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mike maelzer's resume
Mike Maelzer
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+ email: mmaelzer@gmail.com
+ website: [mikemaelzer.com](http://mikemaelzer.com)
+ phone: 865.310.1793
+ github: mmaelzer
Experience
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### Lead Engineer
[Avocado Software Inc.](https://avocado.io)
January 2013 - Present
San Francisco, CA
- Architected and built a social platform for couples, [Pears](https://pears.io)
- Extended and optimized the Avocado backend infrastructure
- Maintained and improved the Avocado web client
Technologies: node.js, JavaScript, MySQL, redis, Python, require.js, backbone.js, neo4j
### Team Lead
[3VR Inc.](http://3vr.com)
April 2012 - January 2013
San Francisco, CA
- Led the team of 3 software engineers and 2 QA engineers responsible for 3VR’s user-facing applications
- Developed a mobile surveillance application for Android and iOS on an HTML5/JavaScript/backbone.js/node.js/PhoneGap technology stack
- Built a RESTful interface for 3VR’s core data services using the open source NancyFX (C#/.NET) framework
Technologies: node.js, CoffeeScript, backbone.js, PhoneGap, C#
### Software Engineer
[3VR Inc.](http://3vr.com)
October 2008 - April 2012
San Francisco, CA
- Worked on desktop applications for advanced video surveillance monitoring
- Developed a browser-based application for installing 3VR Video Intelligence Appliances that was deployed with every 3VR system
- Built a video archiving solution that used a RESTful web services and a browser-based client interface
- Designed graphical user interfaces for configuring video analytics
Technologies: C#, MySQL, JavaScript, Objective-C, C++
### Senior QA Engineer
[3VR Inc.](http://3vr.com)
July 2007 - October 2008
San Francisco, CA
- Acted as a proxy between customers and the development team to ensure customer-facing issues were resolved quickly and effectively
- Managed QA test passes for 4 software releases
- Developed patches and utilities to rapidly resolve problems that arose at customer locations
- Performed both white and black box testing
- Authored an assortment of utilities for automated testing
### Peace Corps Volunteer
[U.S. Peace Corps](http://www.peacecorps.gov)
March 2005 - May 2007
- Involved in daily cross-cultural exchanges as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda
- Designed a nationwide electronic data analysis tool for USAID that allowed school administrators to efficiently evaluate thousands of primary schools across Uganda
- Collaborated with a primary school principal to create a school-based agricultural project that brought income and food to 130 orphans.
- Assisted a local community leader in developing an income generating farm that promoted healthy lifestyles for local people living with of HIV/AIDS
- Educated hundreds of teachers in computer literacy, Internet, and Microsoft Office utilities to improve technology proficiency in the rural areas of Uganda
- Created a self-sustaining computer lab at a primary school to instruct teachers on the integration of technology and education
Education
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### The University of Tennessee
August 2000 - May 2004
Knoxville, TN
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, graduated Magna Cum Laude
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