Andrew Michalik

Andrew Michalik

Enterprise IT Architect / Technical Project Manager

Greater Los Angeles Area

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Education
  • University of Southern California
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
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Andrew Michalik’s Summary

Successful Enterprise Architect with proven ability to take business requirements and architect complete solutions. Experienced through the whole project lifecycle: from product definition, to design and development, deployment to live, through maintenance and enhancement. Proven product craft skills utilizing dependency identification, critical path analysis, contingency planning and trade-off analysis between time, quality, and cost.

Seasoned Technical Project Manager skilled at establishing credibility with engineering leaders in matrix organizations as well as customer facing teams. Demonstrated superior business judgment and strategic planning based on knowledge, skills and intuition. Excellent influencing, negotiation, presentation and communication skills with a strong combination of Business, Process, and Technical consulting knowledge.

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Andrew Michalik’s Specialties:

Entertainment, Banking & Finance, Defense, Engineering, Telecommunications

Andrew Michalik’s Experience

  • Technical Architect | Sr. Technical Project Mgr

    Sony Pictures Entertainment

    (Public Company; SNE; Entertainment industry)

    November 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)

    Technical Architect and Technical Project Manager for a global Integrated Workplace Management (IWMS / CAFM) applications servicing 70K+ domestic and international facilities requests per year. Given a set of business requirements, create conceptual and logical architecture for infrastructure, including network, data, middleware, applications and security. Develop and maintain requirements, schedules and project plans; create and manage project plans, drive definition of deliverables, milestones and dependencies; coordinate project release rollouts; assist in group training classes and manage testing.

    Technical Architect and Technical Project Manager for a worldwide single sign-on LDAP authenticated J2SE WebLogic intranet portal application. Developed Architectural Proof of Concept, Software Architecture Document, Use Case Realizations, Reference Architecture and prototype system in preparation for Portal migration.

  • Consultant

    Tentek

    (Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

    1997 — Present (12 years )

    Successful Enterprise Architect with proven ability to take business requirements and architect complete solutions. Experienced through the whole project lifecycle: from product definition, to design and development, deployment to live, through maintenance and enhancement. Proven product craft skills utilizing dependency identification, critical path analysis, contingency planning and trade-off analysis between time, quality, and cost.

    Seasoned Technical Project Manager skilled at establishing credibility with engineering leaders in matrix organizations as well as customer facing teams. Demonstrated superior business judgment and strategic planning based on knowledge, skills and intuition. Excellent influencing, negotiation, presentation and communication skills with a strong combination of Business, Process, and Technical consulting knowledge.

  • Technical Architect | Developer | Entrepreneur

    Vector Information Systems, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    September 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 1 month)

    Developed TekGuard EMail Interceptor product line, an anti-spam SMTP/POP email server, Microsoft Outlook Plug-In, and the Obtanium data aggregator search engine and browser. Weighed delivery priorities against technology gaps and worked with engineering and business teams to communicate and assess trade-offs. Communicated status and progress to key stakeholders throughout the company and serve as single point of contact for all project status items.

    These products represent 30,000 lines of Microsoft .NET C# code, and run as Windows Client/Server applications with both a SQL 2000 and MySQL back end. Technologies include IIS, MSSQL, MySQL, TCP/IP asynchronous sockets, .NET ADO, Threading, XML, Outlook Object Model, HTML Help and Windows Install System.

  • System Architect | Technical Project Manager

    Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

    (Public Company; MET; Insurance industry)

    January 2000 — March 2002 (2 years 3 months)

    Performed system analysis, architectural design, and managed personnel for a MetLife Business to Consumer financial information web site. Managed across reporting boundaries to build coordinated execution plans involving cross-functional teams, set and managed realistic project plans, identified and managed risks, ensured early adjustment and intervention for critical path issues. Successfully launched products in consumer internet sector. Site permitted annuity policy holders in 4 states to register online and view account information, as well as perform fund transfers and allocation changes. Site supported multiple brand identities, 24 x 7 availability and mainframe to SQL data connectivity. Technologies included Windows NT, IIS 4, MS SQL 7, and Visual Basic.
    Contract Dates: 1/00 - 8/00, 11/00 - 8/01, 11/01 - 3/02

  • Management Technical Consultant

    Bertelsmann

    (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

    November 2000 — September 2001 (11 months)

    Prepared proposals, system specifications, system architectures, estimates, alternatives and costing analysis for Bertelsmann warehouse fulfillment and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Business to Business web site designs. Involved analysis of existing and target technology roadmap, working with engineering leadership and international teams to build long term strategy and execution plans. Technologies included MS Internet Information Server (IIS), Active Server Pages (ASP), Oracle and SAP Internet Transaction Server (SAP ITS)

  • Technical Project Manager

    Sony Pictures Entertainment

    (Public Company; SNE; Entertainment industry)

    June 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 2 months)

    Technical Project Manager for a Sony intranet SQL Server based two-tier rental property warehouse management system. Determined logistics, organized internal IT resources, assisted in infrastructure planning and coordinated with vendor. Developed, managed, and maintained a client-server database application that tracked $800 million+ in motion picture development costs. Developed and managed a client-server database application that tracked and managed 10,000+ data entries for a wildly popular game show.

  • Founder | Architect | Developer

    Voice Information Systems Inc.

