Experience

Clinical Trial Media

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Protiviti

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director

  • Oct 2020 - Mar 2022

  As an Associate Director my job is to wear as many hats as needed to ensure the success of my clients and my teams. I am the link between the business and the technology teams providing a mix of technical skills for individual contribution on my teams, while providing leadership to engineers and managers, and building the technical strategy and roadmap to support the business goals. My responsibilities include: • Building and maintaining relationships across the organization and our client organizations • Developing strategy for internal and external projects across multiple technologies and disciplines • Developing and Growing direct reports through goal planning, mentorship, and delegation • Design, Recommend and Enforce Application, Cloud, or Enterprise architectures • Understand Customer needs beyond what they say and building solutions and teams to solve their needs above their expected results. • Remote management of globally distributed teams • Develop software in multiple languages depending on client needs • Implement DevOps strategy to improve quality in cross-functional teams.



A Medical Device Company

• Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Application Architect (Consultant)

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2020

  Client was looking for performance improvement opportunities in their legacy software to support their new software. Evaluated the current application landscape and provided recommendations for each pain point along with a long term solution for improved performance capabilities. Provided additional alternate options for data transfer to enable workflow within application constraints. Implemented database and webservice tuning to increase overall performance until long term solution can be implemented within project scheduling.



Capgemini

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director

  • Jan 2017 - Oct 2020

  As a Director within Sogeti I have a proven track record of leadership within my office, and throughout the heartland region. I am regularly focused on the growth of employees reporting to me and driving decisions for new technology areas within my unit. My responsibilities include:- Working with strategic clients on business critical projects focusing on strategic ways of using IT and DevOps to benefit the business stakeholders- Collaborating with the GVP on technologies we should pursue and train employees in while also coaching the personal growth of consultants- Meeting with and strategizing with partner vendors on how we can work together to grow initiatives and revenue- Key decision maker on hiring activities within the unit at all levels of seniority- Plan and lead technical sales efforts with business development team to win new business and extensions winning $10MM+ in new business annually- Build pricing models for projects to maintain budget and margin, and negotiate statements of work with potential clients- Work with global cross-functional teams to deliver projects within budget- Lead technical discussions with clients to help drive their internal strategy on emerging technologies and agile/DevOps process.- Manage staffing and budget forecasts within my practice- Deliver Architecture solutions and review work product for less senior team members- Deliver results within the unit to measured KPIs and Revenue goals.

• Senior Manager

  • Dec 2014 - Jan 2017

  As a senior manager I am part of the leadership team for my geographical unit helping to shape and drive our areas of focus, build client relationships, propose new solutions, and grow the talent within my company and clients. My responsibilities include:-- Working with client stakeholders to identify business needs; define scope, resources, schedule, deliverables, goals, risks, contingencies and milestones for each project; and gather requirements for new software or enhancements to existing software.-- Collaborating as a trusted thought partner with application owners and stakeholders to find leading edge yet cost-effective solutions-- Directing team members in writing business-requirements documentation, design documentation, and testing documentation.-- Leading project teams to ensure quality and on-time delivery, making technical recommendations to the functional owners when appropriate, and taking stakeholder input to come up with creative solutions with high-quality results-- Managing stakeholders' expectations, while building credibility with senior stakeholders through a strong business sense-- Managing application roadmaps and strategy, maintaining the feature backlog, and coordinating releases -- Analyzing various customer requirements, designing solution architectures, and developing the business case for new product development-- Communicating effectively with the clients, including providing status reports and KPI dashboards to ensure project success-- Participating in budgeting processes and quality improvement activities for the organization -- Mentoring staff on their training and development plans, performing quarterly reviews, and provide feedback towards raises and bonuses-- Participating in the interviewing, hiring, and retention process within my company, -- Providing insight towards consultant staff including on-boarding recommendations to clients.-- Working with cross-functional teams located locally, remotely, and off-shore.

• Managing Consultant

  • Dec 2012 - Dec 2014

  Managing multiple development teams to deliver superior software solutions utilizing Microsoft technologies. Mentoring newer developers to improve their skill set and code practices. Providing technology and solution advice to clients.

