Mike Helmick

Current

Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Past

Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University
Instructor at Miami University

Senior Consultant at Cardinal Solutions Group
Systems Analyst at Convergys

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Education

University of Cincinnati
Northern Kentucky University
Xavier University

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Mike Helmick’s Summary

I am passionate about research in distributed systems, ranging from loosely coupled peer- to-peer networks and tightly coupled replicated state machines. I have a deep interest in research involving internet scale systems and I also have real world experience in designing, developing, deploying, and operating these systems.

Specific research topics that am am interested in are organization and coordination, membership, multimedia delivery via overlay network multicast, distributed database systems, replicated state machines, context-graph based systems, and cloud computing infrastructure and usage.

Mike Helmick’s Specialties:

Digital communications, multicasting, distributed systems, large scale software systems, software architecture, software development, educational software

Mike Helmick’s Experience

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com

(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Software Development Engineer on Amazon SimpleDB, part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - http://aws.amazon.com/SimpleDB/
Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com

(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

December 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Software Development Engineer on Amazon SimpleDB, part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - http://aws.amazon.com/SimpleDB/
Visiting Assistant Professor

Miami University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Systems Analysis. Primarily responsible for instruction of introductory Computer Science courses, research, and assistance with master of science thesis committees.
Instructor

Miami University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis.

Courses: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, Data Structures and Data Abstraction, Enterprise Applicaiton Architecture, Data Structured and Algorithms
Senior Consultant

Cardinal Solutions Group

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

September 2003 — August 2005 (2 years )

Senior Java/J2EE consultant
Systems Analyst

Convergys

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

June 1999 — September 2003 (4 years 4 months)

Mike Helmick’s Education

University of Cincinnati

Ph.D. , Computer Science and Engineering , 2004 — 2007

Specialization in distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks and associated graph theory.
Northern Kentucky University

M.S. , Computer Science , 2002 — 2004
Xavier University

B.S. , Computer Science , 1997 — 2000