Chris Clark

Current

• Director, Applications & Integration, Sr. Solutions Architect at Avanade

Past

• Chief Technology Officer at MobileHWY, LLC
• .NET Solutions Architect at Avanade
• Director of Engineering at TeamVest

• Lender Technical Services Manager at LendingTree
• Consultant at Duke Energy
• Consultant at First Union Capital Markets
• Webmaster at Little & Associates Architects
• Webmaster at Nationsbank
• Consultant at Duke Energy
• Director of Software Development at PFA Financial Centers
• Consultant at Duke Energy
• Consultant at BASF
• Consultant at Barclays American Mortgage
• Consultant at Summit Computer Services

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Education

• Central Piedmont Community College
• Western Piedmont Community College
• Freedom High School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Chris Clark’s Summary

I have a long running career of being a technology solution provider for customers. I excel at leadership, explaining technology, working with customers, understanding business goals, designing technology solutions, and delivering those solutions. My strong points are leadership through peer respect, hands-on technology knowledge, development process, best practices, quality assurance, team development, creativity, and not being afraid to address unpopular topics.

Chris Clark’s Specialties:

Microsoft .NET technology (VB.NET, C#, VS.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET)
Visual Studio .NET 2005
Visual Studio .NET 2008 Orcas
Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 6.0 Classic, Standard, Professional
J2ME Blackberry, Motorola
Smartphone, Pocket PC, Symbol, PSION, Palm Treo
SQL Mobile, SQL CE, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008
SQL Reporting, Analysis, Integration Services
Sharepoint, Biztalk
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft Dynamics AX Axapta
Microsoft Point of Sale

Chris Clark’s Experience

• Director, Applications & Integration, Sr. Solutions Architect

  Avanade

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

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Member of Windows Mobile Developer Advisory Council
  Business Development - Customer Facing, Proposals, RFP Responses
  Microsoft .NET technology (VB.NET, C#, VS.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET)
  Enterprise Library (EntLib) 3.1
  Patterns and Practices
  Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2008, Orcas
  Windows Mobile 5.0. 6.0, SQL Mobile
  Field Force Enablement Lead

• Chief Technology Officer

  MobileHWY, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Construction industry)

  June 2004 — May 2006 (2 years )

  Microsoft .NET Web development
  .NET Tablet PC development
  J2ME on mobile devices
  Symbian
  BREW
  Location based services using GPS
  GPS Mapping
  GPS Proximity searching
  Route optimization/planning
  Address geocoding and reverse geocoding.
  Remote accessibility to enterprise data

• .NET Solutions Architect

  Avanade

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 5 months)

  Avanade is the world’s premier technology integrator for Microsoft solutions in the enterprise.
  
  Avanade creates value for its customers by leveraging Microsoft enterprise technology to design, build, and deploy customized, reliable architectures and scalable infrastructures to increase profitability, improve speed-to-market, and accelerate growth.
  
  Avanade is focused on helping Global 2000 customers optimize existing and future Microsoft investments within their heterogeneous IT environment.
  
  Software Architect; Microsoft .NET solutions; Best Practices; Team Development; Visual Studio .NET; Iterative Development; Deployment; Security; Project Estimates; Proof of Concepts; .NET; C#; SQL Server; Sharepoint; Biztalk

• Director of Engineering

  TeamVest

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  Technical lead and manager for a group of developers using the Java platform. We utilized Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Weblogic, XML, SOAP, JINI and JavaSpaces to create a financial advice platform for Quicken.com. As director, I was responsible for technical architecture, expenditures, performance reviews, partner integration, sales presentation, due diligence and RFP responses.

• Lender Technical Services Manager

  LendingTree

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1999 — October 1999 (10 months)

  Lendingtree.com is an online marketplace for financial needs. They provide Mortgage, Home Equity, Credit Card, Automobile and Personal Loan offerings. In addition to their retail business, LendingTree.com also offers their solution to other companies as a Co-Branded ASP (Application Service Provider) solution. On the project we used Microsoft NT Server Web Platform (NT, IIS, MTS, MSMQ, Interdev), SQL Server and Visual Basic.

• Consultant

  Duke Energy

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1998 — January 1999 (3 months)

  Duke Energy on a web based rate assignment system. The system was designed to track power usage across real time usage monitoring equipment within facilities. The system provided a aggregated web based perspective on the overall power usage for the facilities. On the project we used Microsoft NT Server Web Platform (NT, IIS, MTS, MSMQ, Interdev), SQL Server and Visual Basic.