• Senior Consultant

  • May 2011 - Dec 2012

  Senior Developer and Technical Leader on various client applications and websites for the entire Microsoft Stack. Regularly leading the push towards modernization at clients and developing new and innovative ways to solve problems is the role I strive for always. C#; .Net 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, WCF; WPF; MVC Razer; Sql Server 2012, 2008, 2005, TFS; Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ); Agile Development



An Insurance Broker

• Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States

• Application Architect (consultant)

  • Oct 2019 - May 2020

  Client was looking to implement a new integration platform to synchronize data with a new external partner to streamline their business process while increasing the accuracy of their customer data. As part of this project, Chris managed a 3 person team and provided architectural and industry advice to a second team. Between the two teams, a .Net Core website for mapping custom data between systems, and a mapping API System was built using Azure Service bus, Storage blobs, Logic Apps and On-Prem processing services. Chris's Responsibilities Included: - Gathering Requirements and designing the Mapping Website to build a graphic mapping tool for business users - Guide Architectural decisions on implementing a public facing portal with challenging IT policy - Oversee development work, including code reviews, design sessions, sprint planning, and testing - Implement DevOps Process for deployment of solution using Git-Flow patterns - Manage Direction and expectations of project for client. Technologies Used or influenced within client: - .Net Core MVC; Bootstrap; SQL 2016 - Azure: Service Bus & Queues, Logic Apps, Storage Account/blob, ARM templates, key vault, User access - Application Insights + Serilog w/ Alerts - Azure DevOps w/ Octopus - Applied Epic BDE & SDK



An Automove Auction Company

• United States, Canada, UK

• Project Manager and Architect (consultant)

  • Apr 2019 - Oct 2019

  Client was looking to merge systems between multiple divisions into a single, multi-tenant system across global geographies. Lead the cross functional consulting team to gather requirements from additional divisions for integration into the selected system, provided architectural guidance for implementation of technology and future multi tenant cloud enablement. Client was looking to merge systems between multiple divisions into a single, multi-tenant system across global geographies. Lead the cross functional consulting team to gather requirements from additional divisions for integration into the selected system, provided architectural guidance for implementation of technology and future multi tenant cloud enablement.



A job search company

• Greater Chicago Area

• Assessment Architect (consultant)

  • Nov 2018 - Jan 2019

  Client was looking to evaluate some internal systems for a technology update for business enablement. Sogeti was contacted to review the technical stack and the business landscape and recommend an alternative to their technology or business to enable future goals. Chris's Responsibilities included: - Guiding the workshops to make productive use of client time - Guide architectural decisions within the evaluation response, and within the workshops - Build an extensive response document outlining the findings and recommendations for the client - Present multiple solutions and highlighting the decisions made during the process - Perform Build vs. Buy gap analysis



An Automotive Auction Company

• multiple

• Assessment Architect (consultant)

  • Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

  Client was looking to streamline the work and application stack from three divisions into a common global platform for current and future work, and wanted a short-term outside evaluation to help justify their internal strategies. As part of this project, Chris worked as part of a 2 person assessment team to evaluate 12 applications, interview 20 participants and work through 60 hours of workshops to identify pain points and areas for consolidation, improvement, and future capabilities. Chris's Responsibilities included: - Guiding the workshops to make productive use of client time - Guide architectural decisions within the evaluation response, and within the workshops - Build an extensive response document outlining the findings and recommendations for the client - Present multiple solutions and highlighting the decisions made during the process - Perform Build vs. Buy gap analysis Technologies used or influenced within client: - Powerpoint - Cloud Architecture - Multi-Geo deployment strategies - Salesforce Configuration vs Customization



Education Retailer

• Greater Chicago Area

• DevOps Architect & Program Manager (consultant)

