Michael McDonald
San Francisco, California
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Last updated: August 22, 2007
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Looking for
consulting work in a variety of
areas related to Web-based businesses.
Entrepreneur, Web developer and usability / information architecture
guru. Experienced at
bootstrapping start-ups, evolving large-scale Web architectures,
agile software development, marketing, customer relationship
management, project management, ... I'm like a startup co-founder for hire.
Sorry, I am not interested in an employee position. I am using
consulting to fund and grow my own bootstrap businesses.
| Methodologies: |
XP, TDD, Scrum, design patterns, enterprise messaging, client/server, ... |
| Programming Languages: |
Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl 5, C/C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Expect, bash, ... |
| Programming APIs: |
Facebook, Matrix, AWS, Servlets, Hiptop, Jini, Jakarta, RMI, concurrency, Cygwin, ... |
| Operating Systems: |
OS X, Solaris 8, Fedora Core Linux, Windows, ... |
| Web Technologies: |
HTML, Noel, PHP, CSS, XML, JavaScript, ... |
| Development Tools: |
Eclipse, JDK, ant, cvs, GNU development tools, JavaCC, index cards, ... |
Founder |
Sept 2007 - present
San Francisco, CA |
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Animist |
Finally started my dream company, building Web-based solutions
for productivity and everyday empowerment. The first product
is Animist Notes, a
deceptively simple note-keeping service.
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Partner |
August 2007 - present
San Francisco, CA |
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EsperFonto |
Partnering with EsperFonto to rebuild the site as an affiliate font search engine.
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CEO |
May 1999 - present
San Francisco, CA |
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Worldisround |
I single-handedly developed and maintain
Worldisround,
a service for sharing travel photos
(450,000 visits/month, 6,500,000+ photos and growing).
Duties include:
- Evaluating products and technologies.
- Planning, modeling, and implementing an enterprise Java back-end (140 KLOC).
- Solaris and Oracle database administration.
- Scalability and fault tolerance planning.
- Site information architecture and usability engineering.
- Internal search engine development (replaced Inktomi Search with custom Lucene engine)
- Image processing.
- Secure merchant transactions and accounting system.
- Scalable backups and storage solutions.
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Webmaster |
October 2003 - May 2006
New York, NY |
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Esopus Magazine |
Design and maintenance of website from scratch.
Implemented secure subscription system in PHP. Management of
a series of graphic designers and integration of their work
into the website.
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President |
May 2001 - May 2007
San Francisco, CA |
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Animist Software |
Started another chat software company on the side, this time alone and
built from the ground up. Business, Web design, Java applet & server
development, marketing, customer support, etc.
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Java Developer / Research Associate |
Sept. 1997 - Aug 2000
Ann Arbor, MI |
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Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education |
Worked in a software engineering team on a suite of Java-based
educational applications used to teach scientific inquiry to high school
and middle school students. Developed a filing system that saves
students' data to a remote server (via RMI). Developed access control
and administration utilities for teachers and administrators. Developed
and integrated high-performance Table API for large data sets.
Responsible for refactoring entire application base (35 KLOC.)
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Vice President |
June 1998 - Nov. 1998
Ann Arbor, MI |
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Catseye Productions, Inc. |
Cat's Eye Productions incorporated as Catseye Productions, Inc. and I
became the Vice President. I was solely responsible for technology,
software development, Web site, and logistics, as well as marketing,
customer support, and sales duties. I left the company to pursue a
freelancing career.
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Sole Proprietor |
April 1997 - June 1998
Ann Arbor, MI |
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Cat's Eye Productions |
Cat's Eye Productions originated as a Web design and hosting company. My
services were aimed at large retail customers but I could only reach the
local start-up market, so I abandoned Web design after a couple months.
Cat's Eye Productions then became a Java software solutions business,
selling Java chat software developed in a joint venture with another
developer. Throughout my experience with Cat's Eye Productions
I filled several roles:
- Java software development: I designed the Cool Megachat Java client (versions 2.0 and 2.1) for the MegaChat Server.
- Web development: Keeping up with emerging technologies and browser compatibility; choosing if, when, and how to use new Web technologies. Designed company Web site using my own 'HTML programming language'.
- Webmaster: Apache Web server maintenance, content management, secure CyberCash transactions.
- Graphic design: Adobe Photoshop. CHI, UCD, and aesthetic design.
- E-commerce: Marketing, accounting, online sales, customer support.
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College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S.E Computer Engineering, Sept. 1994-July 1998
Concentration Courses:
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Artificial Intelligence
Interactive Computer Graphics
Software Engineering
Project Management
Operating Systems
Theory of Computation
Data Structures and Algorithms in C++
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Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte
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Michael McDonald
1587 15th St. #405
San Francisco, CA 94103
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| Personal Homepage: |
http://www.kelek.com |
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