Michael Gregorowicz

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Lead Applications Technical Analyst

• Created an innovative application system overlay that leverages jQuery and AJAX to greatly enhance vendor supplied applications without violating support agreements.
• Implemented a version control system with LDAP based access control, wiki, issue tracking, and lightweight project management capabilities. Oversaw its adoption and growth to almost 100 university projects.
• Created custom addons for the Blackboard Learning System using their Java APIs.
• Acted as a consultant, contributing developer, and organizer on the Wayne State broadcast messaging team.
• Created tools and web services that enhance the strength of passwords in various systems around campus.
• Acted as the sole maintainer and architect behind Wayne State University's LDAP implementation and identity management solutions.
• Designed and authored LDIP the LDIF Data Integration Pipeline system, which leverages LDIF to create event pipelines for data processing. The platform allows for maximum flexibility in dealing with tricky data from multiple sources, exceptions, and special cases.
• Proposed a world class hardware environment for hosting Blackboard using AMD Opteron processors on 64-bit Red Hat Linux, cluster-aware file systems and Oracle RAC; providing a high availability environment while realizing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost savings over SPARC based Sun equipment.
• Crafted fair benchmarks based on Java XML parsers to test multiple hardware platforms. Using data gathered from these tests, we were able to clearly identify hardware platforms which could alleviate existing application bottlenecks.
• Supported and maintained the Blackboard Inc's E-Learning system at Wayne State. Blackboard, under my supervision, achieved record availability.
• Streamlined Blackboard's data integration with our administrative system(s) (Banner) by writing an advanced set of data processing programs and utilities. The programs automated a very complicated procedure which was taking employees hours per day to perform manually.
• Submitted and had accepted patches to Blackboard Inc's E-Learning system that repaired bugs that had been present in their system for months.
• Migrated enterprise directory from Messaging Direct platform to the iPlanet / SunOne Directory server.
• Acted as a key planner and technical resource in the launch of the University's main web page www.wayne.edu.
• Developed solutions to bridge the gap between our Enterprise Directory and SCT's Banner suite of administration software.
• Centralized administration of user accounts and e-mail systems by creating sandalone internet services. These services interconnect systems that otherwise would not interface with one another.
• Architected and authored an innovative and intuitive suite of web-based administration tools which enable the help desks throughout the campus to effectively manage users, groups, e-mail settings, and passwords. This feature rich suite of tools was celebrated for its intuition and simplicity, and was effective in reducing the call time required to assist students and faculty by over 7 minutes per call.
• Designed a centralized statistics database for arbitrary log data. The system allows for reading live data from files, sockets, or commands. The data is then transformed by a data source driver into a uniform MySQL database table for statistical analysis.
• Designed and implemented the University's official single sign on framework: wayneAuth.
• Assisted other universities in their implementations of single sign on, and E-Mail systems.
• Helped administer and secure NT and UNIX based web servers running IIS and Apache.

Commerce One

Dearborn, MI

Technical Consultant

• Solely responsible for maintaining Ford of Europe's internal web center providing 24/7 support to a worldwide user base. Supervised seamless transition to EMC disk arrays to provide increased storage capacity.
• Supported user base of over 7000 developers and over 80 web servers running Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/8, and Netscape Enterprise Server/iPlanet.
• Supported operating environment by writing and debugging multiple programs to maintain file, user, and system security and uptime.
• Responsible for installing all third-party support software and maintaining documentation.

National Tech Team

Dearborn, MI

UNIX / PC Technical Specialist

• Team's key technical contact for all technical support issues
• Provided hardware and software support for Sun, SGI, and HPUX workstations.
• Promoted repeatedly for excellence.

Dadmin ][

 

Wayne State University - Sole Author and Maintainer

• Dadmin is the Wayne State University C&IT Help Desk's directory administration utility. The toolset includes tools for creating and removing accounts from our directory, as well as configuring access to E-Mail, Administrative Systems, and UNIX machines. Tools also include quota management, temporary password swaps, and group account creation. Through intuitive interface design Dadmin ][ has reduced time to resolution from an average of 10 minutes per call to less than 3 minutes per call. Dadmin ][ is currently a proprietary application in production at Wayne State University.

wayneAuth

 

Wayne State University - Sole Author and Maintainer

• wayneAuth is an implementation of web single sign on at Wayne State University. It currently allows authentication at one point (Our Implementation of Campus Pipeline), and seamless pass through to Mirapoint WebMail, Blackboard E-Learning System, our Remedy-based ticket management software CallTracker, and other custom applications campus wide. wayneAuth is currently a proprietary framework in production at Wayne State University.

BadNews

 

the mg2 organization - Sole Author and Maintainer

• BadNews is a content management system back end that allows for file uploading, article creation and publication, event creation and display, as well as link organization and editable static pages. BadNews is currently a proprietary application available for purchase.

Crossroads of Michigan

Detroit, MI

Volunteer

• Contribute system and network maintenance skills as often as needed. Currently managing all of the organization's public internet and e-mail needs. Assisted in the creation of their web presence, and am fully responsible for their web hosting.
• Cabled the Crossroads East office with CAT-5e and configured a switch as well as a shared internet connection. Working to bring broadband to the neglected urban area that Crossroads East is located in.
• Recently donated equipment and time for an upgrade of the Crossroads Main Offices Internet gateway. File serving was shifted from a Win32 based solution to a more reliable Linux/Samba solution. Crossroads is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting the needy in Detroit proper.

the mg2 organization

Dearborn, MI

Owner and Founder

• Founded, develop, own, and maintain mg2.org, an internet community which harbors and promotes the many forms of internet talent. All equipment and time is donated, and many users have come up with some great content and applications. With plans to offer new free services to Internet talent, mg2 is positioned to grow as an Internet community.
• Created and implemented a custom built installation of Apache that allows for site owners to configure their own web servers, as well as administer their own files.
• Designed and implemented a revolutionary, Internet community architecture using political and social structure as the basis for system administration and user screening. Created a suite of tools, which limit user privileges based on their position in the system's main tree hierarchy.

Apache Hands-On Training

Washington, DC

Learning Tree Intl

• Outlined the basic installation and compilation of the Apache Web server, and all of the core Apache modules. Was also taught how to configure popular third party modules like mod_php, and how to configure popular third party companion applications like Jakarta Tomcat.

Mirapoint Certified Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

Mirapoint Inc.

• Provided an advanced understanding of the various Mirapoint administration and programming interfaces. Outlined troubleshooting procedures and diagnostics techniques.