Michael Kielsky, JD

Current

• Attorney & Partner at Kielsky, Rike & Elgart, PLLC
• CTO & Corporate Counsel at BetterThanYours.com

Past

• Counselor & Attorney at Law at Private Practice
• Director of Client Services at Arrange
• Manager of Hosting Engineering at GoDaddy

• Sr. IT Consultant - Project Manager/Business Analyst at Rural/Metro
• Sr. IT Consultant, Configuration & Project Manager at IT Consulting
• Sr. IT Consultant - Business Analyst at CHW
• Sr. IT Consultant - Change Analyst at DHL
• Sr. IT Consultant at Aerial
• Sr. IT Consultant - Configuration Manager at First American
• Sr. IT Consultant - Configuration Manager at Compaq (Digital Equipment, HP)
• Sr. IT Consultant - Configuration Manager at GSCC
• Sr. IT Consultant - Test & Integration Team Lead at Motorola
• Vice President - Technical Architecture Manager at Republic National Bank (HSBC)
• Sr. Developer, Project Manager at Materials Research
• Senior Programmer/Analyst, Project Lead at Arizona Public Service
• Software Engineer Consultant at Intel
• Software Engineer Consultant at Honeywell
• Software Engineer Consultant at McDonnell Douglas
• Senior Software Engineer, Configuration Manager at TAG Software
• Various Educational / Intern / Volunteer at Miscellaneous

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Education

• Thomas Jefferson School of Law
• Grand Canyon University

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Industry

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Websites

• My Practice
• My Credit & Collections Site
• Consultant Recruiting Service

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Summary

Michael Kielsky
Counselor & Attorney at Law
Michael@Kielsky.com

I earned my B.Sc. in Computer Science from Grand Canyon College (now University) in Phoenix, Arizona, attended Graduate School in the College of Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and received my law degree (summa cum laude) from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California.

I am a member of the State Bars of Arizona and California, licensed to practice in both states.

My general practice areas include contract law, litigation, as well as criminal defense.

Additionally, I have training and experience as a mediator.

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Prior to devoting more time to my legal practice, I spent many years in IT consulting. I summarize my experience here:

In today’s complex business environment fraught with regulatory pitfalls, companies require leaders possessing the proper balance of training, experience, and demonstrated accomplishment, across a range of disciplines. Moreover, taking on new challenges, new technologies, new ways of doing business, requires determined individuals who thrive on drawing order out of chaos.

This is where I fit: Experience and accomplishment in managing people, projects, and technology, combined with my legal credentials, critical where regulatory mandates, liability issues, and legal complexities must be considered.

My accomplishments result from my unique combination of breadth and depth of technology skills, business experience, management ability, and legal credentials, as well as strong and practical leadership coupled with highly developed interpersonal skills.

If you face technology, project, personnel, and regulatory challenges, I possess the skill mix and background necessary to manage them, and for the new challenges to follow.

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Specialties:

IT & technology management, process improvement, business analysis, process implementation, performance contract negotiation, configuration control, change management, technology rollout, legal & regulatory issues.

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Experience

• Attorney & Partner

  Kielsky, Rike & Elgart, PLLC

  (Partnership; Legal Services industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  General practice areas, including criminal defense, consumer credit, civil rights, and contract law; civil litigation, bankruptcy, family law, wills, trusts, probate, personal injury; private mediator.
  
  As a member of the State Bars of Arizona and California, I am licensed to practice in both states.

• CTO & Corporate Counsel

  BetterThanYours.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)

  Responsible for systems, software, and legal agreements for this economy web hosting provider. Implemented numerous security enhancements, anti-spam defenses, and dynamic custom web solutions.

• Counselor & Attorney at Law

  Private Practice

  (Law Practice industry)

  September 2006 — May 2009 (2 years 9 months)

  Solo practitioner, member of the State Bars of Arizona and California, licensed to practice in both states, general practice areas include criminal defense, civil rights, and contract law; private mediator.

• Director of Client Services

  Arrange

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2005 — October 2005 (8 months)

  As Director of Client Services, responsible for implementing Arrange.com’s vision of enabling U.S. companies access to software development, testing, and maintenance services, anywhere in the world. Leading projects composed of blended teams, including client personnel, our staff, and offshore resources, for the "best-of-both-worlds" mix which maximizes productivity and quality while realizing significant cost savings.

• Manager of Hosting Engineering

  GoDaddy

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2004 — February 2005 (6 months)

  Manager of the hosting engineering group, including advanced hosting technical support and hosting system administration.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Project Manager/Business Analyst

  Rural/Metro

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)

  Managed a project to assess one large department for process improvement through technological innovation. Developed a detailed scope document including a phased plan to implement the findings, which will gain the customer significant increases in efficiency and quality.

• Sr. IT Consultant, Configuration & Project Manager

  IT Consulting

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1999 — September 2004 (5 years 2 months)

  Consulting at numerous companies, focused on requirements analysis, software design and development, project implementation, software test, integration & release, as well as e-commerce and web presence. As Project Manager, I coordinated customer contacts, project schedules, and programmer resources to meet a variety of customer needs. Established web hosting division, "BetterThanYours.com", responsible for customer contact, analysis, design, and implementation.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Business Analyst

  CHW

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)

  Business Analyst charged with the design and implementation of an integrated enterprise-wide user provisioning process.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Change Analyst

  DHL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  February 2003 — August 2003 (7 months)

  Assessed data center change management requirements, implemented policies and procedures, managed project schedules, directed work of Change Agents, coordinated with global data centers, representative at global solutions design projects.

