Christopher Robison Email & Phone Number

Armonk, Ny, Us

- Led the development and implemention of business processes and technology that allowed D Harris to grow from a fleet of two buses to 12 buses.- Updated and enhanced the company's systems with modern tools to better manage the growing business, including real-time bus data, automated maintenance notifications, and automated trip confirmations and notifications via email and SMS.- Implemented route optimization algorithm to identify opportunities for one bus to handle multiple trips, increasing their daily revenue by 30%.- Implemented automated notifications for trips, bus maintenance, and billing and invoicing.

- Designed, developed, and maintained the infrastructure and code-base that served many millions of mobile and rich media ads each day.- Led the Rich Media effort and helped modernize the ad serving infrastructure and metric collection.Designed and implemented a RESTful API for serving rich media ads and built out scalable backend services to handle integration with existing servers and infrastructure.- Contributed to the IAB MRAID 2.0 standard, implemented MRAID SDKs on iOS and Android platforms, and developed and deployed mobile ad solutions for multiple platforms.- Architected and deployed 'Rich Media' ad delivery and reporting infrastructure, RESTful API for ad serving, tracking metrics, and reporting, and developed client-side Javascript 'ad controller' for mobile and web.- Developed flexible metrics tracking with non-blocking endpoints.

- Led team of 10 engineers- Architected and deployed 'Rich Media' ad delivery and reporting infrastructure, RESTful API for ad serving, tracking metrics, and reporting, and developed client-side Javascript 'ad controller' for mobile and web.- Developed flexible metrics tracking with non-blocking endpoints.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Contracted software development and consulting. Provided contract support for previous work positions (Interactivate), developed the Simple Software Application Platform that provided content management systems and business process management applications to small to mid-sized businesses. Customers included Peterson-Dean Roofing, Interactivate, Genetic Savings & Clone, Symantec and more.

Hired to migrate the Mindjet website from PHP to an ASP.Net solution, my role quickly grew into heading up Mindjet's foray into the Software as a Service (SaaS) arena-- Mindjet Catalyst.Mindjet Catalyst was a web-based mindmapping software that allowed browser-based real-time multi-person sharing, collaborating and editing of mindmaps. The Catalyst client canvas was originally written in Flash and my team was responsible for porting the Flash app to a more standards-based implementation utilizing HTML canvas and Javascript. The new application was designed to utilize open standards with HTML5, CSS3, Javascipt, canvas and SVG with few to zero dependancies on external 3rd party libraries.

- Genetic Savings & Clone was a genetic services company that offered commercial pet gene banking and cloning where Mr. Robison led the Engineering department.- Architectured, developed, and deployed Clonesoft, custom business process automation software that ran every aspect of the business from the website to cloned pet delivery.- Cloned a cat and delivered it to a customer.- Designed and developed a database-driven feline DNA identification website, CatBank.- Implemented all backend code for Retro vs. Metro, an online companion website to the New York Time's bestseller: Retro vs. Metro - The Great Political Divide in America.

San Diego, Ca, Us

- Managed and maintained IT resources, including customer applications and websites, and helped grow the company from 10 to 65 employees.- Designed and architected network infrastructure using both Windows servers and various legacy Unix boxes, built out server clusters, and managed a farm of over 60 machines including a SAN.- Designed and implemented web-based network management, monitoring & systems analysis tools.- Developed web-based tools for creation and maintenance of customer websites, DNS, and email services.- Designed and developed email marketing application using 3 tier architecture and XML and XSLT for transporting

TheFinancialCafe.Com was an Online Financial Broker/Dealer which provides free online market orders. Hired to build a custom CRM application for their support staff, the application quickly grew to encompass every aspect of the company from CRM to billing to handling email, managing the company website and integration with 3rd party financial services.- Designed and implemented web-based network management & systems analysis tools- Required to support high volume access & availability characteristics as well as identifying & resolving system hardware & software problems- Working with vendors, developers & 3rd party integrators.- Installation & administration of Solaris, FreeBSD & Windows NT in a heterogeneous environment- Installation & maintaining network equipment- Responsible for the full availability of DNS, SMTP, HTTP, POP & IMAP servers- Design, implementation, and maintenance for the companies internal and external network infrastructure.- Extensive automation of administrative functions via shell scripting & Perl- Responsible for backup implementation and recovery strategy & procedures- DBA to a number of Mysql databases (one master, multiple slaves)- Responsible for the seamless integration of multiple third-party application services into the company's website.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Food.Com was an nationwide online food ordering and delivery service. Responsible for architecting and development of the online ordering application and the processes and procedures for delivering customer orders to restaurants via various notification mechanisms including IVR phone calls, faxes and custom terminals.Developed 'FUDGE', the 'Food.Com Ubiquitous Dining Guide Engine' which was used by thousands of restaurant reviewers to enter and maintain Food.Com's dining guide database.Setup of automated development environment using web-based toolsDevelopment of tools and utilities (both web based and command line) to automate development effortsMigration of code-base from Objective-C/WebObjects to JavaWrote and maintained various web-based backend tools for maintaining accounts and order information

Slip.Net was one of the earliest Internet Service Providers in the San Francisco Bay Area with a client base of over 50,000 users. My roles and responsibilities were divided between system administration and web application development. As the 'Web Administrator', I was responsible for shared administration of our server farm of 30+ servers. I was responsible for all web-based software, E-commerce, network accessible databases, secure server certificates, web server maintenance, and more. In addition to these administration duties, I was also given a myriad of development projects, including the renovation of the existing system of disassociated and unwieldy collection of flat text db files and dbm's that constituted their 'client database'. I developed an easy to use and coherent system of procedures, tools, scripts, and interfaces using the new 'MySQL' open source database engine and Perl.Built the Slip.Net Account Control Center which allowed customers to administrate their own accounts. Reduced support call volume by 50% the first week.Developed Slip.Net Signup Wizard that walked a customer through setting up a new account as well as register domain names and setup website services all handled automatically

As founder and President of the NetOASIS Software Co. I was responsible for every aspect of running the business from graphic design to programming to market research and client solicitation. The primary focus of the company was development of web based applications and the integration of a clients systems into a computer based environment. We also offered freelance programming services, web hosting, web site design and maintenance, and setup and installation of intranet hardware and software components. Specialized in online commerce systems and I have installed, upgraded and maintained online payment servers by Cybercash, First Virtual, and Verisign.Clients included: Symantec, King Media, The Exploratorium and The Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Yorba Linda, Ca, Us

Senior System Administrator/Programmer for a network of mixed SunOS/Solaris/NT servers. Also head of programming staff. Responsible for maintenance of all network hosts, virtually hosted web, email, ftp, and gopher services. Maintained server statistics, CGI scripts and eventually developed online retail software that is used for dozens of web catalogs. Other job functions included working directly with clients during development of their software and site, designing of graphics and layout of web sites, implementing new and emerging technologies on clients sites, and handling some customer technical support issues.

Computer Science

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