Mike Staley Email & Phone Number

Northern Research Station, Falcon Heights, MN

Analyze, validate and manage tabular and geospatial data for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. Design, develop and maintain map-based dashboards and web applications from data, reports and papers produced by FIA scientists, analysts, staff and management.

Burnsville, Minnesota

• Expanded alerting to use raster data; increase analytics business revenues to $7.3M in 2020
• Validated a breakthrough raster alerting process; used statistical analysis to show problems, collaborated on PostGIS fix, then verified solution achieved desired alerting accuracyChanged project management.
• Used Python to show discrepancies between legacy on-premise and new AWS databasesVerified a multi-projection map service for intra- and inter- continental flight weather briefings
• Used OpenAPI specification and created a static database to automate hundreds of testsAssured customers received most accurate GIS weather maps and features by improving a Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL-PostGIS.
• Used AWS RDS and production database schema and data to create regression test suiteFound feature and performance issues prior to releasing GIS API that produced $1.4M in 2020
• Wrote a multi-threaded Python application to pull live WMS requests from centralized logs

Burnsville, MN

• Collaborated on analytics product team to verify, release and grow an aviation business API and highly parallel, distributed geospatial alerting platform; earned more than $1M within 2 years
• Designed and executed a plan with 1K+ tests to verify dozens of API features
• Employed Python to verify synchronous and asynchronous websocket requests over HTTPExposed data visualization errors in machine learning outage prediction product for utilities
• Created/Loaded rasters into Postgres-PostGIS DB to verify dashboard analytics and mapEnabled operations personnel to analyze and prevent system and web application failures
• Developed browser graphs and monitoring daemons using Python and Postgres libraries
• Set up a centralized logging databases using rsyslog UDP channel; collected millions of customer requests for product monitoring and customer use case analysisDeveloped company’s first data visualization API using open.

• Developed, installed, and integrated a flight management system for helicopter operations
• Wrote C# ETL service to visualize helicopter positions in ArcSDE Microsoft SQL Server DB
• Maintained ArcGIS app to intersect assets and weather; generated data driven XML alertsSharpened leadership and communications skills in previous roles as Project Manager and Officer, United States Air Force.

Master Of Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Meteorology