Michael Berg, Developer in Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Michael Berg

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Software Developer

Location
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Toptal Member Since
September 18, 2014

Michael is an architect, entrepreneur, developer, and designer with a broad skill set who focuses on mission-critical private and public industry web applications and sites. He has a lot of experience in private SEO-based content business where good design and SEO-friendly interfaces are critical.

Portfolio

Artermobilized
Less, Knockout (Knockout.js), CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap
SportingCharts.Com
F#, MySQL, Node.js, CruiseControl, Windows PowerShell, C#, Bootstrap...
Fujistu Canada
Entity Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, TeamCity, Windows PowerShell, C#...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

.NET, Visual Studio, Windows

The most amazing...

...startup company I've co-founded (www.sportingcharts.com) has grown to nearly half a million users per month.

Work Experience

Senior Front-end Developer

2014 - PRESENT
Artermobilized
  • Created a rich, responsive client-side web application complete with CSS3 animations.
  • Integrated the front-end Knockout with existing back-end services.
  • Worked with a custom front-end mapping solution.
Technologies: Less, Knockout (Knockout.js), CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap

CTO/Lead Developer

2011 - PRESENT
SportingCharts.Com
  • Created a site that is currently at 1M+ page views per month and growing.
  • Hired external contracted developers, managed task breakdown and assignments.
  • Created design mockups for all pages on the site.
  • Set up and customized the Umbraco .Net CMS to run at scale.
  • Architected and set up an Amazon Web Services server solution.
  • Architected a server-side data framework and custom ORM.
Technologies: F#, MySQL, Node.js, CruiseControl, Windows PowerShell, C#, Bootstrap, Knockout (Knockout.js), jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Umbraco, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library

Senior web Developer

2013 - 2014
Fujistu Canada
  • Created design mockups for client design sessions.
  • Created a test plan and executed a number of full testing cycles against applications.
  • Created rich client-side UIs for a large-scale web application.
  • Set up the deployment and build servers with MSBuild and TeamCity.
  • Created a mission-critical web application in C#, MVC 3.5, using Entity Framework 6.0.
Technologies: Entity Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, TeamCity, Windows PowerShell, C#, Knockout (Knockout.js), jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, AgilePoint

Senior .NET Web Application Developer

2011 - 2012
Alberta Department of Education
  • Maintained existing JavaScript front-end components.
  • Created new JavaScript components for existing web applications.
  • Developed a Silverlight web application.
  • Create rich front-end web applications.
  • Troubleshot production server performance issues.
Technologies: SQL Server 2008 R2, Entity Framework, ADO.NET, MS Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, HTML, jQuery

.NET Web Developer

2010 - 2011
Saputo
  • Created a custom build and deployment strategy.
  • Took responsibility for site visual design and user experience.
  • Profiled and optimized existing web applications.
  • Created a number of small internal web applications written in ASP MVC 3.5.
Technologies: ASP.NET MVC, MySQL, .NET

Lead Developer

2009 - 2010
Accenture
  • Led a team of three other developers on a .NET migration project.
  • Created web services to expose legacy COM+ objects in .NET.
  • Created application components in an IBM Websphere.
  • Gathered technical specifications from clients and managed client relations.
Technologies: COM+, Python, COBOL, IBM WebSphere, Java 7, IBM Db2, .NET

Senior IT Consultant/Web Developer

2007 - 2009
Fujitsu Consulting
  • Managed client relations with the Alberta Department of Municipal Affairs (government client).
  • Gathered technical specifications.
  • Developed and maintained web applications in ColdFusion, Python 2.3, VBA (Microsoft Access), and Oracle 10g.
Technologies: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), PL/SQL, Adobe ColdFusion, Python

Web Developer

2004 - 2005
Investopedia
  • Developed a large-scale stock simulation web application in .NET with a user base of 2M+ per month.
  • Created Facebook versions of existing web applications in .NET.
  • Developed build and deployment strategies for existing and new web applications.
Technologies: MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, C#, VB.NET

Sportingcharts.com Pickem Game

A NFL "pickem" style game designed and coded by me.

SportingCharts Rivalry Pages

Design and developed on my own. These pages compare statistics of MLB teams (NFL, NBA, NHL versions are also available).

FuturesKnowledge

Site created by me with the primary focus revolving around futures trading.

Alberta Home Warranty Protection System

http://homewarranty.alberta.ca/
The back-end system for this site was developed by me and two other developers.

Learn Alberta

http://www.learnalberta.ca/
I worked on getting the design of this site created.

NHL Ice Tracker

Create a application to analyze NHL play-by-play data and visualize where players are taking shots on net.

Alberta Major Projects

http://majorprojects.alberta.ca/
Web Application displaying all major projects in Alberta

Alberta Regional Dashboard

https://regionaldashboard.alberta.ca/#/
Built using AngularJS.

Languages

C#, JavaScript, Python, Java, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), XSLT, VB.NET, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Less, Java 7, COBOL, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), C++, Lua, F#

Frameworks

ASP.NET MVC, Knockout (Knockout.js), Bootstrap, .NET, ADO.NET, Windows PowerShell, Twisted, JavaServer Faces, Django, AngularJS

Libraries/APIs

Underscore.js, jQuery, Node.js, Mustache, Entity Framework, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library, MooTools, Sammy.js, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)

Tools

Visual Studio .NET, Adobe Photoshop, MS Silverlight, TeamCity, Visual Studio, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe ColdFusion

Paradigms

Functional Programming, Agile Software Development, Reactive Programming, Waterfall Development, Unit Testing, COM+

Platforms

Windows, Oracle, IBM WebSphere, Umbraco, Linux

Storage

MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2008 R2, IBM Db2

Other

CruiseControl, AgilePoint, Domain-driven Design (DDD)

2002 - 2008

Bachelor of Computer Science Degree in Computer Science

University Of Alberta - Edmonton Alberta

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