Michael Kappel

Current

Software Engineer at Morse Data Corporation

Past

Asp.net T-Sql Developer at Infra::Strategy
Consultant at Unison UCG
Sr. Web Engineer at Westlake Financial Group

Developer at CreativeExpansion
Graphic Editor, and HTML Specialist at AmericanEagle.com

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Education

Moraine Valley Community College
Purdue University Calumet

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84 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Michael Kappel’s Summary

My main focus is Microsoft Technologies.

I am learning Silverlight and ASP.Net to Electronic Integrated Circuits.

Languages : ASP.NET C#/VB, T-SQL, ASP,HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML

Technologies: Web Services, Ajax, User Profiles, Custom Controls, libraries, Objects, Classes, Interfaces, Generics, Data access layer, Typed Data Sets, LINQ, Transactions, Regular Expressions

Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008:
Stored Procedures/Views/Functions
Table Joins inner/outer/right/left/ GUID and auto increment keys
Clustered/Nonclustered Indexes/Full-Text Indexing
Microsoft Software: SQL Server Management Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2005/2008,Visual SourceSafe, Team Foundation Suite, IIS, and the entire Office Suite including Excel and Access

Oracle Database 9i/10g/11g: Transactions, Stored Procedures, Packages, Views, Functions, Triggers, and Sequences

Michael Kappel’s Specialties:

All of my experience is programming related.

The industries I have worked in include Financial Services, Government, and Marketing.

Michael Kappel’s Experience

Software Engineer

Morse Data Corporation

(Computer Software industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Morse Data Corporation was founded by Jim Morse in 1975. Morse Data is an innovative leader in the development of enterprise management systems for national and international businesses in the multi-client fulfillment, publishing, direct marketing, multi-channel merchant, and internet retailing industries.
Asp.net T-Sql Developer

Infra::Strategy

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2008 — December 2008 (6 months)

This was the most fun company I have ever worked for!
Casual environment and easy going co-workers made it a blast.

I learned a lot of great techniques working in an Agile project environment.

Learned how to use SSIS Packages and improved my T-SQL skills.
Built easy to use financial reporting system.
TSQL (Transact-SQL) Stored Procedure based Data Access Layer.
Created ASP.NET 3.5 C# Client Administration System
Microsoft Ajax and JQuery Javascript frameworks
Developed custom class libraries to increase department productivity
Web and Windows Forms application development.
Consultant

Unison UCG

(Government Administration industry)

March 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Built, maintained, and improved applications for City of Chicago and The Chicago Airport System.
Work with let ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Ajax
Created relational databases components including Views, Triggers, and Stored Procedures for MS SQL and Oracle.
Custom made compiled controls embed resources and libraries for use by other developers across mutable applications.
Used Transactions, Typed DataSets, Web Services, and LINQ regularly.
Helped with Oracle PL/SQL Migration to ASP.NET
Worked with sensitive and confidential data on a daily basis.
Airport Clearance approved by the Department of Homeland Security.
Sr. Web Engineer

Westlake Financial Group

(Financial Services industry)

July 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Developed and maintained high security sites.
Improved Employee Benefits Enrollment System.
Developed C# Ajax content management system.
Optimized reports for client billing.
Implemented automatic error reporting system.
Migrated ASP to C# ASP.Net
Migrated SQL calls to Stored Procedures.
Streamlined code by eliminating redundancy.
Emulate look and feel of client sites in their benefit enrollment module.
Developer

CreativeExpansion

(Internet industry)

May 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 3 months)

Complete project development for E-commerce sites.
Worked directly with Search engine optimization
professionals (SEOs) to build high traffic websites.
Cross platform compatible data driven sites with Ajax
capabilities.
Took over sites from other companies and dramatically
improved their speed, performance, and compatibility.
ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, HTML, MySQL, MS SQL and Visual
Basic applications development.
Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.
Light Graphic Design work, including icon and button
development.
Graphic Editor, and HTML Specialist

AmericanEagle.com

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

April 1999 — May 2001 (2 years 2 months)

Intense knowledge of HTML and its compatibility,
uses, and limitations.
Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.
Light Graphic Design work, including icon and button
development.