Michael Soo Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Recipient of the International Photographer of the Year Award, by world largest imaging magazine, Popular Photography & Imaging. Details, http://www.soocool.com/poty/- Art Director and commercial photographer for corporations, focusing on branding and marketing strategies.- Directed & produced Popular Photography & Imaging magazines covers, articles and editorials..- Served as Administrator and Chairman of the San Francisco Bay Area Photography Initiative & Forum. Consolidated thousands of SF Bay Professional and Semi-Professional Photographers into a single site.- Instructor of the classes; Advanced Photoshop, Advanced Masking, Color Theory, Digital B&W Photography, L*ab Color and Studio Lighting. Classes held in photo studio with classes of 120+ students.- Expert Photoshop user and retoucher.Clients includes:- Intel Corp- Hewlett Packard- Sun Microsystems, Inc- Whole Foods Market- NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers- NBA Golden State Warriors- Draper Fisher Jurvetson- Law Offices of Meyers Nave across California- Kikkoman- Kensington- Brilliant Earth- Federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

- Oversee Sun’s software and auto-download services and processes- Manages applicationss that run on High Availability servers (web tier and database tiers), clustering, load balancing, monitoring, alerts & failovers.- Serve as Project Lead for the Common Download Platform with a budget of over $10 million. > Goal: Transform download experience for customers (faster, more efficient and streamlined with significant click reduction) > Coordinate team of 20+ developers, consultants, analysts, system admin, database admin. > Technology used, Intershop, Web 2.0, AJAX, CSS, XML and Oracle 10g.- Worked with Sun customers & partners including Google, Akamai, with the most recent, help secured $100 million deals in short amount of time.- Led effort to implement quality and process improvements for organization, including test automation, monthly report generation matrix, software consolidation and others. ROI of $350,000.

- Lead database engineer in the latest push technology system at that time, called “Driveway” (released with AOL 4.0). Integrated a satellite data feed system from tickers such as the Associated Press and SportTicker for “Driveway” project as well as “Arena1” (aka SportNation) using Logicon Message Dissemination System (LMDS). “Driveway” allow users update their computers with to-the-second dynamic data, directly from the satellite feed and web sites.- Design, develop and maintain RDBMS in Sybase, FoxPro and HyperCard for clients such as Tandem, Northern Telecom, FedEx and The Sporting News. - Create and maintain tables, stored procedures, triggers, SQL and WebSQL scripts, Perl scripts. Administer Web Servers for a variety of web projects. - Rewrote entire database entry systems from HyperCard into FoxPro. - Developed internal tools in C for Tools and Technology Dept. - Strategically planned and architect online areas in America Online, Inc.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President of the Computer Science AssociationDeans' Highest Honor List for 3 consecutive semester

Education record