Most of Christopher’s career has been doing technology consulting for clients such as Case Corporation, Wheat First Securities, and the National Weather Service. Chris wrote a medical malpractice claims management SaaS called iReserve that is still used daily over a decade later. Training became a significant part of Christopher’s work and he wrote and taught classes in Linux, UNIX, shell scripting, and Perl. Students came from Capital One, the Federal Reserve, Northrup-Grumman, and every branch of the US military including the Coast Guard. When Christopher took a day job he joined Yahoo! Search to manage 100,000 servers with a global team of 12 people. Then Chris went to Pasadena for OpenX where he migrated them out of EC2 into physical data centers that have grown to 5000 servers from zero in three years. Christopher is also an Eagle Scout and has an Amateur Radio License.
Listed skills include Linux, Perl, Unix, Mysql, and 42 others.