Michael Blaha Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Ma

My wife and I love to travel and were presented with the opportunity to do so across the world together. I was also pondering taking a career break to recharge at the time. This was the perfect opportunity to fulfill one of our dreams and also let me recharge and fully understand where I want to take my career next.

Lincolnwood, Illinois, Us

● Mentor and collaborate with team engineers, emphasizing technological excellence and best practices.● Gather and align requirements with business-minded peers.● Execute full SDLC, including documentation and flowchart development.● Write testable, scalable code and contribute to software verification plans.● Integrate software components, ensuring fully functional systems.● Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements for existing systems.● Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback for iterative improvements.● Adhere to project plans, industry standards, and Scrum/Agile methodologies.

Woodbury, New York, Us

● Lead Developer on all new projects● Worked closely with our hosting team to ensure our TeamCity and Octopus Deploy environments are set correctly and optimized● Lead Developer on all new projects● Frontend template development● Explained options and difficulties to clients to give them understanding of possible road blocks before they arise● Provided estimates and support for teams ongoing support of existing projects.● Provided support and troubleshooting on live environments to diagnose and provide solutions.● Provided detailed documentation in Confluence for existing and new projects and implementations● Worked closely with R&D team to prioritize bug fixes and features that will best benefit our clients● Participated in weekly resource planning with project managers to ensure coverage for all projects and the correct resources are assigned● Provided SEO / ADA recommendations to existing clients to optimize their sites

Chicago, Illinois, Us

● Worked closely with clients, brand, strategy, creative and account team members to gather requirements, define functional specification and design large scale data driven websites. These websites mainly utilize Sitecore as a CMS backend. ● Provided valuable and critical feedback to clients and team members around potential roadblocks that will be encountered during implementation and ensure the scope of functionality and design adheres to the project budget.● Responsible for data modeling, over all site architecture and integration points centered around our clients digital eco systems.● Oversaw implementation ensuring developers have the necessary information, assets and documentation to facilitate the build process.● Provided oversight and point out quality issues during build. This includes browser and device compatibility, SEO best practices, performance optimizations and overall code base maintainability.● Worked closely with our hosting team to configure and support our QA, Staging, DR and Live environments.● Work closely with account team providing ongoing support of web applications after project completion. This includes scoping of requested enhancements, estimates on bug fixes and general questions on functionality.● Managed and mentored a team of 5 developer at various skill levels providing leadership and guidance to ensure my developers are well equipped to handle tasks and projects that they encounter on their day to day tasks.● Lead bi-weekly meetings with frontend, backend and full stack developers across the company to document and streamline template handoff process to ensure smooth transition during projects.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

● Responsible for working with clients, account, strategy and creative teams on defining and developing smaller scale website projects.● Provided overall leadership to other developers on the team around their implementations and general questions on their projects.● Managed and guided one developer who at the time was an intern. He has since joined the ranks at One North Interactive and has become one of the companies top rising stars.● Provided estimates and support for teams ongoing support of existing projects.● Provided support and troubleshooting on live environments to diagnose and provide solutions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

● Lead full stack developer on large scale websites utilizing C#, Sitecore MVC, Sitecore Web Forms, LINQ, LINQ to Lucene, ASP.NET Web Api, TDS, Glass Mapper, Angular, JQuery, SASS, CSS3 and HTML5.● Built various integrations between outside systems and Sitecore. These integrations ran as Sitecore tasks on a nightly scheduled basis pulling and pushing data loads to Azure blob storage. ● Built and extended Sitecore pipelines and providers to provide enhanced functionality. For example, extended both the HttpRequestProcessor pipeline and the Sitecore LinkProvider to allow for custom URL links.● Provided support for complex ongoing support issues working closely with account teams.● Built and maintained a site using Keystone.js which is an open source CMS built on node.js.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

● Worked as a second developer on builds of Sitecore sites using C#, Sitecore Web Forms, LINQ, LINQ to Lucene, ASP.NET Web Api, TDS, Glass Mapper, JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5● Provided bug fixes and enhancements for ongoing support team.● Built One North Interactive’s first responsive WordPress as a CMS site using php, MySql, Advanced Custom Fields and PODS.