Principal at Brainewave Consulting
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Principal at Brainewave Consulting
- Consultant at Tomorrowish
- Consultant at Plus One Holdings
- Freelance Writer (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Consultant at Robert Half Technology
- Consultant at BackOffice Associates
- Product Manager at CranBerry Technologies (currently CranSoft)
- Partner at Brainware Consulting
- Firmware Engineer at Microwave Radio Communications
- Technology Transfer at Ctoons Studios
- Education
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- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Mike Caprio’s Summary
I have been a software engineer since 1997 and have since worked my way through several positions at startup ventures, at established companies, and at my own development firm. I have been responsible for product and code management in nearly all of those positions, and have also significantly contributed to the vision and direction of the companies themselves. I am currently starting a new development consulting firm, with a focus on database development, application integration, and creating custom iPhone applications for retail and for businesses.
Mike Caprio’s Specialties:
Application design and development, firmware design and development, problem solving. iPhone and Apple development, Microsoft and Unix development in many languages.
Skill, Years of experience
ASP , 8
ASP.NET, <1
C, >10
C++, 5
C#, <1
Database Design, 8
Java, >10
JavaScript, 6
MS SQL Server, 8
MySQL, 1
Objective-C, <1
Perl, 2
PHP, 1
PostgreSQL, 2
SAP, 2
Sybase, 2
T-SQL, 8
VB.NET, 1
VBScript, 8
Mike Caprio’s Experience
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Principal
Brainewave Consulting
(Computer Software industry)
October 2008 — Present (3 months)
Independent software and database applications consultant specializing in analysis and development, and strategy and vision. Currently developing iPhone applications and performing other work for clients in New York and Massachusetts.
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Consultant
Tomorrowish
(Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (3 months)
Providing strategic consulting, support, and database and web application development for a crowdsourcing prediction market Internet start-up.
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Consultant
Plus One Holdings
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Maintaining, analyzing, and investigating the structure of a ten year old legacy system that uses Sybase, Java, Weblogic, and an obsolete proprietary framework. Gathering requirements and creating specifications for a new generation of enterprise-ready health and fitness applications built on a .NET platform, including community building tools, a reporting suite, member management, and planning standardized integration with large partners.
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Freelance Writer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)
August 1999 — Present (9 years 5 months)
Published columnist, aspiring novelist. Regularly writing and contributing movie, restaurant, and food and drink reviews to various publications. Also working on several multimedia projects.
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Consultant
Robert Half Technology
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RHI; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Currently working as a project lead on cutting edge software engineering projects.
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Consultant
BackOffice Associates
(Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Providing data migration, data governance, and CranBerry consulting expertise to Fortune 100 companies.
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Product Manager
CranBerry Technologies (currently CranSoft)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Senior application developer and CranBerry WebApp developer. Manager of entire product suite for data migration, and senior developer on another product suite for data governance. CranBerry Technologies is the leading provider of products for SAP data migration, a spinoff of data migration service provider BackOffice Associates. Responsible for the management, design, and continuous development of the Data Migration Toolset; products that routinely transformed millions of rows of data, making it error-free and business ready. Senior developer and core back end architect on the Collaborative Applications Suite, CranBerry's data governance product offering for SAP master data management.
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Partner
Brainware Consulting
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 9 months)
One of three equal partners in a software development firm in Central Massachusetts. Brainware specialized in creating web sites and browser-based applications with database back ends for small to mid-sized businesses.
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Firmware Engineer
Microwave Radio Communications
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Worked on application design and development for internal engineering and manufacturing support and for external remote control software in both standalone and browser-based versions. Also responsible for firmware development and management for multiple released RX/TX products.
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Technology Transfer
Ctoons Studios
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
September 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 5 months)
Ctoons was a digital animation studio, a pioneer in webcomics and online animation. It closed its doors some time in early 2000.
Mike Caprio’s Education
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BSCS, Computer Science, 1992 — 1998
Major Qualifying Project: Project VALIS, A Fuzzy Logic Strategy Game in Java
- Activities and Societies:
- WPI SFS, Newspeak, Philosopher's Circle (founder)
Additional Information
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Mike Caprio’s Interests:
acting, archaeology, board games, card games, cartoons, civilian space program, comic books, computer science, cooking, drawing, entertaining, foodies, fuzzy logic, game design, gweeping, machine intelligence, puzzles, reading, science fiction, semiotics, space colonization, surrealism, theater, video games, wikipedia, wine, writing
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
Mike Caprio’s Honors:
BackOffice Associates - 2005 Impact Award for "creating positive impact" at CranBerry Technologies.
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