Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Contributing over 30 years to the computer/technology industry, Chris has excelled in the development, delivery, support, management, and promotion of technology solutions. Some of the areas Chris has provided solutions for include enterprise-class applications, e-business/e-commerce, regulatory compliance, systems maintenance/support, automation, & systems/network security. In 2000 & 2012 Chris was recognized as one of the top technology/business leaders and was listed in the Lexington and Worldwide Who’s Who registry of business leaders and professionals. Chris is also the named inventor on two United States patents pertaining to application and internet performance and diagnostics. Since 1992 Chris’ career has been mostly focused on the design, implementation, and deployment of applications targeting the highly demanding areas of both Enterprise-scale and Internet-based applications. Chris has successfully managed the full life-cycle development of these projects resulting in products currently deployed throughout the world. Starting in 2001 Chris’ skill set was recognized as being invaluable in the area of Technical Due Diligence. Since then Chris has been a key contributor for various organizations who have utilized his skills at managing and delivering Technology Due Diligence and Risk Management services. Chris publicly launched the consulting company Netbytes®, Inc. in 1996. Since that time Chris has built a premiere services organization focused on helping organizations quickly solve problems utilizing the most efficient and cost-effective solutions. Netbytes® offers a broad range of technology services that have provided proven success to their customers’ critical technology investments. Specialties: • Web/Cloud Application Design, Security, Implementation, & Hosting. • IT Systems Design, Implementation, Configuration/Maintenance, & Systems/Network Security. • Security and Compliance Risk Analysis, Mitigation, & Management. • Office & Home Automation and Security
The mission of Trusted Villages℠ is to foster Aging in Place by empowering the Village movement model which helps seniors age in their own homes. It is our goal to help Villages launch more quickly. We accomplish this by providing operational support services utilizing secure and trusted technologies, ensuring members data remains safe, while promoting community engagement and outreach. Chris' duties include ensuring a secure hosting and application environment are maintained and overseeing all development efforts. As the founder of The Trusted Villages Foundation, Chris will also be involved in outreach programs to ensure the best overall solutions are offered and contributing in any areas where his assistance may be required.
Netbytes® offers a broad range of technology, software, cloud hosted solutions, and consulting services that provide success to their customers’ critical technology needs and investments. The Netbytes® technical team consists of experts in the areas of enterprise-class application development, systems maintenance, home/office automation & security, and comprehensive systems & network security. Netbytes® Specialties Include: • Web/Cloud Application Design, Security, Implementation, & Hosting. • Secure Virtual Office Solutions. • IT Systems Design, Implementation, Configuration/Maintenance, & Systems/Network Security. • Security and Compliance Risk Analysis, Mitigation, & Management. • Office & Home Automation and Security
Do Diligence® Partners provides Technology Due Diligence Services in support of investments and acquisitions by equity firms, venture capitalists, and corporations. During his time as an analyst at Do Diligence® Partners, Chris traveled all over the world to review technologies seeking funding. This also included reviewing the complete development life-cycle of technology companies being considered for merger or acquisition by other companies. Chris was personally involved in the review of many multi-billion dollar acquisitions that changed the overall complexion of the technology industry.
NFR offered a wide range of IDS/IPS software and appliance-based solutions targeting both commercial and government organizations with highly specific and demanding needs within the Network Intrusion space. Chris' responsibilities included designing an infrastructure capable of collecting, gathering, and analyzing the exhaustive amount of information gathered by monitoring ever network packet collected by NFR's IDS/IPS collectors. This role also involved extensive travel all over the world to meet with both active and perspective customers and partners.
Chris led the Distributed Products team in the creation of Enterprise-class computer systems performance monitoring. This development unit created software which collected performance metrics from mini and micro computers. This data was then consolidated to a central management interface. Thousands of systems could be monitored in near-real time (<1 minute). Companies ranging from mid-sized to huge international organizations used this product in their Network Operation Centers (NOC's) to monitor system performance and quickly react to, and resolve, problems as they would arise.
Chris led the Distributed Products Agent Development team in the creation of agents designed to monitor disparate computer systems. (e.g. Microsoft® Windows NT™, AS/400, and most variants of Linux) This development team also created software which tracked application performance. During this time Chris was instrumental in the creation of a patented technology which would allow the tracking of web-based performance from the perspective of the user "in the wild". Chris also remained actively involved in the Application Response Measurement (ARM) working group. (ARM was a coalition of industry technology companies interested in creating an API standard for the measurement of application performance.) Chris continued extensive travel around the world promoting and evangelizing the Landmark Systems solutions.
As Development Manager Chris was responsible for all development targeting the Microsoft® Windows™ platforms. This included both agent and UI development. During this period Chris also joined,and was actively involved in the Application Response Measurement (ARM) working group. (ARM was a coalition of industry technology companies interested in creating an API standard for the measurement of application performance.) Chris' efforts led to Landmark Systems becoming the first Microsoft® BackOffice™ certified performance monitoring solution. This was accomplished by working directly with Microsoft® both remotely and in-person at the Microsoft® campus in Redmond, WA. Chris also traveled extensively to both current and prospective customers to help both Systems Engineers and Marketing fully understand the real needs of the customers.