Chris Weldon is a passionate software craftsman, technical manager, and coach. As a manager and coach, it is his mission to understand each team members' career aspirations and help them reach their full potential. Chris works across the organization to build strong relationships to help deliver faster and more effectively. He understands the needs of product management and bridges the gap with the development team to ensure successful delivery of the right product. As an avid agilist, solid and continuous delivery by means of best practices are an expectation. As a craftsman, his strengths are in object oriented design, software patterns, testing strategies, and dev/ops. As an architect, his understanding of each aspect of a software system enables solid architectural forethought and design.
Chris is an exceptional tech lead and a natural leader. His drive for continuous improvement, for excellence, for quality, for knowledge sharing, for team harmony, for best practices and for doing the right thing have defined our team's culture and have a constant impact to the competencies of this team. Most importantly, he has taught the team by example how to do critical thinking, why it is important to understand the value behind everything they are working on and to be able to reason for it. Chris will succeed on everything he does and I am confident he will soon be one of WK’s most influential leaders.
Chris is a rock star. Flat out.
I cannot tell you enough how much I appreciate the [feature] Chris helped implement. Not only has it made the work easier on my team, I have noticed a significant increase in the population of metadata by the business community - very nice!
Chris did a great job and he communicated with me through out the project to make certain that everything was correct. I look forward to working with Chris again.
Chris was assigned to our office to work as a consultant on revamping the College's website through Computer Information Services (CIS). During the time he consulted for the College, Chris was very attentive and in tune with the needs and wants of our office. At times, he was placed in difficult situations dealing with what we wanted aesthetically, and knowing professionally what was realistic. He had the skills and attitude to mesh both to make sure everyone was pleased. I did not have the knowledge necessary to always explain what we wanted. Chris knew this and took great care in explaining all the options. It was a complete joy to have interactions with an IT professional who knew that I was confused and explained things to me on my level. The project continued successfully and the College raved on his expertise and service oriented attitude.
Chris proved himself as an exceptionally talented analyst. He is super-intelligent with performances consistently exceeded what were expected from his job title. As his immediate supervisor, I recall giving him high rankings and remarks in his annual reviews, and recommended a promotion shortly after he began working for us. I consider Chris in the top 3% category of all analysts I have supervised over my 25 years as a Senior IT Manager. Chris not only excels as a keen observer, a quick learner, a self-starter with a sharp analytical mind; he also shows "leadership,", uncommon for a young individual his age. Chris is extremely knowledgeable and savvy with new technologies; he possesses superb oral and written skills that enable him to express himself well.
Chris has been a natural leader since High School and has been formally managing teams since 2013. Chris has a fascination with motivational psychology, team dynamics, communication, and management theory through works such as Drive, The One Minute Manager, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and personality profiles such as DiSC (Chris is a High D and Strong I) and Strength Finders 2.0.
As an Associate Director for Platform Engineering, Chris manages teams for greenfield and brownfield projects. Chris’ group consists of 30 overall personell, including managers. Platform Engineering is responsible for development platforms leveraged by multiple line-of-business products developed by different teams within our division. Chris' primary responsibilities include technical and SDLC coaching and mentoring for his teams (and others), assessing process needs to help keep our Agile (Scrum) teams efficient and unburdened by red tape, working with stakeholders and across different teams to ensure smooth engagement and delivery. Additionally, Chris managed the Dev DBA team, an operations-style group responsible for developer consulting and management of SQL database build and deployment.
Chris has successfully led his identity team to complete the delivery of the new greenfield Identity Platform (IDaaS) and successfully drive the onboarding of all customers for two major TAA products - CCH Axcess and CCH GfX. IDaaS is an OIDC compliant identity broker that centralizes identity management into a single platform to reduce waste of repeated development of authentication providers and security hardening. The IDaaS platform was developed as an Active-Passive service on Azure Service Fabric, leveraging Azure SQL, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, and CosmosDB. Chris is leading his team to migrate from Service Fabric to Azure App Services and to Active-Active availability by Q2 2020.
Supporting IDaaS and authentication, the identity store is a new security-critical service focused on managing the basic personal information and credentials for users of our TAA NA portfolio of applications. Chris led a newly formed team of contractors and FTEs to deliver its first production release by year end 2019. Development started from scratch in September 2019 and completed phase 1 in December 2019. The team had been assembled between July and August 2019. The team is continuing to work on phase 2 in Q1 2020.
