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Michael Stowe 

Last updated:  07/07/15

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Chicago, IL  60641
US

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Resume Headline: VP Technology/Chief Architect/CTO

Resume Value: cfmzfupxnht8b37e   

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Strengths

.......................................................................................Techinal Assesment and M&A

Troubleshooting and Analysis

Customer Communications

Internationalization and Globalization

SDLC / Agile / Hybrid Waterfall

Proof of Concept / Research

Remote / Offshore Development

Technical Leadership

SOA / SOAP / REST / JSON / XML

Improving Developer Productivity

Secure Development Practices

Compliance / Logistics

Resilience and Scalability

Legacy Software Overhaul

 

 

Technologies

........................................Full Stack Development & Architecture / Java: Vaadin, Hibernate, Spring, Javascript (Rhino) / Dot Net: C#,C++,C / PHP,Python,Ruby / MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 Modeling/Administration / Linux (Gentoo, RH/Centos/Amazon, Ubuntu/Debian), FreeBSD, OSX, Windows / VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Docker / WSO2, Mule / MongoDB, Hadoop/H-Base, CouchDB, Cassandra / SOA, microservices, distributed computing / Agile, Semi-agile, Waterfall / Resilience, Disaster Recovery, Scalability

 

Experience

..........................................................................................Kewill / Apr. 2004 – Apr. 2015

VP of Technology, Chief Architect

VP Kewill Labs

VP Solution Architecture and Engineering

VP Software and Enterprise Architecture

Saved millions in third party license costs through component replacement and architectural redesign, modernized products to reduce maintenance costs, returning 5 software products to profitability, designed aspirational architecture.  Built innovation lab to solve problems without delaying software deliveries, putting three major software products back on schedule and contributing $1m in additional sales due to added features, reconciled multi-cultural, multi-country engineering teams and implemented agile and semi-agile processes.  Wrote code as needed or for examples.

ShipNow / Nov. 2000 – Apr. 2004

CTO

Took field-developed software from logistics consulting firm and built it into commercial-grade software licensed at up to $500k per deployment, built SAS-70 certified data center, built SaaS products and integration to ERP systems.  Built multi-country development organization from scratch, including both engineering and consulting practices.  Achieved five nines in application uptime.

AAR Corp / Jun. 1996 – Nov. 2000

VP of Electronic Commerce

VP of Engineering

VP of Infrastructure

Brought online commerce to a $1B business, building a complete e-commerce team from scratch of 60+ people, while running the operational side of IT (120+).  Built business plan, technology, and launched joint venture dot-com marketplace company, and spun it off as independent concern, generating $3m its first year.  Built strong enough IT team to sell services to partner companies.  Implemented several custom systems and ERP interfaces, employing a holistic view of the organization, directly addressing the supply chain, business plans, integration into existing product lines, and marketing.

Constellation Engineering / Aug. 1990 – Jun. 1996

VP of Technical Services

Presided over team of consultants and offered direct consulting, specializing in analyzing and improving IT departments, often stepping in as temporary CIO or CTO at the request of company leadership.  Functioned as (and supervised teams including) programmer, DBA, developer, graphic designer, project manager, architect, firmware designer, and engineer. Large confidential customers include international banks, and Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to 1990:

Applied Systems Institute, Senior Analyst / Programmer             

Metropolitan State Hospital, MHA

Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center, Direct Care Staff

Rawson Brook Farm

 

Side Projects

...................................................................................Stoweblank LLC / June 2011 - Present

VP of Engineering

Built a profitable business from scratch, including electronic design and development, software design and development, and e-commerce in the cloud, all aspects of production and fulfillment.

 

 

Publications

..............................................Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook, author

Oracle SQL High Performance Tuning, technical editor

Oracle Forms, technical editor

Oracle & Unix Performance Tuning, technical editor

 

Patents

              US Patent 20140279657, describes the Universal Carrier Module, a software container that uses declarative and procedural language to describe carriers enabling complete carrier definition and support without code/product changes

 

Education

.....................................................................................Bachelor’s, Computer Science and Psychology / 1990

Antioch College

 

Management Curriculum

University of Phoenix

 

 

 

 

Michael Stowe / mstowe@chicago.us.mensa.org

 



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Current Career Level:

Executive (SVP, VP, Department Head, etc)

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

 

 

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US-IL-Chicago