Mike Chale

I'm Mike Chale, Salesforce and Software Developer for Hilton Grand Vacations.

Mike Chale's goal is to create solutions that add value. He works well with clients and technical folk, likes designing a system's architecture and seeing it built, wants to get his hands dirty, write code and help others improve their programming skills. He is a programming polyglot and always willing to learn a new language. He led design and implementation of the Salesforce org for his previous employer, Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. Currently he is leading efforts to automate many integrations at Hilton Grand Vacations. Mike Chale is also an active member of the community on the salesforce.stackexchange.com web site. Experience: I have expert experience with .Net and C#, developing with Web Forms, MVC, WinForms, and a bit with WPF. I have excellent working knowledge of SQL and SQL Server and intermediate level management of IIS 6 & 7.5. I have working knowledge of Linux and UNIX systems; I know my way around the CLI, can perform basic Apache configuration and troubleshooting and work with MySQL.

CRM Developer Specialist at Hilton Grand Vacations, LLC

August 2013 - Present | Orlando, FL

I am responsible for automating multiple weekly and monthly jobs and customizing our Salesforce orgs to better support our inbound and outbound call centers. Projects include simplifying inter-departmental integrations to improve turn-around on data requests, creating reports combining data from Salesforce and external solutions, as well as adding new features that integrate in corporate web services.

Solutions Engineer at University of Florida

November 2011 - July 2013

I was responsible for identifying and leading the development and testing strategy for web-based applications, administered the Warrington College of Business (WCBA) web servers, and designed, implemented, and maintained their Salesforce org.

Software Developer at University of Florida

April 2007 - November 2011

I led software development projects, from gathering requirements to designing the architectures and testing the final product. I was responsible for multiple critical services such as online lecture delivery to several thousand students, multiple internal applications, and managing web servers. Internally I managed two part-time employees and mentored another programmer. I led our migration from Visual Source Safe to Subversion, developed a coding style guide, started static code analysis and implemented regular code reviews.

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science

Broward Community College

2000 – 2001

A.A.

Concentration: Engineering

I'm always interested in learning and helping others. I love challenging puzzles and games, exercising and aikido. Favorite technologies include .Net, C# and Salesforce and the force.com platform in general.