Chris Upton Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Managing a Full Stack Team of Engineers developing Site Connect in Veeva'a Clinical Operations product development! Leveraging Java, React, along with many of technologies to create new features that help Life Sciences industry conduct trials faster and more effectively.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Lead Research and Development teams at SAS to evolve Decision Management product and platform to industry leading real-time interaction solution, allowing users to deploy and manage open source and SAS Machine Learning Models with business logic to create automated analytics lifecycle for decision processes for cross vertical applications in Finance, Health Care, Government, Manufacturing, and other industries.- Architected cloud based new offering of SAS Intelligent Decisioning to allow for next and existing customers to move to more scalable Kubernetes based architecture on cloud native deployment of their choice (GCP, Azure, Amazon)- Responsible for supporting field and technical support teams across 1000's of install sites for both current and legacy product suites.- Optimized system performance to be able to scale beyond 1000's of transactions per second.- Advocated for and created automation for project management reporting to increase team efficiency using python.- Partnered with Microsoft to deliver SAS’s first publicly available offering, SAS Decisioning Connector, on Microsoft’s Power Platform.

Cary, Nc

Development manager within the Enterprise Decision Management software suite at SAS. Products which allowed for decision making logic to be authored once by business users and integrated into ETL pipelines or online transactional processing (OLTP).- Delivered first release of new offering for Business Rules Management and SAS Decision Manager- Managed Globally distributed teams in Beijing and US- Drove feature grow and architecture road map to satisfy requirements and timelines from enterprise customers including companies from the 10 top Financial Institutions in the world- Opened products up for 3rd party integrations with publicly documented REST API's and SAS Macro API's- Established support across divisions for documentation, education, and technical support

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Technical leader within Financial Services R&D at SAS, creating software to bring together analytics and business intelligence to automate decision making processes. - Architected new Business Rules Management Solution using Spring Remoting, Hibernate, Flash/Flex allowing business users to build and manage business logic with folder based permissions and versioning then automate integration into ETL processes.- Developed features for Key Risk Indicator (KRI) management using Java/Spring to develop Mid-Tier API's and HTML/Javascript frontend on SAS eGRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) - Create extensions to custom page UI framework for allowing for matrix input usage using JQuery / Javascript / CSS on SAS eGRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Full Stack Software developer working for companies within the Financial Services industry. Lead teams (sizes 3 to 15) developing enterprise Java and building out data center infrastructure to fit solutions.- Built Financial Disclosure Management System supporting multiple channels of rendering customer built content supporting incremental rendering of tags using Javascript and Jquery on top of velocity template engine.- Created embedded OSGi architectures to enhance modularity and portability of JMS queuing solution across different web app servers.- Optimized developers productivity by creating custom Eclipse plugins for managing custom frameworks using proprietary XML formats.- Lead teams in total replatform of DevOps infrastructure migrating to new Source Control Management (SCM) repositories, build pipelines leveraging Jenkins, and dependency management sources.- Became Subject Matter Expert for areas of Financial Institution consulting within AT&T and client architecture.

Created mobile content distribution solutions working on both front end device UI display and mid-tier services creation and process orchestration.- Created search REST Api's on top of Lucene for enhanced mobile storefront search and 3rd party integration with mobile applications.- Developed Mobile Content Preview solution using DRM Combined Delivery creating Java Enterprise API's and queue based on mobile delivery.

Developed web applications with PHP, VB.NET, JavaScript, and PERL. Also worked with mail and web server setup and maintanace.- Created administrative interface for managing tenants for email marketing software using PHP and MySQL.- Administered server access for clients, certificate updates, and configuration changes on OS and Apached httpd web server.