Using Ruby on Rails and mainly Mongoid, Michael has been building a programmers' cooperative with his fellow programmers from around the US; working with cutting edge tech like Rails 3.1 and MongoDB.

Using mainly Ruby on Rails, Michael has worked on many projects for Integrum. Some of the projects he has worked on include a site to bid on foreclosures, an extensible CMS, idea bidding, and metro routing.

Using Ruby on Rails, Michael helped Wexford Jewelers redefine itself quite literally.

Gone are the days of paper transactions, guessing the taxable amount of your inventory by guessing the weight, and not having any web presence at all.

Now Wexford Jewelers is considered one of the better jewelry stores in Northern Michigan and is on its way to recognition globally. With sales online to as far away as Australia, and in to the fashion district of Paris, it won't be long.

Michael was invited to work on TWB as a transition consultant. His task was to help migrate the current code from their previous hosting environment to a new one, to help debug some of the issues they had with the code, to help train a team of Java developers in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and to make sure that the team could take over the project once the transition was done.

Michael ended up spending a little over a month in training, setting up EC2 instances, and helping port certain parts of the code base over to newer technologies. The code base started as a LuvdByLess and educommons fork. Almost every portion of the LuvdByLess side has been replaced with new code and moved in to a project called luvfoo. That project is now opensourced and he still contributes code to it.

Michael really liked the open source nature of this project. He was able to release the EC2 images as Public images in Amazon, he was able to fork and move the project from using attach_fu/file_column to paperclip, and he was able to be paid to support this project. It's every geeks dream to be paid to work on Open Source projects, and it's always one that he'd pursue as often as possible.

Truelobby was created as the new way to communicate with your state and federal representatives. It brings modern communication to congressional houses, and allow a very personal touch to things that effect our lives daily.

Michael was brought in to this project after most of the design for the site was done. The site is being tested in the State of Washington and had a hard deadline in mid January; to be built, tested, run through a beta, and launched into production. Michael was brought on mid December and recommended a crew of four individuals, including himself, two of which he hand picked, and the other who had applied for the position he had at the same time (he was made the secondary Lead Developer as a time zone overlap).

Michael's job was to take over from an initial bort setup, build a team, set project requirements, guide the team, and code himself. The crew used several plugins and he ended up committing changes to those repositories to fix issues that they ran in to as they were going along.

They had a near flawless launch with only two minor Internet Explorer ajax bugs (which got fixed very shortly after). They had over a thousand customers sign up on day one as well as the full support of the Legislators from the State of Washington. It was an exhilarating experience.

Michael's position was that of the Senior Lead Programmer. As the Senior Lead Programmer it was his job to build a team under me, decide on code structure, set up servers, repositories, etc., manage business relationships, and code. He often coordinated with the CEO and the founders to help make decisions effecting their business model and the longevity and welfare of the network.

Michael's main task with Less Everything was to build a java client to help customers of a photo site they were building upload images, tag them, and manage licenses for them. He used jRuby and Swing to accomplish the majority of the work. He used Merb for the back end and he created an Air front end for the client as well.

Michael's tasks included building the various Project Management paper shufflings such as Functional Requirements, the Business Requirements, and the Wireframes; Provide a program flowchart based on that knowledge; Provide Milestones and a general Timeline for the project; Provide technical support and guidance in regards to the technology used, code standards, and hourly quotes per ticket.

He also got to do a lot of heavy coding on the interface side of flash. Endemol was a main client of Futurecorp's.

One of his favorite projects was building the attwilliams site. There were a lot of physics and other dynamic interactions happening on the front, with the data being fed through a custom made class that read the rss feed from other parts of the non-public facing site.

Michael lead three crews across five time zones for this project; coding Ruby on Rails with the backend coders, flash with the interface coders, and html/css/javascript with the client coders.

He also worked with the client on getting the staging servers up and helping launch the data through development, test, staging, and finally the production server.

Michael's role, as a Web Application Developer, was to have worked on 2co's shopping cart interface and architecture. The overarching goal was to kill their old shopping cart service solution, and create a new shopping cart solution as a service to their clients.

They experimented using Ruby on Rails but there were too many knowledgeable Perl developers not willing to make the switch. In the end Michael's team went with an MVC framework that was close to Ruby on Rails but written in Perl.

Resource Interactive is an incredibly innovative company. Everyday was challenging.