Mike Abner

We are hiring! If you’re interested in impacting product and process while disrupting a trillion dollar industry, check out our openings: https://www.homelight.com/careers Some of the things my team and I have built: ● A simple and powerful B2C home buyer and seller experience ● A robust statistical/machine learning matching algorithm ● A CRM to help Real Estate Agents receive, handle, and close our referrals including an iOS and Android mobile app ● A beautiful Internal sales application that is customized to our efficient sales process. (who needs Salesforce?) ● The ability to ingest and process millions of real estate records from multiple sources ● SEO/SEM/CMS tools to help our marketing team thrive ● Many other tools necessary to support a growing business

Net-Centric Publisher (NCP For the last 3 years I've been working on a Ruby on Rails application that simplifies the publication of web-services for Net-Centric Enterprise Services users. Before the NCP, users had to use a handful of differing and confusing tools to publish their web-service artifacts (wsdls, schemas, etc.). I wrote most of the code for a quick prototype application over 2 months that helped lead to the cancellation of a $30 million dollar contract given to another company. Since then I've been part of a team that has re-written and expanded the application. I'm currently writing a Sinatra based API to simplify the backend processing for the application. Joint Force Projection For this application I wrote a monitoring application which was essentially a custom graphing solution for tracking troop deployment timelines. It was written Java using Struts, Hibernate, Oracle 10g and BEA Weblogic. Joint WebCOP I was responsible for the integration and plug-in development for a web based mapping application running in a Java J2EE environment using BEA Weblogic 8, Oracle 9i, and the ESRI 9.0 suite of applications. Most of the work was writing a mapping plugin that allowed an existing query tool to plot the query results on the map. Watchboard I helped write a dashboard application written in Java using JSPs and the Hibernate data persistance framework to allow US military personel to set-up and track ad-hoc battlefield requirements (fuel and ammo availability, for instance). The Watchboard application was part of a larger effort where I played a critical role in tracking down and improving various performance issues.

Document Organization System (FBI) I helped write an application to allow users to view, organize, and each OCR'ed documents using Java J2EE and Struts running on a JBoss application server backed by an Oracle 9i database. I also wrote a Java Swing client application to import data from CD's into a format that allowed users to categorize and selectively load the data into the database. Test Report Documentation Generator (FBI) In order to streamline the creating of test reports for hardware/software testing I helped write a web-application that allowed users to input various pieces of data and generate PDF reports to match existing Word document templates. This application was written in Classic ASP, VB 6, Java, XML, XML-FOP with an MS Access backed data store. Two of us wrote the app because the project had long periods of downtime while waiting for hardware/software tests to complete and had to be run on a local machine with no access to the internet or any internal network which is what lead to the use of Access as a datastore. National Automobile Dealers Association Guide Redesign My primary task on this project was to create PDFs of the NADA New and Used Car Guides for review and production. The NADA Guides were used by tens of thousands of car dealers, banks, insurers, etc. to accurately value the price of new and used cars. The PDFs were sent to the publishers monthly, but created many times a day for review by the NADA editorial staff. This task included creating web-pages using Classic ASP backed by VB 6 to present various printing options to the editors, writing complex SQL queries and MS SQL stored procedures, and writing layout macros in a custom programming language to build the PDFs from Adobe Framemaker templates. Document Storage System I was the lead developer of a document storage web-application built on top of Documentum for internal company use. This app was written in Classic ASP and VB6.