Mick Knutson

Mick Knutson

Enterprise Architecture, Design, Mentoring & Agile Consulting

San Francisco Bay Area

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Mick Knutson’s Summary

See resume: http://baselogic.com/blog/resume

Mr. Knutson is a professional internet technology consultant, Java/J2ee Architect, project leader, Engineer, Designer and Developer/Programmer and has been working in the IT industry for over 18 years. Mr. Knutson has a vast array of experience working on J2EE, Web Services and E-Business services. Mr. Knutson has extensive experience in a variety of industries with a strong focus on Health Care, Financial, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Utilities, Product Distribution, Industrial and Electronics. Mr. Knutson has extensive full software life cycle experience with many industry standard methodologies including the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile and Extreme Programming (XP). Mr. Knutson can adapt to any phase of an existing project from Business Modeling to Production Support. Mr. Knutson's technical strengths include OOA / OOD / OOP, Java, J2EE, Internet, Oracle, Enterprise Integration and Message Oriented Middleware. Mr. Knutson is exceptional at team building and motivating either at a peer-to-peer level, or in a leadership role. Mr. Knutson has excellent communications skills, and adapts to all environments and cultures with ease.


BASE Logic, Inc.:
Architect, Designer, Team Leader, January 1987 to Present

HP Consulting and Integration (C&I):
J2EE Solution Consultant, May 2005 to December 2005

IBM Global Services:
Lead Principal Consultant, April 2000 to October 2001

PriceWaterhouseCoopers:
E-Business Lead Consultant, August 1998 to April 1999

Oracle Government Consulting Services (OGS):
Lead Principal Consultant, January 1997 to March 1998

Mick Knutson’s Specialties:

Java, J2EE, Oracle, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, Maven, Agile, TDD, OOA, OOD, SOA, Webservices

See full list of skills Excel sheet: http://www.baselogic.com/resume/skills.xls

Mick Knutson’s Experience

  • Security and Process Auditor/Mentor

    FedEx Ground

    (Public Company; FDX; Package/Freight Delivery industry)

    November 2008 — Present (9 months)

    Working with FedEx Ground to help optimize development and Configuration Management interaction. Also mentoring development teams with SourceForge Enterprise usage. Also helping development teams utilize test driven development and Agile practices.

  • President

    BASE Logic, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    July 1997 — October 2008 (11 years 4 months)

    See resume: http://www.baselogic.com/resume/

  • Lead Architect

    ServePath

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

    February 2008 — October 2008 (9 months)

    Mr. Knutson was tasked with designing and architecting the messaging infrastructure for communicating with the various systems involved. The system clients where written in PHP, Python, JavaScript/AJAX and Java. The messages where sent as JSON, and supported SOAP messages. Utilizing Camel, Spring and Active MQ, a very robust command message design was implemented on time. Also implemented a robust test driven development suite where 96% of all messaging code was successfully tested.

  • Agile Consultant

    Sutter Health

    (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

    I was recruited to help there software development process, to more inline with Agile, verse waterfall process they employed. I helped them to understand proper requirements gathering, and time-boxing. Once they had a better handle on their time-boxing, I was able to employ more structured TDD (test driven development) process. This included a complex Maven multi-module subversion installation with Continuum and Archiva for artifact management. The maven build employed HSQL memory database, embedded JBoss, Tomcat 5.5, and JBoss 4.2. I then setup a full continuous integration where DBUnit and HSQL would test all database services. Then Selenium with Jetty, Tomcat and JBoss would startup in memory to perform functional tests during the build process. We where able to achieve +84% code coverage.

  • Integration Lead, Solution Consultant

    Delta Dental

    (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

    September 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 7 months)

    Delta Dental is America’s largest, most experienced dental benefits carrier. Made up of independent, affiliated member companies, Delta Dental Plans Association is a not-for-profit organization with some for-profit affiliates. We offer a nationwide package of dental health benefits for a wide range of employers both large and small.

