Michael Marsiglia

Michael began working with the founders of Atomic Object in the summer of 2000 after his freshman year in college. After completing the computer science degree at Grand Valley State University in 2003, Michael made the transition from intern to full time employee. Over the next few years Michael played a vital role in helping to establish the identity and best practices of the small company.

In 2005, Michael took a life opportunity when he decided to take a job on the east coast with X-Rite Inc. While at X-Rite, he helped to bring an agile atmosphere and culture to his team. By showing others his excitement for pair programming and testing, he helped raise both the morale and productivity of the team. During his time at X-Rite, Michael also had the opportunity to interact with a wide range of people from different departments. He engaged in international business development including facilitating sales while traveling in Japan. Living on the east coast and working for X-Rite was a very positive and educational experience for him.

In the summer of 2008, Michael moved back to Grand Rapids. He was delighted to find a welcome home at Atomic Object. He looks forward to helping Atomic Object sustain its impeccable reputation for first class software, and extend its business offering.

Michael completed his MBA from the University of Massachusetts in the summer of 2009.

Publications

“Presenter First: Organizing Complex GUI Applications for TDD”, Micah Alles, David Crosby, Carl Erickson, Brian Harleton, Michael Marsiglia, Greg Pattison, Curt Stienstra, Agile International Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 2006.

“Make Haste, not Waste: Automated System Testing”, Carl Erickson, Ralph Palmer, David Crosby, Michael Marsiglia, Micah Alles, Extreme Programming and Agile Methods – XP Agile Universe , Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2003