  • Nov 2017 - Sep 2018

  Client contracted Sogeti to perform a massive transformation of their entire e-commerce and school-bookstore system transforming from WebSphere commerce to a modern angular website with micro-services architecture driving towards an overall goal of modernization and the ability to accelerate their time to market. As part of this process, they were looking for guidance one Agile/DevOps transformation and tool selections for improved deployment speed and collaboration. Chris’s Responsibilities included: - Guiding the DevOps teams from client and multiple 3rd parties on building automated Build, Deployment, and Testing Pipelines, including static code analysis, and automated environment promotions. - Guiding the tools selection to meet the process changes through the project - Providing overall technical guidance for the 150-person team - Management of timelines for infrastructure and systems integration - Ownership of technical process for delivery - Trusted advisor for client teams updating their internal and external processes to match new application. - Member of the PMO team guiding overall process and timelines Technologies used or influenced within client: - Angular 5, Node.js, REDIS, Bootstrap - Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx - MS Teams, Jira, Bitbucket - Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, NPM Packaging, Maven - AEM, Certona, IBM Private Cloud w/ Managed Total Commerce (MTC)



An Insurance Company

• Greater Chicago Area

• Enterprise Solutions Architect (consultant)

  • Jan 2017 - Nov 2017

  Client was looking for someone with extensive architecture and leadership experience to come in to help guide multiple projects in flight, mostly around migration to their new SharePoint platforms. Chris worked within three main project teams to guide the architecture of the new SharePoint sites, including the company’s main internal portal.. Chris also worked on a new initiative to better bridge their partnerships with brokers via a new middle market broker portal for international travel. Chris’s Responsibilities included: - Guiding the architecture and design of the Client Digital Workspace, serving all 15,000 USA and Canada employees. - Guiding the architecture and process behind the main migration of over 5000 lotus notes applications into SharePoint sites. - Delivery Oversight and Management of the Team building the Middle Market Portal a quick-hit project designed to improve relations with a segment of Partner Brokers - Member of the Account Leadership team helping to guide the overall team across all client projects. - Introduced and gave guidance on setting up a DevOps-As-A-Service division within the Operations team and started them on a journey towards Agile Transformation. - Provided overall Guidance and Architecture recommendations on O365 remediation and migration - Trusted Advisor to the Client regarding future project roadmaps Technologies used or influenced at the client: - SharePoint 2013 & O365 - SQL 2016 - .NET 4.5; MVC4, Bootstrap - Lotus Notes - Quest & DocAve - TFS & VSTS



A Medical Device Company

• Greater Chicago Area

• Assessment Lead (consultant)

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Client was facing issues with rewriting an add-in for their document generation system and wanted additional oversight. The application was being developed in VBA to support custom activities the business used for creating legal documentation, and the client was losing confidence with missed dates and low quality demos. Client contacted Sogeti to have someone brought in to review and assess the work from the existing developer and made recommendations on cleanup and the go-forward path. After spending a few weeks with the developer and business which included code reviews and application demos, requirements evaluation with the product owners, and re-estimation of the work compared to the deadlines it was determined that the exiting development work was not meeting requirements, and was not able to support enterprise standards of development. An attempt was made to bring in additional resources to try and salvage the code and minimize the rework, but to no avail. A final solution was proposed, recommending a small development team writing a VSTO add-in that would meet all requirements. The solution was viewed as an answer to the problems, but management decided not to spend additional money on a custom solution so it wasn't able to be implemented. Key Technologies used or directly influenced within the client: - VBA for Word - GitHub - VSTO



An Insurance Broker

• Itasca, Illinois

• Client Partner (consultant)

