Chris Prysock Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

Greater St. Louis Area

Provides delivery leadership and Agile coaching expertise to assist clients in solving their business challenges with technology solutions.

Greater St. Louis Area

Assists in the development of technology solutions for clients to solve business problems.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Business owner/proprietor of a brick & mortar retail store specializing in non-electronic tabletop games.
• Responsible for developing strategic and operational initiatives including retail store management, event scheduling, and community outreach efforts
• Managed product inventory including determining product-line viability and weekly ordering
• Performed human resources requirements and management for a staff of ten employees
• Negotiated a contract to supply programming services for a national touring convention event corporation
• Developed utility applications to assist with resource library management and supplementary reporting from a third-party point-of-sale system.Environment: VB.NET, SQL Server

Greater St. Louis Area

• Assignment: EMERSON ELECTRIC (07/2005 – 08/2008)Performed project management tasks for enterprise-wide application implementation and support.
• Responsible for managing on-shore and off-shore resources during customization, implementation and on-going support of a third-party application providing profitability analysis of sales quotation and pricing.
• Conducted regularly scheduled status meetings with support staff and division liaisons to monitor progress on implementations and open issues providing management with the results via status reports
• Determined new hardware infrastructure requirements based upon application growth and developed migration plans to ensure smooth transition to minimize impact to the divisions
• Tracked software licensing requirements for application middleware and supported third-party audit verification efforts to confirm compliance
• Reported application up-time performance metrics based upon corporate guidelinesEnvironment: JAVA, Oracle

• Developed.NET applications to support the banking industry.
• Participated in designing database structures based upon supplied application requirements
• Utilized VB.NET to develop client software to support banking teller operations.Environment: VB.NET, SQL Server, Web Services

Greater St. Louis Area

• Assignment: BJC HEALTHCARE (04/2003 – 01/2005)Designed, developed and implemented client applications and utilities for Electronic Document Management Systems used to scan, store and retrieve clinical and registration.
• Participated in gathering requirements, defining scope and designing application architecture
• Used VB.NET and Web Services architecture to develop a point of service client application to scan driver’s licenses, insurance cards and other supporting registration documentation
• Designed and developed a document maintenance client that enabled the ability to scan document modifications which were then sent via MQ Series to be stored in the enterprise DB2 repository utilizing document versioning
• Modified existing commercial batch scanning application to meet the needs of the organization
• Developed utility applications to automate and assist with administration, maintenance and audit tasksEnvironment: VB.NET, Visual Basic, SQL Server, DB2, TWAIN, MQ Series, Web ServicesAssignment: BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD.

• Developed front-end and middle-tier components for Internet applications involved in tracking and reporting high school sports statistics for consumer and print industry use.
• Developed and maintained web pages to enable affiliates to enter completed game statistics
• Developed and maintained stored procedures to calculate team & roster season summary statistics
• Extended B2B exporter front-end and middle-tier module functionality to include the ability for the print industry client to specify alternative transport methods such as email and FTPEnvironment: ASP, Visual Basic.

• Assignment: SAVVIS COMMUNICATIONS (04/1999 – 07/2000)
• Developed database driven Intranet applications to support order processing history and operational requirements.
• Environment: ASP, Visual Basic, SQL Server, MTS, 3-tiered architectureAssignment: SOUTHWESTERN BELL (06/1998 – 03/1999)
• Provided production support and developed enhancements to systems that provided interfaces between the in-house legacy systems and a commercial asset management package.
• Environment: Visual Basic, SQL ServerAssignment: MASTERCARD, INC. (02/1998 – 05/1998)
• Provided business analyst support and automated testing script development for a client developed generic data repository system.

• Performed management role for client/server development team.
• Managed development staff numbering up to 20 individuals comprised of both employees and contractors
• Supported sales staff by preparing time, cost and resource quotations for new business opportunities
• Managed staff utilization by matching development staff based upon availability and skill set to appropriate projects based upon customer requirements
• Actively involved in driving the company technical architecture direction for project implementation including specifying development tools and infrastructureEnvironment: Visual Basic, SQL Server, Microsoft Access

• Responsible for design, development and implementation of client/server and mainframe-based incentive award systems for external customers.
• Determined project requirements and provided projected cost quotations as requested by resource manager
• Performed team lead role to develop a 3-tier Visual Basic/SQL Server based system for major eastern region client. Project responsibilities included: determining resource requirements, producing development phase.

Greater Chicago Area

• Supplied technical support for international financial software vendor supporting General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Inventory Management systems.
• Provided technical expertise for pre- and post-sales support including sales presentations, configuration of client-server implementations and system customization at customer sites
• Installed and configured Software AG and Consist Financial products on numerous client-server configuration platforms including UNIX (SCO & HP-UX), Windows NT and Windows 3.x
• Responsible for the design and development of proof of concept prototypes using Visual Basic integrating imaging and workflow features with financial software suite based upon customer business requirements and practices
• Planned and managed a project to develop an Internet World Wide Web presence coordinating a multi-national project teamEnvironment: Natural/ADABAS, Visual Basic

• Responsible for development of operational systems to support the National Survey Group.
• Completely redesigned, developed and implemented an Accounts Receivable/Client Data management system using Natural/ADABAS
• Developed data input and validation systems for a number of compensation surveys using the Clipper programming language
• Applied statistical tools developed in SAS and Survey Master to produce survey results used by corporate consultants and marketed to companies in related industries
• Served as the department office technology coordinator responsible for PC network administration/support, software and hardware acquisition/installationEnvironment: Natural/ADABAS, Clipper, SAS

• Developed and supported applications to support the operational aspects of the business.
• Provided primary production support of the inventory control and inventory management systems and secondary support of direct mail returns, dealer services and secondary market exchange systems
• Restructured and modified the physical inventory subsystem with an efficiency increase of 800%
• Instrumental in the formation of an internal developers group founded to further the education of the MIS staff on the effective uses of NaturalEnvironment: Natural/ADABAS, COBOL, MVS JCL

• Provided mainframe production support and developed system enhancements.
• Monitored batch job schedule, provided abend support and performed maintenance on all application areas including: Inventory Control, Sales History and Payroll
• Provided primary technical and educational support of company-wide personal computers, including recommending purchase, selection and installation
• Implemented an EDI system to receive purchase order releases and submit shipment information with automotive industry customers conforming to the established AIAG standards
• Completed preliminary analysis of a statistical process control system to monitor the manufacturing plant's quality assurance dataEnvironment: COBOL, MVS JCL, dBase III