Chris Goodacre Email & Phone Number

Herriman, UT, US

Somerville, Massachusetts, US

Responsible for defining and overseeing software engineering procedures and quality plans related to developing Software Medical Devices (SaMDs) compliant with ISO 13485, ANSI/IEC 62304 and FDA requirements for premarket submission and post market surveillance for the ZS | Medullan SaMD Factory. Additional responsibilities included those subsumed under the.

• Discovery purchased Scripps Networks Interactive in March of 2018.
• Grew development capability from three to five well-running agile/devops teams to meet business demands, in part by mentoring staff to fill needs as technical leads.
• Direct & matrix responsibility for developers, testers and analysts.
• Retained top talent through the acquisition with a single exception. Overall transition turnover in my group was less than 6%.

• Sponsored and helped formulate current CI/CD implementation that provisions and deploys code automatically in lower environments and "push-button" in controlled/production environments.
• Completed the migration of nearly 100 applications and services from SNI's on-premise data center to AWS, accompanied by technical changes to leverage AWS services and frameworks.
• Reduced license software costs by replacing commercial products with open-source solutions.
• Responsible for technical approach, engineering practices, and technology evaluation for media management teams.✦ Key Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Docker, Postgres, Oracle, Neo4J, Elasticsearch, Angular/TypeScript.

Wayne, PA, US

• Ultimately responsible for the value proposition, quality, and on-time delivery of strategic technical product enhancements.
• Delivered key RESTful services capability to support integration with external orchestration products, opening a multi-million dollar revenue gate.
• Helped to formulate and then grow new corporate HTML5 user interface, working across organizational units.✦ Key Technologies: Java, REST, HTML5, AngularJS/Javascript, CSS3, jQuery, Scrum, automated testing

Wayne, PA, US

• My team is responsible for ensuring that our strategic customers are successful from a technology & operations perspective.
• Identified opportunities for solution sales in performance methodology and single sign-on.
• Demonstrated adherence for performance SLAs in our largest customer in the face of anecdotal challenges using data and multi-variate analysis. Presented analysis and proposed solutions in a manner that allowed all.
• Maintained team morale under extremely stressful circumstances and competing high-visibility priorities.✦ Key technologies: Java, JEE, Enterprise Application Integration, capacity planning, load/performance simulation.

Wayne, PA, US

Provide architectural vision for our mixed-technology midrange application suite; participate in corporate architectural initiatives and ensure that we are aligned with such; prioritize and direct work of architecture team members.

• Provided software architecture and development services across a number of verticals, including financial, health, retail, insurance. Highlights include:
• Creating one of the very first self-order, kiosks for McDonalds. It was so far ahead of its time that the bill/coin acceptor it was integrated with was still widespread at the time.
• Providing the first version of Chicago Board of Options Exchange's trade message diagnostic and tracing tool that monitored roughly 80 million messages per day at the time.
• Spearheading the creation of Caremark's leading edge outbound call center application to provide health education to chronically-ill patients.
• Helping Citadel Investments launch a cash management system for their security lending business line to support cash position optimization through reporting, forecasting and cash transfer.
• Rescuing an html-based account management project that was using SilverStream at a large insurance client.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Graduate School, Cognitive Psychology And Psycholinguistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Neuropsychology