Mike Smithson Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

• Leading the search for a new Chief Technical Officer for a small startup, ensuring a seamless transition and alignment with company goals.• Implemented innovative software development processes, increasing automation and efficiency in the development lifecycle.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to revamp existing software practices, leading to improved product quality and customer satisfaction.

Troy, Michigan, Us

Currently working on Anymile for Mitsubishi. Anymile is a Drone-based Logistics platform.

Started own consulting business for hire on short or long-term freelance projects.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Senior Software Engineer at Connectivity & Cloud Delivery in the Enrollment Gateway team in Enterprise Connectivity.- Weekly hands-on sessions for up-skilling teams in Extreme Programming Practices- Remediate Code Quality - Introduce Pitest and integration into Sonarqube- Built End-To-End Jenkins Pipeline for CI/CD Deployments- Introduced Kotlin language to team

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

- Lead Engineer on Dev-Central-Station, which automates and provisions an end-to-end application of a user’s choosing (SpringBoot/Java, SpringBoot/Kotlin, Angular, Python, ReactJS, Express, Android, iOS) including provisioning of a Git repository, provisioning a Jenkins job, and provisioning of a space in PCF and automatically executes a Continuous Delivery pipeline in a one-stop, turnkey fashion.- Started the API-Onboarding product from inception to current state which allows individuals to generate an Application ID in seconds to use in calling other APIs within the Ford Enterprise- Set technical direction for a new Platform Enablement group - Set organizational CI/CD practices, Software Engineering practices, team norms, interviewing questionnaire and format for Software Engineering candidates- Lead interviewing sessions of potential candidates for Software Engineering positions within Platform Enablement and other teams lead while working with the Transformation Office.- Mentored and developed 7 teams within the Ford Agile Center of Excellence/Transformation Office.- Taught Extreme Programming (TDD/Refactoring/Clean code practices) to mentored teams through pair/mob programming and hands-on workshops- Assessed and created individual development plans for individuals on coached teams based on time pair-programming with the individuals- Lead Agile ceremonies (standups/user story development/backlog grooming/backlog planning/retrospectives/persona mapping) on both mentored teams and Platform Enablement products.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Provided hands-on technical coaching and mentoring of various software teams in the practices of Extreme Programming (XP). Provided workshops and one-to-one mentoring of junior software engineers.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

- Implementing modern tools to help engineers deliver value faster. - Nexus OSS- SonarQube- Maven- Gradle

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

- Push Notification Estimation for Pizza Tracker- Subversion to Git Migration

- Tech Lead for second release of National Geographic Kid’s magazine.- Coached GPMS team on best practices for automated building and continuous integration of application software. Helped team in rescuing legacy code.- Agile Developer on a 4-man team that delivered the National Geographic Archives Collection on-time and $100K under budget. Sales of the National Geographic Archives Collection had already recovered all development costs within 2 weeks of launch. - Contributed to delivery of Chinese E-book project and Gale Virtual Reference Library 2.0. - Currently leading the effort to bring the Scala programming language into the company through a series of lunch and learn sessions. - Using personal free time to deliver an in-house application to Cengage using the Scala language and Play! Rapid-Application and Prototyping Web Framework along with cloud deployment to Cloudbees.- Skills used: Extreme Programming, Kanban, Test-Driven Development, Spring 3.0 (Core, MVC), Maven, Jenkins Continuous Integration, JIRA, Jasmine Javascript BDD Framework, Scala, Play! Framework, Cloudbees.

Boston, Ma, Us

Worked as Lead Analyst/Developer for GE Capital Credit Decision Services/ITO Underwriting group.- Lead the creation and implementation of new User Acceptance Testing Environment (UAT) for hosting of Decision Service Web Service.- Lead the creation and implementation in the migration of Continuous Integration/ITO Underwriting Automated Build Server into Global Infrastructure Services (GIS) environment.- Assisted in the consolidation of DecisionService and DecisionGate Web Services for the ITO Underwriting team. Tasks completed include refactoring of Maven POM file, Java Application and Unit test code to ensure that consolidated services function transparently to consumers of existing services.Skills used: Java Web Services (CXF, XFire, Axis), Spring 2.5/3.0, JUnit, Maven, CruiseControl, MS SQL Server 2008, JBoss, MyEclipse, Intellij IDEA.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Worked as a consultant for the OnStar Advanced Projects Engineering Group developing Mobile Application services for the Vehicle Services Data Platform (VSDP). - Implemented multi-threaded FOTA (Firmware Over-the-Air) Gateway server integrated into the OnStar Vehicle Services Data Platform (VSDP). This new gateway allows for the automatic reflashing of the Vehicle Communications Platform (VCP) embedded software transparently to the Onstar subscriber's vehicle in a transparent manner. Projected savings to General Motors/Onstar is projected to be $60M in the first year of usage. - Implemented a new Certicom SSL security provider to the EMXP engine used in the Packet Data Gateway, replacing deprecated and non-GM approved SSL security provider. The retrofit of this security provider was the first of its kind within OnStar and General Motors.- Implemented new JAX-WS SOAP and JAX-RS RESTful Web Service that registers new OnStar lab users with non-production vehicles using Scrum methodology.- Implemented new JAX-WS SOAP and JAX-RS RESTful Web Service that will automatically register users that are not already registered with the Application Services Development (ASD) Group using Scrum methodology.- Implemented JAX-WS SOAP and JAX-RS RESTful Web Service that will determine if an account is registered within ASD using Scrum methodology.- Refactored existing registration and login service in both JAX-WS SOAP and JAX-RS into a new registration service using Scrum methodology.- Skills used: Java Concurrency/Multi-Threading, Java Web Services (JAX-WS), Java Messaging Service (JMS), SOAP, XML Schema, JAX-RS, REST, JavaEE, Ant, Maven, Spring 2.5/3.0, EJB 2.1/EJB 3.0 Session Beans, BEA Weblogic 9.X/10.0, Oracle 10g/11g, Apache XML Beans, J2SE 5, J2SE 6, Hibernate 3, Ant, Scrum, SSL, PKI.

