Michael Potter

Current

Senior Consultant at Replatform Technologies, LLC

Past

President & Volunteer at UniForum Chicago
VP Information Services at LIDP Consulting Inc.
Senior Engineer at LIDP Consulting Inc.

Technical Staff at DAI

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Education

Iowa State University
Iowa State University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Michael Potter’s Summary

Computer Professional with background in migrating Mainframe Applications to Linux and general use of Open Source software in corporate environment.

Michael Potter’s Specialties:

mainframe migration, open source, SOA

Michael Potter’s Experience

Senior Consultant

Replatform Technologies, LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Software and Consulting Services for migrating applications from Mainframe to Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

In June of 2009 I completed a conversion of agent data from LIDP (The Administrator) to FIS (ALIS) for Columbian Financial Group. The conversion involved consolidating agent data from several systems and many spreadsheets into a single database called XBase. Hundreds of tests were performed on the source data to catch incompatible data. Complex SQL queries were used to deal with the many-to-one relationships in the data, that is: many source records were consolidated to a single destination record. Groovy scripting was used to access a Java based address validation library (MelissaData).

Success demonstrated by no post go-live issues on a project involving the conversion of 96,000 agent accounts.
President & Volunteer

UniForum Chicago

(Computer Software industry)

January 1990 — August 2009 (19 years 8 months)

I was active in UniForum Chicago as a volunteer, board member, and President over the span of almost 20 years. UniForum Chicago is a professional organization promoting open systems and UNIX.
VP Information Services

LIDP Consulting Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2003 — March 2008 (4 years 5 months)
Senior Engineer

LIDP Consulting Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1990 — November 2003 (13 years 11 months)
Technical Staff

DAI

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)

July 1989 — January 1991 (1 year 7 months)

Programmed Automotive Electronic Control for Heavy Equipment.