Michael Hess (mlhess)
Senior Technologist and Adjunct Lecturer at University of Michigan
On Drupal.org for 16 years 4 months
Over 100 edits to documentation
Bio:
Michael Hess works with the University of Michigan School of Information and the U-M Medical Center, teaching three courses on content management platforms and overseeing the functionality of hundreds of campus websites. He serves in a consulting and development role for many other university departments. He also consults with BlueCross on large scale medical research projects. Hess is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Information, with a master's degree in information.
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- Security team procedures - Security Team message templates
- Drupal Security Team - Security team procedures
- Administering a Drupal site - Security in Drupal
- Drupal 7 - Security in Drupal 7
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Build and lead high-performance teams to rapidly develop and implement innovative technologies. Known for collaborating with higher-education, healthcare, government, and corporate leaders to provide secure infrastructures and user-friendly solutions that address mission critical issues. Leverage effective communication skills to simplify complex problems for stakeholders. Effectively teach graduate level IT courses.
Leadership and solution delivery for mission critical issues on behalf of the University of Michigan and the State of Michigan
Led technical teams in building massive platform to track state of Michigan’s COVID-19 vaccination data, enabling fast and efficient vaccine delivery.
Orchestrated rapid roll out of Zoom service for the 90,000 members of the campus community in 3 weeks (March 2020).
Designed data system focused on improving quality of care at all hospitals throughout Michigan
Support University in its academic and research mission.
Recruit, train and develop high-performance teams.
Build and maintain secure hosting for ~700 University websites. Platform automates security updates and built-in support for many U-M functions such as domain registration and access control.
Serve as escalation point for technical issues relating to the central web platform for both Michigan Medicine and the School of Information supporting the research and educational goals as well as the primary patient acquisition portal.
Direct complex projects improving quality and user experience throughout the University and Medical School.
Honored with the University wide Research Technical Staff Recognition Award.
Develop and teach graduate courses covering:
Machine Learning Pipeline
Agile Project Management
Content Management Systems
Social Computing systems
Database and SQL
Servers shell and git
Cloud computing for Machine learning
Introduction to data science
