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Founder @ From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Greater Seattle AreaEntrepreneur in Residence @ Just a kid with a dream - analyzing, inventing, pursuing new startup opportunities in the API Economy space. Excited to be working with some of the smartest people in the Pacific Northwest. From October 2013 to February 2014 (5 months) Greater Seattle AreaChief Technology Officer @ Senior leader of the research and development team at Optify, including product management, engineering, quality assurance, operations, and customer engagement. From April 2012 to September 2013 (1 year 6 months) Greater Seattle AreaVP, Engineering @ Optify is the leading provider of marketing software and services for the Real Time Web. Optify’s hosted, easy-to-use suite of applications enables businesses to drive more traffic and leads with SEO and social media, convert visitors to customers, and measure and share results.
• Serve as VP of Engineering and member of the executive management team reporting to the CEO
• Responsible for managing the technology organization, including the engineering, Q/A, operations, and internal IT teams
• Introduced agile/scrum methodology to rally the product and engineering teams around clear goals, increase the rate of innovation, and decrease risk
• Led the re-architecture of the core data storage platform to a horizontally scaled solution
• Evangelized best practices on agile product development, strategy, and personnel development, educating all levels of the organization From July 2010 to April 2012 (1 year 10 months) Seattle, WADirector of Engineering @ Visible is the leader in social media monitoring and analytics solutions, providing the perfect combination of software and services to harness business value from social communities.
• Served as Director of Engineering reporting to the CTO
• Grew the team from five software engineers to more than twenty
• Maintained impactful relationships with executive management, actively contributing to product management, customer support, and sales
• Primary contributor on pending patents for the TruCast/TruPulse product suite From March 2007 to June 2010 (3 years 4 months) Seattle, WAManaging Consultant @ K2 Information Services is a provider of enterprise technical consulting. Customer focus is primarily Microsoft where we work with multiple business units inside the organization to deliver software and services.
• Led development teams on contract projects at Microsoft and other organizations
• Established code quality standards and engineering best practices
• Part of the management team driving company profitability, team utilization, and strategy From July 2003 to February 2007 (3 years 8 months) Kirkland, WAPresident, Founder @ Premiere Inc. provides world-class web development and hosting by offering services in graphic design and multimedia, database programming and application development, and technical support.
• Founded the first enterprise web-based consulting company in the state of North Dakota
• Hired and managed a team of software developers and graphic designers
• Primary responsibilities were running company operations, customer relationship management, contract negotiations, as well as system architecture / software design
• Involved in creating some of the earliest rich web content for the enterprise including online banking, e-commerce, live inventory, and event scheduling
• Acquired in April 2002 by Albertson Consulting, Inc. (http://www.albertsonconsulting.com)
• The company enjoys continued success as one of the oldest web site development organizations in the United States From September 1997 to April 2002 (4 years 8 months) Minot, ND
Computer Science, Mathematics, Probability and Statistical Inference @ Minot State University From 1994 to 2003 Chris Hundley is skilled in: Start-ups, Engineering, Product Development, Agile, Team Building, Scalability, Software Development, SaaS, Agile Methodologies, Business Intelligence, Databases, Analytics, Product Management, Scrum, CRM, Strategy