Phil Michael Email & Phone Number

San Francisco

Consultant responsible for providing hands-on technology expertise and leadership to client projects including:• PebblePost - Provided software architecture and full-stack engineering services to modernize their Programmatic Direct Mail platform• Premo Network - Principal engineer for a new subscription video on demand (SVOD) service• City CarShare - Created and maintained mobile apps (iOS and Android) for car sharing reservations, automated key portions of the member application process, augmented staff to enhance and maintain key business systems• LitmusBox / The Permanente Medical Group - Provided expertise that allowed LitmusBox to extend their service offerings at TPMG to include Java server­-side development• Macys.com - Full life cycle development of a new Product Information Management (PIM) System • Tacit Knowledge / Kodak Gallery (Ofoto) - Integrated tools to help establish agile development and continuous integration processes• University of California Office of the President (UCOP) - Designed and developed data warehousing tools

Technology Advisor at Corsis, a data-powered technology advisory firm that helps the world’s leading investors and decision-makers measure the business impact of their technology decisions. Provided IT assessments using a proprietary scoring system that measures technology risk and compliance with best practices.• Provided technical expertise in support of technology due diligence assessments for private equity firms investing in tech-enabled businesses in the e-commerce, information technology, education, and government sectors.• Supported M&A transactions as a member of technology diligence teams. Led IT diligence workstreams covering Application Architecture and Software Development Process tracks. • Conducted technical assessments evaluating the feasibility of emerging technology applications utilizing virtual and augmented reality, and 3D product visualization and customization. • Contributed to a content library of operational best practices related to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and Internet-of-Things (IoT) system architecture.• Delivered actionable recommendations for improvements to application architecture, upgrades to software systems, and optimization of software development processes.• Utilized business intelligence software to measure and score the maturity of technology operations. • Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams of solution architects to deliver insights to investors and board members within challenging deadlines.• Authored technology assessment reports containing track summaries, key strengths, key risks and recommendations for consumption by investors, board members, and C-level decision makers.

San Francisco

Principal software engineer for a new subscription video on demand (SVOD) service.• Collaborated with stakeholders to build technical and functional requirements, select software stack and third party systems, and deliver cloud-based systems to enable service launch.• Designed Premo API for subscription management, catalog browsing, authentication and playback authorization functionality for member-facing apps and websites. Delivered API using the Hapi Node.js framework and PostgreSQL, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure.• Integrated Recurly and Stripe for subscription billing, Ooyala for video delivery, Facebook for social login, and MailChimp and Amazon SES for marketing emails and newsletters. • Integrated iTunes, Google Play, and Roku Channel Store to enable subscription purchase and management via app stores in addition to the Premo platform.• Built customer-facing subscription management portal with AngularJS. • Recruited, interviewed, and assessed capabilities of engineering contractors and development agencies.• Helped manage client app development (iOS, Roku, Xbox) and integration with the Premo API.

San Francisco

• Designed, developed, and maintained City CarShare’s customer-­facing mobile website and native apps for iOS and Android. Supported all major platforms using a single codebase consisting of the Sencha Touch JavaScript+HTML5 mobile application framework and Google Maps JavaScript API. Packaged and deployed native apps for iOS and Android using Apache Cordova (PhoneGap). Created and maintained app store listings and related content. Utilized native Cordova plugins to access phone features such as camera, photo library, and file transfer, in order to capture and submit photos for member vehicle reports. Provided analytics and reporting on mobile activity and mobile versus traditional channel usage.• Redesigned a cumbersome member application process. Consolidated numerous one-off application forms into a single, dynamic AngularJS application. Integrated CoreLogic’s MVR (Motor Vehicle Record) system to automate the retrieval and analysis of applicant driving records for insurance purposes. Built a custom workflow system for processing new member applications. Automated decision making and email communication to speed up application processing.• Responsible for new feature development and maintenance of the nonprofit's reservation, billing, and invoicing engine to streamline operations and improve customer experience. Revamped monthly invoice PDF generation process. Created new JSON interfaces to backend systems for mobile development. Technology stack included Java, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, and iText PDF generation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provided expertise that allowed LitmusBox to extend their service offerings at TPMG to include Java server­-side development. Developed the middle tier of several web applications that use technology to improve health care delivery to Kaiser members, using Tomcat, Spring MVC, Tiles, XML, JSON, Ajax, and WSO2 Web Services.

