Michael Brother
Math and Computer Science Teacher at Attleboro High School- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Exploratory Data Analysis
Coursera Course CertificatesAug, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
Getting and Cleaning Data
Coursera Course CertificatesJul, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
R Programming
Coursera Course CertificatesMay, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
Coursera Course CertificatesApr, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
MA Professional Educator License, Mathematics (8-12)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Experience
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Attleboro High School
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United States
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Movies and Sound Recording
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1 - 100 Employee
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Math and Computer Science Teacher
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Oct 2003 - Jun 2016
I became a high school teacher because I thought I could help students see their own potential, learn to work hard, and improve their attitudes towards math. I seriously underestimated how hard that can be. I did expose hundreds of students to computer programming with Visual Basic and Java. Some of them found programming was a new passion and went on to major in Computer Science in college. Many of my math students found they really could do math if they tried. Some enjoyed being challenged and learning a wrong answer is just a step towards the right answer. The relentless pressure to improve test scores and energy needed to change the minds of students who did not want to try eventually wore me down. Rather than lower my expectations, I retired. Opening doors for students and helping them see they can create their own opportunities, no matter what their background, is something I will always miss. In addition to the joy of helping students succeed, I learned how to prioritize and manage a challenging workload better than I thought possible. I got better at keeping my cool under pressure and finding effective solutions to classroom issues quickly. I also learned that I missed working with a team sharing the same goals and vision.
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Voxware
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Quality
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2000 - 2002
Voxware provides voice-based technology that enables warehouse workers to achieve higher levels of productivity and accuracy while reducing operational costs. Responsibilities included: > Develop manual and automated test strategies to provide efficient, effective validation of customized product implementations. > Establish overall corporate quality systems. > Evaluate and certify vendor and contract manufacturing quality systems. > Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective action for escalated hardware and software related issues. Results: > Improved product release process to reduce deployment time by 50% > Implemented cross functional requirements review process that virtually eliminated customer change requests during product deployment. > Facilitated root cause analysis and vendor corrective action program to eliminate customer issues with battery life and headphone failures
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Quality Measurement Systems Manager
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1998 - 2000
IDX was a healthcare software company producing scheduling, billing, and collections applications for large hospitals to small provider groups and digital imaging management software. IDX became part of GE Healthcare in 2006. Responsibilities: > Key member of Organizational Development team to implement Systems Thinking and Manage by Data capabilities across all business units. > Create software quality dashboards, regular reports, and data visualizations to provide clear, compelling data for project managers to senior managers. > Mentor data analysts within the business units. > Develop problem solving techniques in work groups through training and facilitating. > Coordinate integrated testing of across product development teams within the largest business unit. Results: > Instilled a manage by data culture into the company by working with stakeholders at all levels to develop custom and standard reports that provided the information they needed to effectively manage their business. > Developed MS Excel based automated software quality reporting system that queried Vantive CRM system, processed reports, and published reports to internal website. Applications written with Excel Macros and JavaScript. > Co-wrote and delivered measurement training to executives and business unit managers that directly lead to one business unit changing their bonus system to correct unintended consequences. > Simplified standard reports with data visualizations that allowed managers to quickly focus on critical areas.
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Software Quality Assurance Engineer
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1983 - 1998
> Created software data systems for tactical and strategic goals and reporting status to senior management. including corporate reports and local dashboards. > Monitored software test and release process for multiple concurrent projects > Implemented and trained software engineers and managers on software process improvement based on SEI CMM. > Managed configuration management system and software release process for 100+ engineer project > Created software data systems for tactical and strategic goals and reporting status to senior management. including corporate reports and local dashboards. > Monitored software test and release process for multiple concurrent projects > Implemented and trained software engineers and managers on software process improvement based on SEI CMM. > Managed configuration management system and software release process for 100+ engineer project
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Education
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Clarkson University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Western Governors University
Master's Degree, Teaching Mathematics
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