Senior Solutions Architect
Greater Chicago Area
Systems Engineer @ Self Employed Part-time for Lextech Global Services and other contracts while looking for other opportunities and education. From April 2008 to September 2009 (1 year 6 months) Senior Solutions Architect @ 5 Stones As a solution architect in a client focused startup, I am responsible for designing integrated systems to meet business requirements, and...
Systems Engineer @ Self Employed Part-time for Lextech Global Services and other contracts while looking for other opportunities and education. From April 2008 to September 2009 (1 year 6 months) Senior Solutions Architect @ 5 Stones As a solution architect in a client focused startup, I am responsible for designing integrated systems to meet business requirements, and estimating the effort required. A good amount of my time is spent doing full-stack web development, but I am also the on-site expert for database architecture, server administration, and cybersecurity. Senior Solutions Architect @ Lighthouse Catholic Media, N.F.P Since I took over as the most experienced software engineer, I've continued doing development on the PHP Symfony website and backend, but have taken the lead for anything technical in the company. I've been involved with a number of out of house projects including a mobile app and a partnership with Flocknote. I've also been responsible for administration of servers and outside services such as Google Apps and Amazon Web Services. From January 2012 to November 2015 (3 years 11 months) Software Engineer @ Lighthouse Catholic Media, N.F.P I was hired at Lighthouse to assist their main developer in unifying their web systems into one Java Spring system. However, during this transition the company decided to start using Netsuite. To accommodate the Netsuite integration we determined that Spring was not the best approach for a rapidly changing system with the resources of a non for profit. We rebuilt everything into the PHP Symfony framework. I took responsibility for the Symfony side with the database rearchitecture and Netsuite integration, while the other developer was mostly occupied with configuring Netsuite. I believe my work there will allow for easy maintenance and building of additional features.The website contains a store with Facebook sharing, subscription sign up and management, and an employee side for processing orders and subscriptions. Commissions, account balancing, subscription processing, and Netsuite integration is done with Symfony tasks and cron jobs. From July 2009 to January 2012 (2 years 7 months) Systems Engineer @ Lextech Global Services Responsibilities included software systems' specification, design, and development for a number of industries. Development required working with a project manager, other systems engineers, and clients.Projects included:A video surveillance system with a GIS, built in JavaAn embedded C based protocol translatorA web based plant and fungi specimen collection system using XSQL and Oracle From September 2005 to April 2008 (2 years 8 months)
Self Employed
Systems Engineer
April 2008 to September 2009
5 Stones
Senior Solutions Architect
Lighthouse Catholic Media, N.F.P
Senior Solutions Architect
January 2012 to November 2015
Lighthouse Catholic Media, N.F.P
Software Engineer
July 2009 to January 2012
Lextech Global Services
Systems Engineer
September 2005 to April 2008
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Ken Michalak works for Self Employed
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Ken Michalak is Systems Engineer
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Ken Michalak works in the Information Technology and Services industry.
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