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Andrea Michalek - Career Highlights
1-800-CTO
Founder and President of 1-800-CTO.
Provides services in due diligence and strategy,
project bootstrapping and mentoring,
and tools and technology.
EchoFactor.com - Co-Founder and Chief Technologist
Proposed
the idea behind EchoFactor.com. Secured $500K in seed funding.
Built and managed a team of ten
software engineers, marketers, and web designers.
Defined and managed an aggressive product
release schedule. Led seed team from idea to functional prototype in
5 weeks, launched public beta 8 weeks later, and hit scheduled release
dates every 4-6 weeks thereafter.
Architected an intelligent agent system that
generated the largest repository of XML news feeds on the web (over
30,000 feeds automatically updating multiple times a day.)
Built a fault-tolerant, horizontally scaleable
system with a hardware budget of less than $35,000 using Linux, PHP, Java,
Oracle, and Apache.
Maintained full
P&L responsibility, including all budgeting, forecasting, capital
expenditures, and headcount allocation.
Presented the business plan to over a dozen
venture capital firms. Secured a term sheet for $1.5 million in
Series A funding.
Infonautics Corporation - Director of Technology
Set technology direction and product roadmap
for all the companys products.
Reorganized and rebuilt the technology team
after a merger in which 2/3 of the company was sold. Included
development of new reporting hierarchies and product strategies.
Scaled the technology behind the web
properties. Media Metrix ranks the Infonautics Network as reaching
over 3% of all Internet users monthly. The Sleuth products send over
1,000,000 personalized emails daily.
Oversaw technology managers and all software
engineers, system administrators, quality assurance, and graphic
designers. Setup and directed an offshore development team for
product maintenance.
Infonautics Corporation - Director of Product Development
Created processes and culture for developing
innovative new products that solved business needs.
Supervised implementation for strategic
partnerships with dozens of companies including AOL.com, Lycos, NewsAlert,
ON24, RagingBull and ESPN.
Lead and
mentored technical management team as the size of the product development
team doubled to 65.
Infonautics Corporation - Technology Manager
Lead tiger
team of 10 people to re-architect eLibrary.com to triple its capacity,
double its speed and halve its cost of operation. Exceeded all these
goals.
Recruited and managed a team
of 8 people. Included compensation management, personnel
development, performance appraisal, motivation, and conflict
resolution.
Infonautics Corporation - Project Leader/Sr. Software Engineer
Lead a cross-functional team of 25 people to
successfully create a knowledge management product for Hewlett
Packard. This product later spawned an entire division within the
company.
Responsible for performance
tuning, scalability analysis, and rapid problem solving.
Developed information extraction and
information retrieval software for the Electric Library product.
Picker International - Sr. Software Engineer
Architected a multi-threaded, RPC based server
for use in medical image processing systems.
Lockheed Martin - Software Engineer
Designed and developed a Virtual Patient
Folder to link disparate sources of medical information.
New York State Dept. of Health - Wadsworth Labs - Programmer
Implemented a User interface for an electron microscope
particle selecting program.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - Programmer
Created a base library of X-Window and Motif
interface routines for scientific programs.
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