San Francisco

Participated in the full life cycle development of a new Product Information Management (PIM) System for Macys.com. Served as a key architect during the initial design phase. Worked as a bridge between the Macys.com team, vendor team (GXS), and agile development organization (Tacit Knowledge) during the development phase. Helped write ETL code to complete the Data Migration prior to launch. Technologies included GXS Product Information Manager, Oracle RAC, Spring, Hibernate, Drools, Ajax, YUI Library, JBoss, Cruise Control, and PL/SQL.

San Francisco Bay Area

Helped establish agile development processes for Tacit's client Kodak Gallery (Ofoto) by improving a continuous integration system built around Maven, Perforce, and Cruise Control with a number of third party plugins such as JUnit, HTTPUnit, JDepend, PMD, and CheckStyle. Developed a plugin to incorporate Flex Unit testing within the automated build process, extending continuous integration to the Rich Internet Application layer. Altered the core PicoContainer component architecture to enable Flex Unit to run seamlessly on different development platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux).

Oakland

Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of a variety of data warehousing tools built with Spring MVC, Struts Tiles, Hibernate, WebSphere, Sybase and DB2. Collaborated on the design of a University­-wide Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

San Francisco

• Senior member of Organic’s engineering team, responsible for full lifecycle design, development, and maintenance of complex online business systems, web infrastructure, and data analysis tools. • Chief architect and manager of the Software Engineering and Web Operations groups.• Designed and developed a new electronic commerce system for Federated Department Stores, integrated with their back end inventory and fulfillment systems using XML­-based web services. Led the software engineering team during development of www.macys.com using that framework.• Developed a Spring-like dependency injection and application configuration framework utilized on multiple client engagements.• Created logical and physical network architectures for system deployment.• Stabilized and tuned the performance of newly launched Textbooks.com during the busy winter textbook buying season. This site was experience severe outages due to concurrency issues caused by the interaction of numerous application server instances and complex PL/SQL stored procedures. Managed the software engineering component of the team to prioritize and resolve live bugs, and finish incomplete features.• Participated in the development on a new online drugstore for client RX.com. Responsible for integrating third party systems, including a drug information service, credit card processing system, and a custom fulfillment system. Created an automated test harness to validate fulfillment system operation.• Delivered results using a variety of application servers (ATG, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat), databases (Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server), web servers (Apache, IBM HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, iPlanet), operating systems (Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows 2000), search engines (Mercado, Verity), and mapping engines (Kivera, Microsoft MapPoint).• Additional clients included Mitsubishi Motors NA, Sprint PCS, Symantec, Washington Mutual, Highwoods Properties, and Virgin Mobile USA.

Greater Chicago Area

Member of the Emerging Technologies Solutions Group, providing leading edge technology research and consulting services in conjunction with local offices around the globe. Major projects included:• Deutsche Telekom, Paris, France - Self-service internet system allowing business customers to analyze telecommunications invoices online• Awareness Machine, Northbrook, IL - Prototype of a Google Now-like system for the Palm Pilot, in conjunction with Andersen's Center for Strategic Technology and Research• Hong Kong Telecom, Chicago, IL - Interactive television service (ITV) delivering video on demand and services such as home shopping and banking to residential customers• AutoNation USA, Fort Lauderdale, FL - Interactive multimedia kiosk allowing customers to browse store inventory and informational marketing videos• General Electric, Stamford, CT - Multimedia training course incorporating Goal-Based Reasoning concepts