Chris Murray

Current

• Trustee and Treasurer at The GIST Foundation
• Managing Director at epiGenesys Ltd

Past

• General Manager at epiGenesys Ltd
• Systems & Development Manager at epiGenesys Ltd
• Lead Developer at Genesys Consulting

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Education

• The University of Sheffield

Connections

202 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• epiGenesys Ltd
• The GIST Foundation

Chris Murray’s Summary

I am presently Managing Director of epiGenesys Ltd, a software company wholly owned by The University of Sheffield, where I am ensuring the successful delivery of our projects, improving our processes and infrastructure, and developing our unique brand. I am also heavily involved in the coaching and mentoring of our students from the Department of Computer Science, ranging from second year undergraduates to fourth year masters students, and am a member of the Department's Industrial Liaison Board.

My other activities include giving back through BashMash, directing The GIST Foundation, organising ShNUG (the Sheffield .NET User Group), and learning and networking at GeekUp Sheffield and Unsheffield.

Chris Murray’s Specialties:

Agile development, automated testing, behavior driven development, extreme programming, object oriented programming, systems management, test driven development, web development, ASP.NET, C#, Ruby.

Chris Murray’s Experience

• Trustee and Treasurer

  The GIST Foundation

  (Fund-Raising industry)

  January 2010 — Present (7 months)

• Managing Director

  epiGenesys Ltd

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2009 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• General Manager

  epiGenesys Ltd

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2008 — April 2009 (11 months)

• Systems & Development Manager

  epiGenesys Ltd

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

• Lead Developer

  Genesys Consulting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

Chris Murray’s Education

• The University of Sheffield

  Master of Computer Science, First Class , 2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Chris Murray’s Websites:

• My Website
• epiGenesys Ltd
• The GIST Foundation

Chris Murray’s Interests:

Reading Andy McNab, visiting North Cyprus, living in Rotherham, supporting the Sheffield Steelers.

Chris Murray’s Groups:

Member of BCS (and the BCS South Yorkshire branch).

•    AgileNorth
•    GeekUp
•    .NET Developers
•    University of Sheffield Alumni
•    BCS Membership Group
•    The University of Sheffield
•    Rubyists
•    Marketing Sheffield
•    eXtreme Programming (XP)
•    Sheffield Software Industry
•    RSpec
•    BarCamp Sheffield
•    BCS South Yorkshire Branch
•    Celerity
•    Cucumber
•    BashMash
•    BizSpark UK
•    University of Sheffield Enterprise
•    epiGenesys
•    Screen Yorkshire
•    StartupMill
•    Innovation Sheffield
•    Scottish Ruby Conference 2010
•    ShRUG
•    Sheffield Chamber of Commerce

Chris Murray’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch