Chris Beeman Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Manage IT and digital marketing platforms including the TripCaddie.com website, Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn/X/YouTube social media accounts, email marketing campaigns, paid advertising and promotions. Serve as brand ambassador for the company and as host for Ready-Made Golf Trips. Produce, direct and star in video promotions for TripCaddie and resort partners. Manage sales and bookings for Ready-Made Golf Trips and custom buddy golf trip packages. Develop and manage The Golf Trip Manager web application on TripCaddie.com.

IT and Digital Marketing lead on a contract basis. Developed and managed the website on a WordPress cloud-hosted platform. Social media manager for the @TripCaddie and @TheGolfTripAuthorityPodcast accounts on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn. Brand ambassador and host of Ready-Made Golf Trips.

Design, develop, market and manage web sites, digital marketing and social media accounts for several clients including TripCaddie (https://tripcaddie.com/), Homestretch Golf (https://homestretchgolf.com), TheGrint Tour NC (https://instagram.com/thegrinttournc) and Tommy’s VIP Tours (https://tommysviptours.com/). Serve as a brand ambassador for several golf-related businesses, including Buca Belts (https://bucabelts.com/), SketchGolf Co (https://instagram.com/sketchgolfofficial), and TheGrint Tour (https://thegrinttour.com/).

Design, develop, market and manage day-to-day operation of several sports web sites, including a golf guide for local area golf courses (The B-Man’s Guide to Golf in Charlotte, NC, https://golf.bman.com/) and a football pool web site that averages over 10,000 players a week (The NFL Picks Page, http://www.nflpickspage.com/). The sites run in the cloud on my own custom-built LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

New York, New York, Us

Technology project solutions manager on contract assignment in the Digital Sales & Servicing Technology group at Bank of America.