• Consultant

  First Union Capital Markets

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — November 1998 (6 months)

  First Union Capital Markets on a web based project management system. The system was designed to find core issues affecting projects by using a graphical hyperbolic web presentation of all projects in the corporation. The thought was that by identifying the relationships between projects, the critical path could easily be identified. The system allowed for easy graphical identification of troubled projects. On the project we used Microsoft NT Server Web Platform (NT, IIS, MTS, MSMQ, Interdev), SQL Server, Visual Basic and Visual J++. The system used a considerable amount of Java, Dynamic HTML, Active Server Pages and Visual Basic.

• Webmaster

  Little & Associates Architects

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  Joined Little & Associates Architects to help them expand into the realm of ASP (Application Service Provider) for the Facilities Management industry. While I was there, I provided them with key web technologies and direction to help them expand their business. Little & Associates Architects is the 22th largest architecture firm in the nation located in Charlotte NC. This web solution used the Microsoft NT Server Web Platform (NT, IIS, MTS, Interdev). These solutions integrate Autocad drawings with Oracle data to provide information for corporate internal rent and lease comparisons. Utilized Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Transaction Server, ORACLE NT and Visual Basic.

• Webmaster

  Nationsbank

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 2 months)

  Served as Webmaster for Nationsbank Intranet maintaining 2 Microsoft Internet Information Servers for 13 client web sites. This web solution used the Microsoft NT Server Web Platform (NT, IIS, Interdev). Very proficient in the design and development of systems using active server pages with SQL databases. Created custom Visual Basic applications that use Winsock programming and agent technology. While there, I served as technology consultant to business units on the creation of Intranet presences.

• Consultant

  Duke Energy

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

  Served as a contractor at Duke Energy doing a Mainframe DB2 conversion to Microsoft Visual Basic / Sybase. This project was converting years of mainframe data entered about nuclear power plant components. In the nuclear power business, it is highly critical that data about the operations of your power plants be accurate. This project was undertaken to insure that the data in the system was validated manually against what components were actually in the power plants. The data entry was not standardized over the years and this project was designed to build standardized values for common multiple representations of a single component.

• Director of Software Development

  PFA Financial Centers

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1994 — January 1995 (8 months)

  Served as Director of Software Development for PFA Financial Centers, Inc. PFA was dedicated to delivering Financial Services (insurance, mortgage, auto and personal loans) through a multimedia kiosk. While at PFA, was technology manager for all the software that was used on the kiosks.

• Consultant

  Duke Energy

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1993 — June 1994 (9 months)

  Served as a consultant to Duke Energy on the Problem Investigation System. The PIP system was designed to be a documentation system for problems found in nuclear power plants.The system tracked the problems from initial discovery to closure. The system was a Clipper based system that was converted to Visual Basic.

• Consultant

  BASF

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1993 — October 1993 (10 months)

  I worked for BASF Paper Products and Process Chemicals division building a lab tracking application that was written in FoxPro. The lab application tracked the specific chemicals and colorants that were used to dye a specific custom paper. The system was used for historical purposes to make finding the formulas in the future easier.

• Consultant

  Barclays American Mortgage

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1992 — January 1993 (10 months)

  Barclays American Mortgage building a Foxpro Client Server system for the creation of monthly reports for all the branches. The system created portfolios of loans that could be bundled for investor groups. The application took a download of Btrieve packed decimal flat file and unpacked the data into ASCII text for reporting.

• Consultant

  Summit Computer Services

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1991 — April 1992 (1 year 4 months)

  Nationsbank on an employee idea management system. The system rewarded employees for money saving ideas.
  
  Wachovia on a loan charge off system. The system kept track of bad loans.
  
  Bourne and Co on a contact management system. The system was specific to tracking the paperwork associated with business brokerage.
  
  City of Charlotte on a sign permit system. The system was a round robin dial up system that allowed the remote request and tracking of sign permits. The application interfaced with a Mainframe CICS application using screen scraping written in Clipper with HLLAPI calls.

Chris Clark’s Education

• Central Piedmont Community College

  Law, Business August 1991 — August 1993

• Western Piedmont Community College

  Computer Science August 1989 — August 1991

• Freedom High School

  August 1986 — May 1989

Additional Information

Chris Clark’s Websites:

• My Website

Chris Clark’s Interests:

home theater, new technology, fishing, golfing, personal growth, investing, internet marketing, video, XBOX, PS2, compact sport car racing (ala fast and furious), car stereo

Chris Clark’s Groups:

Microsoft Windows Mobile Developer Advisory Council Member
Microsoft Windows Mobile Partner Advisory Council Member

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•    LBS/ GPS Technology
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)

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