Credentials

Michael Krotscheck

Michael Krotscheck

Platform Architect

Location
Mercer Island, Washington (Greater Seattle Area)
Industry
Internet

Summary

I design, build, and analyze technology platforms on which education can be democratized and community driven. It's not just about the technology, the client applications, or the services implementation - those are all just pieces that fit into a much larger vision: Education needs to be accessible to anyone, everyone, for free, and needs to be as effective as possible.

To accomplish this, I mix a variety of disciplines: The design rigor that only comes from being a seasoned software engineer, the business analytics experience from my management background, my strong ethical code from OSS and an academic family, and the creative background from my BArch that allows me to not only design an integrated system, but imagine how it can grow.


Experience

Developer IV

Rosetta Stone

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RST; Computer Software industry

April 2013Present (3 months) Seattle, WA

I'm platform lead on the Livemocha Community Learning project.

Senior Technical Lead

Livemocha

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

November 2010March 2013 (2 years 5 months) Greater Seattle Area

I designed and built the cloud educational platform that brought Livemocha to a successful exit.

Development Team Lead, Camps

The Active Network

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry

November 2009November 2010 (1 year 1 month)

I lead a multinational team of chinese and american software engineers in building an administration portal for summer camps.

User Group Manager

Adobe Systems

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry

January 2008November 2009 (1 year 11 months)

Relaunched and managed Columbus Digital, a local community professionals network which focused on improving skills in various Adobe application. Taught classes, gave talks, herded speakers, and hosted one-too-many happy hours.

Senior Flex Developer

Resource Interactive

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

July 2007November 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Software engineer on the Flex 3/Flex 4.5 platform, building software applications for clients such as WalMart, HP, Limited Brands, and Home Depot.

New Media Developer

Elliance

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

August 2005April 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Full spectrum website development, mostly via PHP, Flash, and Javascript.

Consultant

Abreon

Public Company; 201-500 employees; MALL; Information Technology and Services industry

May 2005August 2005 (4 months)

I built several healthcare e-learning courses which interface with a SCORM-compliant backend.

Sr. E-Learning Developer

NDCHealth

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NDC; Information Technology and Services industry

April 2001May 2005 (4 years 2 months)

Lead developer of SCORM-compliant e-learning for a pharmacy automation system.


Skills & Expertise

  1. PHP
  2. JavaScript
  3. ActionScript
  4. Front-end
  5. Architecture
  6. JSON
  7. CSS
  8. HTML
  9. Web Development
  10. MySQL
  11. jQuery
  12. XML
  13. Java
  14. SQL
  15. Information Architecture