Michael is a joy to work with-- curious, intellectually engaged, a quick learner, and able to turn ideas into practical products. He brings humor, discipline, and exploration to a group, and invests himself fully in achieving excellence by making everyone successful.

Michael is a very committed person and his devotion to the success of a project is evident in his work. He is a very methodological decision maker focusing on the details. His ability to communicate between development and test makes him a valuable team member.

Michael demonstrates his ability to manage a complex project by combining strong technical skills with strong people skills. His customers, co-workers, and managers find him a pleasure to work with. His standards of performance and integrity are exemplary.

Michael is a valuable asset to any organization. His skills and devotion are matched only by his wit and pleasant nature. Project Managers quickly learned that he could be trusted with the most complicated of tasks, while his peers came to know him as someone who made the office a fun and dynamic place to be.

It was a great opportunity for all of us at RAF to work with Michael. He had a sharp wit, and a good understanding of software development that helped him problem solve and see a release through to completion.

Michael possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills, values teamwork, provides work of a consistently excellent quality in every project he undertakes, and is passionate about IA/UX.

Michael goes beyond requirements. He's an engaged person seeking to improve things for people.

Michael is a high-energy, humble, super-talented information professional. Michael goes beyond the requirement and really dedicates his time, service, energy, brain power to the task at hand.

I really enjoyed working with Michael and I would give him a very strong recommendation. Michael would be an outstanding member of any team. If I thought I could get him to move back to Houston, I would make him an offer immediately. His ability to learn new things and deliver high-quality results really set him apart from a lot of folks that have worked for me over the past 15 to 20 years.

Essentially I'd say what I said in previous questions. Also, I think Michael seems to be very easy to get along with, and would be a great team member.

I have recommended Michael to a friend, she hired him and she was delighted with his work. I always received excellent reports about him. To anyone considering hiring Michael Adcock, I would say, "Hire him. You won't regret it." Finding someone who can do the job at hand is easy. Finding someone who will do the job and look for ways to do the job better -- more efficiently and effectively -- is an employer's dream. Michael Adcock is an employer's dream and a decent person in the bargain.

I highly recommend Michael Adcock. It's been a pleasure to have him as a student and now as a colleague.

Michael is a great worker, knows the subject he is working on

Michael was enthusiastic about discussing project details with me and helping me to understand more about the projects he was involved in that I could assist him with as well as how he could assist me with my projects. Most of our collaboration during the MLIS program was voluntary, outside of classes, and I continually seek him out for feedback on many of my own projects and presentations because he is honest, discerning, and eager to help his colleagues improve.

Curiosity, intellectual exploration, collaborative work style, receptiveness to feedback, follow-through, cheerfulness.

Michael excelled in just about everything I saw him do-- he was a key organizer for several conferences, he did fantastic work in the class I taught, and the work that he did for his portfolio was superb. He was not afraid to explore new tools and ways of organizing and presenting information, and shared them freely with his colleagues.

Michael is genuinely passionate about his chosen field. He is actively engaged in the professional community here in Seattle and he encourages his colleagues to be involved, as well. He believes in connecting both with users and other members of the profession to create a user-centered culture of collaboration and innovation.

ability to work with others, technical competence, deep understanding of information organization principles, wide variety of software and programming abilities.

Inquisitive, capable, mature, interesting

Michael is an excellent communicator. He is thorough in explaining challenging concepts, which was a great benefit when he was voluntarily assisting me with my implementation of his TiddlyWiki Thesaurus. He also readily listened to my suggestions and concerns regarding the project and helped me modify the tool to better fit my needs.

Michael's enthusiasm, dedication and energy is about, at least, twice of a normal worker. He is really passionate and knowledgeable with information management, user-centered design concept. He can "talk" the tech lingo with a low-keyed demeanor.

You can count on Michael to be there when needed. He helps out other team members and provides good moral support to the rest of the team. Trust, Dependability and Passion.

I can think of no more persistent user-centered researcher. Understanding the core issues for users has been paramount for Michael throughout his coursework.

The Treasury project was extremely complex for several reasons. First, because it involved connecting Treasury's Pay.gov functionality through a remote and secure facility to various databases, it was technically quite complex. Second, because it was managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (among others) for Treasury, Michael's job involved supporting and coordinating personnel at Treasury, FRB Cleveland, the secure facilty, various commercial database providers, and at RAF. His abilty to coordinate this collection of ever-changing players and help create a successful project was exemplary.

His strong technical understanding of information processing coupled with a strong set of people skills outfitted him well for this project (and others).

Building things/investigating things/keeping up to date on new technologies and methods.

Capable of building/testing and evaluating new technologies and methods.

Took the imitative to lead. Drove proof of concept and ideas through completion. Was very supportive to development and test.

honesty, integrity and goodsense of humor

quick to adapt to the situation, ability to find a quick solution, able to take suggestions without feeling like it is criticism

leadership, organization skills, project management, writing memos, creating websites, bringing donuts to the meeting.

Excellent oral and written communications skills. Excellent grasp of technical and theoretical aspects of information organization (metadata, etc.)

Michael is very bright, resourceful, and hightly-motivated.

He is detail oriented but can also see the big picture. He anticipates problems, not just reacts.

Resilient. Michael has the ability to adapt to the task at hand. He is also tenacious and will see a project through to its successful conclusion.

Tenacious, able to produce quality work under constrained deadlines, a wicked sense of humor (unusual in many coders)

An openness to hearing other perspectives, and being willing to try out those other points of view for "fit"

Michael strove to thoroughly understand tasks set before him and the inherent problems that he may encounter on the road to the solution. This complete understanding of the issues he faced allowed him to masterfully deal with many of them before they ever surfaced. As a result, his development efforts were consistently thorough and robust.

His general good nature and sense of humor is what I remember most about him. If anything ever bothered him, we never knew about it. The smile on his face and cheer in his voice was a hallmark of our team.

His jovial and friendly attitude.

He was a solid project leader who worked hard to get the job done.

Coordinating the various stakeholders on the project, most importantly the often-changing bank and Treasury personnel involved in the project.

communication and planning.

Michael was an excellent student. His writing on assignments was top notch.

Michael's interest in the subject matter was much higher than most students. He was very enthusiastic about it.

Michael was an excellent software developer. He created high-quality software in a very efficient manner.

Michael is very good at organization. He can take information that is in a state of chaos and reassemble it into a state of the art presentation that is user friendly.

Michael was good at figuring complicated things out and piecing things together.

Worked the extra mile (late hours) when required. Very devoted to the success of a project.

Helped team avoid stress / burn out (providing board games for breaks)

good clean coding practice

organizing, getting folks involved.

can-do attitude

He has excellent Java coding skills. He helped develop a lot of the code that controlled the in-game entities.