Hire Michael – Global Publishing CTO, Project Manager, Enterprise TYPO3 Web Developer

Are you looking for stronger leadership, returning clients, fresh ideas, reusable code and better management of your technology projects?

If so, then you’re in luck as I’ve got over 20 years of making the above happen available for you.

The catch?

I’m looking for…

• Meaningful work
• Variety
• Challenge
• Decision making
• Travel opportunities
• Creativity
• Recognition
• High morale environment
• Comfortable workplace

The Resume

MICHAEL CANNON – 康榮智
PO Box 55071 ECM 7364, Boston, MA 02205-5071 USA
522 Renai Road Sec. 2 15F No. 3, Linkou, Taipei County 244 Taiwan
Taiwan 244 台北縣林口鄉仁愛路二段522號15樓之3
+886 (0)9 8329-0956
michael@peimic.com
http://www.peimic.com

Global Publishing CTO, Project Manager, Enterprise TYPO3 Web Developer, Technical Sales Expert

HIGHLIGHTS

• Professionally experienced in customizing high-end PHP and MySQL TYPO3 content management systems as demonstrated by multiple large private media publishers and the United States’ premiere business process management (BPM) and service orientated architecture (SOA) think tank.
• Specifically trained and experienced in development of financial applications; from profit & loss reports to cross-reference auditing, from multiple system data integration to fraud tracking.
• Over 20 years of software engineering experience in project management, analysis, design, coding, testing, delivery, training, maintenance and documentation.
• Ever increasing 15 year business knowledge base in customer service, accounting, Internet applications, outsourcing and resource procurement and technical sales support.
• 2003 & 2004 National Republican Congressional Committee Businessman of the Year.

PROFESSIONAL BRIEFS

Adventurous Water Rat | TYPO3 Web Developer

Peimic.com; May 2000 to Present.

• Life in Taiwan highlights through poetry and travel pictorials.
• TYPO3 and WordPress web developer for select non-profit clients.

CEO, CTO, Senior TYPO3 Web Developer, Marketer, Customer Support

Acqal Corporation – Atlanta, Georgia and Linkou, Taiwan; October 2008 to February 2010.

• Tripled first year revenue and profits over initial client base carryover.
• Obtained top SEO placements for key niche markets.
• Designed and developed an automated website deployment systems as SAAS product.
• Implemented virtualized hosting systems to drastically reduce infrastructure costs and create a new profit center.
• Replaced desktop applications with online versions to drastically reduce operational costs and IT headaches.
• Established strategic goals to grow initial client base 100% a year.
• Published over 100 articles regarding technology, business, community and TYPO3.
• Presented a seminar at T3CON09 Frankfurt for consolidating open and commercial TYPO3 training.
• Successfully implemented 1% charitable giving as part company culture.
• Managed and performed up to several thousand page website migrations with accompanying changes in system infrastructure.
• Created processes for implementing profitable and timely performance tuning, security audits and search engine optimizations.
• Opened up and promoted support agreements to non-active clients thereby doubling that revenue type several quarters in a row.
• Implemented and promoted inbound and outbound marketing via social networks, newsletters and corporate website SEO.
• Researched and implemented cloud based high-availability, load-balanced and fail-over web hosting.
• Implemented corporate wide replacement of Microsoft Office desktop applications with Google Apps, Cerebus HelpDesk and Redmine for online based groupware, communications, support and project management.

President, Project Manager, Senior TYPO3 Web Developer, Marketer, Customer Support

Cannonbose, LLC – Portsmouth, New Hampshire; October 2001 to October 2008.

