Michael Schwanzer's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Strategic thinker who likes to apply his engineering and web skills to create new businesses with a consciousness. As an entrepreneur Michael thinks in terms of the big picture, a trait that has led to great success in his client relationships in which he breaks down complex work flows to deliver measurable results. Specialties: Ideation, Product Strategy, Business Model Canvas, Project Management, Data Aggregation & VisualizationCEO & Founder @ ZEITDICE is a smart timelapse camera specifically engineered for capturing long periods of time. > 3 months on one charge or infinitely with a small solar panel are feasible with this unique, wifi connected & weather resistant device. > Setting it up is super easy through it’s functional 26 sided shape, including magnets and a standard tripod mount - just push a button to start. > To turn the captured images into a great timelapse video, a free and fun to use software is provided from where the clips can be uploaded to the ZEITDICE cloud storage ready to be shared. > A truly streamlined experience to capture, edit and publish timelapse videos. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaFounder @ Turning client ideas into web apps. - Helping clients create their web strategies and build their products (technology agnostic) - Full Stack Web App Consulting & Development - One-Stop-Shop for web based solutions including consulting, development and hosting - Project Management for outsourced development From November 2010 to Present (5 years 2 months) Senior Application Developer @ As Senior Application Developer Michael helps Megaphone to create Emmy-nominated, interactive-television software by providing full stack development including requirements gathering, technology selection, architecture, coding, quality assurance, release, and maintenance for various mission-critical products and services. > Unified existing application interfaces into a single client facing interface to reduce management overhead and improve client satisfaction. > Built services to analyze big data automatically to provide clients with meaningful, real-time reports in several data formats for use in other tools. > Improved development and release flexibility by introducing micro-services while reducing server infrastructure costs. > Modernized existing APIs and infrastructure to support state-of-the-art front end services. > Administered servers and improved performance & stability throughout the production environment. From February 2014 to November 2015 (1 year 10 months) Greater New York City AreaWeb App Developer & UX Designer @ WhoToKnow is an immersive and engaging job search networking app designed for and by students. It learns your career objectives, identifies who you need to know, and makes building the relationships you need straightforward, exciting and rewarding. - UX Concept focused on mobile usage - Implementation in node.js, knockout.js and MongoDB, heavy use of APIs From May 2013 to September 2013 (5 months) Web Application Developer @ - Help clients shape their products and find funding for them - Taking Designs & Wireframes and turn them into live web apps - Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Backbone.js, PostgreSQL and others From August 2012 to December 2012 (5 months) Toronto, Canada AreaFounder @ Started this business as Software as a Service (SaaS) Idea Management Solution for Organizations and turned it into one of the first innovation focused crowd-sourcing web apps. - Won CISCO Austria Award for the most innovative Web Application in 2008 - Enabled Citizen Engagement for European Union funded Organizations - Out of 40 apps evaluated, came in fourth to become Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) worldwide innovation management solution. - Customer Acquisition, Strategic Management, Development Outsourcing - Presented to City Council Member for citizen empowerment in municipalities - Helped clients introduce Innovation Management to their organizations - Developed the "Idea Flow", a progress that enables just paragraph long ideas to be enriched via semantics automatically and enables all collaborators to contribute via mindmapping, wiki like concept builder and a few other tools that made it very easy to enter and develop ideas. From July 2007 to August 2012 (5 years 2 months) Co-Founder @ rehabit.me is a web app that helps young adults & professionals seeking new lifestyle habits, stay committed to goals through short-term challenges. - Idea to Minimal Viable Product (MVP) within 3 months. - Responsible for Business Model, Go-To-Market Strategy and Prototype Development (Ruby on Rails and jQuery) - Presented at StartUpWeekend Toronto Finals From September 2011 to July 2012 (11 months) Toronto, Canada AreaProject Manager @ - Developed strategy to migrate a desktop based health & nutrition software for MDs to a web based architecture - Designed the web based architecture - Managed a team of 4 to build it (PHP, mySQL) - Reported to management, estimated feature costs and audited security - Integrated new features, including Sign In via the Austrian health insurance card with encryption (SSL). From January 2006 to October 2009 (3 years 10 months) Founder @ - Enabled over 50,000 users to generate websites within minutes without HTML skills - Developed beside college to gain experience with PHP/mySQL - Managed servers, developed features, supported users (everything done in-house) - Ad based revenue - Features included: unlimited pages, custom designs, photo upload, guestbook, simple analytics - SOLD to finance studies abroad From August 2000 to August 2007 (7 years 1 month) IT Intern @ Migration of a MS SQL Server 2000 Datawarehouse to MS SQL Server 2005 - Project Management for students team of 3 - Final year project for HTL Spengergasse (higher technical college) From October 2005 to June 2006 (9 months) Head of IT Student Volunteers @ Part of the education at HTL Spengergasse was supporting International Sport Events in Austria with our IT expertise. The IIHF Hockey World Championship was the biggest event by then and we supported it by building network infrastructure and offered IT Support during the event for the organization committee. From October 2004 to June 2005 (9 months) IT Intern @ Concept and Development of an Intranet / Knowledge Database for Engineers (php/mySQL) - Surveying needs and requirements from soon to be users - Data Modelling and Interface Design - HTML and CSS Development for Front-End and php/mysql for Back-End From June 2003 to September 2003 (4 months) MSc, Information Management @ University of Applied Sciences, FH Technikum Wien From 2008 to 2010 BSc Hons., Computing, First-Class Honours @ University of Central Lancashire From 2007 to 2008 Computing / Network Management, with distinction @ HTL Spengergasse From 2001 to 2006 Michael Schwanzer is skilled in: Ruby on Rails, Web Applications, jQuery, New Business Development, Product Strategies, Process Optimization, User Experience, Idea Generation, JavaScript, MySQL, Strategy, SaaS, CSS, Mobile Devices, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Databases, Web Development, User Interface Design