IT Senior Manager at Express Scripts
Greater St. Louis Area
- Current
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- Owner at Ginghams Homestyle Restaurant
- IT Senior Manager at Express Scripts
- Past
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- Consultant at Teksystems
- Senior Software Engineer at Impact Technologies
- Software Engineer at Object Computing Inc
- Consultant at Insight Technology Group
- Consultant at Daugherty Systems
- Education
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- Saint Louis University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Pharmaceuticals
- Websites
Michael Shoemaker’s Summary
* Self motivated leader that proactively drives problem resolution
* Lead by example style that is based on people, organizational goals, and candor.
* Inspire and motivate my staff and customers by using common sense principals such as listening, understanding, and the under utilized “thank you”.
* Earn the respect of peers by focusing on the overall good and treating everyone as if they were a customer.
* Increase organizational value by building a cohesive goal driven team through one on one mentoring, team coaching, and focusing on the highest impact solutions first. Doing more with less.
* Embrace change by staying up to date with the latest management trends, organizational concepts, and productivity enhancing processes.
* Technical expert turned people leader. My deep understanding of technology allows me to communicate, comprehend, and effectively manage escalation situations where making the wrong decision can be costly.
Michael Shoemaker’s Experience
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Owner
Ginghams Homestyle Restaurant
(Restaurants industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
My wife runs the place, I'm just a bystander.
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IT Senior Manager
Express Scripts
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ESRX; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 2001 — Present (8 years 6 months)
* Successfully manage a large staff of Sr. Software Engineers colocated in St. Louis, MO and Bloomington, MN.
* Participated in a cross functional management team to research and realign IT job titles and descriptions using industry standards for all Express Scripts IT employees.
* IT Sponsor for a large software conversion project where offshore resources were leveraged. Responsible for securing funding from Senior Staff.
* Challenged the status quo by evangelizing agile methodologies in pursuit of higher quality and more predictable results.
* Acted as the strategic sourcing manager where I rolled out processes and procedures for engaging offshore development resources.
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Consultant
Teksystems
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)
* Worked on a J2EE web application for the United States military to manage global transportation.
* Developed Enterprise Java Beans to centralize business logic and increase application scalability.
* Developed a dynamic permission driven navigation component using JSP pages combined with advanced JavaScript.
* Worked on a complex stored procedure used to find the most efficient route from one point to another given a set of coordinates. -
Senior Software Engineer
Impact Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — January 2001 (9 months)
* Solved complex problems using object oriented programming constructs
* Develop applications for clients using a wide array of technologies
Author documentation for the products we delivered
* Developed a Microsoft Windows desktop application for Palm using Visual C++ and MFC.
* Created application to sync a Palm Pilot PDA to the users PIM application data using an ethernet cradle.
* LDAP data extraction utilities were developed using Visual C++ to leverage existing data from NT Domains, Lotus Notes, and any other LDAP compliant entity. -
Software Engineer
Object Computing Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1999 — June 2000 (8 months)
* Developed a multi-tier distributed application using Java/CORBA technology.
* Contributed to the architectural strategy of using CORBA as a middleware integration technology.
* Developed a Java Swing thick client application to replace green screens as the ubiquitous interface to mainframe access.
* Object technology was used to abstract the implementations so that the rapidly changing front-end systems could evolve independent of back end changes. -
Consultant
Insight Technology Group
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 4 months)
* Developed a multi-tier client server application using Inprise C++ Builder 4.0 for WinNT.
* Application development adhered to strict oriented methodologies to reduce application rigidity and increase maintainability.
* Developed a validation logic component that validated the input of life insurance inputs
* Developed a persistence module to transfer data from the GUI to database storage
* Created a dynamic link library used for application security.
* All development leveraged the standard template library for reusability
* Design patterns were leveraged where appropriate. Specifically the strategy pattern was used to vary a calculation algorithm and the observer pattern was leveraged to make each GUI component aware of data model changes so they could repaint themselves. -
Consultant
Daugherty Systems
(Computer Software industry)
December 1997 — August 1998 (9 months)
* Worked as a software developer and data modeler on a large SAP implementation for an international agricultural company.
* Performed legacy data analysis in order to map it to valid SAP structures.
* Validated all data prior to loading it into SAP by writing scripts in PL/SQL that cross-referenced proprietary ERD level data.
* Developed a multi-user two-tier data entry application in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 that allowed users to enter equipment, equipment long text, equipment technical classes, and the corresponding technical class characteristics.
Michael Shoemaker’s Education
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Saint Louis University
BS , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997
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Michael Shoemaker’s Groups:
St Louis Extreme Programming Special Interest Group
St Louis Ruby Special Interest Group
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