• As president, managed client base and growth to experience 100% revenue gains 6-years in a row.
• Analyzed client needs to design Internet applications through full software analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, training and maintenance life-cycle.
• Specialized in building and deploying content management (CMS) and website management systems (WMS) for media publishers.
• Often praised by clients for sales and support timeliness and thoroughness of responses.
• As business consultant, advised businesses with decision support, planning, product prototyping and start-up research.
• Additionally through back-office processes and systems helped them minimize leakage and shrinkage, implement inventory and project resource tracking, improve morale, lines of communication and timeliness through management meetings.
• Furthermore, assisted with employee reviews, plan purchasing and improving retail and service sourcing and profitability.
• As software architect and developer, produced over 60 new or improved programs or extensions based upon PHPWebsite, TYPO3, Geoclassifieds, WordPress and other customizations.
• Systems produced ranged from simple read news counters to fully integrated news and event registration systems.
• Higher end applications encompassed TYPO3 and Salesforce integrations and a large-scale single sign-on TYPO3 portal with dotProject, SugarCRM, Owl document management, forums and MediaWiki connections.
• Production wise, being self-motivated, worked successfully alone or on globally dispersed teams to complete projects by writing over 200 lines of production worthy code a day on average, with regular highs of over 600.
• Consistently managed application development to analyze real needs and provide clients with automated business processes and increased customer knowledge through rapid implementation of hosting and content management systems.

Senior Developer

Sunrise International Leasing Corporation – Golden Valley, Minnesota; June 2004 to November 2004.

• Headed development of an online complete lease accounting and re-marketing system (CLEAR).
• Utilized PHP, Oracle 8i, Mojavi, Creole, and Propel to automate back-end lease management.
• Built up two internal domain name servers to eliminate troublesome daily name resolution support calls.
• As senior developer, built two proof-of-concept prototypes to aid in development of an online complete lease accounting and re-marketing system named CLEAR.
• The second prototype lead to the design of a database backed, automatic application builder based upon PHP 5, Oracle, Mojavi 3, Creole, and Propel.
• CLEAR development included model-view-controller amongst other design patterns, a 4th normalized form database schema, granular user privileges, along with flexible templating based upon user sponsorship.
• Additional duties included patching, securing, and on-call administration of Solaris 8 and 9 servers within a Windows NT and Netware 6 environment.

Project Manager, Accounting Programmer

Intercosmos Media Group, Inc. – New Orleans, Louisiana; July 2002 to May 2004.

• Lead manager of Biz New Orleans TYPO3 content management system development.
• Lead and trained developers and support personnel in New Orleans, New Jersey, and Russia on content and accounting system projects using HTML, Java, PHP, MySQL and other Internet technologies.
• Used accounting, programming and database skills to develop applications for improving customer support, finance department reporting, and customizing third party applications to meet business needs.
• Created the Customer Service, Accounting, and Management Apparatus (CSAMA) to centralize all subsidiary financial transactions that within six weeks, saved Intercosmos $250,000 tax dollars quarterly and reduced back-office data-entry by over 90%.
• As project manager, coordinated development and delivery of customized database applications for Intercosmos, its subsidiaries and clients.
• Additionally, iterated project deliverables, determined team member requirements, trained developers and ensured client satisfaction.
• Major projects included TYPO3 content management system deployments and the Customer Service, Accounting, and Management Apparatus (CSAMA) to centralize all subsidiary financial transactions for auditing, customer statements, decision support, market segment identification and taxation protection.
• Minor projects included developing a PHP code library to reduce development time cycles; creating statistical scripts to report on chargebacks, confiscated materials, fraud, and user inactivity; and adding collocation invoicing and billing capabilities to Psoft’s H-Sphere Java-based web hosting solution to centralize hosted account management.

Volunteer Assistant Crew Leader

Washington Trails Association – Western Washington; June 1999 to July 2002.

• As assistant crew leader, educated and motivated teams of 3 to 15 volunteers in trail maintenance, structure construction, and erosion control during rain or shine and in deep mud or on hard pack.

Project Manager, Software Developer

Seattle University – Seattle, Washington; September 2001 to June 2002.

• Managed 5 developers and 4 support personnel to increase the marketability of a small-footprint, proprietary database by creation of an Microsoft OLE DB Provider and SQL minimum-grammar translator programmed in Flex, Bison and C++.
• As project manager, successfully coordinated activities of 10 teams ranging from carpentry to safety to yard work over three months during the 2000 Central Seattle home revitalization projects.
• Actual work period of less than 36 hours experienced cooperation of 40 team members throughout more than 100 separate activities to improve living conditions for 2 Central Seattle residents.

