Software Engineer Sales

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M I KE COMPTON

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• Results oriented IT manager with over 20 years experience.

• Strong hands-on technical focus, customer oriented, and very good at managing people.

• Experience with most computer platforms to include Windows, Windows Mobile, Palm OS,

B lackBerry, iPhone, Android, Linux, IBM mainframe (MVS), AS/400, and Unix (Sun, HP, AIX).

Core competencies include:

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Software Sales Cloud

Design/Development P resentations Computing

• • •

Project Management Strategic Off-shoring

P lanning

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Technical Support Quality Budgeting

Control

PROFESSIONAL EXPER IENCE

Black Book ( Division of H earst Business M edia ), Gainesville, GA 2000 -

P resent

I nformation Technology Department, Di rector of I nformation Technology, Software

E ngineer

• Manage the Information Technology

Department for National Auto Research (Black

Book), a vehicle valuation company with over

50,000 customers that include car dealerships,

f inancial institutions and software companies.

• Developed a mobile product strategy that

t argets delivery on the following devices;

A ndroid, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile,

and Palm. The mobile software product line is

t he fastest growing product line with over

22,000 customers.

o Released three iPhone products in

2010 and surpassed 20,000 customers in

f i rst year.

o Released first Android product in

A ugust 2010 and sales have exceeded 5,000

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customers.

o Developed two BlackBerry products,

one for the U.S. market and one for the

Canadian market. Over 1,100 customers

currently subscribing to the product.

o Developed a line of Windows Mobile

and Palm Pilot applications that still have

2,000 subscribers. Currently rewri ting

core products for Windows Phone 7

p latform.

o All mobile products include the

ability to process credit card orders via

PayPal and serve up advertisements as an

additional revenue channel. Products also

t arget both the B2B and B2C channels.

• Manage the development team responsible for

t he creation of high volume portals for the retail

sector of the automobile industry. The portals

generate car buyer leads from sites like AOL,

G M, Ford, as well as, thousands of dealer web

sites.

• Developed a suite of In ternet products to which

over 10,000 customers subscribe. These

p roducts provide content that is updated daily

and accounts for 20% of total company revenue.

• Developed a line of application program

i nterfaces (APIs) that provides customers with

an easy method of integrating vehicle

i nformation into their back office systems and

p roducts. The APIS were writ ten in several

l anguages to target the most popular platforms;

C++ (COM), C# (.Net) and Java (Unix/ Linux).

• Designed and implemented a web hosting

a rchitecture that spans four data centers and is

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designed to meet 99.7% SLA uptime

commitments. Includes leveraging load

balancing and VMWare to ensure optimum

uptime and the ability to scale on demand.

Currently evaluating cloud computing for future

hosting needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPER IENCE

I N NOVATA LLC (spun off from Ditt ler Brothers Inc.), Oakwood, GA 1997 - 2000

Di rector of I nformation Technology /Software Engineer

• Started and managed the Information Technology Department for Innovata L LC, a

leader in collecting and redistributing t ravel related data to airlines, t ravel agencies,

and software companies.

• Hi red, t rained and managed a staff of 34 associates that included software

developers, quality control analysts and data entry personnel.

• Developed and executed a plan for migrating systems from a mainframe to Unix and

W indows servers.

• Developed over 20 software products to include In ternet web services and the fi rst

Delta Airlines Palm Pilot handheld product for displaying f l ight schedules.

Dittler Brothers I nc., Atlanta, GA 1989 - 1997

Software Engineer

Cap Gemini America, A tlanta, GA 1987 - 1989

Consultant/Software Engineer

Total Systems Services, Columbus, GA 1985 - 1987

Software Engineer

M I L I TARY EXPER IENCE

United States Navy, 2nd C lass Petty Officer 1977 - 1982

T ECHN ICAL EXPERT ISE

Platforms: Windows, iPhone, Android, Palm OS, Windows

CE, BlackBer ry, Mainframe, AS/400, Unix,

M I KE COMPTON

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Buford, Georgia 30519 ********@**********.*** Cell: 770-***-****

Linux

Languages: Objective-C, C#, VB, C++, Java, Pascal (Delphi),

COBOL, RPG400, Assembler

Databases: SQL Server 2008 (all older versions), Oracle,

D B2, Access, MySQL, SQLite

M icrosoft Tools: Visual Studio 2010 (all older versions), Project,

V isio, Office Suite

Other Tools: XCode, Eclipse, Adobe Photoshop, Code Warrior,

I n telliJ Idea, Delphi, CICS, TSO

EDUCAT ION

Bachelor of Business Administration, M IS, U niversity of Georgia 1985

CERT I F ICAT IONS

M icrosoft Certified P rofessional Developer ( MCPD .Net 3.5 – C# path)

2009

M icrosoft Certified Applications Developer ( MCAD .Net 2.0 – C# path)

2007

AWARDS

Employee of the Year, Hearst Business Media Division

2001

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