Additionally, Chris led the TAA Axcess software development organization thru an Azure data migration project, where 100% of our workload (with data) was successfully migrated from our private cloud provider to Azure. The project involved identifying the software products affected by the migration, identifying their data sources, identifying the target workload within those products, and then plan how to synchronize that data from our private cloud to Azure, then switch traffic to Azure. This 18-month project was completed in three phases, where each phase took one month to synchronize data, and a 24 hour maintenance window to do the final synchronization and traffic moves for our target workload. All migrations completed within our scheduled maintenance window, with customers having a significantly better experience in Azure immediately post-migration than customers that still remain in our private cloud provider.
TAA Axcess was limited in the features and performance of the application as it was running with SQL 2012 compatibility mode. Chris led the Dev DBA team and worked across the software and IT Ops organization to plan and execute a major 7-month project to upgrade the infrastructure and software to SQL 2017 compatibility mode. The project completed in December 2019.
Chris led the Release Management Task Force, a group chartered by our CTO to revisit the TAA Axcess monolithic deployment strategy, to identify a vision, goals, and KPIs to help improve our software release process. This vision and goals are rooted in software industry standards, including separating software deployment from release, accellerating the frequency of deployments, completely automating our deployments, and bolstering the reliability with the end goal being zero-downtime software deployments. Within 6 months, Chris led the task force to identify a roadmap with clear technical direction that map back to the vision and goals, and is working with the business to prioritize and begin executing.
As a part of the Release Management Task Force and Azure Migration projects, Chris has helped rebuild the relationship between development and operations. As a result, Chris has been collaborating with operations to define a path for DevOps transformation. Cultural changes are currently underway, with the focus on moving us from reactive to proactive planning thru enabling development leadership to communicate quarterly roadmaps relevant to operations and adding feedback loops to strengthen the operability of our deliverables.
Finally, Chris' passion for culture led him to start the func() - our internal fun c()mmittee - to help revitalize the office culture and bring siloed teams together to help break down barriers. This was done thru driving a new weekly event dubbed Thirsty Thursday, a new Fall Festival, Halloween activities, Diwali, and other cultural and social activities.
As the Audit Tech Lead, Chris led his team to develop a greenfield, multi-tenant cloud-based Audit Software-as-a-Service using microservices architecture on Azure Service Fabric. Chris held the role of application architect and technical lead. As application architect, he spent time working with the Chief Architects' Office to understand reference architecture goals, proposed designs to meet the needs of Global Audit, and created design plans for his team to understand the technical needs in order to estimate work. As the technical lead, Chris led the team to execute successfully through work item management and task delegation, ensuring proper technical implementation thru code reviews, and coaching and mentoring junior developers to grow their technical competencies and close technical gaps.
Chris helped lead the effort to introduce continuous delivery within TAA Axcess. As a greenfield project, Chris setup the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services and provided feedback and guidance to the Chief Architects' Office on our ultimate implementation. This effort greatly improved the velocity of the Audit development team and continues to be referenced as the standard for continuous delivery for projects in the organization.
Chris was tapped as a strategic resource for helping to identify quality issues both for greenfield and legacy products within Axcess. Chris helped to do this by setting up SonarQube and adding analysis to the continuous integration pipeline for products. Chris closed the gap by training the global organization on the benefits and how to use SonarQube.
As the Document Collaboration manager, Chris was responsible for the development and growth of 7 FTEs, 2 interns, and execution of 2 full time consultants from between 2012 and 2016. He was responsible for the product management, work management, and technical direction for global SharePoint presence for the firm (2007, 2010, and 2013 in America, Europe, and Asia). Chris was also responsible for its integration with all of the firm required compliance controls, including information barriers - an authorization solution to limit access to users based on regulatory boundaries, retention - a solution to capture, retain, and provide surveillance to all eCommunications, and entitlement and identity lifecycle management.
Chris led most phases of SDLC for envisioning and delivery of AskGS, an internal social collaboration tool similar to StackOverflow to help provide a platform for questions and answers and get questions (and people) out of e-mail. This social collaboration tool was one of the first new social networks introduced within Goldman Sachs, as social networking faced interesting technical and cultural challenges for legal, employee relations, and human resources.
In addition to designing, planning, and executing new initiatives with his global team of 9 engineers, Chris was responsible for reporting project initiatives, vision/roadmaps, and status to senior management. He was also responsible for marking and evangelizing his products in order to increase adoption.
