Michael Blackman Email & Phone Number

Pleasant Hill, Ca, Us

Pleasant Hill, Ca, Us

West Coast, United States

Responsible for system operations and direction, including security, stability and reliability.Maintain and implement infrastructure and code to support SMPP connectivity with multiple vendors, system operations, and Dev-Ops.DevOps tasks include implementing and supporting GitLab Version control, multiple environments and automated testing.Engineering tasks include security reviews and improvements, performance monitoring and optimization, and system reliability for cloud servers with multiple hosting providers.

Pleasant Hill, California

Founder, Consultant, Business Development:Lightwave Mobile (a dba of Liik Us Inc)All aspects of system and business development of a Mobile Marketing Text-Message system+ Sales/Solution/Technical Consulting and Training for customers of the system+ Use and set-up of various CLOUD services, including Rackspace, AWS and others+ Application design and development, from concept to production+ Greylog for SIEM/logging, PHP and MySQL (because they worked for Facebook), Linux, Javascript+ Integration of many related SaaS services via API - Connections to Twilio, Syniverse and others for SMS, MMS, Voice - Use of various frameworks, including jQuery, OAuth libraries, SMPP- eCommerce/web-site support, system security, using OSCommerce and Wordpress/WooCommerce (Tinman Merchandising)- IBM Cognos Installation and customization services, including on-site installations and on-site customer system audits (Senturus, Inc)- Software development using the Cognos system, including an AWS System architecture and design, application logging and implementing/coding a custom Java security module (Opticity)- Support and development of a Cloud-based Open Enrollment/Onboarding system, custom data reporting feeds to insurance carriers (Prism HR)

Pleasant Hill, Ca

Participated in various consulting projects and worked with developers to produce softwareClients included Robert Half, Tinman MerchandisingIntegrated with PG&E's Energy Usages API

Software Engineer and Project ManagementDeveloped a Windows-Embedded platform for our flagship Estimating software. Primary technologies include C++ based COM+ objects for a web-based back-end, and for the front-end XML/XSL to generate HTML with Javascript. InstallShield/MSIRecently completed major custom enhancements for ICBC (Insurance Company of British Columbia). Previously focused on enhancements for State Farm, as well general App Stability.Managed Development & Maintenance of our Bodyshop Management System (Stellix) for 2 years with an immediate team of 3 others.Product had several components. Primarily a large PowerBuilder application with an Elecctronic Time Clock module.Also a Visual-Basic-based Scheduling Module. Back-end DB is Sybase SQL Anywhere.

(ADP sold the Claims Solutions Group in 2006, see current position)Software Engineer/Technical Project Lead

Consultant, worked at PG&E on the GenTrader project.Visual Basic, VB.NET, Brio Reporting, Visual SourceSafe automation

Provided Software consulting services to various companies, including:ADP's Collision Services Group (CSG) (PowerBuilder/SQLAnywhere)Chevron (various departments) (PowerBuilder/Oracle)General Physics (PowerBuilder/Oracle, electrical circuit analysis)

Programmer/Software engineerPerformed maintenance of a Nomad system in VM, used REXX93-96 designed and implemented an Oracle/PowerBuilder client-server application

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ZBT Fraternity

Mathematics, Electrical Engineering