Bio

Startup friendly. VALUE PROPOSITION ► I am highly effective in infrastructure management and platform development, with extensive experience in Hadoop, Cloud, and AWS solutions. ► My success is driven by my ability to design and implement systems for the benefit of Fortune 500 corporations, overseeing high-profile, complex technical projects. SUMMARY ► Engaging Systems Architect and Application Developer possessing a winning blend of technical expertise, skill in enterprise environments, and practical experience. ► Leverages a unique mix of strategic and analytical expertise, consistently exceeding performance goals by aligning talents and effort with organizational and project objectives. LEADERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS ★ Delivers solid results in the development, testing, deployment, training, and ongoing support of complex platforms. ★ Directed a team developing back-end frameworks to enable the configuration and deployment of Cisco Systems Managed Threat Defense and OpenSOC solutions at client sites.. ★ Built roadmaps for Hadoop cluster deployment, including estimates of cluster capacity and recommendations regarding hardware architecture; re-architected the solution to bolster transaction rates from 50,000 per second to 700,000 per second. ☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ Specialties: Systems Architecture, Application Development, Infrastructure Management, Hadoop, Cloud Services, AWS Solutions, Project Management, Software Design, Fortune 500 Experience, Best Practices, Disaster Recovery ''Chris has excellent knowledge of hardware, networking, Linux and Hadoop. He was very thorough in his work.''