Developer for property-casualty insurance carrier developing a new billing implementation in Guidewire’s Billing Center.- Responsible for maintaining/enhancing Java-based SOAP testing tool to call and test Billing Center Web Services. Exposed services include creating new producers, accounts, policies, audits, policy changes, payments, reinstatements, policy cancellations, midterm commission rates and server clock changes.- Created batch script that integrates the Java-based SOAP testing tool to automate the population of local Billing Center database instances. Allows developers/QA personnel to automatically initiate the loading of Billing Center admin files, producers, new account issuances, and new policy issuances. - Developed new payment search functionality within Billing Center that allows users to query the payments made on accounts by Batch ID and/or username.- Developed new split payment functionality that allows Billing Center users to create a new set of payments allocated over multiple accounts from a single payment source.

Hicksville, Ny , Us

Senior Developer for IT Wholesale Group in support and development of Wholesale Lending Applications.- Lead Java developer utilizing Scrum methodology to develop process of automating bonuses to correspondent lenders who belong to Flagstar’s VIP and Goldstar club as part of a new codebase.- Utilized Scrum agile methodology to develop online broker application that completely replaces the current paper document system. One highlight includes dynamically generating the final legal documents as PDF needed for submittal using iText.- Developed Prequalification application as a pre-cursor to the online broker application. Version 2.0 of this application utilized an HTTPS post to salesforce.com as a possible lead for new broker applicants. Skills used: J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JSTL, Hibernate, EJB 2.1 Session Beans, Ajax, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, JUnit, Test-Oriented Development.

Southfield, Michigan, Us

Senior Developer for DaimlerChrysler’s Global Procurement & Supply Information Systems (GPSIS). Responsibilities include maintaining and updating Data Warehouse Reports section of GPSIS. The Data Warehousing section recently won the 2007 Data Warehouse Institute's Best Practices Award for Business Intelligence'. Skills used: J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, DB2, Eclipse, MyEclipse.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Designed and developed application that translates incoming data from legacy systems to Ford Scripting Language (FSL) data files for input to Ford's Vehicle Order Scheduling Algorithm engine. Skills used: Rational XDE, IBM RAD 6.0, PVCS, UML, J2EE, DB2, XML, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema.- Contributed to Release 3 success by converting complex Ford Scheduling Algorithm components from PowerBasic to Java code. As as a selected team member, the team converted, tested, and verified over 40,000 lines of low-level code in less than 4 months. Skills used: RAD 6.0, PVCS, J2EE, JUnit, DB2.- Project Manager/Project Lead on Ford Motor Credit Commercial Lending Systems in converting 3 publicly facing web sites to internally facing sites. These three sites implemented Ford's standard authentication system, Web Single-Logon (WSL) and also provided for user-administered site access. Skills used: IntelliJ IDEA, BEA Weblogic, J2EE, Oracle.- Supported and maintained high availability/ high dollar volume website at Ford Credit called Automatic Credit Application Process. Duties included handling second-level support to field users as well as diagnosing issues with users not being able to complete commercial credit applications. Skills used: PVCS, IntellliJ IDEA, BEA Weblogic, PERL, shell scripting, J2EE, Oracle, SQLJ.- Developed automated scripts within PERL to replace legacy shell scripts that updated the weekly ACAP transactions' database tables to a backup data warehouse. Skills used: PERL, Java, Oracle.- Lead Developer for Ford Motor Company's Ford Supplier Network. Received Certificate of Excellence Award for architecting, designing, coding, and implementing secure (using digitally signed XML) application for migrating 50,000+ users from Ford Supplier Network to Ford Supplier Portal. Skills used: PERL, LDAP, XML, Cryptography, Java, J2EE, Oracle.- Additional Experience available upon request.

Developer for Ford's Worldwide Direct Marketing Organization (WDMO), developed and maintained numerous applications in support of WDMO. Skills used: Perl/CGI, LDAP, Oracle.- Main developer on intranet hub for startup E-Commerce company Covisint. Skills used: Perl/CGI, LDAP, Oracle - Developed ASP applications in support of Covisint auction applications for reporting on results of auctions. Skills used: ASP, VBScript, Oracle. - Lead Developer for Ford Motor Company's Ford Supplier Network. Considered to possess exceptional skills and was converted to direct Ford employee in May of 2002. Skills used: J2EE, Perl/CGI, LDAP, Oracle.

Bachelor Of Science, Aeronautics/Mathematics

Master Of Science, Mechanical Engineering