Michael Cummings

About Michael Cummings

Michael is an experienced technical lead with strengths in systems architecture, software development, infrastructure design & deployment, and business process as it relates to technology. He holds multiple certifications from Microsoft and other certifying organizations, including MCP, MCT, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA.Michael has been a hobby graphics programmer since the days of the TI99-4/A. Most of the day he\'s busy developing business applications, but that doesn\'t stop him from working on games and graphics engines. He started the Boston XNA Developers Group ( ), and has spoken at several user groups and other events on the topic of XNA and games and software development in general.He has contributed to many open source projects, including AXIOM ( http://axiom3d.net ), a.Net/Mono 3D rendering engine, and Planeshift ( ), a 3D MMORPG. His blog can be found at Microsoft.Net Framework, Microsoft XNA Framework, SDLC, C#, XNA, C++/ DirectX

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Jul 2019 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US

   Delivering the next generation of mobile development tooling to advance the state of the art of C# development on Windows/Mac for iOS and Android devices.

Education

• SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  BS, Computer Science

  1991 — 1993

• Jefferson County Community College

  AS, Computer Science

  1989 — 1991

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Vb.net
• Wpf
• Ssis
• Database Design
• Windows Azure
• Silverlight
• Iis
• Winforms
• Architecture
• Ssrs
• Xna
• C++
• Visual Studio
• Wcf
• Sharepoint
• Web Services
• Sdlc
• T-Sql
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Linq
• Tfs
• Asp.net Mvc
• C#
• .net
• Asp.net
• Software Development