Chris Miller

Current

• Contractor at Kforce Technology Staffing
• Owner at Plimsoll Solutions
• Sr Applications Systems Analyst at Walter W. Marston LLC

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Past

• Contractor at OST, Inc.
• IT Business Analyst at Dematic
• Process Framework Executive at Siemens Logistics & Assembly

• Integrated Engineering Tools Manager at Siemens Dematic
• Engineering Applications Manager at Rapistan Systems
• Project Order Service Manager at Rapistan
• Sr. Systems Mechanical Engineer at Rapistan
• Project Engineering Manager at Interlake Packageing
• Mechanical Engineer at Hart Carter
• Machine Builder at ALMACO
• Volunteer at U.S. Peace Corps

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Education

• Aquinas College
• Iowa State University

Recommendations

6 recommendations

Connections

67 connections

Industry

Information Services

Websites

• My Company

Chris Miller’s Summary

A quality driven IT professional with a track record of delivering technical solutions within aligned with a vision. Accomplished at analyzing business requirements, creating plans, and building solutions. A self-starter with strong collaboration, communication, and problem solving skills. Proactive with customers and commited to continuous improvement.

Chris Miller’s Specialties:

Project Planning, Requirements Analysis, Process Design, System Implementation, Customization, System Support

Chris Miller’s Experience

• Contractor

  Kforce Technology Staffing

  (Public Company; KFRC; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  June 2009 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Providing data problem resolution and support for insurance client.

• Owner

  Plimsoll Solutions

  (Information Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Created business and personal websites and portals based on DotNetNuke application framework. Developed tool for import of Access data via XML. Created web application for presentation event invoicing. Collaborated on marketing of partnership with small data solution company.

• Sr Applications Systems Analyst

  Walter W. Marston LLC

  (Information Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Ongoing project work for multiple clients including: Building MS Word template for commercial Real Estate appraisal client; Resolve MS Access application problems for software client; Making sales calls and cultivating clients.

• Contractor

  OST, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — April 2009 (6 months)

  Resolved FTP WinBatch issues and migration of large Access db to SQL for petroleum supplier.

• IT Business Analyst

  Dematic

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Machinery industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  (formerly Siemens L&A)
  - SharePoint 2007 implementation as intranet content management system and Wiki resource.
  - Replacement of legacy IT service desk systems with GWI c.Support application.

• Process Framework Executive

  Siemens Logistics & Assembly

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

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  - Representative for US regional participation in the Siemens Process Framework initiative.
  - Established and maintained local configuration, templates, user administration, training, data management and reports for ARIS Toolset.
  - Developed and applied process improvement project methodology to SAP Change Management, Employee Suggestion and Customer Spare Parts business processes.

• Integrated Engineering Tools Manager

  Siemens Dematic

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

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  (formerly Rapistan)
  - Served in Germany as liason between European core user team and US development team.
  - Responsible for product management of engineering product configurator application.
  - Formed startup development team and managed construction of proof-of-concept prototypes.

• Engineering Applications Manager

  Rapistan Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Machinery industry)

  1995 — 2001 (6 years )

  - Recruited and managed team of four developers to built and maintained custom applications for sales and engineering users.
  - Designed, coded, deployed and maintained a product configuration application based on Visual Basic and Access 97 used by 300 users in 20 locations.
  - Designed and built image search database for 25,000 product drawings.

• Project Order Service Manager

  Rapistan

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Machinery industry)

  1992 — 1995 (3 years )

  - User support of mainframe based engineering order entry system. Specification, testing, documentation and rollout of expanded system to field offices.
  - Purchased, installed and maintained all hardware and software for 40 desktop PC's.

• Sr. Systems Mechanical Engineer

  Rapistan

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Machinery industry)

  1989 — 1992 (3 years )

• Project Engineering Manager

  Interlake Packageing

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Machinery industry)

  1986 — 1989 (3 years )

• Mechanical Engineer

  Hart Carter

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Machinery industry)

  1984 — 1986 (2 years )

• Machine Builder

  ALMACO

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Machinery industry)

  1983 — 1984 (1 year )

• Volunteer

  U.S. Peace Corps

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Relations industry)

  1980 — 1982 (2 years )

  - Stationed in Santiago, Chile and Nausori, Fiji

Chris Miller’s Education

• Aquinas College

  Certificate , Theology , 2006 — 2008

• Iowa State University

  Agricultural Engineering 1975 — 1980

Additional Information

Chris Miller’s Websites:

• My Company

Chris Miller’s Interests:

theology, movies, astronomy, Germany

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