Chris Curry

Current

• Consultant - Principal at shrimpo LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Consultant at ChartOne
• Consultant at Momsdesk Commerce
• Technology Manager at Bayview Bank

• Senior Network Manager at Weyerhaeuser Mortgage Company
• System Administrator at KPMG/Peat Marwick
• Systems Analyst at Price Waterhouse Coopers

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Education

• University of California, Davis
• St Genevieve High School

Recommended

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Connections

118 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Chris Curry’s Summary

PARTIAL CLIENTS: Axium Entertainment; Axium International; Redpine Signals; Euclid Networks; Jennifer Field Foundation; One World; Zenasis; EOB Plus; CheapChic; AUM Inc.; Gandiva Software; Project Green Leaf; Crunch!; Corvolan; 1KTV; GoTV Networks; Cybersocket; MomsDesk Commerce; Technologie Aujourd; Der Kreuzlinie

• Information/Technology industry specialist for more than 15 years
• Corporate and freelance project management and team leader experience for enterprise-wide missions, planning, rollouts, development, and support.
• Database mining and analysis for demographic, financial and a diversity of market meta data types.
• Innovative ways of using Information Technology to create and streamline business administrative and revenue functions.
• Strong blend of technical, creative and business management and analysis based on real world corporate and IT experience.
• Extremely diverse set of technology; thorough understanding of software and operating system architectures.
• Project Manager and mentor for enterprise wide and mission-critical projects; successful track record in major banking endeavors.
• Executive consulting role on emergent technology and their proposed internal and client development center use.
• Strong experience in user interface, human factoring/usability design for B2C, B2B and retail.

Chris Curry’s Specialties:

Repeatedly demonstrated talents to solve problems creatively in all areas of web technology management, marketing, art direction and artistic content. Over 10 years in the technical industry

I have a heavy background in corporate information systems with a strong creative talent from formal education and practical real world experience.

Chris donates his time to Project New Hope in Los Angeles, assisting in teaching Internet and office computer skills to those living with HIV/AIDS.

Chris Curry’s Experience

• Consultant - Principal

  shrimpo LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  February 1999 — Present (10 years 10 months)

  Partial Client List: Axium Entertainment; Axium International; Redpine Signals; Euclid Networks; Jennifer Field Foundation; One World; Zenasis; EOB Plus; CheapChic; AUM Inc.; Gandiva Software; Project Green Leaf; Crunch!; Corvolan; 1KTV; GoTV Networks; Cybersocket; MomsDesk Commerce; Technologie Aujourd; Der Kreuzlinie
  
  Independent contractor serving web based application design needs for a variety of clients and industries. Responsible for determining business and application dynamics and translating those into application methods, policies and components; human factoring; responsible for developing solid and clean technical and creative components and understanding underlying middleware components to translate into the application space.

• Consultant

  ChartOne

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 7 months)

  Responsible for user interface design for entire suite of applications serving the healthcare industry. Involved in human factoring side of application design and creating effective programming and user interface components. Developed application process and navigation flow. Created demonstration software.

• Consultant

  Momsdesk Commerce

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 9 months)

  Responsible for user interface design for entire suite of applications serving the healthcare industry. Involved in human factoring side of application design and creating effective programming and user interface components. Developed application process and navigation flow. Created demonstration software.

• Technology Manager

  Bayview Bank

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1998 — April 2000 (2 years 3 months)

  Major Accomplishments:
  • Developed custom software distribution mechanisms for 50+ branches included rollout and auto-updating of Windows and applications, such as Microsoft Office applications.
  • Executive advisor and consultant on IT missions/solutions, executive strategies and back-office reporting and updating.
  • Responsible for third party IT budget/Service Agreements and partnering reporting directly to Executive management.
  • Developed retail banking Internet application in technical, policy and artistic direction. Primary areas of concern regarding client security, data retrieval and ease of the interface for customers.
  • Responsible for developing internal GUI for employees to ease the use of operating system environment.
  • Responsible for developing standards and business practices for new technology initiatives, primarily the Internet.
  • Data reporting and administration for executive reporting regarding banking financial and demographic (HMDA) matters.

