Michael Shea
Communications Specialist
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Shea is a Digital Content Specialist in Dayton, Ohio with four years of experience crafting social media strategy, marketing communications, and audience engagement for broadcast and community-focused organizations. At ThinkTV he blends hands-on content production with operational broadcast experience, drawing on years as a Master Control and Lead Shift Operator to ensure both creative and technical reliability. He founded Gem City Comedy to grow local arts scenes, producing events and training performers while building partnerships with businesses and nonprofits. Michael also contributes to open-source .NET tooling, having fixed MSBuild project graph/platform negotiation issues—an uncommon technical depth for a communications professional. His background in radio production, live broadcast operations, and teaching gives him a practical edge in storytelling across audio, video, and social channels. He brings a mix of production rigour, community entrepreneurship, and occasional low-level engineering insight to content strategy and execution.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Winthrop UniversityHigh School Diploma, College Prep, High School Diploma, College Prep at Ridge View High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mass Communication/Media Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mass Communication/Media Studies at Lander UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at Midlands Technical College
English
Github Skills (13)
asp-net10
net10
dotnet10
csharp10
msbuild10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
buildx8
build28
build-engine8
build-time8
project-management8
microsoft8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
dotnet/msbuild
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 3 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) project, focusing on platform negotiation logic within the project graph. Their work involved implementing and refining how projects handle platform resolution, including overrides and lookups, as seen in the code changes related to `ProjectInterpretation.cs` and unit tests. The contributions fixed issues related to overbuilding and ensure the project graph accurately reflects platform configurations during build processes. The user also demonstrated knowledge of project references and global property handling within the MSBuild framework.
dotnetbuild-enginesqfmsbuildcsharp
MIchaelRShea/msbuild
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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