Chris Mause Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

As CTO, I lead all software development, cloud migration, information security, and IT activities for Apriva. I have become known as a leader who can turn around struggling teams and build new high-performing teams. Focusing on a culture of teamwork, commitment, and accountability, I have led numerous technical teams to success.In addition to my duties on the executive team, I led Apriva's transition from a data center environment to the Microsoft Azure platform. Responsible for full development lifecycle of Apriva’s payment-processing gateway, including PCI, P2PE, and SOC compliance.

Tempe, Az, Us

Led software development efforts, introducing new technology and best practices. Designed and implemented a brand-new scalable marketing e-mail system capable of sending over 1.9 million messages per server per day on behalf of our clients.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Hands-on manager responsible for a department of five developers, creating both shrink-wrapped software and custom solutions for internal and external customers.• Successfully managed the creation and deployment of a mission-critical document management system for state government, allowing them to undergo a mandated 20% staff cut with no negative effects.• Took over a high-profile project that had been failing for three years and needed immediate action. After bringing the stakeholders back in line with the goals of the project, I led the project through the entire lifecycle, from vision through deployment. The new project was successfully completed in six months and decreased production turn-around time by 10%, reduced overhead costs by 25% and eliminated time sheet fraud.• Implemented process improvement initiatives, including Rapid Development and Scrum methodologies, increasing executive confidence in the team, our product, and our estimates.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Senior engineer on IPRO’s flagship product, eCapture.• Conceived and developed a new feature to address one of the largest pain points for the electronic discovery market. This feature was a brand-new approach to searching and filtering large document sets that made our product stand out in the marketplace and drew rave reviews from our customers. It was reported in 2014 that, relatively unchanged, this feature is still a market leader.

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Performed design and maintenance on all production software for this national litigation support company.• Managed all aspects of software development for electronic discovery and legal imaging, scanning, quality control, coding, and workflow management systems.• Developed enhancements cutting the labor for a typical export by 75%, dramatically increasing the throughput of the eDiscovery department.• Worked closely with the CTO and management of all departments, designing solutions to address their needs and providing project management throughout the software development life cycle.• The environment consisted of C# and ASP.Net in a .Net 2.0 environment for new development, and Visual Basic 6 for the legacy applications. All software development was against a SQL Server 2005 back end. We made extensive use of web services and object-oriented programming.

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Led the creation of a proper software engineering department as the company grew from $6MM to $50MM in annual revenue.• Supervised 7 developers and QA staff• Managed projects covering a wide range of specialties, including development of customer acquisition and financial systems, an H.R. management system, a custom call center reporting system integrated with our Nortel phone switch, ACH and RPPS interfaces with financial institutions, and a company-wide intranet site.• Instrumental in the adoption of ISO-9001 and SAS-70 standards• Technologies included Visual Basic 6, C# (.Net 1.1 and 2.0) and SQL Server 2000

Responsible for managing software development for the world’s largest publicly held infomercial company.• Developed new systems to automate data transfers between internal systems and with outside vendors, automating what had been a labor-intensive task and freeing half an FTE.• Responsible for development and maintenance on the media buying and tracking system, including creating real-time, web-based reports critical to maximizing media effectiveness. • Worked directly with vendor representatives to promote accurate and timely data transfer. • Supervised other developers, providing project direction and technical assistance. • The primary development environment was FoxPro 2.6, with new development in Visual Basic 6.