Chris has been developing in C# since early 2005 and has a solid understanding of many language features. Chris also believes strongly in the use of design patterns as a means of simplifying solutions to problems and maximizing maintainability.
As the Audit Tech Lead, Chris led his team to develop a greenfield, multi-tenant cloud-based Audit Software-as-a-Service using microservices architecture on Azure Service Fabric. Chris held the role of application architect and technical lead. As application architect, he spent time working with the Chief Architects' Office to understand reference architecture goals, proposed designs to meet the needs of Global Audit, and created design plans for his team to understand the technical needs in order to estimate work. As the technical lead, Chris led the team to execute successfully through work item management and task delegation, ensuring proper technical implementation thru code reviews, and coaching and mentoring junior developers to grow their technical competencies and close technical gaps.
Chris helped lead the effort to introduce continuous delivery within TAA Axcess. As a greenfield project, Chris setup the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services and provided feedback and guidance to the Chief Architects' Office on our ultimate implementation. This effort greatly improved the velocity of the Audit development team and continues to be referenced as the standard for continuous delivery for projects in the organization.
Chris was tapped as a strategic resource for helping to identify quality issues both for greenfield and legacy products within Axcess. Chris helped to do this by setting up SonarQube and adding analysis to the continuous integration pipeline for products. Chris closed the gap by training the global organization on the benefits and how to use SonarQube.
As the Document Collaboration manager, Chris led his team to leverage the power of the .Net framework to develop simple and elegant solutions to regulatory and security problems. Chris was responsible for the global SharePoint presence for the firm (2007, 2010, and 2013 in America, Europe, and Asia). Chris was also responsible for its integration with all of the firm required controls, including information barriers - an authorization solution to limit access to users based on regulatory boundaries, retention - a solution to capture, retain, and provide surveillance to all eCommunications, and entitlement and identity lifecycle management. Chris created a solution to provide self-service site collection request management with workflows to meet regulatory requirements.
Chris helped to lead the design and implementation of AskGS, an internal social collaboration tool similar to StackOverflow to help provide a platform for questions and answers and get questions (and people) out of e-mail. This social collaboration tool was one of the first new social networks introduced within Goldman Sachs, as social networking faced interesting technical and cultural challenges for legal, employee relations, and human resources.
In addition to designing, planning, and executing new initiatives with his global team of 9 engineers, Chris was responsible for reporting project initiatives, vision/roadmaps, and status to senior management. He was also responsible for marking and evangelizing his products in order to increase adoption.
As lead SharePoint developer, Chris utilized the power of the .Net framework to craft solutions in SharePoint to provide a robust user experience surrounding entitlements management in SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Furthermore, Chris was able to pioneer methods and strategies to unit test SharePoint solutions with minimal overhead compared to the recommended pattern of Microsoft Moles/Fakes.
Chris helped revamp and rebrand the College's web presence while working with the IT group to overhaul the infrastructure from the ground-up.
Chris worked on several high-profile web applications for university customers. The first was a scheduling system for the University Writing Center dubbed Cleopatroa. The ASP.Net web application sported an extremely modular design and was Chris' first foray into Unit Testing with NUnit. The second web application was a Graduate Student lifecycle management system for the Office of Graduate Studies. The ASP.Net web application tracked student's course schedules, dissertation progress, advisory notes, and graduation requests. The final web application Chris supported with the custom CMS framework built on-top of ASP.Net for the College of Architecture.
Performed security, entitlements, and regulatory management in server-side solutions. Became intimately familiar with proper architecture to enable unit testing code dependent upon SharePoint.
As the Document Collaboration manager, Chris was responsible for the global SharePoint presence for the firm (2007, 2010, and 2013 in America, Europe, and Asia). Chris was also responsible for its integration with all of the firm required controls, including information barriers - an authorization solution to limit access to users based on regulatory boundaries, retention - a solution to capture, retain, and provide surveillance to all eCommunications, and entitlement and identity lifecycle management. Chris created a solution to provide self-service site collection request management with workflows to meet regulatory requirements.
In addition to designing, planning, and executing new initiatives with his global team of 9 engineers, Chris was responsible for reporting project initiatives, vision/roadmaps, and status to senior management. He was also responsible for marking and evangelizing his products in order to increase adoption.
As lead SharePoint developer, Chris utilized the power of the .Net framework to craft solutions in SharePoint to provide a robust user experience surrounding entitlements management in SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Furthermore, Chris was able to pioneer methods and strategies to unit test SharePoint solutions with minimal overhead compared to the recommended pattern of Microsoft Moles/Fakes.
