resume-michael-garvin
- 1. Summary 20+ year Veteran of building relationships with 360 feedback, trust and merit, agile management, embracing calculated risk and challenge, being a strong contributor and coaching others to their best path. Core Competencies System Administration Mentoring Software Development Embraces Change System Analysis Builds Relations on/off Team Excellent Writing/Presenting Anticipates Problems & Solutions Feedback & Active Listening Creative Thinker Customer Focused Growth is my Core Value Work Experience Avaya Inc., November 2009 Present Admin | Architect | Developer | Product Owner | Scrum Master Member of the "Avaya Forge" ALM 5 person team (Forge). Our goal was better and faster tools for R&D and lower cost for Avaya. The 'Forge brings together GForge, JIRA, Crucible, Bamboo, Confluence, Sonar, and Nexus to provide a comprehensive, low-cost, but high value enterprise level development and software build environment. The 'Forge is currently the Avaya enterprise standard. We develop this complex environment and administrate it. Taking on day to day operations from backups to monitoring to patching, across Windows, OS/X and several flavors of Linux. We also manage our own hardware (server room) and contingency plans. In addition to my role as developer and administrator, I often act as an architect; gather requirements, flush out designs and work with stakeholders in various management teams to ensure it comes together properly, from PHP code to business processes, I underline diligence. Key Achievements: Divested of Nortel and mentored other teams in becoming experts within Avaya. Championed JIRA as the enterprise level issue tracker, displacing two other entrenched tools, and reaping a huge cost savings/avoidance at the enterprise level. Architected RBAC framework so Avaya can continue to collaborate easily, while still protecting intellectual property where appropriate. Architected & implemented monitoring framework similar to Pandora for our J2EE apps, build farm and artifact repositories. Includes database monitoring and has been key to our 99% uptime goals. Michael Garvin Architect / Designer / Admin Contact mgarvin@bell.net H: 613.729.2823 C: 613.266.0330 Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y4S2, Canada linkedin.com/in/michaeljamesgarvin Skills Web API AWS, Zencoder, Constant Contact, OAuth, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIN, Twitter, Google, InfusionSoft, PayPal, Stripe, Optimal Payments, Joomla, WordPress, Withings, Underarmour, DailyMile, Strava, MachForms Languages Java, JSP, JavaScript, C/C++, SQL, XML, PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, Smalltalk, LISP, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Fortran, PL/I, Protel/Protel-2, BASIC, Logo, Icon, Lingo, CDL, Assembly Databases PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLight, BerkleyDB Tools JIRA, Remedy, Clarify, ClearQuest, Bamboo, Crucible, Confluence, Twiki, vi, CVS, SVN, emacs, Eclipse, XMind, FusionForge, IBM Jazz, CollabNet, Cruise Control, Valgrind, mailman, FrameMaker, Clearcase, Git (repo), Continuus, Softbench, Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, Kajabi, WindRiver, Purify, Quantify Frameworks OOA/OOD/OOP, CSS, HTML, Propel, Zend, Liquid/Shopify, Qt, Motif, X11, WxWinows, Junit, PCRE, iLog Views, Views.h++, Tools.h++, STL, Apr, Apr-Util, Ant, ELF/DWARF/SOM/DBX, TCP/IP, BMS/ToolTalk, MIF, jpGraph, HighCharts, LDAP, RRDTool, ffmpeg, Make, POM, Maven, UML, Tomcat, GlassFish, REST/AJAX/JSON, JQuery, MooTools, FrameMaker, Atlassian, Rally, POSIX, Win32 Win32
- 2. Architected & implemented an internal video hosting site, a light weight version of YouTube that allowed us to deploy and manage a training portal where Video training is now a key component of on boarding. Designed and implemented synchronization framework to tie R&D issue tracking system (JIRA) from the customer support system (Siebel). Designed and implemented key plugins for Crucible and JIRA allowing integration into the 'Forge. I am a key resource on our team for Java based development and Java application integration. Key resource for database programming, integration and operations. Little m Design, 2009 Present Owner | Lead Designer | Sales When Nortel collapsed, plan B was launching my own web consulting company. Seeing things from the front end of the food chain has helped me mature my technical skills, business acumen, improve my communication skills and broaden my perspective. Key Achievements: