Chris Geiss Email & Phone Number

Levittown, Ny, Us

Huntington Station, Ny, Us

I formed Software Strategies & Solutions, Inc. (SSSI) back in 2002 so that I could further develop my consulting service offerings via a formal business entity. SSSI provides software development and consulting services to clients. This includes project management, requirements management, technology evaluation, web site development and custom software development services. One of SSSI’s specialties is developing business intelligence and reporting solutions using Actuate technologies.

Provide system architecture, planning, design and development services for the major applications in their application hosting provider environment for the mystery shopping industry. Provide project management and technology mentoring services on an ongoing basis for their internal development staff and offshore teams in India and Russia.

This company specializes in freight bill pre-audit, carrier payment, and financial/logistics management reporting and I provide Actuate system and report development, web site development, mentoring and administration services on an ongoing basis for their Windows, VAX, Oracle RDB, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server environment.

Performed upgrade research and developed migration plan to take their Java, intranet and internet applications from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Houston, Texas, Us

Worked with their IT department to help develop custom code to modify Actuate reports that were bundled with one of their purchased information management systems.

Provided Actuate development and mentoring services for this client to help them resolve technical issues related to customizing their Actuate based reporting solution for a new client.

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Worked on a team of 3 system architects and with a team of 7 developers and consultants to migrate and convert a fundraising management system from Microsoft Active Server Pages technology, Btrieve and SQL Server 7 to Microsoft .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.

Worked on team of 6 developers and assisted with migration of company’s e-commerce site from ASP to ASP .NET.

New York, New York, Us

Provided consulting services to assist them with the company-wide upgrade from Actuate 5 to 7.

Provided Actuate training, mentoring and development services.

Actuate invited me back to deliver the “Administering Actuate e.Reporting System Volumes” conference session.

Invited back to client to lead company-wide project to upgrade from Actuate 4 to 6.

Wrote several articles for Actuate’s monthly newsletter (with circulation to 20,000 recipients) including the following: •“Capturing the SQL Text for Dynamic Queries”•“How Actuate Reports Process Adhoc Parameter Values and Expressions”•“How to Use Adhoc Parameters in Actuate Reports”•“Managing Actuate Report Design Source Files”•“Naming Conventions for Actuate Basic Report Designs”

Provide Actuate report development services for this client on an as-needed basis. Reports are distributed over the company’s intranet to users who utilize them to manage and gauge the effectiveness of the various insurance programs offered to their clients.

Actuate invited me to develop and deliver a conference session on “Administering Actuate e.Reporting System Volumes.” This session covered the general concepts and detailed information that administrators and developers must understand in order to effectively set up and manage Actuate 6 Report Encyclopedia Volumes. Included many suggestions and best practices based on my own Actuate administration experience.

Worked two days a week on site to help the company implement their Actuate 5 e.Reporting system on Windows NT and Sybase System 11.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Silicon Graphics, Inc. Worked remotely from my home office as the architect and lead developer for the SGI Quote Print System built around the Clarify CRM system running on Oracle 8 developed to distribute hardware support contract quotations to SGI customers around the world.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Silicon Graphics, Inc. Responsible for architecting, implementing and administering Actuate e.Reporting Suite 3.x reporting system in Windows NT, Clarify, and Oracle 8 environment.

Responsible for architecting and implementing Actuate e.Reporting Suite 3.x reporting system in HP-UX 10 (6 CPU) and Oracle 8 environment.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Mentored and trained internal developers on how to effectively use Actuate e.Reporting Suite 3.x for internal and Internet based information delivery for partners such as CompUSA.

While gearing up for an independent consulting practice, worked on a personally funded project to develop a database driven web site, used to get trained on Microsoft tools and technologies for Internet development.

Reston, Va, Us

Responsible for performing IT consulting functions for company's clients, including requirements analysis, technology evaluation and recommendation, mentoring, systems analysis, and software design, prototyping, implementation and testing.

Member of team responsible for developing software applications and maintaining information processing and communications infrastructure required to support over 50 mutual fund clients.

Center Valley, Pennsylvania, Us

Managed the development of a Windows-based patient record and medical image management system.

Frederick, Md, Us

Developed PC software systems in ‘C’ to add flexibility and capability to mainframe-based laboratory information management systems. Included software to handle data collection from intelligent lab instruments and communications between the instruments and mainframe host.

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Developed custom software for this high precision electronic components manufacturer.