Mike Hall

Contributed to software development for clients including International Reprographics Association, Kolcraft, Cook County, Tripplite, "Meckler, Bulgar, Tilson", Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, "Mack and Parker", and the Chase Group. Delivered an early OCR pipeline (awk/sed + OCR tooling) to digitize large volumes of receipts into a database, navigating semi-structured text and scanner calibration constraints. The work functioned at small scale and informed a decision to pursue a different approach for full-scale digitization.

• Designed and implemented an early-stage OCR pipeline using awk/sed and specialized tooling to digitize high volumes of semi-structured receipt data. Impact: Informing architectural decisions for full-scale digitization.
• Delivered custom web applications for high-profile clients including Harley-Davidson and Cook County, navigating diverse technical stacks from Java WebSphere to ASP.

Skills: Active Server Pages (ASP), ActiveX, CSS, HTML, Internet Information Services (IIS), Java, Java Server Pages (JSP), Java WebSphere, JavaScript, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), VBScript, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Visual InterDev, Visual J++, Visual SourceSafe, Windows NT, Windows Server