Chris Smith Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, NC, US

Kokua Partners is my holdings company for various technology related ventures and investments.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Fort Mill, SC, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• At Sparx, I was responsible for leading the engineering and architecture team heavily focused on broadcast television, and a key contributor to product development and client relations. The company is focused on.
• Architected and built a bi-directional API and to translate realtime online data to a protocol that integrates with broadcast hardware. \
• Key player in developing the sales, client on-boarding, and technology rollout processes.
• Architected an automated system for the remote provisioning and management of client hardware.
• Led R&D and a cross-discipline team to solve the complexities of integrating with constantly new client hardware/software.
• Key contributor in launches of major events, from politics with CNBC and CNN, to major sports and entertainment networks.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• At Fox Sports I was responsible for the daily operation of the web engineering group. Worked closely with show producers, TV broadcast engineers, marketing and other senior business leaders to build revenue channels.
• Technically managed and drove strategy for speed.com - the official website of Speed Channel.
• Brought to market the first Android / iDevice / Flash / HTML5 streaming platform and multi camera live event system within the Fox Family of networks. Synchronized with a television broadcast this brought a complete.
• Led a data-driven UX/content strategy overhaul that more than doubled monthly uniques and drove over 25% incremental ad sales growth.
• Optimized efficiency of large team workflows due to cutbacks at FOX to more than double team output.
• Solved the need for cost-effective web scale by designing and launching a hybrid on-premise/cloud infrastructure at Rackspace with a zero-downtime migration. 600k/mo uniques grew to over 1.4 million uniques with no.

Provided premium tier technology consulting across multiple platforms. In addition to consulting services, FDG was responsible for technology advancements withing voice biometrics. Through a strategic partnership with Porticus Technology Inc. and Aetna Health Care, FDG built one of the first iOS voice biometric security SDKs and application. In the.

Fort Mill, SC, US

• At Red Ventures I worked in a number of roles building and iterating on web applications to support direct sales and marketing efforts.
• Engineered solutions for sales center agents, distributed sales force (DSF) agents, and marketing managers.
• Developed a number of reports and ETL processes to supply low-latency performance data to the marketing teams via the company intranet.
• Contributed to the core technology for marketing operations, including R&D of direct integrations with Google AdWords API to empower business leaders to make real time decisions on paid ad campaigns.

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• At IBSM, I was responsible for all web properties (traffic growth, SEO strategy, engineering, UX/UI) as well as internal technology R&D.
• Built tools for product management, warehouse operations and workflow automation.
• Helped bootstrap and grow an originally small team to later achieve the rank of top 10 retailers for Satellite Radio in 2006.