Michael Koby

Current

• Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA

Past

• Co-Host at Power of Information
• Senior Software Programming Associate at Prudential Real Estate Services

Education

• Houston Community College
• New Horizons

Recommended

3 people have recommended Michael

Connections

86 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog
• Resume

Michael Koby’s Summary

Michael Koby is an experienced technologist who has used and understands a wide variety of technologies and platforms. Most of Michael’s experience is rooted in custom .NET C# development and SQL Server. His previous work experience has involved heavy data integration utilizing these technologies. Mr. Koby has also spent time as a database administrator, handling backups and SQL Server optimization at the server level. He has also performed network administration tasks involving Active Directory setup and maintenance. Michael can learn new things quickly and strives to continue to learn and understand new technologies as they emerge. Michael Koby’s current technology interests include deep understanding of development principles that transcend programming languages, continuous integration, mobile application development, and online social networking/media.

Michael Koby’s Specialties:

MCSE, MCSA, MCAD (C# WinForms), MCDBA, Data Integration, Linux, Windows, SQL Server

Michael Koby’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  Sogeti USA

  (Public Company; CAP.PA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Michael was responsible for delivery of client projects both as a solo consultant and when working in a team. He worked closely with other Sogeti consultants to ensure client satisfaction and high quality work. Mr. Koby was also involved in the sales pursuit process and assisted from a technical aspect on sales pursuit leads involving multiple technologies and clients. He worked closely with pursuit team members to ensure a thorough understanding of the client’s needs and resources in order to provide accurate and cost-effective solutions.
  During his tenure at Sogeti, Michael Koby also gave presentation on new technologies to help inform and teach other consultants about these technologies.
  
  Clients: Loomis, Schlumberger, Baker Huges, & Grocery Services Inc.
  
  Technologies: Visual Studio, C#, SQL Server 2005, Subversion, VisualSVN, Team City, NAnt, WIX, ArchGIS, VmWare, Linux, Visual Interdev, Visual Basic 6, Visual Source Safe, XML, BizTalk, .NET Web Services

• Co-Host

  Power of Information

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  October 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  During his tenure on Power of Information, Michael's duties included on air camaraderie, assisting in writing weekly show content, and helping with commercials and weekly tech tips. He also assisted in answering caller questions left on the show's call-in line.

• Senior Software Programming Associate

  Prudential Real Estate Services

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — August 2007 (7 years )

  Prudential Real Estate Services (formally eRealty.com) is data acquisition and Virtual Office Website (VOW) firm that services Prudential’s real estate and relocation services division by downloading and integrating Multiple Listing (MLS) data from various MLS providers across the United States. The data is then used on Prudential agents’ web sites, allowing consumers to search for homes and receive updates as new homes come onto the market.
  
  Michael was responsible for many things during his long tenure at Prudential Real Estate Services. Mr. Koby was brought in as a network administrator to maintain the data team’s network of 30+ machines and ensure smooth installation and setup of new machine software. He also designed and implemented a database backup and recovery strategy (both onsite and off) that is still in use heavily to this day. He also handled the integration of Linux machines on the Windows network to allow for secure file sharing using the Samba implementation on Linux servers. Michael also spent a great deal of time documenting a large number of processes used by the Prudential Real Estate Services data team. This documentation was done both in an actual document and on an internal WIKI site used by all team members in troubleshooting issues and documenting processes.
  
  Mr. Koby was also a developer and implemented reports utilizing ASP.NET and C#. Eventually moving onto assisting in data integration and maintaining the applications used to download, map, and integrate real estate listing data. Michael was the integration developer “in charge” when the lead developer was unavailable.
  
  Technologies: Microsoft .Net, C#, SQL Server 2000/2005, Linux, MySQL, Windows Server 2000/2003, VmWare, Subversion, Visual Source Safe, Samba, ASP.NET

Michael Koby’s Education

• Houston Community College

  2005 — 2009

  Slowly working towards an associates degree in Science with plans to transfer to University of Houston in pursuit of a bachelors degree in Business.

• New Horizons

  Certificate , Microsoft Networking, Java Programming , 2002 — 2002

  Classes attended were for certifications in Microsoft technologies. Through the help of these classes, I was able to achieve MSCE, MCSA, and MCDBA certifications.

Additional Information

Michael Koby’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Resume

Michael Koby’s Interests:

technology, linux, programming, windows, skiing, music, playing guitar, songwriting, music production, live performance, movies, reading