Owner at Tea-Guy.com
Cincinnati Area
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- Owner at Tea-Guy.com
- Contractor at Kforce Technology Staffing
- Event Ambassador at CincyUpdate
- President at Ripple, LLC (Self-employed)
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- Corporate Change Manager at Comair
- Web Administrator at Comair, Inc.
- Volunteer & Education Policy Advisor at Krikorian for Congress
- Strategic Projects Technologist at Trivantis Corporation
- Volunteer at Wulsin for Congress
- Business Specialist at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Sales Receiver at Cornerstone Consolidated
- Web Developer at Standard Textile Inc.
- Radio Personality at Spry Broadcasting
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- ITT Technical Institute
- Citizens Government Academy
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Chris Giddings’s Summary
Software & Internet developer with a wide array of development, deployment and usability & efficiency evaluation background experiences.
My goals include furthering my knowledge and skill set by working in areas of technology or in industries I have not yet experienced. Additionally the public sector, including political experience with a goal of large scale wide impact change management are long term goals I am striving to further.
Chris Giddings’s Specialties:
PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Cocoa (Objective C) development, REALBasic & Visual Basic development, graphic manipulation & proofing, user interface evaluation, 508 guided usability review, ITIL guided documentation specialization, BEA WebLogic, WLST (via Jython), BEA ALSB, BEA ALDSP, Xcode & Interface Builder, Dreamweaver, GoLive, fluent in system administration of *NIX environments, Corporate Change Management, SEO
Chris Giddings’s Experience
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Owner
Tea-Guy.com
(Food & Beverages industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Taste and review different types of tea based on a set of three primary criteria Flavor, Aroma and Boldness (FAB).
Review teas which are loose, bagged or in sachets.
Review tea accessories. (Infusers, containers, etc.)
Review teahouses/tea rooms.
Review tea products (tea pots, cozies, mugs, kettles).
Review different tea brands on quality.
Interview tea entrepreneurs and blenders. -
Contractor
Kforce Technology Staffing
(Public Company; KFRC; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Java Application Server Administration & Support.
Support for Oracle/BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere Java Application Platform technologies on UNIX/Linux/AIX/Windows. -
Event Ambassador
CincyUpdate
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Promotion of area events. Widening scope of events covered and assisting the young-professionals in the Cincinnati area in keeping current with local activities, events, and entertainment options.
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President
Ripple, LLC (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
Produced numerous small client-organization targeted utility applications written in Cocoa for Mac OS X.
Delivered branding and marketing expertise to a number of Japanese entertainment oriented websites including the introduction of new features and connecting them with organizations who license Japanese entertainment products (TV shows, Movies and music) who have become primary sponsors of these sites.
Provided low-level SEO services to Hello-Online.org a membership based Japanese pop-music group fan website leading to increases in hits and membership count.
Developed targeted web based applications in PHP using MySQL or PostgreSQL for use within corporate environments based on client specific needs. Design of those applications was left to me, database development and design was left to a sub-contractor.
User interface review and 508 usability compliance provided for several clients seeking to enhance their end user experiences through better human design. -
Corporate Change Manager
Comair
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
April 2008 — November 2008 (8 months)
Administer and facilitate a constructive change management process geared towards peer review of proposed changes within the IT realm.
Engage individuals in active discussion to prevent changes having unintended effects.
Improve change process within the organization by eliminating inefficiencies and working to ensure all who can be involved, are involved.
Working to migrate current paper-based change management to an electronic system with robust and defined features geared to eliminate the time-consuming portions of the process so as to provide all who engage the process with more usable time for standard job related tasks. -
Web Administrator
Comair, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
October 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Execute and monitor the deployment of Java based web applications on BEA WebLogic, DataServices and ServiceBus products.
Handle ITIL guided documentation of standardized practices and streamline work-flow integration.
Administrate hardware and software troubleshooting for deployed applications in both production and testing environments.
Frequent review of log files for the purpose of issue regression and troubleshooting.
Scripting of WebLogic environments to facilitate a more streamlined work-flow and improve efficiency of the domains administered.
Manage, maintain and control multiple UNIX (HP-UX) and Linux (SUSE, Ubuntu) desktop and server systems as both individual machines and clusters. -
Volunteer & Education Policy Advisor
Krikorian for Congress
(Political Organization industry)
July 2008 — November 2008 (5 months)
Helped to set direction and foundation for general education policy stances during the campaign of a strong conservative independent running for Ohio's second congressional district.
Assisted in canvasing, cold calling and raising awareness and support for David Krikorian. -
Strategic Projects Technologist
Trivantis Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Produced reports, recommendations and substantial research for a largely variant collection of topics, ideas and corporate needs.
Direct report to the CEO and department head allowed for fluid control and direct input on business altering decisions.
Developed web based materials for live website, internal websites, corporate pet projects, side-projects and other needs.
Directed teams for re-development of corporate website and web-based side-project development.
Built internal inertia for large scale expansion and modernization of public web persona for the company handling sever-side, client-side and database driven needs.
Laid the groundwork for rapidly expanding the features and capabilities of the corporate website to provide better ROI for the company and better features and usability for visitors. -
Volunteer
Wulsin for Congress
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Political Organization industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Handled entry of data from polling and door to door as well as cold-call inquiries of support and contribution for this a congressional candidate for Ohio's 2nd district.
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Business Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 9 months)
Developed sustainable B2B relationships with new and existing clientèle.
Engaged business customers and consumers alike in the retail environment.
Cultivated a love of the Apple brand in new users of the Macintosh platform.
Managed both small and large orders of equipment for customers.
Never resisted admitting there was something we did not offer, and always sought to remedy the gap by assisting the client in locating a developer or reseller of the product or service, most often resulting in closing the sale.
Pro-actively forwarded user concerns, bugs, enhancement requests and new feature ideas direct to developers in Cupertino while simultaneously opening tickets for those same items. -
Sales Receiver
Cornerstone Consolidated
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
April 2000 — October 2000 (7 months)
Handled calls and orders for premium consumer product brands including FrontGate, French Country Living and Ballard Designs. Duties included relaying calls appropriately when necessary, order entry and product troubleshooting.
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Web Developer
Standard Textile Inc.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Textiles industry)
June 1999 — August 1999 (3 months)
Developed and deployed the company's intranet website and multi-lingual websites.
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Radio Personality
Spry Broadcasting
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
May 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Provided on-air personality skills for talk and music based shows. Handled call-in shows discussing a wide range of human interest, political, religious, music and sports based topics. Spearheaded a transition to web-based broadcast to serve a wider audience.
Chris Giddings’s Education
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ITT Technical Institute
ACS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2004
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Citizens Government Academy
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Chris Giddings’s Interests:
New Technology, Investing, Politics, Macintosh Computers, Music, Games, History, Movies, Japan, Anime, Manga, Reading, Books, Comics, Art, Painting, Symphony, Learning, Education, People, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Sports, Baseball, Football, Hockey, Tennis, Politics, Government, Liberty, Human-Computer Interaction
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