Founder at Centripetal Software
Santa Barbara, California Area
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- Founder at Centripetal Software
- Past
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- Sr. Technical Program Manager at Microsoft - AdECN
- Sr. Technical Program Manager Lead at Microsoft
- Software Engineer & Product Architect at Sun Microsystems
- Sun Microsystems Professional Services Software Engineer Contractor at Toyota Motor Sales USA
- Sun Microsystems Professional Services Software Engineer Contractor at CVS Pharmacy
- Software Engineer at Global Commerce Systems
- Software Engineer at Electronic Data Systems
- Software Engineer at New Media Designs
- Web Developer at Colorado Christian University
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Colorado Christian University
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Mike Davis’s Summary
- Senior Software Engineer and Architect that provides senior development and application architecture expertise by leading teams of developers in the design and construction of complex application software.
- Experience in full breadth of software development lifecycle; analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of large-scale OO applications.
- Strong development experience with OO languages such as Java, J2EE, .NET and EAI technologies (Tibco, Vitria, SeeBeyond, MQ Series)
- Broad knowledge of the Java API, including but not limited to JMS, EJB, JSP, Servlets
- Strong knowledge of design patterns, refactoring and unit testing
- Agile Methodology experience, such as Extreme Programming (XP) & SCRUM
- Leadership experience in assessing staff skill levels, assigning work appropriately, directing team in specific project activities, estimation, and facilitating career development
Mike Davis’s Specialties:
software development, design and architecture, Delivering large scale software systems under agressive timelines
Mike Davis’s Experience
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Founder
Centripetal Software
(Computer Software industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Centripetal Software delivers IT services for businesses using Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
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Sr. Technical Program Manager
Microsoft - AdECN
(Public Company; Internet industry)
August 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Working on developing a federated advertising exchange for online advertising.
AdECN is the only online advertising exchange offering a neutral marketplace with optimal liquidity and transparency. The efficiency of the AdECN Exchange and its real-time auction is unparalleled and allows its members to realize maximum return for their advertiser clients and maximum yield for their publisher clients. Most importantly, AdECN never competes with its members for those clients.
The AdECN Exchange simplifies the buying and selling process for its members, providing a single point of access to the entire breadth of the online advertising industry. AdECN offers its members an efficient, neutral, central market, enabling them to focus on what they do best: provide maximum value to their customers. Finally, the industry has a marketplace with no hidden agenda, where the market sets the price. -
Sr. Technical Program Manager Lead
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 7 months)
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Software Engineer & Product Architect
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2001 — February 2007 (6 years 2 months)
Software Engineer and Architect
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Sun Microsystems Professional Services Software Engineer Contractor
Toyota Motor Sales USA
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — August 2003 (11 months)
- Led team of 5 engineers developing custom integration solution.
- Engineer on Toyota Raven project, a project developing a worldwide warranty claims system for Toyota Motor Corporation.
- Part of team that implemented a large J2EE based architecture for the application.
- Working in all tiers of the application, including presentation, business and persistence tiers.
- Instrumental in developing a comprehensive software testing program for the application development team.
- Navigating this higly politically charged project with numerous 3rd parties was a challenge which has taught the need for strong leadership. -
Sun Microsystems Professional Services Software Engineer Contractor
CVS Pharmacy
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 1 month)
- Engineer in the CVS Java Center of Excellence.
- Worked with customer to develop requirements and then architected, developed, tested and deployed a dynamic, XML based configuration framework. The framework allowed all custom application being developed at CVS to use a namespaced, common format configuration XML file or LDAP database to store configuration data and provided an api for direct access to the data.
- Upon successful completion of the Service Configuration Framework, work began on the Service Instrumentation Framework. The framework made extensive use of the JMX and JDMK api's, and incorporated mechanisms from the Application Response Measurement specification (ARM) and the Application Management Specification (AMS) developed by The Open Group and by IBM Tivoli respectively.
- Assisted in the design and development of frameworks at CVS Pharmacy. -
Software Engineer
Global Commerce Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 8 months)
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Software Engineer
Electronic Data Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — June 1999 (11 months)
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Software Engineer
New Media Designs
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 8 months)
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Web Developer
Colorado Christian University
(Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Mike Davis’s Education
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Stanford University
NDO , Computer Science , 2002 — 2005
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Colorado Christian University
BS , Computer Information Systems , 1993 — 1997
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Mike Davis’s Interests:
surfing, cooking, family
Mike Davis’s Groups:
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Sun Java Center Alumni
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