Chris Winters

Current

Software Architect at Vocollect Healthcare Systems

Past

Software Developer at Vocollect
Software Developer at Optiron
Consultant at Automated Health Systems

Software Developer at INTES.NET
Software Developer at IREX
Writer/Webmaster at CTAA
Transportation Planner at Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

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Education

University of Pittsburgh
West Potomac High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Chris Winters’s Summary

Chris Winters’s Specialties:

Full lifecycle server-side application architecture and hands-on development in Java and Perl with a focus on simplicity, including gathering requirements and translating into features, fitting those features into an overall architecture, overseeing technical team toward defined goals (sprints, releases, etc.), continuous refactoring, and creating development and testing tools.

Chris Winters’s Experience

Software Architect

Vocollect Healthcare Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Product for skilled nursing homes that enables nursing assistants to document by voice activities of daily living and other information as specified by a nurse using a web application. Lead architect and developer behind rewrite of and updates to Java-based server-side web and data application.
Software Developer

Vocollect

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

September 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Company builds wearable computers and supporting software to direct work and collect data by voice, focused in logistics applications (warehousing, particularly strong in grocery). Started in QA writing automation tools for web testing and server testing from the POV of wearable computers. Moved to New Ventures group after nine months as the sole software developer on a small team looking for new opportunities for our voice-activated wearable computers.
Software Developer

Optiron

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2000 — September 2004 (3 years 11 months)

Small software development firm developing energy billing software, focused on natural gas utilities. Worked as single developer to move team from client/server system with business logic in database to n-tier architecture.
Consultant

Automated Health Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Software Developer

INTES.NET

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 9 months)

Startup in Washington, DC area providing networking support and web development for primarily non-profit organizations, and before the bust provided telco technicians to service POPs around the US. Primary web developer on staff (almost entirely Perl) with varying degrees of sysadmin work (Linux, SMTP, IMAP. Samba, LDAP, SSH, etc.)
Software Developer

IREX

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

February 1997 — March 1998 (1 year 2 months)

Organization provided project management and logistics support for scholars studying between US and countries in the former Soviet Union and iron curtain. Created web-based intranet application that consolidated 600+ flatfile contact databases into a single relational database, a simple public interface browsing document summaries in both Russian (cyrillic) and English. General IT support.
Writer/Webmaster

CTAA

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

September 1995 — February 1997 (1 year 6 months)

Writer and researcher at non-profit transportation advocacy organization, including articles for trade magazine and reports for organization members on technology; brought organzation online with their first website, including a dynamic application to register users for the annual conference; system administrator for Netware network, including installing Groupwise and hooking the SMTP gateway to a dialup service.
Transportation Planner

Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Recreational Facilities and Services industry)

August 1993 — September 1995 (2 years 2 months)

Writer, editor and researcher with the Transportation Planning Department. Helped produce the "Transitway and High-Occupancy Vehicle Network Master Plan" which looked at population and employment trends thirty years into the future and proposed potential transit and HOV solutions that fit with or had minimal impact on existing land uses.

Also co-authored publication "The Link Between Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality" that was published in "Environmental Planning Quarterly", helped edit many documents within the department, worked with a public interest group on transit, and co-authored memos and presentations for the Planning Board.