Chris Curtiss

Current

• Instructor: MBA Business Information Technology Course at Benedictine College
• Principle Business Analyst at Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica

Past

• Research IT Manager at Sanford Health
• Collaboration Program Manager at RAND Corporation
• Product Manager at Frontbridge Technologies

• Systems Analyst at Microsoft
• Business Analyst and Project Manager at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Education

• University of Oregon
• University of Oregon
• Billings West High School

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Connections

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Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Websites

• My Company
• My Music

Chris Curtiss’s Summary

Ten years of project management and business process development in IT settings. Extensive experience in design and implementation of collaboration tools, knowledge management, social networking and web content management systems.

Chris Curtiss’s Specialties:

Project management, business analysis, business development, collaboration tools design, systems implementation and management, business process engineering, product and service development, strategic business planning, corporate intranet, extranet and external web systems design and implementation.

Chris Curtiss’s Experience

• Instructor: MBA Business Information Technology Course

  Benedictine College

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

  This course teaches MBA students the principles of Information Technology program development.

• Principle Business Analyst

  Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica

  (Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

  My responsibilities include delivering business intelligence solutions to Boehringer Sales and Marketing, and Finance business units. I'm also running the organization's customer facing web program.

• Research IT Manager

  Sanford Health

  (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  October 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for systems architecture and deployment. Focused on line-of-business systems (process automation and data management) and administrative tools for a health care research organization. Developing a long term vision for infrastructure and application architecture that will integrate the research side of the organization with the delivery side of the organization.

• Collaboration Program Manager

  RAND Corporation

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  August 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  I manage a portfolio of IT services designed to support collaboration within the business. This portfolio includes e-mail, data conferencing, video conferencing, web-based team sites, mobile devices, unified communications tools and other applications. I manage a set of projects each fiscal year beginning with business analysis and the cost/benefit justification for projects and proceeding through implementation, operational preparations and customer training.

• Product Manager

  Frontbridge Technologies

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 5 months)

• Systems Analyst

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  August 2003 — April 2004 (9 months)

• Business Analyst and Project Manager

  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Philanthropy industry)

  February 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Chris Curtiss’s Education

• University of Oregon

  MBA , Marketing , 1997 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Students for Responsible Business

• University of Oregon

  BS , Fine Arts (Computer Graphics Design) + Computer Information Systems minor , 1994 — 1997

• Billings West High School

Additional Information

Chris Curtiss’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Music

Chris Curtiss’s Interests:

web marketing, customer relationship management, web-based supply chain management, marketing resource management, business intelligence, data visualization, business process management, collaboration technologies, project management, life sciences research, strategic business planning

Chris Curtiss’s Honors:

1997 Design Distinction Award – I.D. Magazine

1996 Multimedia Educator of the Year – Oregon Multimedia Alliance
(http://nmc.uoregon.edu/emi)

1995 Gold Award for Excellence in Education – Council for Advancement and Support of Education
(http://www.goducks.com)

Chris Curtiss’s Contact Settings

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• expertise requests
• business deals