at Yet Another Startup
San Francisco Bay Area
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- foo at Yet Another Startup
- Past
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- CTO at Venrock Associates
- All Purpose Start-up Guy at Zolved.com by IPTouch, Inc.
- Director of Professional Services at SupportSoft
- Sr. Enterprise Systems Management Consultant at Concero (formerly PSW Technologies)
- Software Consultant at Omnikron
- Systems Engineer at Platinum Technology
- Software Engineer at Silicon Valley Group, Lithography
- Education
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- University of Illinois
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Chris Finne’s Summary
Currently in love with the start-up experience as it allows me to fully flex my abilities to quickly learn new markets, analyze problems and leverage people, process and technology to solve real problems.
History of consulting practice leader for both software companies and services companies with sharp hands-on skills.
Experienced in design, development, deployment and management of a wide range of technologies to solve real problems by integrating the technology with people and process.
A shortlist of technologies with varying degrees of experience:
Linux, Unix, Windows, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, CMS tools, Ruby on Rails, C, C++, ASP, Java, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
Love to leverage Open Source tools and applications over classic commercial products when possible.
Chris Finne’s Specialties:
Get things done in a startup environment.
Organization building, leadership, growing revenue.
Chris Finne’s Experience
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foo
Yet Another Startup
(Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
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CTO
Venrock Associates
(Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 11 months)
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All Purpose Start-up Guy
Zolved.com by IPTouch, Inc.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 5 months)
Typical startup fun!
Hosting, Design, Development, QA, Deployment, Maintenance, Marketing, Online Advertising, Ad Revenue Generation, Content Operations.
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Director of Professional Services
SupportSoft
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; sprt; Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — September 2004 (4 years 8 months)
• Teamed with the VP of Ops to build and grow the Services team for 4 years.
• Four solid years of quarter over quarter growth in Professional Services revenue (including during the recession) starting with $1.4 million in Q3-2000 and reaching $5.4 million in Q2-2004 (32% of overall SupportSoft revenue)
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Sr. Enterprise Systems Management Consultant
Concero (formerly PSW Technologies)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; cero.pk; Information Services industry)
December 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Served as Project Lead and Architect for a 9 month successful deployment of most the Tivoli products for Ann Taylor Clothing Stores.
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Software Consultant
Omnikron
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)
November 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Private services company focused on designing and deploying document imaging and workflow solutions, mostly for large financial institutions like Sun America.
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Systems Engineer
Platinum Technology
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; plat; Computer Software industry)
November 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 1 month)
SE in the Rob Klusman and Matt Belli's systems management group. One of the more hands-on technical people that did a lot of post-sales installs and training.
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Software Engineer
Silicon Valley Group, Lithography
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; svg; Semiconductors industry)
October 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Developed the embedded real time robotic control system software, the GUI control system and provided on-site support in Motorola's fab.
Chris Finne’s Education
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University of Illinois
BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1990 — 1994
