Christopher X Gerber Email & Phone Number

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

As a COGS and Development Tools Program Manager within Jane's Product-org, I lead initiatives to optimize our toolset, manage vendor relationships, and streamline costs. My role bridges technology, finance, and operations to ensure our team has the best tools for the job—configured for maximum effectiveness and priced efficiently.Key responsibilities include:* Procurement and Vendor Management: Negotiating contracts with vendors to secure favorable terms, working closely with finance to manage costs, and overseeing vendor relationships.* Audit and Optimization Strategy: Conducting audits to identify underused tools and redundancies, implementing strategies to consolidate resources and maximize tool utility.* Operational Efficiency: Introducing tools and refining workflows to eliminate redundancies, improving efficiency across Product-org.* Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serving as a liaison between teams to align tool usage with company goals, ensuring smooth communication and consistent practices.* Training and Support: Providing documentation and training to enable teams to use tools effectively, maximizing their value.* Monitoring and Reporting: Implementing systems to track tool usage and effectiveness, providing actionable insights for ongoing improvements.

An engineering manager at Jane is responsible for growing and facilitating best practices among developers (i.e. good code review culture, breaking down large tasks, solid communication within teams), ensuring that developers in the group are engaged and happy in their day to day, representing the needs of the code to teams in the group (i.e. refactoring and tech debt), iterating on department-wide infrastructure and process, and working closely with the Director of Engineering.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

A Platform Engineer Specialist is the role progression for JavaScript Developers at Jane, focused on tooling, documentation, and facilitation that enables others working in Jane’s front-end to work faster, with better reuse, fewer bugs, and better alignment to standards.This person works closely with Jane’s engineering teams and leadership to identify opportunities to optimize tools and processes already in use at Jane as well as emerging technologies and approaches to advance the front-end practice at Jane.Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this person splits their time between researching emerging technologies/standards, evolving Jane’s front-end tooling, and facilitating development of the front-end craft at Jane through mentoring and discussion.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Market-researched, designed, built, and deployed to Google Play and Apple App Store a mobile app with in-app purchases, server api, database, and marketing website using android studio, expo, express js, javascript, mysql, node, react, react native, xcode.

Vancouver, Canada Area

React / Redux / Semantic UI

Vancouver, Canada Area

As the company's first data-focused employee, I did a bunch of different things with data. The product wasn't particularly strong with usage reporting, so I wrote SQL queries against the database and produced dashboards and data reports for product, engineering, client success, marketing, and senior leaders. I met with internals to work out what they needed, why, and what was available. Depending on the question, reports included projections, analysis, suggestions for future automation, and suggestions for engineering work. I prioritized requests according to business value (maintained a JIRA project for this).One of the top priorities was to work out ETL specifications for main company-level (as opposed to department/team-level) metrics.

Peer Giving Solutions

As a product manager, it was my responsibility to prioritize customer wants against market needs, keep a backlog of work pruned, have a mind to what the market problems were, and ensure that our developers had what they needed to execute their roles well. I also kept stake-holders informed on the team's progress. It was often also up to me to design new product features, both in terms of look and usability.I continued to serve as a front-end developer lead, where I built and/or approved everything front-end. It was also my job to take customer-driven website designs (typography, branding, navigation) and apply them to instances of our product.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Peer Giving is a web-application tailored to the needs of charities. It facilitates fundraising, both through community-focused story telling and accounting tools. I was the resident CSS/LESS/JS/HTML guru on a team of four developers at Peer Giving. Basically if something was built, I built the front-end. I also worked in the backend frequently, in C#, SQL, IIS, server side scripting, etc. Charities licensing the product get an instance of the base product with a base theme, and a custom theme on top. In the early 2010's, these themes consisted of custom style sheets and custom database entries. The style sheets were stand-alone, meaning they simply added new rules on top of the base theme.As we scaled, managing the custom themes became time-intensive, because when the base-theme was updated, each of the themes needed to be hand-adjusted to work with the updates. Each theme was affected in a unique way. The solution we came up with was to limit what could be controlled by a custom theme, by introducing a new front-end architecture that allowed for the creation of LESS/CSS variables which were set for the base theme and could be modified by the custom themes. In this way, we could anticipate which themes would be affected by what updates to the base theme, and how.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Built a web UI to track the movements of a Solar Canopy (reflective daylight guide system)Independently designed, developed (C++/OpenGL), conducted and analyzed results of a computer-guided human subject experiment involving spatial frequency in human optics and psychology via proprietary High Dynamic Range (HDR) display.Built an oscillating magnetic power transfer prototype.Built a magnetic water pump prototype.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Independently developed a web-application (ADO/HTML/CSS) to track lab inventory.Independently designed and developed a web-application (Flash/PHP) to trackSolar Canopy installation variables remotely.

B.Sc, Physics

Internet Solutions Development / Programmer Analyst, Computer Programming