    (Telecommunications industry)

    June 1990 — August 1999 (9 years 3 months)

    Designed and implemented award-winning commercial software generating $5M+ in sales with 80%+ market penetration. Products included a graphical audio editor (VFEdit) and batch-processing tools for digitized sound (Audio ToolBox) (more information at www.VFEdit.com). Competency in translating business issues into customer solutions including opportunity identification, requirements development, software development management, delivery, support, and analysis. Ability to understand capabilities of technology to solve a particular business problem or create business opportunity. Inspired all parties to work towards common goals. Managed programmers, marketing, accountants, distributors and designs. Oversaw product requirements, market analysis, product adoption, and customer phpBB forums. Developed a prototype Voice-Over-IP (VOIP) Internet Telephony real-time streaming audio product using on-the-fly audio compression and low-level Winsock TCP/IP protocols.

  • Architect / Analyst | Software Developer

    The Seidler Companies

    (Privately Held; Investment Banking industry)

    July 1998 — March 1999 (9 months)

    Created brokerage firm daily commission tracking and reporting application suite. Designed using MS Access for initial network use and subsequent conversion to Intranet access. Performed system analysis and architectural design, worked with internal IS personnel for implementation. Contract Dates: 7/98 - 3/99, 7/01 - 10/02

  • System Architect | Technical Project Manager

    Security Pacific Bank

    (Public Company; Banking industry)

    February 1989 — May 1990 (1 year 4 months)

    Designed and developed a PC-based multi-threaded OS/2 graphical interface for a bank check signature recognition system. Flew between geographically remote prime contractors to keep project moving forward and contractors in communication. Served as lead designer and traveling technical liaison for prime contractors; the project was a joint development effort between IBM (Charlotte, NC) and Security Pacific (Glendale, CA). Coordinated system interfaces and data structure designs with other development groups. Provided status and project guidelines for corporate management. Trained and assisted junior team members in C and operating system programming in PC environment. Programmed in C under OS/2 Program Manager.

  • Embedded Software Development Engineer

    Raytheon

    (Public Company; RTN; Defense & Space industry)

    February 1988 — January 1989 (1 year )

    First contractor to arrive in Raytheon's Electromagnetic Systems Division and last to be renewed for sophisticated upgrade to AEGIS missile defense system. Designed and maintained software for an embedded real-time processor which controlled naval electronic countermeasure systems. Upgraded existing software and supporting documentation; designed new software for additional hardware capabilities. Programmed in Nova assembly with a Rolm 1606/1666. Required US Citizenship, Secret Clearance and Special Clearances.

  • Hardware / Software Development Consultant, VLS

    MCRB Software Services

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1986 — January 1988 (1 year 6 months)

    Developed an interactive telephone real estate shopping application including a complete database for order entry, updates, tracking, and report generation with MS Basic and Dbase III. Designed and implemented as an IBM-PC based application to integrate voice messaging and database access capability. Specified software system design and architectural approach. Implemented database management software for order entry, updates, tracking, and report generation. Implemented and integrated application level software, real time system control software, and low level drivers in a networked environment. Programmed with MS Windows SDK, Dbase III, "C", Basic, and Assembly. Created Computer Telephony real time system control software and low level drivers in networked environment with MS Windows SDK, C, and Assembly. Maintained database management and report generation software for a telephone billing system with COBOL on an IBM 370 running TSO and CMS.

  • Technical Field Support Manager

    Tektronix

    (Public Company; DHR; Telecommunications industry)

    1983 — August 1986 (3 years )

    Managed technical projects at company and customer locations in the western United States. Used technical, communication, and leadership skills to coordinate sales, marketing, and engineering to resolve critical projects. Demonstrated products, prepared and taught training classes, tested and reported on products and progress for management. Promoted to Sector Manager after assisting customers with design and debug of microprocessor based hardware using logic analyzers and Unix based development systems. Gained proficiency with applications under VMS, Unix and MS-DOS using VAX, Apollo and IBM-PC computers.

  • IC Design Engineer

    Micronix

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 1984 — September 1984 (9 months)

    Hired by request of internal designer for short-term project for reverse engineering and design of specialized PC controller circuit. Designed and laid out CMOS gate arrays. Converted customer logic into standard macrocells; simulated and debugged design using SILOS simulator. Produced final schematic artwork and bonding diagram for customer designed package. Hand placed and routed macrocells; checked layout versus schematic with ECAD software.

  • Design Engineer

    TRW Space Division

    (Defense & Space industry)

    April 1981 — September 1983 (2 years 6 months)

    Implemented the first flight-approved microprocessor-based subsystem for DSP-series satellites. Designed hardware and software for microprocessor-based spacecraft subsystems. Defined system architectures and implementations for project proposals. Designed system and detailed hardware (Schottky & CMOS) for a real-time flight unit from initial proposal through engineering model test. Hired as part of the TRW fellowship program. Required US Citizenship, Secret Clearance and Special Clearances.

  • IBM 8100 COBOL Project (Intern)

    IBM Santa Teresa Labs

    (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1979 — 1979 (less than a year)

    System Operator for QA system testing.

Andrew Michalik’s Education

  • University of Southern California

    MS , Electrical Engineering , 1981 — 1984

    Graduated with 3.8

  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

    BS , Electrical Engineering , 1976 — 1980

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Andrew Michalik’s Groups:

  •    TEN - Top Executives Net
  •    True Wealth Business Network
  •    Skype for Business
  •    Leading International Open Networkers (LION)
  •    Global Executive Exchange
  •    Dutch Interim-management / Freelance network
  •    Business/Market Development
  •    Consulting Opportunities

Andrew Michalik’s Honors:

CT Magazine Product of the Year
CT Expo Best of Show
CT Magazine People Of The Year
CT Magazine Product of the Year
TeleConnect Magazine Editors Choice
TRW Fellowship award

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