Software Developer Training

MICHAEL K. ROBINSON ****.********.***@*****.***

720-***-****

SOLUTIONS-DRIVEN SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER & ARCHITECT

Enabling, Integrating & Delivering Large Scale Consumer-Facing Web Applications &

Backend Enterprise Systems Across Multiple Platforms Worldwide

Building Custom Infrastructure Support Tools to Automate Production Processes

Seeking a Senior Software Content Management (SCM) / Developer or Architect Position that will capitalize on my expertise in building fully automated, scalable, high performance systems and triaging / troubleshooting and creatively resolving core infrastructure issues, upgrades and transitions.

SME in the following:

• Building Applications - Unix, Ruby, Python & Shell Scripting • SCM –– Git / Github, Subversion (SVN), DevOPS

• Open Source Software (Apache, Capybara, Selenium, etc.) • Akamai Cloud Infrastructures, Cache & REST APIs

• Website Backend Systems - Rackspace, Heroku • Object Oriented Programming / Java, Ruby, Python

• Puppet, Jenkins, Bamboo • JAVA and Tomcat Security and Storage Solutions

• MS SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL, Postgres and Oracle • MS Windows, Linux, MacOS, & Solaris Platforms

14 years of Experience Building a Modern Digital Media Platform with proven track record of taking the lead and demonstrating initiative in streamlining processes, creating workflows, and integrating 50+ developers. Front end architecture is built using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and Whole stack Systems on Ruby on Rails, Node.JS, Linux, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle and MS platforms.

Key Strengths:

• 5+ years Ruby Experience. 15 years Unix Shell Scripting Experience.

• 5 years of Ruby on Rails Experience. Years of Python Experience

• 5 years Experience in Designing, Coding and Implementing Automated Workflows.

• Superior Experience in using and creating SCM tools and DevOps workflows.

• Experience in Multi-language, Multi-platform programming environments.

• Knowledge and Experience of using a variety of Open-Source tools and programming languages.

• Experience creating Customized tools to Assist Development Teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA - Denver, Colorado

(Formerly Rocky Mountain News / Denver Newspaper Agency / The Denver Post)

Software Developer (2000 to 2014)

Retained throughout multiple transitions, buyouts and acquisitions to manage multiple upgrades, migrations, special programs, security management, and SCM for digital news / media to remain at the cutting edge of rapidly changing technology. Architected all online output and created code and workflow to integrate 53 software developers managing streaming and content integration for 80 newspapers nationwide.

Significant contributions included:

• Orchestrated the migration of DFM’s source control to Git and set up entire company on Github.

• Rescued and maintained Ruby on Rails sites; Updated Ruby security on websites. 5+ years Ruby Experience.

• Designed, created, trained SCM / developers on in-house back-end frameworks and enhanced / custom git-commands.

• Created HA system setup / server replacement for public facing system to process vendor ads nationwide (ADDesk).

• Created real time information search system in Ruby, using Lucene/Solr to facilitate retrieval of large group data.

EDUCATION

• Sun Microsystems Education Center - Training in Solaris, Unix and Java

• Github Training - Full Enterprise Git and Github training

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE - Honorable Discharge - Rank: E-4

Weather Electronics Technician & Supply / Equipment Purchasing

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