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Mike Ihbe

Computer Science graduate from University of Michigan. Software engineering experience at Amazon.com, Apple inc, YouNoodle.com.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Industries: Computing, Food and Drink, Internet
Skills: AJAX, C/C++, Databases, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, Rails, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Location: San Francisco, CA
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company
Schools: University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Amazon.com
Position: Software Development Engineer
Time period: June 2007 - August 2007
Description: • Designing and implementing an internal test utility that validates a service release
by comparing service call responses to logged data or a live service instance
• Leading design discussions producing a powerful, generic, and highly extendable
database schema for my test utility
• Gaining experience in a highly distributed environment solving massive scalability
problems
• Proposing and selling my product to internal customers via meetings and presentations

Employer: HighJump Software
Position: Product Development Intern
Time period: June 2006 - August 2006
Description: • Designing and implementing configurable commercial database application
installation tools for variable customer environments
• Conducting unit tests and quality assurance of large scale supply chain
applications in a test-driven development environment utilizing NUnit
• Coordinating development with on and off-shore development teams using
Agile Scrum methodologies, VersionOne and regular teleconferencing

Employer: Triangle Fraternity
Position: President, Vice President, Webmaster
Time period: March 2006 - November 2006
Description: • Developing/executing a plan leading to the reinstallation of the fraternity charter
• Managing 21 positions in a house of 32 men with a goal-oriented methodology
• Mediating conflicts between members
• Designing and maintaining website, now under construction
at www.umtriangle.com

Employer: University of Michigan – Housing IT Office
Position: Residential Computer Systems Consultant
Time period: March 2006 - November 2006
Description: • Providing technical support and coordinating computer use compliance to over
1,000 residents
• Communicating closely with residents as a member of housing leadership staff
• Managing residential computer laboratory with over 50 networked workstations
(PCs/Macs) and high capacity printers
• Developing and presenting educational programs to residents in an effort to
maintain a secure computing environment
• Resolving residential computing issues including malware removal, network
connectivity issues, and computer recovery

EDUCATION

University: University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor
Degree: Computer Science, BEng

Mike's Startups (1)

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  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

Mike is Following (13)

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  • Ubuntu

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  • LinkedIn

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Mike's Contacts (14)

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  • Rebeca Hwang

    Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.

  • Joachim Krebs

    Definitely a case of work hard, play hard.

  • Krystel Ariel

    American, 23, masters degree from Stanford, six years of marketing/sales experience, really interested in tech.

  • Sean Gourley

    New Zealander, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, PhD in Physics specializing in 'networks and complexity', just finished a research fellowship at Oxford in the quantitative analysis of war and terrorism.