Mike King
Sacramento, CA 94560 Feb, 2015 HireMikeNow@hotmail.com
Objective: Get a Job to add to Social Security income
Professional SUMMARY:
Presently: Assorted tasks in Loan Origination and Servicing with Provident Funding Associates.
Previous Experience:
Successful Realtor, Loan Origination Closer, Rotary Club President
Over 20 years management experience developing and delivering software products.
Participated/led all aspects of product development, specializing in product strategy and extending the interoperability of strategic operations management (OM) tools, improving performance and quality.
Negotiated contract with a major Japanese computer vendor to bring their strategic NT OM platform to US market.
Broadened Tandem's OM interoperability to include IBM’s NetView, NT and Microsoft’s Cluster Server OS, and CA's Unicenter
Built and led teams that ported and enhanced strategic Japanese NT OM product and the first Web based cluster management tool for Compaq.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Physics, University California Berkeley
Computer Skills:
Worked with Assorted Proprietary Operating Systems/DB systems/Networking System/etc. from 1970-2000
Developed several club and personal web sites
Comfortable with office utilities: MS Office Suite, MS Project, FrontPage
Software Development Disciplines
Complete Lifecycle for software development
Project design and tracking
Application architecting and design
Management Disciplines:
Making, Managing and Supporting Teams
Guiding Product to Completion
Vertical,Horizontal and out of the box Communication
Negotiations and Acquisition
"Customer" representation
Liaison with local organizations
Legal issues resolution
Provident Funding Associates - Sacramento California 2/2009 - Present
Loan Origination Closer
CENTURY21 Oliver-Jackson, Fremont, California 7/2001 - 2007
Sales Associate
Member of National Association of Realtors® and local Realtors associations, familiar will all aspects of Real Estate Agency including selling, buying, escrow, negotiating, marketing etc. Managed the successful completion of over 20 property transactions (client testimonials available on request) , developed new markets, created a network of associates, Attended local marketing and educational meetings, provided useful educational and technical assistance to office mates.
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Server and QA Engineering Manager
Manager of server Java software engineering and QA, responsible for all new server-side Java development and for all QA for the website and some of the back.
Accomplishments:
. Integrated two Java groups after the merger of wine.com and WineShopper.com
. Delivered over 10 software projects in 8 month period, including Q4 with 3x growth
. Took over and reorganized QA teams to improve productivity and efficiency
Technologies used:
- typical Microsoft Office suite, plus project
- Borland's JBuilder Pro v4
- ATG's Dynamo 4.1 basic Application Server, JHTML, Java and JDBC (Sun OS and Wind OS versions)
- Netscape web server
- Apache web server with Jserve (JSP, Java and JDBC)
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Software Development Manager
Manager of software development for serverless and NAS (fiber optic SAN) attached Backup and Restore products. Responsible for development of new and enhanced products on schedule, maintenance of old products, effective liaison with marketing, support, quality assurance, line engineering management and peer software development organizations.
Accomplishments:
. Shipped major enhancement to current product
. Planned Year 2000 product development and maintenance schedule
. Grew team from 7 to 13 engineers (trained 5 new engineers)
Technologies used:
- typical Microsoft Office suite, plus project
- GNU C compiler
- Server OS: Solaris,
- Fiber Channel Switches; Crossroads, Brocade, Pathlight, Gadzooks,
- Fiber Channel Controllers; Emulex, JNI, Finisar,
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COMPAQ COMPUTERS INC. Tandem Division, Cupertino California
1996 - 1999
Technical manager of software development teams for operations management software on Tandem NSK and NT operating systems using Tandem Proprietary languages, C++ (on NT) and Java.
Assist in establishing initial market requirements. Hire, train and motivate designers.
Establish deliverables and schedules. Manage capital acquisitions and planning for desktop and laboratory equipment. Handoff working product to quality assurance and distribution.
Establish improvements in processes to increase SEI CMM level.
Accomplishments:
. Turned around Safeguard
. Developed proposals on how to make CA Unicenter Fault Tolerant
. Turned around performance and quality of strategic OM product (NNM)
. Developed first web based NT cluster management product
. Established new documentation and testing processes to improve Quality of Java based product.
. Ported Top Japanese NT OM product to manage Tandem Clusters
Technologies used:
- typical Microsoft Office suite, plus project
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Borland Jbuilder Pro v3.5
- Compaq Insight Manager XE
- Java applets, "servlets"
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TANDEM COMPUTERS Inc., Cupertino California
Software Program Manager
1992 – 1996
Program manager for $10million software development program. Managed finances (expenses and capital). Managed offshore software development organization.. Negotiate new contract terms and changes in development team support.
Product manager in charge of product direction for several Operations Management product lines including Performance, Security and Batch processing.
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