New York, New York, Us

Consult with industry leading IT companies on their sales techniques and strategies for their target accounts. Engagements last 1 week to 1 month.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Senior technology leader for Ally Financial directing the strategic Oracle database and engineered system platforms supporting the Ally Bank, Auto, Dealer, Corporate Services and Information Protection & Risk Management business units. • Launched a 3-year initiative to migrate over 500 Oracle Database instances to the Oracle Exadata engineered platform to provide world class availability, resiliency and performance for Ally’s mission critical data. • Day to day management of the Oracle and Oracle platinum re-seller / professional services vendor relationships including contracts, vendor staff, SOW engagements, technical support, HW/SW licensing, and escalation of issues.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Operations Director for the Business Accountability Team of Engineering & Operations, leading a team of dedicated service delivery managers assigned to each CIO business unit coordinating all infrastructure operations and change activity. Served as the overall E&O single point of contact and accountability lead for the Ally Bank and Digital Channel Technology CIO’s.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Director of the dedicated infrastructure engineering and operations team (6 FTE, 2 contractors) for Ally Invest (formerly TradeKing) post-acquisition to onboard the brokerage platforms to Ally standard tools and procedures including monitoring, change management and configuration management.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Platform director of the database system engineering and operations team for Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP BusinessObjects.• Negotiated a 3 year, $20MM software contract with Oracle to establish unlimited licensing rights and price holds on all software maintenance after performing a detailed license footprint and 3-year projection analysis to weigh the costs, benefits and ROI.• Led the Oracle Database 12c upgrade of over 100 database instances across all business units.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Senior technology leader for Ally Financial managing the enterprise middleware platforms supporting the Ally Bank, Auto, Dealer and Corporate Services business units.• Established an engineering and operations team of over 40 FTE and contractors (from 5) supporting web, application, load-balancing and DNS infrastructure.• Technology platforms included Oracle (Weblogic and OSB), Red Hat (JBOSS, Tomcat, Apache, and Fuse), F5 and Infoblox.• Led a 6-month Oracle Weblogic license reconciliation effort that resulted in $500k in annual maintenance support savings.• Led the middleware engagement and execution for the 18 month, $2MM enterprise datacenter consolidation and application migration initiatives for the Dealer Financial Services and Corporate Technology business units.• Proposed and implemented innovative technologies to advance monitoring (AppDynamics) and automation (uDeploy) capabilities within the infrastructure operations group.• Proposed and executed a plan to migrate Oracle Weblogic applications to Red Hat JBOSS to reduce hardware and software licensing costs.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Senior technology leader for Ally Bank managing the delivery of projects supporting the US Bank and eCommerce lines of business.• Led a team of 8 technology delivery managers and an environment management team of 20 FTE’s and contractors – responsible for coordinating all aspects of Bank releases and deployments.• Led the 15 month $5MM migration project to move 35 Bank & Auto applications to Ally-hosted datacenters.• Led the implementation of a second Production swim lane for Bank applications, dramatically reducing major release deployment times.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Senior Service Delivery Manager in the eCommerce Technology Operations group overseeing resiliency, stability and metrics initiatives and supporting the Bank's eCommerce platform.• Managed an $8MM portfolio of technology-funded initiatives and analysis of operational metrics to drive improvements in platform stability and performance.• Developed and implemented an operational readiness plan in 2011 for the Bank’s first truly native Mobile apps for iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows 7 and Blackberry platforms - including staffing, monitoring, capacity, traffic management, runbooks, triage playbooks, knowledge transfer, metrics and reporting.• Led the $1MM Active-Active implementation of a 2nd live datacenter for the Credit Card Online Banking application in 2010 including the deployment of 10 net new AIX and Solaris servers across 2 datacenters -- realized a 48% reduction in failures YOY.• Led the $1.5MM implementation of the Tealeaf customer experience monitoring toolset in 2008-09 including the deployment of 54 net new Linux and Windows servers across 3 datacenters -- reduced eCommerce platform failures by over 750,000.• Led the $1.5MM implementation of the Compuware Vantage Agentless Monitoring toolset in 2008-09 including the deployment of 82 net new Linux and Windows servers across 3 datacenters.• Led the $1.75MM conversion of 5 major sales & fulfillment applications on Bankofamerica.com from ColdFusion to J2EE Websphere in 2008-09 -- enabling the Bank to retire no-longer-supported vendor applications and infrastructure and leading to a 42% reduction in failures for the platform.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Senior Service Delivery Consultant serving as relationship manager for the www.bankofamerica.com Sales & Fulfillment technology team, supporting Enterprise Sales and other lines of business. Served as primary technology liaison for senior business partners and coordinated all technology change initiatives for assigned segments from maintenance to small enhancement to large scale projects.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Senior Technology Manager leading the Strategic Technology Group within eCommerce Technology, Sales & Fulfillment (www.bankofamerica.com web site).• Led the web site platform conversion initiative (NGEN), migrating from ColdFusion to J2EE / Java – a $5MM+ project spanning 18+ months. In addition to stability and functionality enhancements, this project eliminated the need for costly upgrades ($6MM) on an existing, no-longer-supported vendor platform.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Operations Manager leading the operations and production support team for the www.bankofamerica.com web site and applications. • Responsible for daily/weekly content and application updates to the web site, process documentation, standards review and enforcement, test environment management, change management and workflow applications, on-call production support, release management, error monitoring and reporting, system upgrades, systems integration related to acquisitions and mergers, etc. • Led improvements and process changes that achieved Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2 certification for the eCommerce Technology team in 2004. • Improved availability of the web site by 35%, reducing defects per million opportunities (DPMO) from 124 in 2004 to 81 in 2005. • Integrated a Global Delivery model for web site maintenance support in 2004 and managed an on- and off-shore team of 10 resources.• Led the merger of website operations during the Fleet Boston (2004) and MBNA (2005) acquisitions.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Web Developer and Support Manager leading the design, development, and operational support for the Bank's customer-facing web site, www.BankofAmerica.com (www.NationsBank.com before 1999), including development of the Bank’s first online account application and fulfillment systems as well as several web-based operational support tools.• Transition leadership (1998-1999), overseeing the integration of all internet applications for Bank of America and NationsBank.

Software consultant, designer and developer. Quality assurance and functional testing lead for several projects. Designed / developed internal skills inventory database application in MS Access used by entire company. Designed / developed internet web pages and applications for NationsBank.