Chris "Woody" Woodruff

I am a customer-focused, dedicated individual who enjoys working in new areas that offer the opportunity to adapt to new techniques and methodologies. I rise to the challenge of direction change and am comfortable in work environments that require calculated decision making and risk taking. Thoughtful and well organized, I take an analytical approach to completing work tasks and will develop a plan of action before jumping in. I have demonstrated abilities to succeed in a team setting and seek out innovative thinking and originality from other team members.

http://www.speakerrate.com/speakers/1499-cwoodruff

Chris "Woody" Woodruff’s Specialties:

Building distributed software architecture, full lifecycle software development, business requirement analysis, building and leading technical team environments, and designing large databases.

See my blog at http://blog.cloudsocket.com

Chris "Woody" Woodruff’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Compliance Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Co-Host

Deep Fried Bytes Podcast

(Entertainment industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Founder

Grand Rapids TechLunch

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
NorAm Membership Mentor – MI, OH

INETA

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Membership Mentors act as advisor, counselor, guide, tutor, teacher, and guru of Membership to our member user group leadership and user groups. Membership Mentors recommend membership of new user groups and membership renewal of current user groups when needed. Membership Mentors make themselves available for personal contact and are outgoing in building and maintaining superior relationships with the user group leadership for all user groups within their INETA Membership territory to strengthen our INETA user group community. Membership Mentors are the center and the essential provider of the interactions with INETA member local user groups, leaders and individuals.
Speaker Coordinator

Day of .NET Ann Arbor

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Speaker Coordinator for the Ann Arbor branch of the Day of .NET developer event.
Event Coordinator/Founder

Day of .NET West Michigan

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Founder and Coordinator of the West Michigan branch of the Day of .NET developer event.
Principal Consultant

Sogeti

(Public Company; CAP.PA; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)
Solution Architect, CRM Line of Business

RCM Technologies, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 5 months)
President

Terralant, Inc.

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

December 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 4 months)

Terralant was created in 2003 with the goal of bridging the gap between business innovation and their commercial application. We use a novel approach to new product development which brings disparate components from computing, software, business and research together under a unified framework. We have an established track record as problem-solvers in the scientific domain, and our services are designed to accelerate the pace of business innovation for our clients.
Consultant

BTAS

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Lead the development of a government legacy coal mining permit clearinghouse application to ASP.NET 1.1 and SQL Server 2000. I also lead the business analysis, system and user documentation for the newly designed system.
Senior Software Developer

Tenmast Software

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

September 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 2 months)
Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

July 1998 — September 2002 (4 years 3 months)
Software Developer

CareCentric

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

February 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Software Architect/Developer

ImageWare Technologies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1996 — February 1997 (8 months)
Software Engineer III

Sprint

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

March 1996 — July 1996 (5 months)
Consultant

ANATEC (Analytical Technologies)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — February 1996 (1 year 2 months)