Senior Developer at Ironworks Consulting
Richmond, Virginia Area
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- Senior Developer at Ironworks Consulting
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- Senior Technology Architect at Xperts, Inc.
- Vice President of Technology at Richmond.com
- Consultant at CapTech Ventures
- Software Architect at Timmons Group
- Development Intern at Sentraliant
- Education
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Virginia Commonwealth University
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Chris Stewart’s Summary
Technology solution architect and developer with broad range of technical abilities. Interested in creating and designing solutions to unique business problems across multiple technical disciplines.
Chris Stewart’s Specialties:
Software architecture, server architecture and configuration, multiple programming languages, all major computing environments
Chris Stewart’s Experience
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Senior Developer
Ironworks Consulting
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
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Senior Technology Architect
Xperts, Inc.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — August 2009 (2 years )
As the Senior Technology Architect with Xperts, my role has been to model proper enterprise architectures for our educational software products. I’ve spent my time developing new products used by our customers on a daily basis. I’ve created a Dashboard product using JavaServer Faces technology that brings together the various entry points to our flagship product. In addition to serving as a customer facing portal, Dashboard acts as a software load balancing mechanism to distribute load across the 9 application servers. I was the architect and developer for this project.
In addition to Dashboard, I’ve built an automation tool to facilitate the migration of data into our product. This solution was developed using the latest Microsoft .NET technology. I’ve also developed a new corporate website using Microsoft .NET technology. -
Vice President of Technology
Richmond.com
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
February 2007 — September 2007 (8 months)
As the Vice President of Technology I managed the technology team at Richmond.com. My initial objectives as the VP of Technology were to evaluate the department staff, flagship product, and internal processes. I saw a need to start clean with the flagship product, Richmond.com, and rebuild the site with a fresh code base tailored to the business needs for Richmond.com. That new product is currently available at www.richmond.com. I rebuilt that site from scratch with a fresh approach to the architecture that drives the site. I was in a unique situation in that I completed a new architecture for a site that already saw 4.5 million page views each month.
I spent a fair amount of time restructuring the internal processes used by the Richmond.com technology group. I implemented a Continuous Integration system and introduced Trac, a web based task tracking application, which we used to keep track of our ongoing projects. -
Consultant
CapTech Ventures
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — February 2007 (7 months)
At CapTech I worked on a number of projects utilizing Microsoft .NET technology. I was primarily focused on web application development using AJAX and ASP.NET 2.0. I designed and developed web systems using both SQL Server 2005 and MySQL 5. Throughout my time with CapTech I had the opportunity to work in a team of developers, act as the lead developer, and mentor junior developers.
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Software Architect
Timmons Group
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Civil Engineering industry)
December 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 9 months)
With Timmons Group I worked on broad range of engagements with local and state government agencies. I spent 7 months with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) designing, developing, and implementing a geographic information system platform for asset tracking and imagery viewing. The project took off within the department and has shifted future GIS implementations to utilize this system as the base.
In addition to my work with VDOT, I designed and developed a framework internal to Timmons Group that is used to develop their GIS applications. This framework was developed using AJAX, JavaScript, Web Services, and Microsoft .NET. This framework has been implemented and deployed to a number of state and local government bodies in the Commonwealth. -
Development Intern
Sentraliant
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Chris Stewart’s Education
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Masters , Information Technology , 2008 — 2011 (expected)
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor's , Information Systems , 2002 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Founder and President of the .NET User Group at VCU
Additional Information
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Chris Stewart’s Interests:
New technology, writing, reading, football, and racing.
Chris Stewart’s Groups:
Member of Richmond .NET User Group
Former President and Founder of the .NET User Group at Virginia Commonwealth University
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Richmond .NET User Group (RDNUG) -
VCU Information Systems
Chris Stewart’s Honors:
Microsoft Certified Professional - Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft C#.NET and Visual Studio .NET.
Microsoft Student Ambassador to VCU - Mid-Atlantic Region, 2004 to 2005 (1 of 200 nationally).
Microsoft Lead Student Ambassador to VCU - Mid-Atlantic Region, 2005 to 2006 (1 of 9 nationally).
Placed 2nd in the 2004 Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design competition for the Mid-Atlantic region and 4th in the United States.
Chris Stewart’s Contact Settings
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