Founder/CEO @ Cooking up something new... From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Advisory Board @ Advising whenever I can but mostly watching this team make an amazing mobile product and grow their business. From October 2012 to August 2014 (1 year 11 months) Chief Product Officer @ From October 2013 to June 2014 (9 months) Greater Boston AreaCo-founder, CEO @ Kickscout is creating the retail omni-channel by turning bookmarked online products into in-store shopping alerts. Kickscout allows users to discover and share great products online while providing them with in-store alerts whenever they are in a store that may sell those products.
• Launched and iterated on a proof of concept app (iOS, Android) and website (mobile, desktop)
• Built a passive location tracker into the Kickscout app to determine when a user is located in a retail store without the user launching the app
• Built an e-commerce website scraper to parse and analyze products found on retailers' websites to then match them up with physical retailer locations found on Google Maps
Press about Kickscout: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/11/a-big-retail-challenge-how-to-turn-online-saves-into-offline-purchases/ From June 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 5 months) Co-founder, COO, CPO, Board Member @ • Led the product development for the entire RunKeeper product line – Mobile iPhone & Android app, RunKeeper.com website, and Health Graph API services
• Built a consumer focused mobile health and fitness company - 25 million users and counting
• Led 3 successful fund raising rounds totaling $11.5M in venture funding that valued the company at $40M
• Led the creation of the RunKeeper HealthGraph. An API platform that integrates all health and fitness data a user can collect from over 100 consumer apps and health devices
• Ran operations for a team of over 10 developers, 3 marketing employees, and 2 product managers
• Managed and created the financial models and projections while maintaining monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements From December 2008 to March 2012 (3 years 4 months) Project Manager / Senior Software Engineer @ • Led and won a proposal effort resulting in a $9 million image recognition program for DARPA
• Led and won a proposal effort resulting in a $530,000 contract for CDAP, a strategy development and modeling tool for the Air Force
• Led the 6 person CDAP (COA Development and Analysis Planner) team to build a net-centric strategy development and modeling tool for the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
• Captured $580,000 contracts on a proposal and technical whitepaper designing a next-generation strategic planning system for the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
• Led a small 3 person team on a small $120,000 malicious software information database system project funded by Northrop Grumman
• Software Engineering Lead for the AFRL Warp project by consulting subject matter experts, developed an overall model of the problems the US Air Force faces when planning mission strategies, and created a detailed requirements document & system design for a strategy planning tool.
• Project Lead for the AFRL $400k Net-Enabled DCOAD project as the project lead. The four month effort transformed an existing Dynamic Course of Action Decision (DCOAD) tool into a Net-Enabled, software-oriented architecture (SOA): MS Project, eclipse, subversion, Java, Web Services, JUnit testing
• Software Engineer: Designed, developed, and integrated military planning software and components as part of the Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) $160 million a year modernization project: Java, Rational Rose, UML, ClearCase, JUnit testing, ant
• Received the BAE Systems Impact Award as part of the FCS team. The Impact Award goes to the team that exemplifies the BAE Systems core values (customers, people, performance, partnering, and innovation and technology). From September 2005 to June 2009 (3 years 10 months) Founder @ A mobile company for field service enterprise businesses. Focused on Comcast contractors to provide mobile and enterprise solutions to cable installation workers. Michael focused on the company vision, team building, product management, software engineering, and business development sides of the business. From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Software Engineer @ Device driver and application development for custom ad-hoc customers requested efforts. From May 2002 to September 2003 (1 year 5 months) Founder @ An early concept social network for the University of Connecticut. Within 1 month, more than half the Uconn campus was visiting the website on a weekly basis. Michael, focused on the product management, software engineering, and marketing sides of the business. From April 2000 to December 2001 (1 year 9 months) Software Engineer-Intern @ Web-based Enterprise Software Engineering From May 2000 to January 2001 (9 months)
MBA, Finance, Corp Strategy @ Bentley University From 2006 to 2008 Masters of Science, Computer Science @ Tufts University From 2003 to 2005 BS in Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering @ University of Connecticut From 1997 to 2001 Michael FMX is skilled in: Product Management, Software Engineering, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Mobile, iPhone, Engineering, Product Development, Java, Start-ups, Product Marketing, Social Media, Android, Software Project..., Mobile Devices, Software Design, System Architecture, Business Development, Web Applications, Requirements Analysis, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applications, E-commerce
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