Michael J. Staver

Resume` (Last Updated: 03/30/01)

Title: Major, United States Army

Graduate Student: MS projected December 2001

Graduate School Goals: Learn to design, specify, and implement software solutions for the Army in the area of simulations, real time mission critical command and control systems, and geographic information systems (GIS). 

Thesis:  Web-based GIS, Training, and Crisis Action for Consequence Management.  

Under Graduate: BS, United States Military Academy

My Military Assignments: 1980 to Present

Skills:

• Leadership: Inspire soldiers to do the harder right in the worst conditions, at the worst time, while getting shot at. Train soldiers to prevail under any conditions and return home. Teach balance in soldiers' lives so they not only are protecting their nation, but they also have a quality of life worth defending.
• Personnel, Resource, and Project Management, Military Operations, Combat Simulation. I commanded a battery of 270 personnel, over 100 military vehicles, with a property book of several million dollars in equipment. I managed training programs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have done airborne operations, slept on the ground when the temperature was -80 F, trained in dessert when the temperature was 110 F, and deployed overseas on numerous occasions. These are inconsequential compared to the true heroes who fought or paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom, but they were enough to get me promoted. And they were enough for the Army to select me to return to school to learn more about information technology. My goal is to continue to advance Army simulation technology for training, exercises, military operations, and distributed applications.
• Software Engineering:  In less than two years, I learned to program in several languages, primarily Java.  I am now in the process of learning to build reliable software applications.  To understate, I am soaking up as much as I can as fast as I can.  The computer science field is a fascinating, limitless frontier, one that demands more than just a couple years.  I am just beginning what I suspect will be an exciting, enduring new vocation to cleave with my Army career. 

Military Digitization: See my conference papers on this topic

Business Experience: Program and resource management for the Army is service versus profit oriented. Despite different bottom lines, the two are closely related - they both demand professionalism for success.  In the spring of 2000, I took Internet Entrepreneurship which taught me not only to construct an e-commerce business, but also how to instantiate a business idea with market research and a business plan.  In the fall of 2000, I learned to make internet applications enterprise strength using Java 2 Enterprise Edition.

Academics:  http://www2.hawaii.edu./~staver/academics.html 

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