  • Sep 2011 - Feb 2017

  Excelling as a leader in the company, my responsibilities include teaching and mentoring other consultants at their daily job, while growing the Sogeti brand through sales support and client relationships. Every day brings a new opportunity for me to grow while helping others to excel at their career. It starts with teaching junior coworkers about new technologies; or better, more robust, scalable ways to write .Net code. From there, I help them grow their career into something that they can be proud of through mentoring them on skills such as communication, estimation, time-management, and leadership. With this responsibility, also comes the typical management responsibilities of maintaining budget and timelines on projects which I oversee. I have an additional challenge leading consultants as I have two budgets to try and balance with each other while ensuring the dates committed to are met. The hardest part of my job is having to correct employees when they aren't meeting company or client expectations, but I do it because I believe its another opportunity for someone to learn and grow. My responsibilities also include working closely with the CxO and Director level employees at Client sites to build trust and partnerships with Sogeti. I do this by discovering their needs and helping to find the right type of consultant for the client's environment and technical landscape. I continue to build the relationships by constantly re-evaluating the consultants delivering for the client to find the best cost-benefit for the client, while also maintaining the career growth the consultant desires. Key Technologies used or directly influenced within the client: - .Net 3.5-4.5; WPF, WCF, MVC4 Razer - Angular 2 - WebAPI & SignalR - Waterfall to Agile transformation - DevOps Process w/ TFS, TeamCity, Octopus, Telerik Analytics - SQL 2008-2016 - SharePoint 2007-2013



An office Supply Wholesaler

• Greater Chicago Area

• Lead Developer (consultant)

  • May 2011 - Sep 2011

  Client was automating its syndication process which is instrumental in publishing their current pricing for over 4000 price plans in their catalog system to enable their published distributions to go from quarterly to weekly. Chris was brought in to lead a small team to create the internal website used for setting up and maintaining the syndication profiles. A 15-page wizard was created, along with creating technical specifications specific to the website, and detailed system test plans. Chris’ responsibilities included: - Guiding the Client team in their website development. - Holding regular meetings with developers to ensure that development was on track and that the developers were using best practices on their web forms. - Creating technical and functional specifications to meet the customer’s needs. - Creating detailed test plans for testing in a development environment and further expanding into a system test plan. - Leading by example by developing some of the web forms, business objects, and templates. - Assisting Customer with database design Technologies used or influenced at the client include: VB.Net 1.1, ASP.NET, SQL 2005



Arch Insurance Group Inc.

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • Mar 2007 - May 2011

  Contributor and Lead developer on several applications and websites to support the Insurance workflow ( Account, Submission, Rating, Quoting, Binding, Policy Issuance ). Strongly lead the push into new technologies as they came out including VS2008, VS2010, and Windows7 by providing R&D on emerging technologies. Lead Developer on Sharepoint 2010 R&D and initial deployment for cross-marketing reporting tool. C#; .Net 4.0, 3.5, 2.0, 1.1; Web; Winform; WF; WCF; WPF; Office Suite Integration with Visual Studio Tools for Office ( VSTO ); Sql Server 2008, 2005, 2003; Citrix; Sharepoint 2010; TFS; Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ); CSLA; Rapid Prototyping Methodology; Excel; VBA; Agile Development



Omron Industrial Automation Europe

• Netherlands
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineer/Programmer

  • Sep 2004 - Mar 2007

  Design, engineer, and develop code for Production robotic assembly and production robotic testing equipment installed in various foreign and domestic vehicles. Contribute to R&D on new product lines and machinery. C#, VB.NET, VB6, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0 Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), SQLServer, AutoDesk Inventor, Network Design, Multithreading, Barcode Scanner Integration, Server-Client methodology, Screen Room, Thermal Shock / Environmental Chambers, Vibe Table plotting, Laser Programming, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layout, PC Design, Robotics, EEPROM, R&D



Verizon Airfone

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technician

  • Feb 2004 - Jul 2004

  Maintenance, Testing, and Troubleshooting of in-flight telecommunications equipment and data computers. Linux, VBA, Electronic Theory Maintenance, Testing, and Troubleshooting of in-flight telecommunications equipment and data computers. Linux, VBA, Electronic Theory



Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assembler

  • Jan 2003 - Jul 2003

  Assemble and Test Mobile communication radios and emergency vehicle siren generators on a manual production line Assemble and Test Mobile communication radios and emergency vehicle siren generators on a manual production line



NXP acquires Freescale Semiconductor

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Technician

  • Jan 2000 - Mar 2002

  Develop Testing methodology and automated testing devices for automotive semiconductors in used in automotive control computers. Excel, VBA, C++, Electronic Circuit Design, Develop Testing methodology and automated testing devices for automotive semiconductors in used in automotive control computers. Excel, VBA, C++, Electronic Circuit Design,