    Scope of Duties: Mick was the Integration Lead for the Data Acquisition and Pre-Processing (DAP) team within the ESP Project. Mick was tasked with centralizing the distributed development and delivery effort for the entire DAP team which consisted of over 30 developers. Mick was responsible for creating and maintaining a fully integrated Continuous Integration System for the DAP team. This included hourly build and deployments with a full suite of automated report, Unit Tests, Functional Tests, code coverage and project documentation. This system was an integral part of our on-time deliveries, and reduced the overall number of code defects.

  • J2EE Solutions Consultant, Team Leader

    Hewlett-Packard

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2005 — December 2005 (8 months)

    Project Summary:
    Safeway’s current Base24 system will be modified by ACI (the vendor of Base24) to process fastforward ™ enrollments and ACH payments via fastforward ™ card. Payments data will be maintained in a separate environment to be known as the Blackhawk Payments Database outside of the Base24 application.

    Scope of Duties:
    Mr. Knutson was solely responsible for the entire software lifecycle of the WebSphere and User Interface portion of fastforward ™. This included analysis of problem space, create of use-case documents and diagrams, design artifacts, build system, programming, QA, and testing of solution. Mick had full autonomy to employ various solutions to allow for a more robust application that would reduce maintenance, and allow easy adaptation to new and emerging business requirements.

  • J2EE Solutions Consultant

    Wells Fargo Bank

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

    December 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 6 months)

    Internet Commerce Environment (ICE): The goal of the ICE project was to re-architect the Purple Sage II framework for a new methodology platform to port and create new financial products within Business Direct. The new architecture needed to provide reduced maintenance costs, added flexibility for market, and compliance changes, and expandability to move into additional business channels. Agent Banking, One Hour Loan, and Business Customized Capitol where the most high profile applications migrated to the new architecture.

    Scope of Duties: Mr. Knutson was tasked with architecting and designing the new struts based ICE platform. During the design phase, Mick was leading and mentoring the additional 5-team members in the new architecture. Mick was also tasked with designing and developing the EJB, and Hibernate layers. This included Hibernate and Application Server configuration, as well as designing and coding the interfaces.

  • Performance Engineer

    Wells Fargo Bank

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

    October 2003 — December 2003 (3 months)

    Purple Sage II: The goal of the project was to determine the completeness, stability, and scalability of a loan decision and customer service application built by BBG. The application was called Purple Sage II and was in development for almost 4 years prior to Mr. Knutson’s evaluation. The application went into production for a short period, and was then pulled out due to performance issues.

    Scope of Duties: Mr. Knutson was tasked with running quality assurance and performance tests on the existing code base to determine the quality and completeness of the code. Mr. Knutson was also tasked with examining the overall development process and methodology to determine if the development staff and process could support the application in a production environment.

  • J2EE Design Lead (Global Compensation Benefits division)

    UBS

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Management industry)

    May 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 2 months)

    Project Summary:
    The goal of this project was to create an application for managing global compensation awards and liabilities. This would include integrating with an existing compensation application. We first had to intercept the liabilities (stock, cash, FX, etc.), then process audit trails, profit and loss, and write to the Global General Ledger.

    Scope of Duties:
    Mr. Knutson was tasked with managing requirements and business modeling artifact delivery from BA’s team and the client. This included clarifying use cases, business object models and other pertinent artifacts and formalized review of such artifacts. Mr. Knutson was then tasked with leading the elaboration and design efforts with a team of 10 designer/developers. This included modeling artifacts in Rational Rose, refinement of use cases, and generation of skeleton code. Mr. Knutson was then tasked with leading the development effort and managing the construction of the software design.

