Technical Resume

Michael Harold

1716 Creswell Avenue

Shreveport, Louisiana 71101

mdharold@gmail.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

· Executive experience in early stage business development, corporate strategy, software architecture, product development and project management.

· Collaborate well with team members in the development of product strategy and associated operating plans and marketing collateral.

· Experience in establishing and nurturing media and industry analyst relationships.

· Work well with business managers, sales, software engineers and customer service consultants.

· Experience with EAI, CRM, ERP and BPM solutions.

· Technical expert in the fields of application development, database administration, transactional workflows and distributed computing.

· Hold patents and patents-pending in the fields of encryption, compression, N-Bit computing, distributed virtual machine computing and cell phone computing.

· Exceptional writing, presentation and communications skills.

EXPERIENCE

2007 to Present

Senior Developer, Arcmail Technology

ArcMail Technology provides email archiving solutions for small to medium size companies. As one of the early hires in this young technology company, responsibilities include design and development of data models and new feature sets for the product.

2005 to 2006

Director of Operations and Technology, Robinson Film Center

The Robinson Film Center is a not-for-profit organization providing a venue for international, independent, and classic cinema while serving as a resource for filmmaking and film education. Job responsibilities included the planning, integration, and coordination of daily activities related to the construction of the new film center building and the development of a technology program for the film center. Technology program responsibilities included selection, implementation and support of business, fundraising, direct mail and web site software applications and technical support of the film center’s network, Microsoft Exchange Server and desktop PCs.

2002 to 2004

Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Seranin Software Corporation

Seranin is an enterprise software company specializing in Business Services Management (BSM) solutions. Under the direction of management and investors, led the development of the company’s business, marketing and product plans. Worked closely with senior industry analysts to identify target markets and establish strategic software alliances. Played a principle role in the development of all marketing and sales collateral. Worked with the company’s engineers to develop technical and functional specifications and product development schedules. Met with strategic customers such as FedEx and DigiDesign to identify and implement key demonstration projects.

1999 to 2002

Co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor, Transfinity Corporation

Founded in 1999, Transfinity was the first software company in the market with “last-mile, five times faster” Web acceleration. As Co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor, co-invented, with Dennis Tucker and Dr. Shin-Ping Liu, the Internet’s first multi-tier caching and compression product for dial-up Web acceleration. This model is the de-facto standard for last-mile dialup Web acceleration, and is used universally by companies like AOL, EarthLink and BellSouth. Also co-invented with Tucker and Liu, entropy optimization techniques for lossless compression. Was the co-inventor, with Joseph Morgan, of related patents in the fields of encryption, compression and arbitrary precision mathematics. Transfinity’s technology was acquired in 2000 by First Dallas, a private investment fund, and its Web acceleration product was sold in 2002 to Houston based ISP, EV1® (i.e., Everyone’s Internet) where it was marketed as WebJet™. EV1’s ISP business was acquired by PeoplePC.

1998 to 2001

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, GlobalESP

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of GlobalESP, a software infrastructure and business solutions company. Co-invented, with Dr. Ramesh Venkataramaiah, the industry’s first fully distributed, stateless, object routable, peer-to-peer workflow and database computing environment. Also co-invented with Dr. Venkataramaiah, the industry’s first fully distributed, directory-based object persistence. Most recently, GlobalESP’s technology model has been used in applications related to Internet social network analysis, distance learning and dynamic link mining.

Founded in March, 1998, GlobalESP ceased operations in May, 2001. Its assets were acquired by FourthWave Software, a California-based startup company, in September, 2001. The assets were acquired from FourthWave by First Dallas in 2003.

