Michael Hodge

Current

• InstallShield Consultant at Siemens Energy and Automation
• InstallShield Consultant & Developer at Install Solutions, Inc.

Past

• InstallShield Consultant at Ross Systems, Inc
• MSI Repackaging Specialist at Adea Solutions, Inc
• InstallShield Consultant at Geac Computer Systems

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Education

• Kennesaw State University

Connections

1 connection

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Michael Hodge’s Summary

Over 7 years experience in creating and deploying InstallShield installation setups, performing installation support, internal customer service, software development, Build Server and Configuration Management, and product delivery in the software development industry. Strong experience in InstallShield project IDE development and customer service.

Michael Hodge’s Specialties:

Expert using InstallShield - #1 Authoring tool for developing MSI based software Installations

Michael Hodge’s Experience

• InstallShield Consultant

  Siemens Energy and Automation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Tasked with creating from scratch multiple installation projects using Installshield (IS) 2008 to support new applications using .NET 1.1, and IIS Virtual Directories. Testing installs using VMWare 5.5

• InstallShield Consultant & Developer

  Install Solutions, Inc.

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

  January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

  Consultant assigned to the following customers:
  
  • Motorola, Created from scratch multiple installation projects using Installshield (IS) 11 to support new applications “CSR Framework” implementation using .NET 2.0, IIS Virtual Directories and extensive XML manipulation and configuration. Tested installs using VMWare using WinServer 2007 with Oracle DB scripts.
  
  • Witness Systems, Maintained automated build processes for corporate applications using ANT scripts and StarTeam promotions. Developed and maintained multiple installation projects using Installshield (IS) 5.5 through IS 10.5. Tested installs using VMWare to find and to recreate defects that QA
  reported in ONYX.

• InstallShield Consultant

  Ross Systems, Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CHINA; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  • Maintain multiple Installscript MSI based installs and rework selected Installscript MSI installs to Basic MSI.
  • Create Basic MSI installs to patch software in the field with the latest code fixes on an as needed basis.
  • Use InstallShield (IS) v11 to create a master install to launch multiple smaller installs silently, thus reducing the amount of time the user spends entering information and waiting during a multi-install on-site software deployment.
  • Use Microsoft Virtual Machine to replicate defects in old installs so they can be fixed and integrated into the master install.

• MSI Repackaging Specialist

  Adea Solutions, Inc

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — December 2003 (4 months)

  InstallShield Contractor assigned to Delta Air Lines - XP Migration project. Created Windows Installer (MSI) packages from Commercial Off-the-Shelf software. Utilized Admin-Studio’s package suite, including RePackager and Tuner to create MSI

• InstallShield Consultant

  Geac Computer Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; GEAC; Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — November 2000 (10 months)

  • Maintained and enhanced 30 complex product updates under IS v5.5 and migrated 15 complex projects built with IS v5.5 into new event driven IS 6.1 version.
  • Sole responsiblity for producing 2 quarterly Updates for 12 Products, which involved building deliverables, completing unit test checklists, creating CD-ROM images and placing into production. Responsible for building dozens of Release Candidates to customers who have Production-down situations.
  • Prototyped new password delivery process that eliminated shipment of Key Diskette to customers. Customer can install software entirely using Web based support tool.
  • Prototyped software delivery using IS’s InstallFromTheWeb product, that allows customers to more efficiently install software across the web without downloading and executing complex installation packages.
  • Supported Geac SQL Development and Support organizations by answering installation related questions

Michael Hodge’s Education

• Kennesaw State University

  Computer Science 1997 — 1998

Additional Information

Michael Hodge’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Michael Hodge’s Contact Settings

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