Michael A. Cannon
28 Hidden Valley Road
Blythe, CA 92225-9540
+1 702-274-6989
Skills:
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Business and Systems Analysis. Solid
understanding of finance and accounting principles. While managing a computer
timeshare bureau, I analyzed, specified, and implemented systems for a wide
variety of businesses.
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Problem solving. An extensive
background in hardware, software, business, and biology gives a unique
perspective, resulting in innovative solutions to problems.
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Able to quickly absorb and integrate
new technologies.
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Management of personnel for large
projects. Experienced with Agile-style development.
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Good with presentations. Able to
integrate technical and business concepts and present them in layman’s terms
without losing an audience.
Technical
Competence:
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HARDWARE DESIGN: ASIC, Gate Arrays,
DSP, Micro-controllers, PCB
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SOFTWARE DESIGN: Firmware, Real-time,
Operating Systems, Networks, Applications, Client/Server, Database
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OPERATING SYSTEMS: UNIX, LINUX, Windows
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LANGUAGES: C, PERL, JAVA, BASIC, SQL,
various Assembly languages
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INTERNET: IOT, HTML, CSS, XML, PHP,
ASP, JAVASCRIPT, VBSCRIPT
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NETWORKS: TCP/IP, Ethernet, Wireless,
Cellular
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DATABASES: MySQL, MsSQL, NoSQL,
MsAccess
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BIOINFORMATICS: Molecular Biology,
Proteomics, Genetics, Cellular Systems
References:
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Nick Sena: Managing Director of URA Group, New York,
NY +1 212 278-8697
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Robb Harvey: VP Sales and Marketing USA
of Entando, San Diego, CA +1 619
977-1746
Personal:
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Experienced instrument rated airplane
and helicopter pilot.
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Actor
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Musician
Special
Accomplishments:
Invented
and developed the electronic system used internationally for telecommunications
by the deaf and hearing-impaired (TDD) and organized its International and
Domestic governmental acceptance. The Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare conferred special recognition at a ceremony in
Projects
1985
– Present (as a self-employed independent contractor):
2002-Present:
Designed and implemented automated systems to gather and bill metered utility
information from commercial and residential building complexes in parts of New
York and New Jersey for URA Group.
The system creates data that is web-accessible to clients and the public. The
system has processed over five billion dollars of utilities with no data loss-
ever!
2021-Present:
Designed and implemented Fly-by-wire technology for the Samson Aircraft company. The Switchblade aircraft is a flying car design
that will be released soon.
2012-2015:
Designed and implemented Shopflo Monitor, a reporting system for the service
area in automotive dealerships. This is a “cloud” based system that displays a
real-time graphic view of all the work in progress in a dealership. It greatly
improves efficiency and customer satisfaction. The system uses a unique
multi-server/client architecture for high concurrency and is comprised of
specially configured hardware and software.
2001:
Created a forum/blog web-app with database driven dynamic content. The system
includes web-based administration programs for editing content submissions and managing
the content, log, and membership database tables.
1999-2000:
Performed initial research to identify a human gene mutation responsible for
early onset of age-related hearing loss. A phenotype was characterized, a
pedigree was produced, and linkage analysis was performed. The gene exists on
the X-chromosome.
1999-2000: CTO for Quail Creek Group,
Inc. Designed a B2B (Business to Business), ASP Internet Website that connected
and automated many diverse systems in the construction industry.
1996-2000:
Developed a subscription website, The American Business Register. It had a large database containing information
on all U.S. businesses. It received thousands of hits daily.
1992-2000: System Administrator and
Development Project Leader for the STAR division of American Title Company, a
division of Fidelity Title Corporation. Managed a WAN of UNIX computers that
performed automated production and accounting of thousands of Title reports
daily. Specified and developed new
programming as required.
1989-1996:
Developed the Frontal Lobe music computer. Wrote a custom disk operating system
with a bootable operating system and disk overlays. The OS was designed to perform special tasks
frequently required by professional musicians.
It incorporated all of the music sequencer features that could
previously be performed only on a PC. Thousands of units were sold.
1985-1993:
Organized and operated a computer timeshare bureau. Programmed a generic set of applications for
general business use, including Order Entry and Invoicing, Inventory and
Manufacturing Control, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Journals, General
Ledger, and Spreadsheet. These programs are still in use today. Analyzed,
specified, and implemented scores of custom systems for a variety of business
types. Rewrote a multitasking operating system to significantly increase
throughput and number of terminals
1985-1992: Developed the Energyline
control computer, originally designed for environmental control of smart
buildings and complexes, and now used for power system control and monitoring.
Wrote the operating system for the Energyline controller, incorporating the
latest operating system technologies such as distributed intelligence,
multilevel communications networking, concurrent multitasking, virtual memory,
real-time data acquisition, etc. APIs were incorporated into the OS so control
programs could be written in a subset of the C programming language, instead of
“ladder logic”. Miniaturized much of the design, including a complete
microprocessor, so it could be implemented on a custom Integrated Circuit.
Thousands of units were sold to major corporations worldwide.