1996 to 1998

Senior Technical Advisor and Chief Systems Architect – Global Logistics Division, Federal Express Corporation

Senior Technical Advisor in the Logistics, Electronic Commerce and Catalog division of FedEx reporting to then CIO, Dennis Jones and the Senior VP of Global Logistics, Laurie Tucker. Served as Chief Architect on several ground-breaking electronic commerce and supply chain initiatives. One initiative, the Virtual Enterprise Architecture (VEA) project, outlined the strategy and led the development efforts to create information systems supporting FedEx’s vision of a real-time global inter-enterprise trading network. Pioneered the development of the first enterprise application integration (EAI) architectures. During 1996 and 1997, worked closely with the founders and chief scientists of Vitria (Dale Skeen and Jo Mei Chang), Active Software (Jim Green, Raphael Bracho), Neuron Data (now Blaze Software) and IMI as well as first-tier integration firms such as Ernst &Young and KPMG. Co-developer with Ramesh Venkataramaiah of the FedEx/SAP integration architecture. This architecture was the first network and software architecture to provide seamless integration of SAP R/3 order management with FedEx shipping and tracking solutions over the Internet.

1990 to 1996

                   Project Manager/Analyst/Developer, Willis-Knighton Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana

Implemented systemwide healthcare software applications for Laboratory, Microbiology, Pharmacy, Radiology, Nursing, Surgery, Medical Records and Materials Management.

Was a principal in the first beta-test and implementation of a new operating system written by Meditech, a leading HIS software vendor, which implemented TCP/IP in a non-Unix environment. Designed and coded a toolkit to integrate Meditech, Unix and DOS/Windows systems in an Ethernet LAN using TCP/IP services such as telnet, ftp and lpr. Published and presented the results at an international healthcare conference in 1994.

Developed a method for distributing multi-port serial applications across LAN and WAN environments using TCP/IP, T1 and ISDN services. Published a description of the method in SysAdmin. Designed and coded an application generator (i.e. a lower CASE tool) in Informix 4GL used in the development of mission-critical healthcare applications. Published a description of the system in Informix Systems Journal.

1981 to 1989

                   MIS Director, Draughon Management Group, Shreveport, Louisiana -- a holding company with 400 employees and proprietary schools in four states.

Developed and had approved for federal funding a DPMA two-year, associate degree model curriculum used by all schools in the system.

                   Applying expertise in Unix system administration, database administration and network administration, implemented information systems at corporate headquarters and eleven company schools in support of computer curricula, course scheduling, student attendance, financial aid and corporate accounting. Managed MIS personnel. Established company standards for hardware and software acquisition and maintenance. In 1982, acquired one of the first NCR Tower 16/32 Unix computers manufactured. Beginning in 1983, designed, installed and maintained an enterprise WAN consisting of Unix servers, IBM PC/XTs, PC/ATs, Macintoshes and high-speed printers connected over a private network used to integrate all schools with corporate headquarters.

1978 to 1981

                   Chief Transportation Planner, Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments - a federally funded Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Maintained area urban transportation plan to ensure continued federal funding (approximately $100 million) of all transportation projects in Northwest Louisiana. Prepared and administered planning grants and capital budgets. Managed transportation planning personnel. Maintained relationships with local, state and federal officials in preparation of transportation related plans and reports.

Published extensively at local and national levels. Used statistical, computer mapping and computer simulation packages for planning, logistics and operations research. Principal in the design and implementation of a computerized fiscal and land use policy analysis system using Fortran, SAS and SYMAP. Implemented areawide citizen participation programs and conducted public hearings and workshops.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, major in Sociology.

Graduate studies in Masters of Fine Arts program at Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont.

PUBLICATIONS

                  "Code Generation in Informix 4GL," Informix Systems Journal, Summer, 1996.

"Porting Serial Applications to Distributed Environments," Sys Admin, December, 1995.

                   "Creating Online Help for vi,” Sys Admin, November, 1995.

                   "Meditech and Open Systems," Presenter, International MUSE Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1994.

PATENTS

“System and Method for Transmitting and Retrieving Data via a Distributed Persistence Framework,” patent application number 2002/0032775 (A1) by Ramesh Venkataramaiah and Michael Harold.

“Method of Using Virtual Images in a Heterogeneous Computer Network Environment to Perform Tasks,” patent application number 091379,773 by Michael Harold.

                   “System, Method and Apparatus for the Optimization of Entropy Using Re-Iterative, N-Bit Lossless Compression,” patent number 7,111,094 by Shin-Ping Liu, Dennis Tucker and Michael Harold.

“Method for Creating Specific Purpose Rule-based N-Bit Virtual Machines,” patent numbers 5,600,726 and 5,893,084 by Michael Harold and Joseph Morgan.