Chris Cook Email & Phone Number

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

As the Director of Product at Certn, I spearheaded the establishment of the Product department during a critical phase of the company's expansion. With a keen focus on long-term vision and strategic planning, I played a pivotal role in:• Building a high-performing team of Product Managers by identifying, recruiting, and mentoring top talent.• Developing and implementing robust product management frameworks and processes that facilitated prioritization, stakeholder management, and project execution.• Driving cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless coordination between product, engineering, and marketing teams.• Enhancing company-wide communication by effectively sharing product roadmaps, milestones, and achievements with all relevant stakeholders.• Continuously analyzing market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to guide product development and drive innovation within the organization.

Victoria, Bc

As a Technical Co-Founder and Head of Web Development at Certn, I was instrumental in shaping the company's technical direction and delivering exceptional user experiences. Highlights included:• Leading the inception and growth of the frontend engineering and UX teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.• Building the foundation of Certn's web application, focusing primarily on the front-end React.js app.• Assembling a dynamic group of skilled frontend developers and designers through targeted recruitment and talent development initiatives.• Defining and implementing best practices in web development, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and performance-optimized solutions.• Championing a data-driven approach to product design, enabling the creation of user-centric experiences that effectively catered to the needs of our diverse customer base.• Collaborating closely with other co-founders and stakeholders to align the technical strategy with the company's overall vision and objectives.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cmd (Acquired by Elastic) allows organizations to proactively secure their Linux environment like never before. With Cmd’s user-centric approach, customers enjoy unprecedented real-time visibility into user actions, customizable controls, and can even block commands pre-execution.As a Senior Frontend Developer, I worked on the client-facing application where users could monitor traffic and configure settings & triggers. My main contributions were in componentizing much of the already large and complex React application, and subsequently updating/replacing those components with a brand new design system built by the in-house design team.

Victoria, British Columbia

CSC 111 - "Fundamentals of Programming with Engineering Applications"The fundamentals of programming in C. I taught weekly labs and marked assignments. Some of the material covered included variables, data types, control structures, functions, data structures, pointers, storage allocation, searching/sorting, recursion, encapsulation, testing/debugging, and more.CSC106 - "The Practice of Computer Science"The course was a survey of aspects of the application of Computer Science. Topics included programming & algorithms, complexity & decidability, elementary cryptography & security, and human-computer interaction. I marked assignments and was available to students for questions and assistance outside of class time.

948 Homer Street, Vancouver Bc

At Mobify, I worked closely with designers, developers, and project managers on dozens of industry-leading mobile retail websites. In addition to general development, I wrote and scheduled automated end-to-end Nightwatch.js tests for dozens of projects; deployed new projects and documented releases; interfaced directly with customers and resolved issues; and created new suite of standardized automated-test templates for the Adaptive.js Yeoman generator.

Bachelor Of Software Engineering (B.Seng.), Management Option, With Distinction

Master’S Degree, Engineering Entrepreneurship (Paused)