Chris began most of his work in ASP.Net in 2005 and adopted ASP.Net MVC at version 3. Since then, he's actively developed several ASP.Net MVC 4 and 5 applications and been a heavy user of ASP.Net Web API 2.
Chris was a Microsoft ASP.Net Most Valued Professional (MVP) from 2013-2014.
As the Document Collaboration manager, Chris was responsible for the global SharePoint presence for the firm (2007, 2010, and 2013 in America, Europe, and Asia). Chris was also responsible for its integration with all of the firm required controls, including information barriers - an authorization solution to limit access to users based on regulatory boundaries, retention - a solution to capture, retain, and provide surveillance to all eCommunications, and entitlement and identity lifecycle management. Chris created a solution to provide self-service site collection request management with workflows to meet regulatory requirements.
Chris helped to lead the design and implementation of AskGS, an internal social collaboration tool similar to StackOverflow to help provide a platform for questions and answers and get questions (and people) out of e-mail. This social collaboration tool was one of the first new social networks introduced within Goldman Sachs, as social networking faced interesting technical and cultural challenges for legal, employee relations, and human resources.
As lead SharePoint developer, development of custom forms took place using ASP.Net web forms. Chris created a self-service site collection request management solution leveraging the ASP.Net wizard to guide users through gathering required data for the site creation workflow.
DarkRoomTeam was a web startup that specialized in providing users custom photography prints solely through their web-based platform. As lead consultant, Chris quickly delivered the customer's need for a custom checkout process that fit into their custom workflow process for ordering photography prints, delivered in less than three months time.
Chris helped revamp and rebrand the College's web presence while working with the IT group to overhaul the infrastructure from the ground-up. To perform succesful rebranding, Chris had to become intimately familiar with the features of the existing platform, built using a custom framework leveraging ASP.Net.
Chris freelanced with a small startup called Gophrz.com to build an ASP.Net web application focused around a University setting to pair students and their talents with the needs of staff and faculty. The idea started as a babysitting service, but quickly grew to include any number of services required by staff and faculty. The web application supported federated authentication to university credentials and provide integration with several online services, including background checking, escrow, identity verification.
Chris worked on several high-profile web applications for university customers. The first was a scheduling system for the University Writing Center dubbed Cleopatroa. The ASP.Net web application sported an extremely modular design and was Chris' first foray into Unit Testing with NUnit. The second web application was a Graduate Student lifecycle management system for the Office of Graduate Studies. The ASP.Net web application tracked student's course schedules, dissertation progress, advisory notes, and graduation requests. The final web application Chris supported with the custom CMS framework built on-top of ASP.Net for the College of Architecture.
Chris has been performing systems administration since Windows Server 2000. In the early 2000s, Chris was primarily responsible for DNS, DHCP, active directory, group policy, and lab management. Beginning with Server 2008, Chris has hosted SQL server on bare metal and in Hyper-V virtual machines as well as co-manged Hyper-V farms. Since 2009, Chris' role has shifted to that of dev/ops to remove gates from development teams to enable them to continuously deploy software.
As lead SharePoint developer, Chris worked closely with the team to provision, setup, and maintain a large farm of Windows Virtual Machines which supported Microsoft SQL and SharePoint.
As lead SharePoint developer, Chris was responsible for the setup and maintenance of all non-production instances of SharePoint, including development virtual machines.
When Chris joined the College of Architecture, the infrastructure was distributed across a myriad of bare-metal and virtual infrastructure with no redundancy of services or adequate plans for high-availability, fault-tolerance, or redundancy. Chris worked with the IT team to revamp the infrastructure onto a hybrid of VMware ESX and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V infrastructure, complete with NAS (NetApp) data storage. Chris performed information and directory services architecture while assisting active directory migration.
The "first" language Chris picked up, he has been a passionate PHP community advocate until approximately 2013. His list of PHP web applications is far greater than the highlighted projects below.
Chris has been freelance consulting with Quicktate since 2010. Chris' most notable achievements include the overhaul of highly insecure and legacy application code to more secure, sustainable platforms, the re-engineering of applications and systems to support a scalable web presence, and the integration of Quicktate with a number of different providers. Legacy projects were developed on CakePHP while reworked projects were developed on Zend Framework.
Chris helped revamp and rebrand the College's web presence and deployed several new web applications to support College initiatives, including the Natural/Built/Virtual Research Symposium.