• Senior Network Manager

  Weyerhaeuser Mortgage Company

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1994 — February 1998 (4 years 1 month)

  • Highest level of technical support, team-leader, and mentor to a staff of 40 providing instruction.
  • Project Manager for a variety of company specific IT planning and rollouts. Projects were comprised of complex enterprise-wide goals that were successfully achieved.
  • Developed custom software components to automate the procedure of enterprise wide operating system and application updates for over 100 branch offices.
  • Designed user interfaces for internal software, email forms, and retail kiosks.
  • Designed and authored complex software document management system to route business documents between home office, branches and roaming underwriters, using multiple technologies of fax, email, internal routers with customized software sets and burgeoning Internet.
  • Created first major corporate Internet presence for mortgage firm. Developed application business needs to provide front-end for prospective users with automated processes, calculators, and product information.

• System Administrator

  KPMG/Peat Marwick

  (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1991 — December 1993 (2 years 3 months)

  • Highest level of technical support.
  • Project management for a variety of innovative, technology-driven missions and strategies.
  • Created HMDA and financial analysis databases and tools for internal and client support. Responsible for data-mining, and cleaning using a variety of custom procedural SQL tools and created a customized Executive Information System drilling into SQL data.
  • Created custom software distribution system for operating system and application installs and updates.
  • Responsible for network support and providing liaison to headquarters and senior executives.
  • Responsible for database administration for location-wide Oracle servers.

• Systems Analyst

  Price Waterhouse Coopers

  (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1989 — September 1991 (2 years )

  • Responsible for assisting developing and supporting an open networking environment for PC, Netware, CP/M, UNIX and Mac computers.
  • Principal liaison between IT and Management Consulting. Executive consulting role on emergent technology and their proposed internal and client development center use.
  • Designed software and user interfaces with Lotus Notes for HR and Document Management systems.
  • Responsible for some client support in developing network and accounting systems for offsite clients.

Chris Curry’s Education

• University of California, Davis

  BS , Environmental Design: Landscape Architecture , 1985 — 1989

  Minor: Recreational Planning and Management

  Activities and Societies:

  Principal area of study: Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, Horticulturist Volunteer for University Arboreteum, Student Liason - Recreational Planning

• St Genevieve High School

  1982 — 1985

Additional Information

Chris Curry’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Chris Curry’s Interests:

►INTERESTS » Travel, horticulture, gardening, cooking, health and fitness, outdoors, nature, friends, spirituality, integrity, technology, work, languages, weightlifting, yoga, history, reading, Flyertalk (AA_SPG_Fan) . ►LANGUAGES » English, Conversational:, Spanish, Catalan, Read/Write: Swedish, Portugese

Chris Curry’s Groups:

Certified California Nurseryman (expired license)

►VOLUNTEER » Sierra Club, Sierra Club Los Angeles, TreePeople Los Angeles, Project New Hope (teaching volunteer) ,

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Chris Curry’s Honors:

►MEDIA APPEARANCES »
“Day Today” NPR - Nov 2004
“Wild Country 96.5” (live) - Nov 2004 - Montréal
“Brooke Fox Show” (live) - KXLY-FM - Nov 2004
“The Liz Wilde Show” (live) - WRXK - Dec 2004
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (News) - Jan 2005
AR Deutschland (News) Germany - March 2005
RAI (News) - Italy - April 2005
WIRED Magazine: “Osama’s Suspicious Site” Nov 2001
Philadelphia City Paper: Oct, Nov 2001
BLOOMBERG News: Oct 2001
Avis One - Norway - Nov 2001
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Nov 2001
Rocky Mountain News - Nov 2003
“Binladin: A Dynasty of Terror” Documentary - Featured Speaker/ Technical
Consultant - Film shown in Australia, Western Europe
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (News) Jan 2005
Der Spiegel (News) (Germany) - March 2005
KTTV Fox News - Los Angeles - Nov 2001
CBS Market Watch - Nov 2001 // Jan 2006
KRON Television News - San Francisco Bay Area - Nov 2001

Chris Curry’s Contact Settings

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