Chris Odom
OBJECTIVE
Web/Application Design Professional
CAREER SUMMARY
Senior IT professional with 15 years experience in a wide range of technologies having worked for three companies in three industries. Proven problem solver with a reputation as “go to” person for any kind of technical challenge. Quick learner of diverse new technologies and methodologies with a proven record of leading several technical initiatives as project leader and system administrator. Aspire to help an organization productively by staying on the cutting edge of technology.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA 1999 – 2009
Solution Architect
Responsible for serving as Web master, designer and administrator for all internal Web and GUI applications and being the sole administrator for SharePoint 2003 and 2007 environments which served as the primary source for the company's online document repository and for hosting over 3300 department, project management and informational sites.
• Led team responsible for the adoption of SharePoint 2007 which involved gathering the business needs for every department, selling the advantages to the executives, weighing the risks, determining the hardware, software and department resource requirements and planning the migration of the entire SharePoint 2003 environment.
• Designed, developed and administered hundreds of ASP .NET, DHTML, ASP, and VB programs with Visual Studio .NET, FrontPage, Visual Studio, Visual Basic and SharePoint Designer.
• Won the award for the employee of the year of 2000 for the Direct Marketing Group.
• Created .NET application to manage hiring, termination, relocation, reassignment and equipment change.
• Created .NET application to manage every building’s network ports.
• Modified .NET application to manage all of the engineering group’s project requests.
• Modified .NET application to book all conference room meetings and manage all equipment and setup of the rooms.
• Modified ASP application used by the Environmental Health Services group to manage all materials and products used to build the company’s inventory.
• Created order taking web site for call center reps to use when the primary application went offline saving hours of manual data entry and reducing mistakes.
• Created web application that automatically downloaded, displayed and managed outsourced headset orders.
• Administered third party shipping software for all six Massachusetts shipping departments.
• Developed several Oracle, SQL Server and Access databases as backend data sources for several applications.
• Rewrote Access application used to sell refurbished products to employees.
• Rewrote Access application used to track driver characteristics, delivery trends and road and truck statistics.
• Modified Access application used to gather and manage employee health statistics.
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• Created Access application to automate the gathering of customer interaction data within product kiosks.
• Created program allowing customers to apply for and use a company credit card within the company's largest CRM reducing fraudulent orders.
• Won a group President’s award for this program.
• Supported and customized several third party applications including SAP and Siebel.
• Created system that automatically transferred daily, weekly and quarterly product purchase statistics within Siebel facilitating the mailing or emailing of software or media associated with the products sold or transferred, automatically transferring and uploading all mailing information.
• Programmed a survey tool and a scripting tool within the existing CRM system saving the cost of purchasing and maintaining equivalent third party tools.
• Created VB application to test a third party gift card application.
• Created VB application to manage customer information between SAP CRM and 2 other CRM applications in order to eliminate duplicate customer entry.
• Coordinated an effort between CIS, Facilities and Communications to purchase, install and advertise a web cam used by all employees in Framingham to monitor traffic, especially during bad weather.
Gazelle Systems, Newton, MA 1999 – 1999
• Designed and developed VB, ASP, Access, C and Unix scripting programs.
• Administered, customized, installed and supported the company's restaurant rewards card program.
• Created an InstallShield program to install the reward card program in all sites.
InterLynx Technologies, Boston, MA 1995 – 1999
• Developed several Web and GUI applications using a third party application.
• Wrote several VB interfaces to connect the third party applications with other systems.
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts at Boston
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 1994
Franklin Institute of Technology
Associates Architectural Engineering 1990
SKILLS
SharePoint 2003 and 2007, ASP .NET 2008, SQL Server 2008, Access 2007, Oracle, DHTML, VB, ASP, FrontPage, SharePoint Designer, IIS, CSS, Unix and Windows Scripting, SFTP, Windows and Unix Server Administration, Project Management, Web Design, Life Cycle Application Management.