  • Java Integration Consultant

    Discover Financial Services

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DFS; Financial Services industry)

    October 2001 — March 2002 (6 months)

    Project Summary:
    The three main projects Mr. Knutson worked on were the Interactive Collections Environment (ICE), Bankruptcy, and Recovery Management System (RMS). The goals of these projects were to move from disparate application models to a centralized Web Services model, using WebSphere distributed environment accessing existing IMS Mainframe and OS390’s via CICS Transaction Gateway, XML, SOAP, Axis, Java and Cobol. The Bankruptcy Manager was a terminal application, Recovery Management System (RMS) was a Swing application using RMI/IIOP, and Interactive Collection Environment (ICE) was using Swing through remote CORBA services.

    Scope of Duties:
    Mr. Knutson was tasked with Team mentoring and retooling for existing Cobol/IMS/Mainframe programmers. Mr. Knutson designed and developed many of the project deliverables including GUI design, SOAP/Axis Interfaces, Web Services, UDDI and J2EE Middleware services.

  • Sr. Principal Consultant

    IBM Global Services

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2001 — October 2001 (10 months)

    Goal of UofM Project:
    IBM was contracted to design and develop a clinical information system. The system was to aid doctors and nurses with their daily tasks. Doctors could review history of a patient that included actions performed by any doctor or nurse. The history would include medication and therapy rendered. There was a 2-way pharmacy interface into the Lexicon system. This would give real-time drug-to-drug alerts for doctors prescribing medications. There was a great deal of security logic, as this application was required to be HIIPA compliant. There was also a fairly complex UI workflow logic involved to correctly and efficiently display information to the user such as schedules, charts and summaries.

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Mick Knutson’s Interests:

New and emerging technologies, J2EE testing, build management, skydiving, DJing, Snowboarding, rock climbing

Mick Knutson’s Groups:

Maven, JUG, USPA

  •    Big Four Firms Alumni & Professionals Global Network (Big4.com)
  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    GLOBAL CONTRACTORS / RECRUITERS / PROCUREMENT
  •    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
  •    Facebook.com
  •    Enterprise Architecture Forum
  •    Burning Man Alumni
  •    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
  •    Agile Alliance
  •    Consultants Network
  •    Java Enthusiasts
  •    Spring Users
  •    GSA & VA Schedule Contracting
  •    J Architect
  •    Java EE Professionals
  •    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
  •    BEA Systems Greater Network
  •    SOA Experts
  •    Java Developers
  •    Oracle Contractors [7,000+]
  •    Agile
  •    Federal Government Contractors Group
  •    Information Technology Contracting
  •    The IT Architect Network
  •    SOA Group
  •    SOA Service Oriented Architecture Technology Architects
  •    Agile Coaching
  •    Automation Testing
  •    Software as a Service (SaaS) Group
  •    The IT Developer Network
  •    CITCON
  •    FEDERAL BIZ Network - Government Stimulus Teaming Jobs PMI Consulting Funding Sales Opportunities
  •    Hudson - Extensible continuous integration engine
  •    FedEx and Its Alumni
  •    twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
  •    ASPE
  •    Square One IT & ERP Consultants Group (SAP, Oracle / Peoplesoft, Testing, Databases & Development)
  •    San Francisco 415 Connect
  •    Java / J2EE Professionals
  •    Java EE Professionals - Jobs
  •    Java Testing
  •    Senior IT Professionals in Transition
  •    Dream.In.Code
  •    Agile CMMI
  •    JavaOne Conference
  •    Linked Las Vegas

Mick Knutson’s Honors:

* GoGrid wins Linux World “Best In Show”: http://www.gogrid.com/pricing/linuxworld2008-best-of-show.php

* Sun/Java Cover story: http://java.sun.com/features/2000/11/calvoter.html

* OMG; CORBA Success story: http://www.corba.org/industries/gov/calvoter.html

* IQualify.com™ is the winner of the 1998 Computer World Smithsonian Award in the category of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.

* IQualify.com™ was recognized for its innovative application of Fannie Mae's® technology by being the first and only site to provide online mortgage approvals.

* WebGain Java Alliance Partner

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