Michael (Mike) W. Evers

**** ****** *** 850-***-****

Pensacola, Fl 32504 acz57m@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To find a challenging and rewarding position utilizing my SW development skills along with strong interpersonal skills. The opportunity to learn new skills and markets while being able to give valuable contributions to the success of the company.

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience gathering and prioritizing product requirements from customers, dealers and competitive trends for development of high-tech products as Product Manager.

Proficient in all aspects of software development from gathering requirements, to design, developing QA procedures and writing software.

Strong interpersonal skills both as manager and in sales and marketing tasks.

Extensive experience bridging between engineering and marketing,

Experience in training and support of many different levels of dealers and customers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prairie Precision Network Inc Calgary, Alberta

President 2009 – present

Authored business plan including the Technical Proposal used to obtain initial investors for building a GPS/GNSS RTK network in Western Canada.

Built out the RTK network sites covering much of the Canadian prairies which now has over 100 reference sites.

Did reverse engineering of John Deere GPS receivers and wrote software to allow a non-Deere RTK data to be translated and accepted by the Deere receivers.

Wrote requirements and managed a third-party engineering firm for the development of a cellular modem device to be used on John Deere tractors to access RTK network data.

Wrote requirements and managed the development of several support tools to help with the sales and support of the RTK network.

Performed dealer and customer training for both sales and support of the RTK network and tools we have developed.

Designed and help write new cellular modem software using Lua on Sierra Wireless device.

RINEX Technology Calgary, Alberta

Product Development Specialist 2007 – 2008

Identified market needs and authored product requirements for proposed development projects to meet requirements of Western Canadian customers.

Maintained technical leadership position for dealer and customer support.

Wrote C/ C++ Windows applications using Visual C++firmware for new products

Wrote firmware for AVR microprocessors using CodeVisionAVR developing serial, USB and CAN devices.

RINEX Technology Inc . Calgary, Alberta

Manager, North American Division 2002 – 2007

Orchestrated dealer open house events including giving seminars and product presentations marketing precision farming products.

Managed tradeshows and events to generate product and brand name recognition to potential customers.

Authored product specifications unique for newly identified market needs.

Performed field analysis of farm equipment interfaces and developed proof of concept solutions that will be developed into full products.

Point Inc. Calgary, Alberta

Software Engineering Manager 1999 – 2002

Managed a SW development staff with 15 employees in Kansas City and 8 employees in Calgary.

Established SW development processes to insure the SW projects met user and quality requirements.

Participated in authoring and reviewing software specifications and designs.

Participated in writing the C++ object-oriented class libraries.

Novatel INC. Calgary, Alberta

Software Project Manager 1996 – 1999

Managed the definition and development of a GPS/Survey software suite.

Authored and/or reviewed project specifications.

Reviewed and Managed the Object-Oriented designs and test procedures.

Wrote rapid prototype software and helped write class libraries.

Software Developer 1994 –1996

Designed and managed the development of a C++ Object-Oriented class library.

Participated in writing C++ O-O libraries.

Co-Authored the specifications and justification for Novatel to develop a survey product.

Ashtech Inc. Sunnyvale, California

Software Engineer 1989 – 1994

Designed and developed the graphical users interface to replace the DOS text interface.

Authored the object-oriented software development lifecycle.

Designed and developed a C++ reusable class library for GPS applications.

Participated in customer support and training for the Ashtech GPS survey systems.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bates Project Management Inc. 2000

Project Planning Best Practices

Fifth Era Knowledge Corporation 1998

Advanced C++ Development Techniques

University of California 1994

Software Requirement Analysis and Design (course)

Structuring and Controlling Software Development Processes (course)

Software Metrics for Software Project Management (course)

Foothill College 1992

Object Oriented Programming in C++ (course)

George Mason University 1980 - 1988

Equivalent of 3 Years of Electrical Engineering (non-graduate)

SKILLS

Management Microsoft Project, SW development/engineering processes, Rational RequisitePro, Excel, Word, QuickBooks, Maximizer, PowerPoint.

Development Object-oriented analysis and design (OMT and UML), Rational Rose, Borland Builder, Borland Delphi, Microsoft Visual C++, TrueChange and PVCS version control, TrackRecord and DCS defect control system.

OTHER INTERESTS

Private Pilot License 1991

Certified Sailor Basic Sailing, Basic Coastal Cruising 1990

Certified Scuba Diver Open Water I and Open Water II 1991 and 2010

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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