Michael Snyder Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Freeport, Maine, US

Formed the Research and Development team focusing on AI and experimental features.Created proof of concept applications to demonstrate business value of new ideas:Created a Lesson Plan Generator using AI to generate full daily lesson plans for teachers that conform to ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) standards.Test and quiz.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

Built proof of concepts for image stitching functionality to detect overlapping parts of images.Actively participated in code reviews and coached team members how to review beyond syntax.Participated in scaling exercises that allowed for sending several billion emails on our busiest days.Supervised and grew a team of Software Engineers (10 total) focused.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Owned the Software Delivery process to provide value to our stakeholders from initial request to production delivery.Staffing and leading teams composed of both on-shore and off-shore Managers, Leads, Software Engineers, and Quality Engineers.Scheduled and participated in weekly 1-on-1 meetings with engineering Team Leads and peers across the Quality.

Bethesda, Maryland, US

Leading a team of developers through a cloud-native platform rewrite, which was released to production with no major issues.Mentoring junior and senior developers on the team about software development best practices and common development paradigms (SOLID, TDD).Microservice and client-side development using Go, React, and PostgreSQL. Monitored site.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Led four teams composed of Software Developers and Quality Control Analysts.Transitioned the DevOps team from being an ad-hoc release team to creating build pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation using Ansible and CloudFormation, build automation using Azure DevOps Pipelines, and command line shell scripts.Architected scalable applications using AWS.

Nottingham, Maryland, US

Overseeing all development of our enterprise iOS and Android mobile application using nativeand cross-platform technologies.Architecting and developing mobile and web applications.Developing and enforcing coding standards for C# and JavaScript.Working with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to prioritize upcoming projects.Creating and maintaining release.

Mentoring Junior and Senior Software Engineers in patterns, practices, and design for modern web applications. Developed a branching strategy for Baltimore County's software, and introduced the concept of branching in both Git and TFS source control systems to the Software Engineers.Conducting code reviews for Junior and Senior Software Engineers.Front-end.

Columbia, MD, US

• Management of five software engineering teams developing features, internal support applications, and public-facing websites.
• Mentorship and guidance of Engineering Leads (the individual teams’ managers), conducting annual reviews, monitoring SMART goals throughout the year, and guiding career growth.
• Interviewing and hiring of Engineering Leads, Software Engineers, Automation Engineers, and Quality Control Analysts.
• Training new Engineering Leads: helping them acclimate from being a peer to being a manager, learning how to work with different personalities, manage conflicts, delegate work, and become a leader.
• Recommendations for promotions, and positive and negative salary adjustments.
• Recommending and researching technical and leadership training opportunities for Engineering Leads and engineers.

Columbia, MD, US

Full description listed under my position as an Assistant Director.

Columbia, MD, US

Full description listed under my position as an Assistant Director.

Columbia, MD, US

Full description listed under my position as an Assistant Director.

Columbia, MD, US

Full description listed under my position as an Assistant Director.

Sparks, Maryland, US

• Web development using Classic ASP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Database development writing stored procedures, user defined functions, views, triggers, and ad-hoc queries.
• Designing web graphics using Photoshop and Illustrator, with a consideration for file sizes and compression schemes of different file formats.
• Working with other developers to collaboratively solve problems.Key Accomplishments
• Rewriting the broker’s group health insurance proposal engine to improve proposal generation speed by 1,200% (from about 1 minute to under 5 seconds).
• Development of a “Proposal Wizard” approach to building group health insurance proposals, which turned a several-page-long field of checkboxes and dropdowns into a much more usable four-step process, which got rave.

Lenexa, Kansas, US

• Writing HTML to work across Web email clients (Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail) and Windows email clients (Outlook, Lotus Notes).
• Designing web graphics using Adobe Photoshop for HTML emails with a consideration for file sizes and image formats.
• Gathering requirements from the sales team and directly from the customer to meet their vision and generate leads. Key Accomplishments
• Creation of up to three email advertisements per week that generated hundreds of leads every week for the IQ Group’s customers.
• Trusted by CEO to make hiring decisions on graphic designers.