Michael Gaffney Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Virginia, United States

United States

https://amazontechnicalacademy.com/Amazon Technical Academy provides non-traditional adult learners with a pathway to software development engineering roles, primarily within Amazon.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Irving TX, Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, London

-Chosen by Cognizant's Chief Learning Officer to lead growing technical training function in Global Growth Markets (Europe, South America, Africa, Middle East, APAC). o Relocation and expansion curtailed in response to COVID-19 o Reported to London director o Worked globally, remotely from the US- Managed incoming requests from Learning Partners- Managed.

Irving, Texas, United States

• Facilitated innovative, learner-centered, in-person and virtual training instructor led training on a variety of technical skills for Cognizant associates
• Evaluated external training partners and curriculum proposals
• Work closely with business units and client partners to ensure training meets their needs (and is needed)o Served as primary contact for the Quality Engineering horizontal, our largest North America BU cliento Led.
• Evaluated candidates for open training positions
• Developed, evaluate, and approve internal training materialso Led global team that redesigned quality engineering ILT onboarding curriculumo Led redesign of vILT Python curriculumo Independently redesigned vILT REST.
• Curated external training materials

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• The Software Guild provides a highly successful programming boot camp covering full-stack, n-tier, web development in an Agile environment.
• Hired to kick off Guild’s Java-based program in Minneapolis
• Led five 12-week, in-person teams of 12-18 apprentices
• Coordinated workload of course assistant
• Explained complex software development topics to apprentices with a wide variety of backgrounds.
• Assessed and coached individual apprentices on o Language-specific skillso Architectural choiceso Agile development practiceso Communicationo Professional behavioro Individual progress and successo Career and.

White Bear Lake, MN

• Taught a variety of first- and second-year computer science courses to students of widely varying backgrounds
• Led a total of 100-150 students each semester
• Created appropriate work to build students’ understanding of the material
• Assessed students’ work and course progress
• Advised students on academic options at Century
• Advised students on transfer opportunities

Rochester, MN

Taught three sessions of a Perl course for IBM Rochester.

Minneapolis, MN

Java, Servlets, Oracle, JDBC web back-end development.

Ba, Government

International Relations

Mss, Software Systems

Software design and development, software project management

Ma, Philosophy

Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Logic

Ms - All But Thesis, Computer Science

Security and Distributed Systems