Christopher Adams Email & Phone Number

Mechanicsville, Va, Us

Powhatan, Va, Us

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)• Present reports on the company’s technology status, goals, and progress.• Create and implement technology strategies as approved by CEO and COO.• Align the company’s technology resources with the organization’s short- and long-term goals.• Identify what technologies can be used to improve the company’s products and services.• Acquire, service, and maintain IT hardware used by the company.• Ensure the company conforms to the best practices in cybersecurity.• Create and oversee high-level KPIs for the IT department.• Assist in recruiting, onboarding, and training IT staff and contractors, as approved by CEO. • Collaborate with other teams to resolve reported bugs and technical issues, including those reported by clients.• Manage the company’s IT budget.Team Lead, Research and Development (R&D)• Research application of new technologies for existing or new product development.• Design new products and processes as required for new business development (sales).• Consulting with Business Development Manager, CTO, and CEO to determine project priorities and establish deadlines.• Develop alongside the team, managing the development, deployment, and integration of new software solutions, prior to general release.• Provide training and mentoring to all IT staff, including developers and engineers, on new technologies.• Evaluate software solutions and system performance, as well as supervising the software development team.• Keep abreast of new software technologies, as well as conforming to best practices in cybersecurity.

Powhatan, Va, Us

• Manage all developers, IT/Network, and quality assurance personnel who contribute to new customer contracts and existing customer enhancement requests.• Draw up specifications and statements of work for existing and new customer contracts• Handle all high-level communications related to new customer data conversations and quoting decisions with regards to existing customer requests. • Continually work alongside developers to both mentor and accomplish overall departmental commitments.• Lead and contribute enhancement development/design of our flagship product, deployed in .NET, utilizing WPF, WCF, .NET 4.8/6.0, IdentityServer4, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, and HTTP/S• Lead and contribute development/design of our secondary products, deployed in .NET, utilizing MVC Core, Entity Framework Core, RESTful-JSON, .NET 4.8/6.0, IdentityServer4, Crystal Reports and HTTP/S• Contribute key skill sets for projects that integrate network communications, native Win32 integrations or .NET 6.0 (.NET Core).• Assist in key development, redesign, and deployment of company websites. Most recently http://www.domls.com which utilized NET Core 3.1 using both MVC and Entity Framework. Site has since been transitioned.• Re-engineered and took responsibility for company IT infrastructure and IT administrative tasks for a majority of tenor, expanding the infrastructure and introducing services such Hyper-V, Development/Testing Environments, DevOps Integration/Pipelines, structured Active Directory Services, and Network Security protocols.• Travel on-site to customer locations for live implementations of mission critical software and beta implementations of upcoming product releases.• Handle common managerial duties such as staff time tracking, performance reviews, development workflow, and ongoing training initiatives.• Continually play a key role in defining scalable workflow processes as the company continues to grow.

Powhatan, Va, Us

• Manage both developers and quality assurance personnel who contribute to new customer contracts and existing customer enhancement requests.• Draw up specifications and statements of work for existing and new customer contracts• Handle all high-level communications related to new customer data conversations and quoting decisions with regards to existing customer requests. • Continually work alongside developers to both mentor and accomplish overall departmental commitments.• Lead development and design of our flagship product, newly deployed in .NET, utilizing WPF, WCF, .NET 4, Crystal Reports and HTTP/S• Contribute key skill sets for projects that integrate network communications or native Win32 integrations.• Assist in key development, redesign, and deployment of company websites. Most recently http://www.dominionls.com which utilizes NET Core 1.1 using both MVC and Entity Framework.• Re-engineered and took responsibility for company IT infrastructure and IT administrative tasks for a majority of tenor, expanding the infrastructure and introducing services such Hyper-V, Development/Testing Environments, structured Active Directory Services, and Network Security protocols.• Travel on-site to customer locations for live implementations of mission critical software and beta implementations of upcoming product releases.• Handle common managerial duties such as staff time tracking, performance reviews, development workflow, and ongoing training initiatives.• Continually play a key role in defining scalable workflow processes as the company continues to grow.

Powhatan, Va, Us

• Handled customer support calls and software maintenance for existing customers• Developed both custom staging/migration software and custom enhancements for new customer conversions using VB6, .NET and Crystal Reports• Handled communications related to conversation life cycle for specifically assigned customers• Traveled on-site for each new customer conversion project• Acted as consultant for team members in regards to upcoming .NET version of flagship product and existing .NET extended products.

Richmond, Us

• Drew up designs and proposals for potential .NET/Oracle solutions.• Developed and implemented new functionality into web based system using C# .NET and PL/SQL• Developed new database schemas for Oracle and SQL Server based systems.• Created scripts to assist in the migration of old data into new database schemas.• Developed and scripted new style and appearance for web based systems.• Analyzed data, created new reports, and optimized existing reports for web based system using Reporting Services and SQL.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Developed and implemented new functionality into web based registration system using C# .NET and PL/SQL.• Handled data migration and management for upgraded management systems.• Improved on style and developed new functionality for numerous web based systems that had been implemented by staff.• Analyzed data, created new reports, and optimized existing reports for web based registration system using Reporting Services and SQL.• Assisted in pre-conference planning and execution.• Trained temporary and existing office employees for use of registration management system.• Completed development and implementation of web based registration management system using object oriented and relational data models. This system has replaced most former systems and utilizes technologies such as C#.NET, ADO.NET, Reporting Services, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, XML. http://register.transmarx.com• Developed and implemented new functionality into existing registration system using technologies such as VB 6.0 and SQL Server 2000.• Conducted analysis of all existing systems and drew up proposals for optional and necessary improvements.

• Drew up designs, proposals, and programming of potential .NET/Oracle solutions.• Began development of new web based registration management system utilizing .NET and Oracle 10g.• Dealt with all third party vendors and requests concerning conference planning and office technology.• Corresponded with all clients and consumers who had technical questions.• Centralized and organized existing mailing lists and email services to provide better accuracy at pinpointing and providing to customer needs.• Conducted inventory and ordering of equipment and software.• Maintained and troubleshot current ASP 1.0 Web Pages. (4-6 sites)• Implemented full systems migration and security improvements. Some of these measures included but were not limited to: Upgrading 2000 Server to MS Server 2003 and Windows 2000/XP to Windows XP SP2; implementing a more structured and secure Active Directory Layout and file system; Creating structured DNS and DHCP configurations.

New Kent, Virginia, Us

• Assisted in the development of a VB.NET website for http://keeptrackofmythings.com. I was involved in the design and development process using .NET 2.0, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server 2005.

Orlando, Fl, Us

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• Developed and implemented first in-house desktop application for managing current conference registrations and badges. Designed using VB 6.0 and existing SQL Server 2000 website database. • Upgraded existing database data (SQL Server) to use a relational data model and expanded on its functionality using T-SQL. • Conducted training sessions with all staff for use of new registration system. • Setup and configured all equipment to be used during the conference. Routers, computers, printers, etc…• Managed and upgraded current systems.• Assisted and consulted staff in IT solutions.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Assocaite Of Applied Science, Information Technology / Computer Programming