Mike Cole
Principal at Cole Consulting
Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolMike Cole is a Principal and founder of Cole Consulting with over 20 years of hands-on software experience across manufacturing, finance, and healthcare, and 13 years of documented professional contribution. He helps early-stage companies launch products by combining pragmatic engineering, consulting, and IT training to turn ideas into maintainable, production-ready systems. Mike brings full lifecycle discipline—from build and release automation (notably contributing automation updates to the Chocolatey community packages) to web and enterprise application development. Based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, he balances deep practical experience with conference-level communication skills, making him equally effective as a contractor, mentor, and public speaker.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
West CentralBA, CIS, BA, CIS at Waldorf College
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Github Skills (17)
package-management10
scripting10
chocolatey10
automation10
powershell10
automations10
stored-procedures9
asp-net9
version-control6
sql-server6
resx6
sql6
visual-studio6
msbuild6
tsql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Chocolatey Community Maintainers Team Packages - packages that are managed and maintained by core community team for community package repository (https://community.chocolatey.org/packages)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to automating and updating packages within the Chocolatey Community repository. They modified PowerShell scripts (`update.ps1`, `chocolateyInstall.ps1`, `chocolateyUninstall.ps1`) related to packaging and deployment of software, specifically focusing on the PDFCreator and CutePDF applications. These updates involved fetching new versions, adjusting checksums, and modifying installation arguments, demonstrating a focus on automating the package management process.
package-repositorychocolateymaintainersteam-community
cole-consulting/cole-consulting.github.io
Jan 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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