Christopher Garrett-Kern

Chief Technology Officer at Confidential Employer
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Technology Officer
      • Apr 2020 - Present

      • Assembled and maintains top-notch team of developers for seminal start-up with unique business model • Brought full-featured prototype product into working Beta within 9 months • Increased revenue 25% year-over-year for Beta client; income directly related to use of product. • Brought Beta into MVP; started receiving subscribers on a multi-tenant, multi-business-model platform • Assembled and maintains top-notch team of developers for seminal start-up with unique business model • Brought full-featured prototype product into working Beta within 9 months • Increased revenue 25% year-over-year for Beta client; income directly related to use of product. • Brought Beta into MVP; started receiving subscribers on a multi-tenant, multi-business-model platform

    • United States
    • Leasing Real Estate
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Technology Development Consultant (part time)
      • Nov 2019 - Apr 2020

      • Assessed globally diverse talent resources for growth and sustainability • Provided comparative cost/benefit assessments, recommendations on prospective technological development roadmaps • Architected technological solutions (Cloud, RDBMS, APIs) as appropriate • Provided training and mentoring to in-house development staff • Assessed globally diverse talent resources for growth and sustainability • Provided comparative cost/benefit assessments, recommendations on prospective technological development roadmaps • Architected technological solutions (Cloud, RDBMS, APIs) as appropriate • Provided training and mentoring to in-house development staff

    • United States
    • Real Estate
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director, Web Development & Programming
      • Nov 2011 - Oct 2019

      • Realized C-Suite visions through key impactful contributions to technological development. Removed or circumvented obstacles through effective communication and decisive leadership• Implemented varied ideation and innovation development models from top-down Waterfall/SME to Agile/Scrum with optional prototyping• Oversaw capturing, storage, and use of high-complexity core datasets in an RDBS context, with daily functional instances (rows) numbering in the millions• Served as lead compliance officer for data license issues, public-facing display requirements, PCI, GDPR/CCPA, and email marketing. Defined and administered enterprise-wide data governance policies• Ensured top-level performance within budgetary limitations on Key Performance Indicators using analytics suites. Provided periodic recommendations on budgetary demands to C Level• Managed domain-asset portfolio, including defensive mark protection across TLDs• Defined and administered Continuous Improvement program for changing SEO Best Practices, social media engagement, and online advertising campaigns, helping fuel steady growth across all channels• Oversaw day-to-day operations of internal development group, including dedicated Project Managers, providing hands-on workload prioritization and triage of exigencies for coding team• Managed broad portfolio of products, from web-based marketing tools to standalone apps (iOS and Android), resulting in eventual licensing of “Pl@tform” to other businesses within real estate sector.• Managed UX/UI development-and-improvement for website and platform within an adaptive display context, leading company into Mobile First/Mobile Always age• Reviewed and negotiated contracts with Multiple Listing Services and third-party service providers• Transformed inherited procedural code to Laravel framework on AWS and served as high-level Cloud-solutions engineer Show less

    • Senior Web Developer
      • Oct 2006 - Nov 2011

      • Delivered front- and back-end development of web-based services using LAMP stack, fueling explosive 1000% agent-recruitment growth in five years• Built company Intranet from the ground up, including monitoring of listings, statistics compilation, email notifications, and interactive services such as event scheduling & registration• Innovated interactive WYSIWYG print-marketing proof builder, including interface with in-house print center and delivery services, reducing support-staff-per-agent ratio from 1:10 to 1:7 in first year active• Developed purpose-built, highly integrated CRM featuring multi-functional interactions such as lead fielding, gift giving, drip campaigns, client search-pattern monitoring, and subscription management• Created independent email campaign functionality, including engagement analysis & reporting• Integrated lead fielding from diverse Syndication Partners and other sources into logical routing engine• Built and oversaw generation and administration of daily XML feeds to partner websites• Fielded product-related help-desk issues and improvement requests from 2,800+ real estate agents Show less

    • Programmer & Website Designer/Developer
      • Aug 2002 - Oct 2006

      • Provided extensive programming in PHP for two large e-commerce websites selling over 250,000 items online, interacting with Skipjack and Paypal payment processing systems • Wrote backend processes for adding, standardizing, and deprecating 195,000 product images within a Linux file system; optimized on-demand delivery to dynamically generated web pages • Innovated early Computer Vision methodology to brand images and determine general content • Created CSS-based anti-download mechanism for product images, providing due-diligence copyright protection, resulting in 0% financial losses due to legal challenges • Served as chief image copyright compliance officer • Managed inventory database of 1MM+ on- and off-market products, with daily updates for availability, options, and promotions • Oversaw periodic UX/UI redesign of websites, implementing changes as decided • Extensive use of Adobe Creative Suite (primarily Photoshop and Illustrator) to prepare graphics & images for Web use • Integrated sites via XML feeds with online marketplaces and service providers Show less

Education

  • California Institute of the Arts
    Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management
    1982 - 1984
  • Bowling Green State University
    BAC, Communications/ComputerScience
    1978 - 1982
  • Findlay High School

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