Mike Walker Email & Phone Number

Apopka, FL, US

Helping coordinate 190+ countries for the annual olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. This September, the competition is in Athens, Greece.

Apopka, Florida, United States

• Software Development
• ️ Building a library of software coding to automate robots to move tapes for data management.
• ️ Wrote conversion scripts for non standardized data files.Project Management
• ️ Overseeing entire software library automation processes.
• ️ Maintaining daily operations on legacy software.

• Management
• ️ Oversaw the transition from a team of developers from an underperforming third party to a team 5x the scale.
• ️ Implemented scrum sprints to achieve faster development turnaround with accountability.
• ️ Oversaw the project manager and team implementing SOC2 compliance and certification.Technical
• ️ Improvement of security conditions by working with vendor to address AWS vulnerabilities.
• ️ Reduced cost of monthly server expenses by 75% by leading a code optimization initiative.

Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States

• Technical
• ️ Created one of the first government/house of faith/non-profit central databases in the country to collaborate resources, training, and other tools to prevent families on the edge of homelessness from losing their.
• ️ Project managed the modification and implementation of the primary database system Spirit for specific network needs managing cases of 10,000+ people.Management | Leadership | Volunteer Coordinator
• ️ Managed over 250 volunteers and provided support through training and recruiting technical liaisons.
• ️ Recruited and onboarded new volunteers on an ongoing basis.
• ️ Nurtured relationships with organizations for continued support.Training

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

• Project Management
• ️ Development and maintenance of various web properties with a monthly traffic of 5 million unique visitors.
• ️ Development of Authorize.Net, Stripe, and Shopify checkout systems for product and subscription purchases.
• ️ Extensive REST API integrations for reporting and connecting shopping portals with publication systems.Production
• ️ Professional sound studio design and consultant for podcast network with over one million downloads in first year.
• ️ Editorial and marketing consulting to modernize outdated workflows for both digital and print mediums.

Winter Park, Florida, United States

• Management
• ️ Management of team of 10 developers to achieve rapid feature development goals within financial constraints.
• ️ Onboarding and continued training/mentorship of team members.Technical
• ️ Defined technologies required for creation of enterprise-grade live video stream content delivery for church services and Christian conferences.
• ️ Built a top-tier and highly regarded streaming provider in the house of worship market within two years.
• ️ Development of full stack incorporating Wowza servers and various Amazon Web Service components for a fully scalable and redundant system with international ingress servers and content distribution.

Longwood, Florida, United States

• Project Management
• ️ Identified program requirements for various ministry needs to support growth.
• ️ Oversight of web projects and technical volunteer training.
• ️ Mission work involving regular remote and on-site consulting with multiple organizations in Kyiv, Ukraine and multiple visits each year.Technical
• ️ Determined the numerous languages, technologies, and SaaS products to meet unique needs.
• ️ Development of PHP and node.js-based reporting systems, prayer wall, bible readings, media managers.

University Of Central Florida

• ️ Researched ways to better engage users in a serious gaming environment and to maximize users’ desire to train multiple times.
• ️ Design, execution, and evaluation of studies on reducing costs and improving immersion in simulations and serious games.
• ️ Research of techniques to improve collaboration among soldiers, researchers, and instructors through development of communities of practice and various emerging commercial web tools.
• ️ Development of study analysis tools

Orlando, FL

• ️ Development of curriculum and simulation missions to train people in a virtual flight school environment while actively engaging them in a realistic gaming environment with Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
• ️ Creation of show ready simulator controllers for school and museum environments

University Of Central Florida

• ️ Development of C++ library implementation of Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS), an international standard that defines communication protocols for unmanned vehicle systems, some of their internal.
• ️ Developed compact Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) built on x86 architecture capable of working within mixed reality environments and conforming to JAUS standards to be controlled by various Human-Computer Interaction.
• ️ Developed simulation and data analysis tool for parsing multiple gigabyte worth of text file databases containing human performance data
• ️ Assisted in managing Army Research Lab funded study researching human workload and it’s relation to varying levels of automation, data extraction tool was created to support this effort
• ️ Design, execution, and evaluation of studies improving immersion in simulations and serious games
• ️ Researching techniques to improve collaboration among soldiers, researchers, and instructors through development of community of practice and various emerging web tools