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Sarasota, Florida Area
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- IT Professional at Chris Latko (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Chief Technology Officer at PropertyMaps.com
- Chief Technology Officer at Ashley Associates, Ltd.
- Chief Technology Officer at Brand-Ichiba.com
- Chief Technology Officer at Global Board of Trade, Japan
- Web Master at WTIC
- Web Designer at Sony
- Education
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- Indiana University Bloomington
- Tokyo International University
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Chris Latko’s Summary
Chris graduated with honors from Indiana University with a double major in Business Economics and Japanese Language and Literature. In 1994, he developed his first Web site and has since acquired thirteen years in Web development experience, a major part of which has been his participation in the development and deployment of over 200 Web sites that required his contribution in virtually all areas of the production process, including management, programming, design, and system administration. Other keynotes in his career include working for a Fortune Global 500 company (Sony) and several start-ups (WTIC, GBOT, Brand Ichiba).
Chris has produced over $15 million in revenue for his companies through the deployment of systems such as a content management system and Web site deployment tools for the world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. His Web site creation tools are used for 1,000,000 Japanese distributors for Amway, a global leader in multilevel marketing. He is responsible for creating the Cialis Web sites for the Oceania region of the global pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly and Company. Chris has also designed content management systems for sites such as Audi, Clarion, Daiwa Securities, Dunlop, Fiat, Itochu, Nissan, Renault, Sanyo, Sharp, THK, and Warner Brothers. In his latest role as CTO for Ashley Associates, Chris has built the infrastructure for Web interface source code management, bug tracking, replication of Web sites across servers, and versioned build deployment, saving his company over $1 million per year in infrastructure costs.
Chris Latko’s Specialties:
Web devlopment with server-side languages: PHP, Cold Fusion, Ruby, J2EE, Perl, Lasso, and ASP and client-side languages: Javascript, CSS, XML/XSLT, and "AJAX". Database: MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and Oracle. Other languages: Bash, C, Python, Ruby and J2ME for mobile devices. Frameworks: Fusebox, Spring, Ruby on Rails, Zend. SysAdmin: Apache, Apache Modules, Sendmail, Postfix, Bind. OS: Mac OS X, Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, Gentoo, Ubuntu), FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Chris Latko’s Experience
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IT Professional
Chris Latko (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Internet industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
IT Consulting with a strong technical bent. I don't sit around and tell you what to do, I dive into the code and tell you how to improve and where you went wrong. I'll even code examples of applications to prove a point or complete your project.
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Chief Technology Officer
PropertyMaps.com
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — July 2009 (2 years 10 months)
Responsibilities/Accomplishments include:
- Development of website, search engine, and mapping system.
- Development of feed parsing, data storage, and data warehousing.
- Development of broker CRM tools and website administration tools.
- Development of source code management systems, bug tracking, website build system, and quality assurance policies. -
Chief Technology Officer
Ashley Associates, Ltd.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2001 — September 2006 (5 years )
Responsibilities/Accomplishments include:
- Led a team of up to 10 programmers and oversaw numerous offshored projects.
- Technical lead of six, seven, and eight figure web projects.
- Development of content managent system.
- Management of crucial inhouse infrastructure projects.
- Development of quality assurance processes and guidelines. -
Chief Technology Officer
Brand-Ichiba.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
Responsibilities/Accomplishments included:
- Development of website interface.
- Worked remotely with US programmers to integrate website interface with back end business logic.
- Worked with a team of translators to localize the 300+ page website.
- Learned proprietary scripting language to script more than 100 hundred plug-ins for company’s core product.
- Graphic design of logo, website, sales literature, letterhead, business cards, and advertisements. -
Chief Technology Officer
Global Board of Trade, Japan
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Responsibilities/Accomplishments included:
- Development of website interface.
- Worked remotely with US programmers to integrate website interface with back end business logic.
- Worked with a team of translators to localize the 300+ page website.
- Learned proprietary scripting language to script more than 100 hundred plug-ins for company’s core product.
- Graphic design of logo, website, sales literature, letterhead, business cards, and advertisements. -
Web Master
WTIC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 9 months)
Responsibilities/Accomplishments included:
- Played a role in the creation of more than 100 websites (largest web project was the San Diego Metropolitan magazine at 15,000+ pages).
- Created a system of order process management that greatly increased efficiency and turn around time of projects.
- Maintained relations with clients and acted as main point of contact in most cases.
- Graphic design of logo, website, sales literature, letterhead, business cards, and advertisements. -
Web Designer
Sony
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)
1999 — 1999 (less than a year)
Responsibilities/Accomplishments included:
- Development of Intranet interface.
- Integrated proprietary middleware with web interfaces.
- Created web-based presentations and product proposals for several different projects.
- Designed website interface for the ISP segment.
Chris Latko’s Education
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Indiana University Bloomington
BS , Business Economics , 1995 — 1998
Graduated with Honors (GPA: 3.83)
- Activities and Societies:
- Japan Society
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Tokyo International University
Certificate , Japanese Language , 1995 — 1995
Lived with Japanese host family.
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Chris Latko’s Interests:
Technology, Day Trading, Science Fiction, Space Travel, Mars, Semantic Web, AI, Skateboarding, Wii, GIS, Mathematics, Puzzles, Learning
Chris Latko’s Groups:
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Indiana University Alumni Network
Chris Latko’s Honors:
IU Graduate with Highest Distinction
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