Michael Van Sickle Email & Phone Number

Akron, OH, US

Akron, OH

Develop course material for consumption by information technology specialists. Focus on web-technologies.Responsibilities include:- developing meaningful and concise demonstration projects to support teaching course material- creation and layout of presentations in PowerPoint targeting a screencast format- record and edit audio and video for each course

Remote

Remote

Remote

- Develop high-end web applications for various clients using client-side web technologies- Support existing applications with bug-fixes and enhancements- contribute to open source projects such as the dojotoolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org/)

Akron, OH

- lead architect on several enterprise-level applications that were focused on increasing the efficiency of the field operations group- created design documentation including requirements, activity diagrams and wire frames to communicate design intent to business customers and development teams- conducted code reviews to ensure that application developers.

Akron, OH

- lead architect on an enterprise application to support the rapidly growing custom jewelry business with a highly modular and adaptable application that exposes multiple end points, including customer and vendor access points. Technologies used include java EE, dojo JavaScript framework, and oracle 9i for storage.- Develop client-side applications.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

- Develop software applications utilizing WPF and the Entity Framework- Developed web sites for clients using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and various server side languages

Wooster, Ohio

• Responsible for developing and maintaining a suite of applications to support an organization with 6500 employees in North America. Also tasked with coordinating software development activities within the IT.
• Developed web-based application using ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, and the Entity Framework that replaced several local systems for tracking employee hours and centralized them into a single system.
• Currently developing a web-application using ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, the Entity Framework, and the Unity IoC container that allows for the central recording, tracking, and reporting for action.
• Developed several utility applications in ASP.NET MVC and C# to improve the interaction between IT and the business for a project to upgrade the clients from Windows XP to Windows 7. Applications included a utility.
• Led a regional integration of several source code repositories in Subversion and Visual Source Safe into a centralized repository. Work included creating applications to automate the exporting, checking, and importing.

Wooster, OH

• Responsible for leading a small team of specialists in the development, implementation, and optimization of business processes and tools to a new product development group with 150 employees.
• Setup and maintained a LAMP server to host web-applications developed in PHP
• Developed a prototype order tracking system using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, dojo, HTML, and CSS to mine data out of SAP and present a holistic tracking solution for monitoring the status of prototype orders through the.
• Developed reports in Microsoft Excel and VBA to mine data out of SAP system to improve data visibility for the following areas new product development, prototype, controlling and materials management groups
• Created a tolerance analysis program in Excel VBA to allow Monte-Carlo methods to be utilized to predict a product’s real-world tolerance sensitivity
• Created a prototype capacity planning simulation that successfully predicted man-power requirements based on predicted project load

Wooster, OH

• Led a team of 5 engineers and drafters in designing and testing products that met the performance requirements of automotive OEMs such as Ford, GM, and Honda.
• Developed a self-adjusting clutch calculation program in VB.NET and SQL Server that simplified and centralized the calculation of many aspects of clutch performance
• Developed a vehicle simulation program in VB.NET and SQL Server to predict the performance of release systems for manual clutches for the automotive industry
• Liaised with headquarters in Germany to ensure that US design practices were in-line with global standards

Wooster, OH

• Responsible for converting customer requirements and test results into designs for manual clutches for the automotive industry.
• Used Excel and VBA to create tools to standardize the calculation of many aspects of manual clutch design
• Used Pro/Program scripting language to embed engineering rules into the start-parts for Pro/Engineer models used by the design group