Christopher Chase Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, NC, US

- Gives input and guidance on product requirements and user experience based on customer feedback and proofs of concept.- Create working prototypes to validate product user experience and functionality.- Create workshops and demonstrations for customers and internal sales and solution architects.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Served as software architect and staff engineer for Red Hat OpenShift AI Services engineering.- Responsible for OpenShift deployment architecture of open source components as part of the fully supported product and.
• Contributed to four years, two as lead developer, of Red Hat Summit keynote demonstrations. Provided expertise in full stack application architecture, user interface, and server side development. Coordinated efforts.
• As part of the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence at Red Hat, worked on containerized applications built on OpenShift to demonstrate AI and ML technologies and services.
• Worked on OpenShift Ansible Broker which deploys services defined as Ansible Playbook Bundles. Technologies used include Ansible, Python, and Go.
• Worked on the Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer (QCI) for 18 months. An application driving an easy installation experience for RHEV, OpenStack, OpenShift, and CloudForms. QCI used Ruby on Rails and Ember.js as it's.

Maple Plain, MN, US

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of business critical software systems for Fineline Prototyping, the Additive Manufacturing division of Proto Labs. This included the customer portal, CRM, and ERP.
• Worked for the director of Additive Manufacturing designing and implementing several single page web applications using AngularJS and Bootstrap. Other libraries used include jQuery, D3.js, and SockJS (WebSockets for.
• Modified and maintained Ruby on Rails REST services. Technologies included Jbuilder, Active Record, Factory Girl, PostgreSQL.
• Created application administration interfaces in Rails using ActiveAdmin.
• Used Drools Planner (now called OptaPlanner) to automate an np-hard scheduling problem using AI search algorithms.
• Java development consisted of SOAP and REST based web services using Java EE6 and Spring on JBoss AS7 and PostgreSQL.

New York City, NY, US

Responsible for researching, designing, and implementing features and fixes of Windows applications as a member of an agile software development team. Work includes InstallShield, Clarion, SQL.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Company Mentor in an Embedded Transition Team (ETT) in support of the Afghan National Army (ANA). Mentored and advised ANA company commanders and first sergeants in infantry operations. Coordinated, planned, and conducted joint forces training between the ANA company and the ETT

Arlington, Virginia, US

Battalion Air Operations Officer (11/2004 - 12/2005) at Ft. Bragg and during Operation Katrina.Rifle Platoon Leader (01/2004 - 11/2004) at Ft. Bragg and during Operation Iraqi Freedom.Training (07/2002 - 12/2003) included Ranger School, Airborne Jumpmaster, and Infantry Officer courses.

US

Responsible for the design, setup, and execution of automated and manual testing. Also set up and maintained physical machines, webservers, and databases.