Christopher Sanders

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About Christopher Sanders

Solutions Architect and Senior IT Project Manager w/ extensive experience with the full Life Cycle of Information Technology projects, including conceptualization, planning, design, development, testing, documentation, training, deployment, and ongoing support. Also highly experienced w/ System Integration between legacy systems, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products, and emerging technologies. And, yes, that's me petting a real tiger (at the Australia Zoo in Queensland) in my profile's background photo. Her name is Kaitlyn. PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). 20+ years as Full-Stack Application Developer, Database Administrator, and IT Project Manager (PM). 10+ yrs as Solutions Architect and PM for a small development team managing a mission-critical PTC Windchill / PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager system (also formerly known as "MKS Integrity") for a US Gov't Agency, supporting hundreds of agency applications with Source Code Control, Change Management (CM) processes, and Help Desk Ticketing. 5+ yrs as PM for a mission-critical BMC Remedy system in a nationwide enterprise of 40+ sites, hundreds of users, and several thousand customers. Responsibilities included development and deployment of extensive application configuration and customization changes requested & approved by the customer, developing API extensions for COTS products, designing new JavaScript Trigger and Trigger Script functionality to enforce agency CM policy and enhance workflow automation, as well as all application, database, and server administration duties. As PM I have a history of successful migrations from older application versions to newer releases, a track record of successful integrations w/ other client systems (even legacy gov't mainframes), and a reputation for ensuring up-time for the systems I oversee. Specialties: Project Management (PMP); Systems Architecting & Integration; PTC Windchill / Integrity; BMC Remedy; Full Stack App. Development; Database Administration; Server Administration; Application Support (O&M); Technical Writing (White Papers, Tech. Recommendations, Project Plans); Data Analysis & Reporting (Data Mining).