Mike Hostetler

Current

• Founder at A Mountain Top, LLC

Past

• Software Design Architect at Computer & Communication Technologies, Inc.
• Research & Development Engineer at Gunther Douglas
• Software Engineer at CIBER, Inc.

• Owner at T & M Web Enterprises (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• LeTourneau University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Mike Hostetler’s Summary

Experience

* Entrepreneur - Founded and administered web design and web hosting company. Established a reputation for excellent service and support for hosting customers. Managed and maintained Linux web server. Worked in all aspects of sales and marketing. Developed proposals and contracts. Supervised a small team of worldwide sub-contractors.
* PHP Programmer - Worked with clients to determine their website content and desired functionality. Individually managed website contracts and client communication. Developed and implemented new web applications in PHP and MySQL on a Linux platform, including e-commerce and large data management systems. Determined and met project budget and time constraints.

Mike Hostetler’s Specialties:

Linux, Java, PHP, C++, C, Perl, Bash, Shell Scripting, Python, XML, SQL, ASP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Visual Basic, COBOL, Scheme, XUL, GTK+, SOAP, XML-RPC, Cold Fusion, Parallel Computing, P-threads, MPI, Networking, Database Optimization, Design Patterns, Pragmatic Programming, UML, MS-DOS, Windows 95-XP, Mac OSX, Microsoft Office Scripting, MS-Access, SQL Server, MySQL, Apache, Lighttpd, Ajax, Ruby, software architecture, storyboarding, non-profits,

Mike Hostetler’s Experience

• Founder

  A Mountain Top, LLC

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

  January 2008 — Present (5 months)

• Software Design Architect

  Computer & Communication Technologies, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  I was hired onto CCT through a 3-month contract to hire package, spending the first 3 months with COMSYS, Inc. CCT is part of Japan Communications Incorporated (JCI), the first MVNO in Japan.
  
  My job at CCT was to work in the Research & Development department putting together a new mobile platform set to be launched in Japan & China on JCI's network. The hardware device is based upon a Linux embedded package. PHP and Ajax technologies have also played a significant role in the architecture. I currently have a patent pending for the architecture design that I put together.

• Research & Development Engineer

  Gunther Douglas

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

  September 2005 — February 2006 (6 months)

  I worked on a 3 month contract through Gunther Douglas. I was contracted to Xcel Energy, who had developed a partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). I and two other engineers worked on a piece of prototype software that was designed to help planning engineers at Xcel Energy determine the optimal place to put solar cells.
  
  The software was built using open source software around a Postgres GIS backend. The front end was based upon a PHP/AJAX project called pmapper. I worked mainly on the PHP/AJAX front end, adding significant functionality.
  
  In the end, the project was extended as much as possible, but ultimately ran out of steam.

• Software Engineer

  CIBER, Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CBR; Computer Software industry)

  July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  I worked for CIBER in the Rocky Mountain Government division as a contract employee for the Bureau of Land Management. I was responsible for porting legacy ASP code to PHP for several web sites. While at CIBER, the BLM failed a unannounced IT security audit and all websites were shut down for 6 months. During this time, I participated in extensive security reviews and security training. I passed the Ethical Hacker Certification test while with CIBER.
  
  I worked on several projects before the security audit. The most notable would be the Adopt A Horse website software to allow the public to adopt wild horses from BLM land. http://www.blm.gov/adoptahorse/

• Owner

  T & M Web Enterprises (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  July 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Responsible for all aspects of business operations including sales, marketing, accounting, product development and support services. Sold business to a larger firm.

Mike Hostetler’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  BS, Computer Science, 2002 — 2004

  Graduated with a minor in Business Administration. Participated in the ACM programming contest, scoring 13th in our region.

  Activities and Societies:

  Golden Key Society

• LeTourneau University

  BS, Computer Science, 2000 — 2002

  Transferred before graduation.

Additional Information

Mike Hostetler’s Websites:

• My Website

Mike Hostetler’s Interests:

snowboarding, drupal, hunting, web technologies, ajax, php

Mike Hostetler’s Groups:

jQuery Development Team (http://jquery.com)

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