Chris has been wrangling the web site for AgileDotNet since 2010. Written in PHP, Chris implemented data structures to provide CMS-like experience for marketing group without the need to understand HTML or CSS. In 2013, Chris revamped the design and logo of the event web site in response to the wholescale rebranding and revitalization of the event.
Lead a team of developers on the CFEgroup web application. This project was a web-based education and training tool for foresters. The web application was built with an MVC architecture with Zend Framework using PostgreSQL. Integration with the university payment gateway.
Windows provides its own level of challenges, but UNIX administration is largely a different beast. Chris has administered UNIX systems in a wide variety of capacities, including creating a web hosting platform at multiple projects, performing integration with Windows Active Directory, and providing highly scalable and available failover systems in small and large datacenter environments.
Despite providing a significant amount of software engineering support, almost 50% of Chris' responsibilities with Quicktate include dev/ops on our UNIX systems. Chris has moved the project from inscalable bare-metal systems to highly available, more performant virtual infrastructure hosted in Softlayer's cloud service. Though the original design and plan was to move to Amazon's EC2, the cost of support in Amazon was not sustainable, leaving the team with Softlayer. During the transition, Chris implemented puppet to help automate the dynamic scaling of our web application and front-end web servers to handle the roughly 15-20 million weekly HTTP requests and the 2 million weekly voice transcription requests the site sees.
Chris created a Gentoo Linux infrastructure for the purpose of hosting the web applications developed by his team. Because task management and centralized documentation repositories largely didn't exist for the Information Technology Services department, Chris also provided hosting for a university-wide instance of Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, and Bamboo.
One of the core businesses to Cerberus, was web hosting. This was done originally on a FreeBSD architecture and finally on a Gentoo Linux infrastructure. Chris hosted a stack of approximately 10 dedicated web server hosts and virtualized hosts as the hosting business grew and shrunk. Typical packages included apache, php, mysql, nginx, and some other specialized packages depending on dedicated hosting customer needs.
Chris has a solid understanding of web services architecture, including SOAP, XML-RPC, or especially RESTful web services.
A requirement for our SharePoint 2010 environment was to enable users to perform self-service site collection creation following a workflow established by compliance. Custom WCF services were developed and deployed within SharePoint 2010 to provide data validation endpoints as well as endpoints for beginning the site collection creation process. These WCF services are invoked from the Custom ASP.Net forms crafted to guide the user through the creation process as well as the Workflow engine.
In preparation for the rollout of SharePoint 2010, compliance requirements dictated that permissions and entitlements management must be tightly managed. To ease the burden of site administrators, a WPF application was built to provide a friendly UI for this entitlements management. The WPF application consumed a set of claims-enabled WCF services (deployed within SharePoint) which performed entitlements and permissions lookup, entitlement requests, permissions modifications, and reporting.
Chris has been freelance consulting with Quicktate since 2010. A large portion of Quicktate's business includes high-volume customers, where delivery and callbacks for jobs require highly available web services. Chris has been responsible for maintaining the legacy XML-RPC web services layer and has recently introduced RESTful web services to modernize that layer.
Authors and understands database queries (simple and complex) and how RDBMS database architecture can affect SQL query performance. A database backend (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MSSQL) has been used across most of the applications Chris has developed or maintained.
Spends time carefully crafting simple, yet beautiful cross-browser compatible HTML layouts. Just check out the code used to render this page. A majority (66%) of the projects Chris works on requires him to write HTML.
Chris has been wrangling the web site for AgileDotNet since 2010. A large part of what Chris has done includes drafting and implementing the layouts of the various views for the AgileDotNet web site. This is done to help the marketing team focus solely on content without the need to understand HTML or CSS. In 2013, Chris revamped the design and logo of the event web site in response to the wholescale rebranding and revitalization of the event.
Lead a team of developers on the CFEgroup web application, a web-based education and training tool for foresters. The web application was built using an MVC architecture with Zend Framework using PostgreSQL. Chris lead the design, layout, and implementation of the different views.
Molds HTML for sites and web applications into beautiful visualizations to provide the best possible user experience. Although not the best CSS designer, Chris has a deep understanding of how to alter the page rendering through CSS.
Performs Javascript work on an as-needed basis. Recent work includes AngularJS single page apps.
A dedicated and passionate agilist for over 8 years. First successful Scrum adoption for his team in 2007. Currently coaches customers on agile values and principles to ensure rapid, high quality delivery of software.