• Sr. IT Consultant

  Aerial

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1999 — August 1999 (7 months)

  Managed staff in Y2K impact assessments, managed the build environment, source code control and configuration management systems, developed change control policies and procedures, and lead an automated build effort.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Configuration Manager

  First American

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  March 1998 — November 1998 (9 months)

  Managed the source code control, configuration management, and integration and build systems, for a complex consumer credit reporting project. Chaired the change control board, and developed change control policies and procedures.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Configuration Manager

  Compaq (Digital Equipment, HP)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  July 1997 — March 1998 (9 months)

  Managed deployment of Internet applications and configuration solutions, supported development of new releases and configuration processes, interfaced between technical solution providers and business champions to deliver solutions, drafted technical requirements, responsible for forecasting and operations planning.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Configuration Manager

  GSCC

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  June 1997 — July 1997 (2 months)

  Established and managed configuration management system.

• Sr. IT Consultant - Test & Integration Team Lead

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  November 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 7 months)

  Managed the Integration and Test Team for IRIDIUM satellite resource management subsystem. Directed the work of five engineers in the integration, build, configuration management, and test of this highly complex ground support software subsystem. Coordinated release with SQA. My design for the software release packaging was adopted by the other system groups. C, CORBA, UML, Rational Rose.

• Vice President - Technical Architecture Manager

  Republic National Bank (HSBC)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  February 1995 — November 1995 (10 months)

  Managed the Technical Architecture Group, including the work of six senior software engineers, in the specification, design, coding, and roll-out of cross-platform infrastructure projects critical to global bank strategy. Responsible for personnel retention, promotion and management, and accountable to C-level management.

• Sr. Developer, Project Manager

  Materials Research

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  April 1993 — February 1995 (1 year 11 months)

  Directed programmers in the design, development, implementation, test, and release of an iconic interface, developed distributed & embedded real-time process control systems for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, planned and implemented configuration management and configuration control system. Responsible for second line global customer support.

• Senior Programmer/Analyst, Project Lead

  Arizona Public Service

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Utilities industry)

  January 1992 — April 1993 (1 year 4 months)

  Managed project to implement multi-platform e-mail and data interchange, wrote strategy papers, product evaluations, developed staff management skills under the guidance of my manager, and supervised during her absences.

• Software Engineer Consultant

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

  June 1990 — January 1992 (1 year 8 months)

  Created embedded real-time software for process control on semiconductor production equipment, assessed end-user requirements, operator needs, evaluated equipment and communications interfaces, communicated with vendors, drafted documentation.

• Software Engineer Consultant

  Honeywell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  March 1989 — June 1990 (1 year 4 months)

  Software developer working on modules for commercial aircraft (A320) flight management system. Assisted in generating documentation for aircraft airworthiness certification, managed verification and validation tasks, interfaced with the customer, generated detailed design documents for audit, and managed software problem reports.

• Software Engineer Consultant

  McDonnell Douglas

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  November 1988 — February 1989 (4 months)

  Developed real-time modules supporting the Apache Helicopter project, integrated product systems, created build and test procedures, wrote documentation, maintained source code control system, trained other engineers.

• Senior Software Engineer, Configuration Manager

  TAG Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1987 — November 1988 (1 year 8 months)

  Designed and coded a real-time communications control system for industrial automation, maintained the source code, provided customer support, managed software projects, created and maintained extensive user documentation.

• Various Educational / Intern / Volunteer

  Miscellaneous

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1984 — May 1988 (3 years 9 months)

  Exam Scorer, ETS, 2/2003–Now: Graded exams part-time.
  
  Intern, Calif. Superior Court, San Diego, 8/2001–12/2001: Conducted legal research, wrote research memos and draft opinions for Judges.
  
  Extern, Calif. Court of Appeal, 4th Dist., 1/2001–5/2001: Conducted legal research, wrote bench memos and draft opinions for Justice Benke.
  
  Volunteer Mediator, Calif. Superior Court, San Diego, 7/2000–8/2000: Mediated small claims cases.
  
  Volunteer/Intern, San Diego Public Defender, 1/2000–6/2000: Researched legal issues, wrote motions and supporting memos, conducted felony arraignment intake.
  
  Volunteer, Employee Advocate & Labor Services, 12/1999–4/2000: Assisted in employment appeals, researched legal issues, wrote motions and briefs, appeared at hearings.
  
  Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arizona State Univ., College of Engineering, 8/1984–5/1985: Instructed computer science students, led lab sessions, graded projects and exams, consulted with students requiring additional assistance.

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Education

• Thomas Jefferson School of Law

  J.D. (summa cum laude) , Law , August 1999 — December 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Law Review, SBA

• Grand Canyon University

  B.S. , Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, Chemistry , June 1981 — May 1984

Additional Information

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Websites:

• My Practice
• My Credit & Collections Site
• Consultant Recruiting Service

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Interests:

Politics, Law, Technology

Michael Kielsky, JD’s Honors:

Summa Cum Laude
Awards for authoring the "Electronic Credit Repair Kit(tm)": http://mix6.com/

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