Operations Manager, Web Developer

Virgo Internet, LLC; – Seattle, Washington February 2000 to September 2001.

• As operations manager, oversaw accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, quarterly taxes, customer support, software sales and network administration.
• Managed local and overseas teams during small- and large-scale project development-cycles.
• Managed daily activities including accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, quarterly taxes, customer support, software sales and network administration.
• Additionally, managed local and outsourced development teams through multiple small and large contract projects.
• Requested, hired, and terminated both domestic and international contractor relationships as needed for development projects.
• Introduced the software development cycle to help identify and resolve feature creep issues.
• Began project metrics tracking to improve sales closure from 20% to 60% with realistic time and cost schedules.
• Created in-house and client “static” websites before moving to a “dynamic” database-enabled content management system for streamlined original content publishing.
• Established local area networks, including wireless and development server services before transferring to an off-site solution to reduce in-house operating expenses.

Program Administrator

NeoDyme Technologies Corporation at Swedish Medical Center – Seattle, Washington; March 1999 to December 1999.

• As program administrator, oversaw conversion of 30 plus full-service repair contracts worth $13M to time and materials invoicing.
• This allowed medical centers to save 33% on original contracts, by their having access to national medical repair standards information.
• Implemented accounting tracking processes to minimize budget variances for maintenance operations of three Washington and Alaskan medical facilities.
• Gained departmental support of MediDyme program through teaching applicable operational procedures and personally meeting with concerned individuals.
• Provided technical support for laptop and desktop-based Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 and Office 97/2000 networked systems.
• This included critical system backup and restoration.
• Resolved client and vendor invoicing, billing, contract, and servicing comments and complaints.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Journeyman (Bomb Squad, 3E851)

United States Air Force – United States, England, Bahrain, South Korea; December 1994 to February 1999.

• Top Secret/SCI security clearance (inactive).
• Honorable Discharge.
• As an EOD technician, resolved over 3,000 domestic and foreign explosive incidents through varying intelligence and knowledge techniques with no life loss and minimal property damage during 4 years of international hazardous explosive device reconnaissance and remediation throughout Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the United States.
• Created two military and public access Internet web sites.
• Managed maintenance, replacement, and purchasing of specialized equipment totaling over $5 million dollars by developing Excel and Word packages to centralize needed information.
• Modified accounting procedures to eliminate over-budgeting and ensure on-hand quantities meet usage needs.
• Negotiated $250,000 annual budget to acquire and maintain specialized communication, protective equipment, robotics, and tools through worldwide purchasing networks.
• With teamwork, developed and taught military and civilian public safety personnel in a Hazardous Explosive Device Handling Safety Program, 15-20 persons per class with no recorded accidents from August 1996 to January 1999.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science with Business Specialization

Seattle University; June 2002.

Associate in Arts Degree, Science Emphasis – Chemistry

Skagit Valley College; August 1993.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Tools and Packages:

• ADODB
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Fireworks
• Bash
• C++
• CGI
• Creole
• CSS
• CVS
• HTML
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lotus Notes
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Word
• MYOB AccountEdge
• MySQL
• OpenSSH
• Oracle 8i
• Perl
• PHP
• Quicken QuickBooks Pro
• Scheme
• Smarty
• SQL
• Subversion
• TYPO3
• XHTML

Platforms:

• FreeBSD
• Mac OS 9
• Mac OS X
• Gentoo Linux
• RedHat Linux
• SuSE Linux
• Solaris 8
• Solaris 9
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 7

Languages:

• Chinese, basic
• English, native
• Korean, basic

FOREIGN AREA KNOWLEDGE

• Taiwan: Work and Study, 2009-Present.
• Russia: Work and Study, March 2002, September 2003.
• South Korea: Work and study, February 1998-January 1999, September 1999 and 2001.
• Bahrain: Work, September – October 1997.
• England: Work, May – June 1997.
• Travel: British Columbia, Central Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Japan, Laos, Thailand, Turkey, United States.

Still Interested? Contact Michael