19 years experience in product development, including: coding, marketing, sales, QA, tech writing, production operations, build/release, and budget responsibilities. Proven record in building and managing highly talented and productive teams and systems. Proponent of time-based projects and top-down/bottom-up SDLCs focused on quality, schedules, process, and common sense. Leads by combining hands-on management balanced with delegation and empowerment of engineers.
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1. Responsibility
2. Activator
3. Arranger
4. Strategic
5. Belief
Specialties: CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), ITIL Foundations Certified (Service Support and Service Delivery), Operations Management, Program/Project Management, Product Management, process specialist, program management, Server architecture, infrastructure architecture, sales management, business development, agile/scrum/xp software development, Brewer CAP Theorem. Perl, python, and ruby enthusiast.
VP, Technology @ beachbody.com, teambeachbody.com, p90x, Insanity, Body Beast, 21 Day Fix
iOS, Android, Java, Spring, AppDynamics, New Relic, PHP, WordPress, AWS, Oracle (WCS, ESB, ATG, OAG, OIM) From April 2015 to Present (9 months) SVP, Engineering @ At ReachLocal (RLOC), our mission is to help small-to-medium sized businesses across the globe reach more local customers online and build a healthy, thriving business. We provide end-to-end online services, leveraging BDD software development combined with a modern SOA-based platform built around the most recent version of Ruby on Rails, Cassandra, responsive design mobile technologies, and a robust set of APIs. We are an active contributor to the open source community, continually iterate on best practices, and embrace the power of social media. We operate out of 15 countries with engineering teams across the globe.
Groovy, Grails, Ruby Rails (RoR/Sinatra), Java, PHP, Perl, SaaS, Big Data, Search (Retargeting), Display Ad, Dashboarding/Reporting, iOS/Mobile app dev, Cassandra, International, Call tracking, SEO, SEM, Reputation Management, pubsub, social graph, static analysis, application monitoring (New Relic), cordova, CoffeeScript, Yammer metrics, graphite, splunk, puppet, Android Java, payment/ billing/ subscriptions/ eCommerce/ notifications systems, media and content management (wordpress, drupal), responsive design (HTML5, CSS, JS). From September 2012 to April 2015 (2 years 8 months) Director, Technology @ Destination Websites: disney.com, family.com, familyfun.com, kaboose.com, babyzone.com. P&L, J2EE, Flash, ActionScript 3, FLEX, SEO, CMS (Content Management), registration systems, mobile, social networking, gaming, video delivery, UGC, Ad Serving, contextual search From September 2010 to September 2012 (2 years 1 month) VP, Technology @ php, java, mapreduce/hadoop/redis, activemq, mysql, solr/lucene, silverstripe, git, zabbix, hyperic, jmeter, jira/greenhopper, and puppet From May 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 4 months) Director of Engineering (Software Development) @ perl, mod_perl, java, oracle, weblogic, mysql, memcache, zenoss, mason, dbi, struts, spring, hibernate, gwt, netezza, bugzilla, scrumworks, quicktest pro, perforce, wordpress, and etch From February 2007 to February 2009 (2 years 1 month) Sr Engineering Manager @ perl, php, RHEL 4/5, cfengine, openview, oracle, mysql, postgresql, nagios, etch From September 2004 to February 2007 (2 years 6 months) Technical Account Manager @ VoIP, WAN, Wireless, Satellite, Virtualization From September 2002 to September 2004 (2 years 1 month) Sr Manager @ CDMA, GSM, WAP, vXML, xHTML, BREW, and J2ME From October 2000 to September 2002 (2 years) Manager @ perl, firewall-1, IOS, LDAP, Tibco From November 1997 to October 2000 (3 years) Sr Software Engineer @ C, MS SQL Server From May 1996 to November 1997 (1 year 7 months) Developer @ C, C++, Lingo, Authorware, Director, Photoshop, Lightwave 3D From June 1992 to May 1996 (4 years) Customer Support | Technical Writer @ From May 1991 to May 1992 (1 year 1 month)
BS @ University of Maryland College Park From 1989 to 1995 High School @ Gilman From 1986 to 1989 Michael Lee is skilled in: Java, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Hadoop, Engineering Management, Product Management, Product Marketing, Program Management, Quality Assurance, Systems Engineering, Machine Learning, Digital Video, Online Video, UGC, Perl
Websites:
http://michaelkimlee.com,
http://www.disney.com,
http://family.com