Strong web skills, connecting apps to cloud and to each other, from AWS to Strava. Developed several custom CMS sites, leveraged off the shelf Joomla and WordPress (Portfolio: littlemdesign.com). Built strong database programming and administration skills in both MySQL and PostgreSQL Architected and implemented my own PHP framework similar to Zend. Boutique hosting of clients on a dedicated server that I administrate for the best possible performance and service. Nortel Networks, May 1993 November 2009 Developer | Team Lead | Architect SDE Portfolio Evolution, January 2007 November 2009 IT based team responsible for selecting corporate standard design tools. Personally responsible for technical analysis and recommendations, over the horizon tool investigations, and supporting other teams members. Also responsible for launching Wind River related tooling into design groups, providing technical support and managing issues with vender. Rogue Wave Technical Prime, August 2000 August 2008 Responsible for managing relationship with external vendor. Provided web portal to internal/external Rogue Wave resources. Primary contact for escalation of any and all Rogue Wave issues. Worked with vendor to negotiate support agreements and cultivate positive relationship. (RogueWave was STL before C++ had an STL) Guru Team Lead/Architect, July 1998 - 2007 Code browsing and analysis tool suite for C/C++. Worked with colleague to turn a skunk works project into a real team. Provided technical support and vision for business model of new team. Accountable (design lead) for architectural design and vision, and managing deliverables. Scripting Yacc/Lex, sh, tcsh, ssh, awk, VisualBasic, ScriptingHost (COM) OS Linux/KVM, Windows, Cygwin, HP, Solaris, IBM AIX Education 1996-2002 Carleton Master of Applied Science in the school of Systems & Computer Engineering. My thesis work focused on developing tools for studying the psychological aspects of programming. The final result was a tool capable of searching industrial source code for certain psychological models. A survey was conducted on approximately 10 million lines of industry software. 1990-1995 Carleton University Bachelor of Systems & Computer Engineering (SCE w/internship). SCE focuses on real-time systems and telecommunications theory. The faculty is rich with industry ties and active research. My 16 month internship was at Nortel. May 1992 June 1993 Carleton University Research Assistant - Utilizing the resources available on the faculty research network, I developed software for the modeling of parallel or distributed systems. This software was used a simulation library called Parasol that was developed at Carleton. The development platform was Unix (SunOS) and the implementation was over 2.5Kloc. Graduate students in their own modelers have used this same source code successfully
- 3. Extensive performance engineering to ensure tools scale to large bodies of software (30+ million lines of code). Received a patent related to compression for parts of work on Guru. Later worked on extensive Guru based (hitless) patch authoring and analysis tooling. Was responsible for design and implementation of patching impact analysis tool and a ground up rewrite of GNU Make capable of simulating and analyzing software builds. Also involved in developmentofpatch authoring and conflict analysis tools. Mentor Team Lead/Developer, October 1995 1998 Core developer and project leader for a suit of code browsing and reverse engineering tools. Maintained a complex build system for command line compiling of the tools. Responsible for maintaining, extending features, and later designing and factoring features. Responsible for pre-sales engineering (India). Accountable (team lead) for several releases of the tool suite to a user audience of 2,500 users. Architected and developed an Eclipse perspective for Mentor. Gained intimate knowledge ofthe Eclipse framework. REView Developer/Internship, May 1993 October 1994 Core developer on GUIs and low-level data servers in a reverse engineering tools framework for proprietary language. Gained experience in client/server development and network programming. Extensive GUI development using tools kits like Motif, Views.h++ and Tcl/Tk. Authored guides,design documents and presented attechnical conferences Michael Garvin Architect / Designer / Admin Contact mgarvin@bell.net H: 613.729.2823 C: 613.266.0330 Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y4S2, Canada linkedin.com/in/michaeljamesgarvin