- Product Management and development of SaaS apps such as https://gethelium.com and others. Helium is a SaaS shopping cart service enabling you to add a Stripe-based web store to your site with one line of code. Product stack includes - Linux, Python, Django, Javascript, React, Node, AWS Also providing Fortune 500 Technology consulting in Cloud Computing, DevOps, AWS, Email, Service Provider Infrastructure and Identity Management. I'm currently keeping some of my schedule open to freelance contracts.

Founder and Principal

Pianist and composer with credits on Discovery Channel, TLC, HBO, National Geographic, History Television, Oprah, and more. I've been on the grammy ballot, have had 5 of my albums nominated for Whisperings Solo Piano Radio Album of the year, and have had millions of spins on conventional, satellite, and internet radio broadcasts. Find me on Pandora, Spotify, iTunes or wherever you listen to music.

Composer and Pianist

- Lead a technical team of architects and consultants for the global professional services organization in Zimbra (acquired by Synacor Sept 2015). Technology stack is Linux and Open Source based and used for over 500 million mailboxes around the world. - Hands on technical consulting and architecture support for key accounts. Zimbra powers collaboration and communication for the way you work. Zimbra connects people and information with an integrated collaboration suite that includes email, calendaring, file sharing, activity streams, social communities and more. With technology designed for social, mobile and the cloud, Zimbra gives individuals the flexibility to work from virtually anywhere, through nearly every computer, tablet and mobile device. For more information about Zimbra, visit us at http://www.zimbra.com/.

Consulting Architect Manager - Zimbra Professional Services

I led the Comms (email/calendar/directory) consulting practice at ICSynergy International, LP. This consultancy focused on delivering messaging, calendaring and directory solutions to reputable service providers, enterprises, and educational institutions in the US, Canada, and abroad. I am passionate about empowering IT Automation in across the enterprise. Highlights include several multi-million user datacenter upgrades and migrations for North American ISP's.

Practice Leader

Independent professional representing Sun Professional Services to their customers in Canada and the US for directory, messaging, and calendar deployments for large scale Internet Service Providers, Oil & Gas industries, educational institutions and enterprises. Highlights include being the Messaging and Directory SME for migration of over a million mailboxes from @Home for Shaw Cable.

Professional Services Delivery Partner

Technology Consultant

Shared Technical and Business roles for this hosting provider startup. Roles included pre-sales activities, being a technical consultant to venture capital teams to evaluate business opportunities for technical viability, and also technical hands-on work with systems administration.

Business and Technical Analyst

Consultant for various projects requiring Unix or Messaging/Email/Directory expertise. Highlights include consolidating the Calgary Health Regions Email systems from 13 legacy email systems into an architecture based on the Netscape Suitespot stack of applications.

Unix Consultant

Responsible for the technical design and operations of Unix systems supporting customer-facing services (directory, mail, calendar, video streaming, audio streaming, nntp news, DNS) for Shaw's first broadband internet service.

Unix Systems Administrator

Unix and Windows Systems Administrator at the University of Calgary.

Personal details

Michael L.

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