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Michael Welch

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Product Architect at Johnson Controls

  • Education

    • Fox Valley Lutheran High School, Appleton, WI

      1983 - 1987

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

      1987 - 1991
      BS Electrical Engineering

    • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

      2002 - 2011
      MS Computer Science

      Emphasis of study was on programming languages: type systems, static analysis, compilers. Capstone project topic was the implementation of several compiler optimizations.

    • Wisconsin School of Business

      1997 - 1999
      MS Business

      Emphasis was on Manufacturing and Technology Management.

  • Experience

    • MEGTEC Systems, Inc.

      Jan 1987 - Jan 1991
      Intern

      Two summers doing drafting (actual drafting, on a drafting board). Several summers/breaks as an electrical engineering intern.

    • Procter & Gamble

      Jan 1992 - Aug 1997
      Systems Analyst

      Supported logistics and ERP systems: material planning, production planning

    • SysLogic, Inc.

      Mar 1999 - Jun 2002
      Senior Consultant

    • Johnson Controls

      Jun 2002 - Oct 2015

      I manage a team of 10 people consisting of business analysts, testers, and software developers working on a best-in-class user interface for Johnson Controls building access control system.Prior to my promotion to manager, I was the technical lead for this team for 1 year. During that year, in addition to my technical lead role, I was tasked with recruiting the team, hiring, choosing development process (agile), determining make-up of the team (devs, testers, analysts, etc.), choosing tool-chain (Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, git, Jira), choosing the architecture (ASP.Net MVC, target modern browsers), select build process/engine (Team City). As a result of my leadership of the team, I was promoted to manager. Show less

      • Lead Staff (Software) Engineer

        May 2015 - Oct 2015

      • Engineering Manager

        Oct 2012 - May 2015

      • Senior Staff (Software) Engineer

        Jun 2002 - Sept 2012

    • Milwaukee School of Engineering

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2009
      Adjunct Assistant Professor

      Part time faculty. I taught Software Development I and Data Structures.

    • Direct Supply

      Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
      Senior Development Lead

    • Johnson Controls

      Mar 2017 - now
      Lead Staff Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SAFe Agilist

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Jul 2014