Michael Hackney, Phd Email & Phone Number

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Joining Returnalyze is an incredible opportunity to work with a talented team and contribute to a company leading innovation in the retail sector. I'm excited to leverage my experience and vision to help drive the next phase of growth and success.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• I joined Desktop Metal’s executive team through the company’s acquisition of Make Composites, an early-stage startup where I led the architecture and development of the firmware and slicer application for their.
• Built a highly respected and high-performance software organization that consistently delivered projects on time and exceeded expectations.
• Developed a unified software strategy and roadmap to integrate and optimize all in-house and acquired products.
• Transitioned the team to a fully remote work model during the COVID-19 pandemic, boosting productivity by 25%, and later maintained these productivity gains with a hybrid work model.
• Contributed to taking Desktop Metal public in December 2020, amid the pandemic.
• Formulated a risk mitigation plan to safeguard Desktop Metal’s Ukrainian developers and intellectual property, ensuring seamless business continuity during and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Wellesley, Massachusetts, US

• Appointed directly by the CEO, I embarked on the challenging mission to recover ViziApps' technology following the untimely passing of its founder and CTO. ViziApps specializes in a "No-Coding Mobile Application.
• Successfully recovered the source code and instituted best practices for software development and cloud deployment of the service.
• Reconstructed the AWS Cloud architecture in-situ without any disruption to service.
• Reinstated the development and deployment processes for iOS and Android apps, ensuring seamless functionality and user experience.

Fairport, NY, US

• At RailComm, I was tasked with spearheading the transformation of the company from a railroad-industry job shop to a cutting-edge high-tech product company.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
• Provided leadership to the Software, Hardware, Product Management, and Marketing Teams.
• Set the technical direction for software, mobile device, and hardware architectures, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
• Designed and oversaw the development of a pioneering SaaS machine learning platform tailored for predictive analytics of trackside devices such as railway switch machines.
• Directed the development of a Raspberry Pi-based data logger that seamlessly interfaced with the machine learning SaaS.

• Directed the engineering and product development teams at Infobright, a leading provider of high-performance columnar databases tailored for IoT and machine-generated data analytics, as well as business intelligence.
• Formulated the product strategy, conducted comprehensive market and competitive analyses, defined product requirements, and created the product roadmap.
• Crafted a comprehensive product strategy to transform Infobright's software into a streamlined and efficient data appliance solution.
• Provided leadership to the globally distributed Product Team, fostering collaboration and innovation across locations in Canada and Poland.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• During my tenure at EMC, I played a key role in driving innovation and shaping strategic initiatives within the Information Intelligence Group (IIG).Upon EMC's acquisition of Authentica, I led the integration of.
• Developed a comprehensive Cloud strategy for Enterprise Content Management across public, private, and hybrid clouds, positioning EMC as a leader in cloud-enabled solutions.
• Crafted the IIG's mobile strategy for Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration, ensuring seamless access and collaboration across diverse platforms.
• Innovated and prototyped a new class of Enterprise Content Management applications, integrating Web 2.0 and Social Computing services to enhance user experience and productivity.
• Selected as one of eight EMC representatives to collaborate with researchers at MIT's Media Lab as part of EMC's University Research Team, driving cutting-edge research and innovation.In 2010, EMC reorganized its.
• Crafted a compelling business case for an innovative Cloud-based file "Sync & Share" service leveraging EMC's content management platform (Documentum).

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• As a key member of the executive team reporting directly to the CEO, my mission was to strategically position the company for acquisition, culminating in a successful acquisition by EMC.Key Responsibilities and.
• Developed customer requirements and product lifecycle plan to ensure alignment with market.
• Conducted interviews with existing customers to gain deep insights into their current and future security and digital rights management (DRM) needs.
• Formulated a comprehensive roadmap that effectively addressed customer requirements while advancing company objectives.

As a founding member of Synopia, an early-stage startup focused on developing an enterprise-class SaaS solution to streamline the "Fuzzy Front End" of new product development, I played a central role in architecting the product and leading the software engineering team to develop a functional beta product. This effort resulted in the successful onboarding.

I founded and self-funded Pixingo to create software designed to simplify the digital imaging post-production workflow for professional photographers just beginning to migrate to digital from film. After launch, and onboarding over 100 subscription customers, we were unable to secure funding and consequently sold the company.

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I joined Veridiem as part of a new executive team brought in to restart the company. Responsible for the technical direction, design (with an emphasis on usability) and architecture of Veridiem's Marketing Optimization enterprise application.

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As CTO, I was responsible for Centra's technical direction and a member of the executive team guiding the company to a succesful IPO in early 2001. I conceived, prototyped and architected the first release of Centra's flagship product, Symposium, which included integrated VOIP, multimedia sharing, application sharing and dynamic user feedback. Played a key.

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Was a member of the Object Engineering Team whose charter was to promote object-oriented engineering practices across the product development groups. Managed the Isochronous Ethernet Hub (IsoSwitch) project. I was also responsible for the implementation of the device drivers for National Semiconductor's Isoethernet chipset and interfaces to the call.

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Started in Materials Science Lab developing ceramic injection molding technology. Made a career change in 1991 to the Telecommunications Research Lab and managed the development of Operations Automation Systems for GTE Telephone Systems. Received US Patent 1991/000496.

Phd, Inorganic Chemistry

Postdoctoral Research, Inorganic Chemistry

B.A., Chemistry, Math

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