Chris Kimmel Email & Phone Number

Carencro, La, Us

Lafayette, La, Us

As Chief Innovation Officer at the Informatics Research Institute (IRI) of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, I work to bridge the gap between academic research and practical applications. My role focuses on:* Building Partnerships: I foster strong relationships with industry and government partners to develop research that meets real-world needs.* Driving Innovation: I help translate our research into valuable products and services for the marketplace.* Enhancing Research Impact: I work closely with partners to improve the quality and relevance of our research.* Developing Future Talent: I create opportunities for students to gain practical experience through industry internships.* Leading Projects: I oversee projects that advance the Institute's mission and goals.

Baton Rouge, La, Us

• Responsible for all operations of the Managed Services Practice• Restructured the practice and operations to improve efficiencies while bringing the practice into and maintaining a positive margin position.• Restructured current pricing models and offerings as well as developed new product lines.• Work directly with other Managing Directors to leverage our Managed Services processes within their practices to help drive recurring revenue across the company.• Assist in operational processes and procedures for all of Corporate, partnering with Accounting, Human Resources and other operational Practices• Changed the culture from one of entitlement to accountability and responsibility• Lead a Service Desk and Managed Infrastructure team with a total head count of 50+ consultants/technicians.

Baton Rouge, La, Us

• Reviewed legacy/existing contracts with Managing Director against current revenue finding charges that weren’t being accounted for. Overall reducing cost and increasing revenues.• Streamlined internal processes around billings, reporting (internally and with customers), while improving the overall customer experience with our deliveries.

Baton Rouge, La, Us

• Responsible for operations of the Application Development practice for Baton Rouge and portions of the other offices• Managed a team of 25+ developers working on multiple projects• Grew and maintained practice revenue to over $5M+ a year• Consistently held the highest revenue and margin generating practice in the company• Responsible for generating sales scopes of work, pricing and execution• Application Development practice was viewed by the company as the poster child practice for a positive culture of accountability and teamwork• Introduced the SCRUM methodology which immediately improved our delivery to our customers and their experience while increasing margins.

Baton Rouge, La, Us

• Managed a subset of the Application Development Practice along with the Practice Director• Responsible for assisting with sales scopes of work and execution• Responsible for process improvement with our development lifecycle• Maintained a high level of positive culture with the team

Lead developer with responsibilities of setting standards and processes for development and implementation.Worked on the design and re-architecting of the main in house application to .Net 2.0 - 3.0 and other custom internal written frameworks.Designed a reporting framework that uses Microsoft Reporting Services along with SQL 2005 Replication.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Senior Developer/Architect with responsibilities which range from development, design, support of our application, code reviews, and the management of other developers.• The first developer involved in the design, code and implementation of the rewrite of our legacy enterprise application. The new enterprise application is written using C#, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, MSMQ, Microsoft BizTalk and Microsoft Reporting Services. The department for this project has grown from 2 employees to around 50.• Authored conceptual and technical architecture sections of the major initial design document.• Helped lead teams to Microsoft Labs to 'stress test' our enterprise application to determine and fix performance bottlenecks.• Played a key role in solving architecture issues which include but are not limited to performance, security and system installation issues.• Duties involved designing, creating, modifying internal applications. This included data mining of existing data, writing new intranet apps, vb apps, or anything necessary to solve a problem.• Designed and developed our client front-end web portal to allow our customers quick and easy access to information regarding their current support issues, development projects, etc.• Development environment consisted of Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP, ASPX, ADO, ADO.NET, vbScript, javascript, jscript, SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, Frontpage Server Extensions 98 and 2002, IIS 4.0 and 5.0, NT 4.0 and 2000 Servers.

Sugar Land, Tx, Us

Maintained the web environment's at two oil refineries. This included administering their IIS Server's and developing all apps involved with the Intranet. Development was done in vbScript, JavaScript, ASP, ADO 2.1, ADSI, LDAP, DHTML, HTML, COM and ActiveX using Interdev, Visual Basic 5.0 and FrontPage 2000. Data is accessed on Microsoft SQL and Oracle Servers.• Other technologies used at this site: Site Server 3.0, Outlook Web Access, Business Objects and CDO.• Designed and wrote a custom application for the refineries that sync'd the data of all their oil platforms in the Gulf.

• Worked on applications to deliver Appro specific information via the Internet using Visual Basic 5.0, Active Server Pages, vbScript, jScript, FrontPage 98, SQL, Microsoft IIS 4.0, Microsoft Commerce Server and Windows NT Server 4.0.• Led the development of the Premier Support program, using Visual Basic 5.0 and SQL Server 6.5, which was an internal program used by the Premier Support Department.• Wrote a C++ DLL to be integrated with the financial software that was being converted to Windows. This DLL included a GUI and data access along with calculations.

New Orleans, La, Us

Developed FastTrack’s web presence and allowed for interested viewers to fill out their information to be downloaded, printed to labels and mailed an information packet automatically.• Created an application to monitor FastTrack’s ftp site and either add, delete or set permissions on the NT Server for users according to certain criteria. This was written in Visual Basic 4.0.• Developed a VBDOS application to update FastTrack’s Mutual Fund database over the internet using FTP.• In charge of Technical support of FastTrack’s Mutual Fund Tracking program.