Upon joining the firm's SharePoint engineering team, the team was operating in chaos mode, unable to deliver SharePoint for two and a half years. I coached the team on agile values and principles and enabled them to complete the work in-progress and release to production in less than three months. Immediately following the release, we developed a backlog of tasks for SharePoint 2013 and delivered the first release in four weeks.
When appointed the technical lead role of the team, continued to adapt the agile practices due to changing demographics within the team and changing SDLC expectations within the firm. Successfully adapted Scrum practices to dovetail with the firm's SDLC expectations and practices. Continued to adapt our agile model to best manage projects with immovable deadlines due to external regulatory constraints.
Upon joining the team, processes and development tasks were very unstructured. Coached the team on creating a backlog, performing daily standups, and having fixed-length iterations. Enabled the team to become self-organizing and take charge of relative effort estimations. Enabled continuous integration for our SharePoint projects.
As the Web Team Lead, Chris played the role of scrummaster to enable his colocated team to successfully adopt scrum. The team ran with two-week sprints and six-week iterations and successfully delivered three web applications and a new web presence for the College of Architecture. Chris provided build automation to ensure continuous integration across all projects.
Chris decided to step back and focus on technical excellence and took a technical leadership role on a greenfield project team developing a new Software-as-a-Service offering for Global Audit.
Chris decided to continue his passion for developing solutions in the SharePoint and social networking space by accepting a position at Goldman Sachs. Shortly after joining, Chris accepted the technical leadership and management position for the Document Collaboration Platform Engineering Team. Since then, Chris has participated in the ideation, architectural design, and implementation of several social platforms and strategies within Goldman Sachs when social technologies were just started to be introduced within the firm.
Chris joined Improving Enterprises to continue his legacy of excellent consulting services in more enterprise scenarios. His primary customer engagements have focused on Microsoft technologies such as ASP.Net, SharePoint, WPF, WCF, WIF, and Windows Azure.
Chris has been freelance consulting with Quicktate since 2010. Chris' most notable achievements include the overhaul of highly insecure and legacy application code to more secure, sustainable platforms, the re-engineering of applications and systems to support a scalable web presence, and the integration of Quicktate with a number of different providers. Legacy projects were developed on CakePHP while reworked projects were developed on Zend Framework.
Chris co-founded Cerberus Interactive, Inc. with the vision to create a great hosting and web development firm. As the mission evolved, Cerberus became primarily focused on great software consulting and web application user experience. Chris became keenly aware of how to leverage the team's recommendations to make the best decisions to affect the business. As his first foray into consulting and customer management, Chris quickly realized his skill at being able to effectively communicate with the customer while providing them the best possible experience.
Chris helped revamp and rebrand the College's web presence while working with the IT group to overhaul the infrastructure (Windows and UNIX) from the ground-up. Lead a team of 5 employees to develop a web-based conference management software. Achieved successful scrum adoption with the team he managed.
Chris started in Computing & Information Services as a helpdesk support technician by providing technical support not only for Microsoft and Apple products, but also for any Information Technology service provided by Computing & Information Services. However, Chris' most prominent work came when he joined Customer Applications in 2005. There, Chris worked on several high-profile web applications for university customers: an ASP.Net scheduling system for the University Writing Center, a Graduate Student lifecycle management system for the Office of Graduate Studies, and a custom CMS framework built on-top of ASP.Net for the College of Architecture.
As committee chair, I'm responsible for managing the efforts of all of the committee members to ensure pack operations such as funding, outdoor activities, recruiting, and advancement continue thru the year.
The Americas Regional Technology Council helps to advocate for the technical training and advacement of technologists in the Goldman Sachs regional offices. This includes helping to identify and make available new and unique training opportunities that maximize the benefit for the Dallas, Salt Lake City, and Sao Paulo offices.
The Microsoft® MVP Award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. This award was granted due to the quality and frequency by which Chris engaged the technical community through conference and user group presentations. For a full listing of presentations (including ratings), please see his SpeakerRate profile.
Primary responsibility was to manage the content and strategy for the AgileDotNet web site. Managed content submissions and reviews in the development track.
Started the B/CS PHP Users Group due to the lack of a vibrant user group community. Peak membership at 35 members. Coordinates the scheduling of meetings and sponsorship.
Developed and lead a team in the execution of a vision to increase visibility, enthusiasm, and membership enrollment for the IEEE from 2005-2006. Liaison between the IEEE national branch and the student branch.