Christopher Akins Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

• Facilitate effective communication between stakeholders and development teams, ensuring alignment and clear communication.• Define and maintain the product vision and development roadmap, guiding the team towards strategic objectives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.• Drive product enhancements that boost efficiency and user satisfaction, leveraging stakeholder feedback to ensure strategic alignment.• Lead workshops and focus groups to identify user needs, prioritizing features that enhance functionality and usability.• Lead cross-functional teams in delivering high-impact software solutions, consistently meeting project milestones and stakeholder expectations.

Houston, Tx, Us

• Consulted with clients on best practices and software usability, enhancing user satisfaction and improving client productivity.• Assisted new clients in data conversion and software implementation, ensuring smooth transitions.• Trained users and internal staff on software functionality, improving operational efficiency.• Led team regression and performance testing, ensuring high-quality version releases.• Managed multiple projects from conception to completion, delivering on time and within scope.• Designed customized reporting and software enhancements to address unique client needs, driving operational improvements.

Houston, Tx, Us

• Provided technical support and resolved complex issues, enhancing client satisfaction and retention.• Developed custom reporting solutions, improving data accessibility and decision-making efficiency.• Created SQL scripts for data querying and modification, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.• Conducted thorough testing on application enhancements, guaranteeing functionality and reliability.

• Researched and analyzed well production capacity, creating forecasting models for future reserves and revenue.• Built and maintained MS Access database for client production data, aiding engineers in strategic planning.• Configured Aries software to process production data and generate forecast reports.• Developed marketing material from client data for sales presentations, contributing to an estimated $300M in client revenue.

Dayton, Oh, Us

• Collaborated with stakeholders and developers to align program requirements and communication protocols, ensuring product viability.• Designed more than 20 applications/interfaces for seamless data transmission between end-users and manufacturers.• Led QA processes for annual software releases, focusing on black box, regression, and performance testing.• Delivered comprehensive software training to end users and staff through one-on-one and classroom sessions.• Reduced maintenance efforts by more than 90% by designing an enhancement to an existing proprietary software interface.• Received Product/Project Management awards April 2004, May 2006 and June 2007

UCS merged with R&R in November 2006

Bs, Computer Science

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