Michael Ward
605.220.1153
mward@smartsoftwareinc.com

Work Experience

1999-2003 — PrairieWave Comm. Inc. — Viborg, SD
Part-Time Employee

Built equipment database.
Assisted in all departments.
Helped prepare for billing system conversion.

2003-2007 — The University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Techfellow

Maintain Solaris & Linux servers
Assist Computer Science Department faculty with technology
Maintain Computer Science Department website

2005-2007 — The University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Lab Manager

Maintain Computer Science computer labs
Maintain Computer Science JSP website for CSc105

2006-present — Smart Software Solutions, Inc. — Pierre, SD
Lead Software Engineer

System's Analysis
Project Management
Advanced Software Engineering

Experience

ACM Vice President (2006-2007)
ACM Secretary (2005-2006)
TechFellow at University of South Dakota in Computer Science Department
Experience with Oracle Database, MySQL, Netbeans IDE, Oracle Jdev IDE, Oracle Application Server 10g, Glassfish 2/3, Tomcat, Java, C#, PHP, Perl, ERWIN, Astah, IBM System V

Education

2003-2007 — The University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD

Program: Computer Science Major, Business Administration Minor, Honors
Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Courses in Java, Perl, and basic software design