Mike Kovacina 4-28-11

Host Team: Byron Kazek, Dan Klufas, Paul Tagliamonte

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Works at Hyland Software

• 6-8 weeks of training to start job
  • Everyone has the same base about the company
• People still run OnBase 3.6 —> currently working on 11.0
• Able to upgrade straight out from every old version without patches (extremely impressive feat)
  • Software is purely additive because of this
• Currently/Recently working on a project with Allscripts (Small medical software company)

Offline mode project

• Multiple problems
  • How can we push documents offline and in a managed fashion?
  • How can we create documents offline then push into OnBase when we connect?
• Faked IIS – proof of concept
  • Used a "switch" to interrupt and redirect connection.
• Since a lot of the code has to be copied, it is hard to catch some runtime errors

Software engineering project

• went against the whole team idea -> divide and conquer
• turned out it was pseudo divide and conquer because everyone checked other parts
  • Took same approach at Hyland for some projects

Mike's Tid Bits

• QA Person = Make friends with this person!
  • can really save you

• Check Ins – scary thought breaking the whole build (and nightlies)
  • not the worst thing in the world – once locked out QA by breaking remoting
  • JUST MAKE SURE TO BE AROUND TO FIX IT FAST!

• Being able to write is important to get things done as well as getting ideas across
  • COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Corp vs Start up – you have to like where you’re working
  • Start up – learn many skills and practice them (liberal arts stuff)
    • How to present properly
    • Learn your weaknesses
    • better understanding of these things

• Interview process
  • At Hyland, everyone takes the same interview test no matter what position you are applying for
  • When asked about salary, it's better to give a "data" value and not a guess
  • Asked multiple questions about being a developer and coding
    • Design patterns
    • Data Structure

• Stock is good option
• Unity – overused term
• Need profit for profit sharing!