Michael Suckow Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsible for defining and implementing the strategy for our retail and ecommerce practice
• Acted as the bridge between the sales and engineering organizations, discussing our offerings with prospects and customers
• Managed the Mobile team, with a focus on diversifying our technology expertise beyond native and hybrid, to include newer platforms such as React Native, Xamarin and Progressive Web Applications
• The Mobile team also handled IoT solutions such as home automation projects driven by machine learning algorithms (using Weka)
• Bootstrapped and oversaw new projects at our clients
• Designed and taught an Agile methodology workshop at multiple companies

Santa Clara, California, US

• Created and headed the Tavant.NET Practice
• Led several projects at our customers

• Exemplary devised cX, an adaptive web-based replenishment solution that helps drive lean transformation across the extended supply chain of manufacturing companies. CX is built using the EmpowerMe platform developed at.
• Responsible for the design of the high-availability architecture for EmpoweMe/cX; a combination of hardware clustering and self-healing software components
• Developed a scalable architecture for EmpoweMe/cX designed to enable the processing of complex transactions
• Created the web-client rendering engine for EmpoweMe
• Managed a team of offshore engineers who were working jointly with local developers on several projects

• While at HP Labs, we invented EmpowerMe, a platform to graphically build database-centric GUI applications. EmpowerMe uses a declarative engine to reason over the visual specification and generate the application.
• One of the main designers of the EmpowerMe development platform
• Designed and built the EmpowerMe declarative run-time engine
• Designed the cross-platform solution for running the system on Windows and Java platforms