Leadership & capabilities

Technical depth in service of people, systems, and outcomes

Michael operates across the full path from business need to production: clarifying direction, shaping architecture, aligning contributors, guiding engineering execution, managing operational dependencies, and keeping complex application delivery moving.

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

Creating the operating clarity that helps teams execute

Leads delivery by turning priorities and constraints into executable work. Shapes sprint scope, coordinates dependencies, manages risk, guides consequential decisions, and aligns distributed contributors around release and production objectives.

Capabilities

Engineering delivery
Matrix-team leadership
Agile delivery
Backlog prioritization
Sprint shaping
Risk and dependency management
Release management
Stakeholder alignment
Global delivery coordination

Team & Talent Leadership

Helping people contribute effectively and grow

Provides day-to-day work leadership for approximately 10–12 matrixed contributors across North America, Europe, India, and China. Brings additional experience in formal people management, performance reviews, mentoring, onboarding, coaching, recruiting, intern leadership, and external-resource coordination.

Capabilities

Direct-report management
Performance reviews
Mentoring and onboarding
Technical coaching
Accountability conversations
Intern leadership
Candidate screening
Finalist recommendations
Recruiting-process support
Subcontractor coordination

Architecture & Modernization

Connecting design decisions to implementation and operation

Translates business objectives and technical constraints into practical architectures, implementation patterns, modernization roadmaps, and delivery decisions. Remains accountable for whether the resulting design can be built, released, supported, and evolved.

Capabilities

Enterprise applications
Solution and application architecture
Platform modernization
Systems design
API and integration architecture
Database and data integration
Business-process automation
Technical decision-making
Modernization sequencing

Cloud, DevOps & Operations

Keeping application platforms releasable, supportable, and production-ready

Owns or administers major elements of AWS-hosted application environments and the practices that move software safely into production, including CI/CD, artifact management, deployment orchestration, environment planning, release sequencing, and operational support.

Capabilities

AWS and EC2
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
JFrog
Octopus Deploy
Application operations
Production readiness
Environment planning
Artifact and deployment flow
Release and support coordination

AI-Assisted Software Delivery

Applying AI with technical judgment and accountable review

Uses AI-assisted workflows to clarify requirements, analyze architecture, prepare implementation plans, support development and testing, review code, create documentation, investigate production issues, and accelerate modernization work. AI-generated output remains subject to human review, security controls, testing, and technical validation.

Capabilities

Requirements clarification
Architecture analysis
Implementation planning
Development support
Test planning and generation
Code review
Documentation and diagramming
Modernization support
Production-support investigation
Human review and validation

Engineering & Integration

Maintaining the technical fluency needed to guide decisions and unblock delivery

Stays close enough to implementation to evaluate tradeoffs, identify risks, review technical direction, and help engineering teams solve difficult problems—without positioning as a primarily hands-on individual contributor.

Current and recent capabilities

.NET and C#
Angular and TypeScript
SQL Server
REST APIs
Entity Framework
Enterprise integration
ETL and data movement
Web application architecture

Additional experience

Earlier and supporting technologies

These technologies remain part of Michael’s career record and reinforce the breadth of his enterprise application and integration experience.

SharePointSalesforceNintexInfoPathCrystal ReportsVB.NETMicrosoft AccessJava