Chris Neil Email & Phone Number

London, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I manage the Canadian division of a global consultancy that helps regulated enterprises migrate to the cloud at scale. Responsibilities include business strategy, regional growth, technical direction, hiring, career growth, resourcing, sales support, and development and review of proposals and contracts. I also provide technical management for complex projects, ensure alignment with co-delivery teams within the broader Amdocs organization, and ensure we delight and exceed our clients’ expectations.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I led high performing teams of cloud consultants to accelerate cloud transformation journeys for our enterprise clients. I also contributed significantly to recruiting and presales efforts, SOW and proposal development, and managing and mentoring other consultants. In a long-term engagement with a large bank, I led a team of 50 cloud engineers that migrated enterprise applications to Azure at large scale.

London, Ontario, Canada

I hired and managed a Cloud Engineering team and built up the Cloud Platform practice from scratch. I designed the cloud solution architecture for a global-scale, multi-tenant, high transaction volume financial services SaaS offering. My team created pipelines for automating the provisioning of Azure infrastructure, helped the development team to modernize and deploy the Java EE application in Kubernetes in Azure, and provided 24x7 operational support.

London, Ontario, Canada

I was a founding member of the Cloud Center of Excellence and was a primary contributor to moving the enterprise from on premise hosting to Azure cloud. I was a key contributor to architecting, designing, and implementing the cloud landing zone for the global organization. I collaborated with product teams around the globe to migrate existing applications to the cloud and ensure new applications were modernized and optimized for cloud deployment.

London, Ontario, Canada

Led the development of XPRESSION™, an n-tier .NET enterprise application that allowed bank tellers to video chat with customers at ATMs and assist them with transactions in real time.

London, Ontario, Canada

Led the development of COMMANDER™, a large n-tier .NET enterprise application suite for remotely managing ATM networks. The application processed hundreds of thousands of real-time ATM transactions daily.

London, Ontario, Canada

Led the development of Developer Workbench™, a .NET desktop application that provided an easy to use graphical interface for customizing complex configuration of ATM terminal software applications.

Austin, Texas, United States

Led the design and development of Arendar™, an enterprise .NET n-tier test data management suite. The product recorded huge data volumes from distributed control systems in real time and generated OLAP-based web reports including six-sigma analysis.Led the design and implementation of CF Assay, a .NET laboratory diagnostic application. The application recorded bioassay data from screening instruments, statistically interpreted the results, and generated patient lab reports.

Austin, Texas, United States

Customized and presented presales demonstrations of Selling Chain™, a large and complex enterprise front office software suite, to senior executives and IT personnel.Managed a strategic reseller partnership worth over $1,000,000 with MAPICS ERP Software.Taught Java and API programming courses to developers of Fortune 500 companies.Led a technical writing team including offshore contractors, greatly improving documentation quality across the entire product suite.

B. Math, Computer Science

B. Ed., Mathematics, Computer Science