Christopher Watford Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, Nc, Us

New York, Ny, Us

I am responsible for shaping the software architecture at Suzy, finding ways to pay down long term technical debt, identifying areas of strategic technical focus, and ensuring features include the seams necessary for extension in the face of inevitable change. My team has major work underway breaking up our distributed monolith, establishing clear bounded contexts, enabling an event driven architecture, modernizing legacy database processes into modern stream processing systems, and ensuring survey respondent quality through AI/ML systems.

Wilmington, North Carolina, Us

As a technical expert and a first responder passionate about safety and wellness, I lead and mentor a small team of engineers helping Essential Personnel achieve its vision. I define the overall technical direction, review major architectural decisions, and help identify key integrations and technical opportunities to increase our viable market share.

Wilmington, North Carolina, Us

Provide technical advice to the organization. Validate architectural decisions. Review and audit security requirements and implementation. Help evaluate the technical roadmap.

Wilmington, Nc, Us

Part-time Paramedic for New Hanover Regional EMS. Responsible for responding to emergency and non-emergency 911 calls, directing and performing emergency care wherever required, interpretation of 12-Lead electrocardiograms for the field diagnosis of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarctions, recognition of the signs and symptoms of Cerebrovascular Accidents and the activation of a "Code Stroke", field resuscitation of cardiac arrest victims, and for the care and disposition of all patients encountered.

Wilmington, Nc, Us

Part-time EMS Instructor at CFCC teaching cardiology, with a special focus on ECG interpretation, to Paramedic students in the continuing education program.

State College, Pa, Us

Principal on the Data Platform squad, led a small team working with industrial IoT data at scale on AWS. Exploring bringing their Delta Lake to life with Python, Scala, and a little bit of Rust.

New York, Ny, Us

I lead a diverse team of a dozen backend engineers, data engineers, and architects responsible for the API services of the major Suzy product lines (Suzy, Crowdtap, Suzy Live, Global). I scaled the team to its current size while designing and delivering our key backend architecture components using .NET services hosted in Azure handling almost 1 million survey responses a day. When I'm not coordinating with product and engineering on designs, documentation, and triaging critical issues, I'm mentoring and coaching engineers across the organization.

New York, Ny, Us

Own the technical architecture of multiple product lines including the core Suzy platform and Suzy Live (In-depth interview and focus group platform). Mentor software engineers in .NET and Azure. Mentor early career technical architects. Work with the CTO to identify high value technical debt to "pay down" in existing product lines.

Designed and implemented the software architecture for the ACUMEN Core Monitoring System, delivered as an App-in-a-Box on air-gapped networks. Developed job schedulers and other process automation tooling, including code-first engineering analysis frameworks. I execute in a "full stack" environment (including interfaces and tooling for proprietary network protocols). I believe in automating All The Things, and managing everything as code. Language, framework, and platform polyglot, responsible for integrating and maintaining everything from legacy (Fortran) to modern systems (.NET Core, Python, NodeJS). One part computer archaeology, two parts bleeding edge.

Software engineering for process automation, fuel and core optimization, nuclear analysis, and platform independence projects. Use of cluster computing and high performance computing in Fortran. Data visualization UI development in C# and WPF.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Volunteer at the EMT level at a transporting BLS service on site at GE, responsible for responding to emergency and non-emergency calls on site requiring medical personnel. Previously a building Captain responsible for administrative and organizational tasks for EMT's in my responsible area.

EMS 12-Lead advocates for the evidence based care of STEMI and cardiac arrest patients with a special emphasis on paramedic interpretation of the 12-lead ECG. Other regular topics include patient safety, the development of regional systems of care, the shortening of treatment intervals, data tracking, and the implementation of improvement measures to enhance neurologically intact survival. As an Associate Editor I am tasked with presenting case studies, answering reader questions, and directing discussions on both the blog and Facebook fan page.

Leland, North Carolina, Us

President of the Board of Directors for Leland Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department, a nonprofit combined career and volunteer Fire Suppression, Heavy Rescue, and Paramedic-level EMS department with an annual operating budget in excess of $2 million. Assisted in the development and implementation of a compensation modernization plan. Assisted in department buyout by the Town of Leland and oversaw dissolution efforts of the non-profit.

Leland, North Carolina, Us

Performs supervisor and administrative work, commanding emergency medical operations within the department. Supervises, coordinates and directs field activities, performs advanced and basic life support procedures. Supervises personnel, vehicles, and equipment at all fire stations. Responsible for assisting with in-house qualification of EMS skill levels. Coordinates the assessment and qualification of volunteer EMS members.

Leland, North Carolina, Us

Performs supervisor and administrative work, commanding emergency medical operations within the department. Supervises, coordinates and directs field activities, performs advanced and basic life support procedures. Supervises personnel, vehicles, and equipment at all fire stations. Responsible for assisting with in-house qualification of EMS skill levels. Coordinates the assessment and qualification of volunteer EMS members.

Leland, North Carolina, Us

Member of the Board of Directors for the Leland Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department, a combined career and volunteer Fire Suppression, Heavy Rescue, and Paramedic-level EMS department with an annual operating budget $2.0 million. Responsible for reviewing and approving the annual budget, audit reports, and substantial business decisions. Act as an adviser to the Department Chief on the strategic goals of the department and establish, measure, and evaluate their performance. Represent volunteer and career members of the department on matters before the board. Serve as a ambassador to the community and local businesses.

Leland, North Carolina, Us

Volunteer/Part-time Paramedic for a combined fire/EMS service which responds to 3000 calls for service annually. Chairperson of the Equipment Committee responsible for all purchasing recommendations for EMS equipment. Responsible for quality assurance and performance improvement initiatives for two shifts of employees. EMS training officer for new volunteers and employees.

Bolivia, Nc, Us

Assist with continuing education instruction in Brunswick County for Emergency Medical Services classes at the EMT-B, EMT-I, and Paramedic levels.

Boston, Ma, Us

Software engineering for process automation, fuel and core optimization, and platform independence projects. Use of cluster computing and high performance computing in Fortran. Data visualization UI development in C# and WPF.

Boston, Ma, Us

Volunteer at the EMT level at a transporting BLS service on site at GE, responsible for responding to emergency and non-emergency calls on site requiring medical personnel.

Web host, network administration, user support.

Software Engineer for the ePrometheus Fuel Cycle Optimization group. (Contracts through Granite Services, TAD, and Adecco)

Software engineer for newspaper website backend. PHP and MySQL.

Software engineering intern in the Advanced Methods group at GNF-A.

Installed and maintained computer networks for area private schools.

Bsc, Computer Science - Systems

Paramedic

Wilderness Emt, Wilderness Emergency Medicine

Computer Science - Engineering

Education record