent. Products are developed for web and React Native using technologies such as AWS lambdas, AWS AppSync, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, java, typescript, React and React Native.- Leveraged technical background to create new hire tutorials, load testing framework, and audit system using AWS technologies - as well as provide hands-on help to the team’s software development engineers troubleshoot and debug technical issues.- Lead the delivery of projects by overseeing the full development lifecycle of the team from design to operational support. Successfully delivered several major projects which support Amazon’s global diverse workforce, ensuring accessibility and availability in over 15 languages.

Chicago, Il, Us

Kalderos, a healthcare startup in Chicago that works with ten out of fifteen of the largest drug manufacturers and 2,500 healthcare providers nationwide, delivers unifying technology that solves problems facing the U.S. healthcare system. - Managed the Kalderos Engineering team of up to 30 front-end, back-end, database, and tech ops engineers. The team leverages technologies such as React, Redux, C#, .NET core, Python, Azure, SQL Server, Postgres and Azure DevOps.- In the span of a little more than a year, led the engineering team's role in the successful on-time release of four newly written architectures including three rewrites and the development of one brand new product to the healthcare industry. Provided project, staffing, and architectural guidance, sales support, and hands-on development for these initiatives.- Led the career development of the team members, building and expanding the team (more than doubled the team size in about a year and led the effort to hire over 15 engineers in a matter of a few months), established the architecture and tech ops job roles, created and defined all job descriptions, career paths and salary matrix that did not previously exist.-Provided senior leadership to the Kalderos organization leading in organizational initiatives such as forming the Asian Affinity Group, participating in the Women in Tech and DE&I Council groups. Developed a formal partnership between Kalderos and i.c.stars which included externships opportunities to i.c.stars participants and technical workshops to i.c.stars cohorts.

Chicago, Il, Us

Part-time (nights and weekends) adjunct instructor at DePaul University teaching CSC 241: Introduction to Computer Science to 20 plus undergraduate students. Developed lectures, curricula, and exams to establish knowledge of the fundamentals of programming in Python. Conducted weekly lectures and office hours and managed a teaching assistant to assist in facilitating lab sessions and grading of assignments.

- Managed the IT team and all aspects of site infrastructure for this startup online marketplace for event venues, continually innovating and executing improvement projects that included the adoption of Agile methodologies as well as enhancements to technical and functional documentation. - In the capacity of Product Manager, collaborated with the CEO to direct the development and launch of products that served as the basis for improved revenue through increased bookings, enhanced search engine performance, and increased ad listings; initiated SEO projects that sustained EVENTup as the top Google search ranking in major cities, ahead of all competitors.- Improved the performance of the website by introducing A/B and multivariate testing, using the findings to influence the direction of product changes and evolution.- Serving as a member of the executive leadership team, gathered and submitted pre- and post-acquisition material to the CEO relating to the acquisition of the company by Gather Technologies; instrumental in managing a seamless integration over a period of five months.- Engaged in hands-on development using AWS EC2, S3, CloudFront, Elastic Search, lambda, RDS, Python, Django and React/Redux, mySQL, JIRA, Docker, Ansible, Google Maps, Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools.

- Recruited to lead development, IT architecture, and all technical operations of the website and back-end systems of this startup providing an online health and wellness marketplace, ensuring compliance with business specifications and regulatory requirements that included HIPAA.- As a key member of the executive leadership team, provided guidance to the CEO on strategic planning and the content of presentations and meetings with investors. Contributed to unique product customizations requested by strategic partners that included Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Professional Diversity Network.- Maximized user engagement by partnering with the Chief Marketing Officer and CEO, innovating an A/B testing framework that served as the foundation for a highly effective email campaign encompassing hundreds of thousands of emails sent each week.

Chicago, Il, Us

Apartments.com serves renters, property managers and owners with over 4M unique visitors per month.- Led a team of 18 front-end, back-end, and mobile developers, as well as architects and production support personnel for this website that provided listings of apartment rentals, serving over 5 million unique monthly visitors.- Provided support and development for 10 internal systems used by over 100 colleagues in Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service.- Effectively managed SEO strategies that sustained the site as the top Google search result across all major cities.- Championed the adoption of Agile methodologies to the organization. Implemented new architectures, including the rewrite of two major applications using ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, WCF, SOAP/REST web services and Google/Bing Maps.

Chicago, Us

- Founded new company myWebFront to provide non-technical business owners the ability to create online eCommerce websites. Was the sole member of the company developing, marketing and supporting the product. After a few years the product was deprecated for general use, with one retail business continuing to use the product for over 16 years.- Provided independent consulting in architecture, development, product and leadership to Chicagoland clients in the Financial Services, Education, Healthcare, and Retail verticals. Retained by clients such as the MacArthur Foundation, Nielsen, TransUnion and the University of Chicago.- Served as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to clients seeking application development and interim CTO leadership to support the planning and execution of high-profile technical projects. Ensured company compliance with industry-specific regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, PCI, and NIST. Development environment in this role encompasses .NET, SQL Server, AWS, Python, Django, React, Auth.net, JIRA, SharePoint, VMWare, AirWatch and ForcePoint.- Provided independent consulting as part of myWebFront from June 2004 to February 2006, April 2013 to May 2014, August 2015 to November 2017, and April 2019 to Dec 2019.

Dublin 2, Ie

- Manager of a team of 6 architects that worked on internal and external Accenture enterprise projects- Lead architect for the architecture design of a learning management web portal front-end that allows Accenture employees to find and register for courses online. Ensured design scaled to account for 70,000 plus global users.- Designed the high-level next generation architecture for Accenture’s Knowledge Management portal which contains over 100K assets. As one of a group of three architects within Accenture, led an initiative to work with sponsors from several Accenture operating groups and with the vendor (Microsoft) to select a base architecture platform for the Knowledge Management system and internal portal for Accenture.

Ms, Computer Science

Bsce, Computer Engineering