Christopher Rice

Background

About Christopher Rice

Software development professional with over 20 years of experience crafting elegant solutions to mission critical problems across a wide array of problem domains using technology, communication, strategy, and leadership. Searching for an opportunity to contribute to a company that shares my passion for building quality applications that are both profitable for the company and meaningful for its users- Experienced leader and team player with a proven background managing multiple aspects of software development and its supporting business processes and operations - Experienced in fostering relationships with senior business stakeholders and managing day to day expectations - Experienced holding most senior technologist role and helping grow a small business (~25 FTEs) to a mid-sized company (>300 FTEs) while maintaining strong YOY financial growth - Experienced setting direction for, working with, and coordinating local, remote, captive offshore and outsourced teams of developers and designers - Experienced in "player coach"​ role whereby both the responsibilities of an individual contributor and a leader were necessary for company success - Experienced full-stack software engineer and architect with expertise in n-tier, SaaS, white-labeled, distributed, and service oriented applications - Experienced designing, developing, documenting and "dogfooding"​ APIs for second and third party integration - Experienced designing and developing automation for business and development processes to reduce time and expense of recurring tasks - Experienced creating rapid prototypes to demonstrate concepts and sell ideas