Mike Shaffer

Mike Shaffer has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over several companies and roles. Mike started their career in 1981 as a Manager of Software Development at Ztel and later worked as a Manager of Software Development at Lan-Tel. In 1987, they joined Data General as the Manager of Network Management Development. From 1992 to 1996, Mike served as the Director of Software Development at Primary Rate Incorporated. Mike then joined Brooktrout Technology as the VP of Engineering and led a department of 35 people in HW/SW development, test, and documentation.

In 2005, Mike became the Systems Architect/Co-Founder at a start-up called Whaleback Systems where they developed a premise-based VoIP PBX and Cloud-based Managed Services. Mike also served as the VP of Engineering and directed the product strategy, development, implementation, and deployment.

At Beechwoods Software Inc, Mike worked in two different periods. From 2014 to 2017, they served as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on software integration for TV set-top box software stack. In 2018, they rejoined the company as a Principal MTS, where they worked on building and integrating open-source and proprietary system software for OEM IoT projects. Currently, they are the Vice President of Engineering at Beechwoods Software Inc, leading the engineering team.

At Star2Star Communications, Mike worked as a Network Architect from 2017 to 2018. In this role, they ran the Network and Distributed Datacenter DevOps for their Unified Communications platform and created operations guides for undocumented products.

Finally, from 2012 to 2019, Mike worked as an Independent Consultant at York Nubble Consulting, where they created and implemented SIP trunking architecture and provided ongoing support for various technologies.

Overall, Mike Shaffer's work experience showcases their expertise in engineering, software development, network management, and VoIP technologies.

Mike Shaffer attended Canton Area Junior-Senior High School from 1967 to 1973, but did not obtain a degree or specialize in any field of study during that time. Later, from 1973 to 1977, they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. In 2017, Mike Shaffer obtained the SAFe® 4 Practitioner certification from Scaled Agile, Inc. However, no additional information about their education or certifications beyond what is provided is available.