Mike Byrne

Current

Principal Consultant at Blue Engine Group, LLC

Past

Senior Software Engineer at ProphetStreet
Senior Software Engineer at Newdea, LLC
Owner at InSure Vision Technologies

Technical Director at Software Consortium
Programmer at State of Maryland - Department of Economic and Employment Development

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Education

University of Phoenix
The Johns Hopkins University
Devon Prep

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Industry

Computer Software

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Mike Byrne’s Summary

Results-oriented leader focused on delivery of leading edge technical solutions to business problems. Applies management techniques to create high performance virtual software teams. Architects highly flexible software for SaaS / multi-tenancy solutions, and rich internet applications.

Mike Byrne’s Specialties:

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Web, Windows, Enterprise
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Qualifed Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Administrator

Mike Byrne’s Experience

Principal Consultant

Blue Engine Group, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Senior Software Engineer

ProphetStreet

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

Designing predictive market software for financial markets. ProphetStreet captures community wisdom from multiple participants regarding future stock perfromance. Participants are ranked according to historical accuracy. Their collective intelligence about future financial events can then be aggregated and shared with the community.
Senior Software Engineer

Newdea, LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Senior Software Engineer for a product to help Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) manage projects throughout the world using a Software-as-Service (SaaS) model. This product was used by NPOs around the world to manage projects and report to donors on the status of field operations. Types of operations included AIDS projects, orphanages, and micro-development loans.
Owner

InSure Vision Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

1997 — December 2005 (8 years )

Founded InSure Vision Technologies, LLC to build commercial surety bond processing software.

Managed five major releases of the company’s core SurePath product. The product is now used by over sixty agencies and several insurance carriers, including twenty-four of the top 100 insurance agencies in the United States. More information on this product is available at http://www.insurevision.com/

Managed a virtual team of eight people consisting of on-site and off-site software developers, trainers, and business analysts responsible for product design, development, support, maintenance, training, and upgrades.

Responsible for the overall technical and security architecture of a system used nationally for financial services with a 99.99% uptime.
Technical Director

Software Consortium

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1994 — September 1998 (4 years 1 month)

Recruited by the owner of the company based on expertise working with Microsoft technologies.

Worked as a technical consulting lead for regional and national companies on projects with budgets ranging up to $500,000.

Worked with the management team to implement changes to help the company transition from contract services to professional consulting services. This was done to help differentiate SCI’s services and improve quality of service.
Programmer

State of Maryland - Department of Economic and Employment Development

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

September 1992 — September 1994 (2 years 1 month)

Worked with a team to implement a Windows 3.1 network. Designed and deployed state-wide remote, dial-up client-server applications in PowerBuilder 3.0a, SQL Server 4.2 for NT Server 3.1, and Visual Basic 3.0.

Mike Byrne’s Education

University of Phoenix

MBA , 2003 — 2005
The Johns Hopkins University

BA , International Studies - East Asia / European Focus , 1988 — 1992

Activities and Societies:

Student Council, Barnstormers, House of Commons
Devon Prep