Christopher H. Smith

Christopher Smith

Phone: (484) 442-0241

Objective

I have strong interface design, management, and needs analysis skills combined with advanced computer experience and a MFA in Writing. I look forward to having an opportunity to put my knowledge, talent, and experience to work for your organization.

Technologies

HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, XSD Schema, JavaScript, ColdFusion, MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PL-SQL, MS Visio, UML, ERD, .NET, ASP, Witango, PC/MAC/UNIX/Linux Operating Systems. Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, DreamweaverMX, Flash, FlashMX, MS Office. Protobase Administrator, RealVu.

Work experience

2004-Present Community Academy of Philadelphia C.S.

Chief information officer

Community Academy of Philadelphia (CAP) was the first Philadelphia school to receive a charter in 1997, and one of the first charter schools founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. CAP is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Committee on Institution-Wide Accreditation. As CIO for CAP I’m responsible for all E-Rate Funding, budgeting, staffing and technical oversight of their state-of-the-art network, telecommunications systems. Visit www.communityacademy.org

2000-2004 Vertical Alliance, Inc. Norristown, PA

Director of Information Architecture

Vertical Alliance, Incô. www.verticalalliance.com is a ticketing and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions provider to the sports, media and entertainment industries. Founded in 1999, Vertical Alliance has built two proprietary technologies that provide the only web-based, CRM-driven, electronic ticketing system in the industry. These products, Vertical Trackerô and FanTrackerô are "next generation" systems that - for the first time - enable team and venue owners to gain control and knowledge of their customers, while at the same time increasing both event attendance and revenue per customer. As Director of Information Architecture my responsibilities and achievements consist of developing a complete specification for the initial development of VAís FanTrackerô Solution to be an integrated part of the Vertical Trackerô product. I oversee and manage the testing and quality assurance of code before promotion to client installations to assure compliance with specification and work with developers and DBAís to dynamically offer new solutions to product challenges and specify new or improved functionality to our software.

1999-2000 Omnient Corporation Blue Bell, PA

Vice President of Information Architecture

Omnient Corporation was an Internet professional services company whose primary objective was to help businesses take advantage of emerging web technologies and leverage them to provide cost effective business process reengineering to companies ready to embrace enterprise web based business and marketing solutions. As Vice President of Information Architecture I managed the information architecture department from resource and budget allocation to hiring, motivating and inspiring a growing team of IA's. My other responsibilities included: listening to the goals and understanding the needs of clients, understanding how content should be conveyed, designing site/map structure and altering as needs arose, designing of the User Interface, participatory role in steering the graphic design and site production through the writing of detailed specifications, project management, identifying needs and resources, engaged in strategic planning, business analysis, the evaluation of electronic commerce partner opportunities, documentation and organization skills. Visit www.omnient.com

1999 Complete Business Solutions USA, Inc. Media, PA

Director Creative Service / Webmaster

Complete Business Solutions, USA is an Internet business and computer-consulting firm, which provides baseline office support services and Internet design and development services throughout the Tri-State area. As Director of Creative Services my responsibilities included the design and implementation of the corporate image as portrayed on the web site, in advertising and marketing and in the look of the signage. I demonstrated strong project planning and management skills and regularly coordinated the resources required to produce content, develop and manage multiple project plans and budgets. I conducted production meetings with current and potential clients, designed productions, reviewed work under development and specified hardware. As Webmaster my duties included the regular maintenance and product updates of CBSUSA's on line shopping mall www.delvalmall.com, the registration and administration of all client web sites and hosting requirements as well as design and development.

1993 - 1998 FMP Visual Communications, Inc. Philadelphia, PA

Senior Multimedia Producer / Webmaster

FMP Visual Communications is a complete post-production and videotape duplication facility for professional and industrial clients. My initial responsibilities where to oversee technical operations of the duplication facility and coordinate those resources with production. I was then promoted to Project Manager, in our Multimedia Division where I worked closely with our clients, in-house graphic artists, and programmers as well as external vendors in a highly deadline driven, detail oriented business. My responsibilities also included production tasks such as video compression (i.e. Mpeg-1, Mpeg-2, AVI and Quicktime) and serving as the company's Webmaster. In my final position as Senior Multimedia Producer and Webmaster for FMP Visual Communications, my job was to present corporate messages consistently and effectively to meet our clients' communications needs. In my role as Senior Multimedia Producer for FMP I demonstrated strong project planning and management skills and regularly coordinated the resources required to produce content, develop and manage multiple project plans and budgets. I conducted production meetings, designed productions, reviewed work under development and specified hardware for specific multimedia applications (i.e. Kiosk, Video-on-Demand, etc.) In my capacities as Webmaster I maintained a 17 node NT Network running IIS 3.0 which supported FMP's Intranet for which I was responsible for all site management, production, and application development. Similarly, I was also responsible FMP's Internet site http://www.fmpvisual.com Where I satisfied corporate communications needs (i.e. messaging), maintained a relationship with our ISP, posted and updated our web presence on our ISP's Unix Servers.

1993 - 1993 Berks Cable Productions Reading, PA

Production Assistant

I assisted the Video Producer/Director in the daily operations of the facility participating in various components of the production process including: pre-production, script writing, directing, editing, lighting, camera operation, and graphics creation.

1990 - 1990 PDR Productions, Inc. New York, NY

Video Technician / Tape Operator

PDR Productions is a quick turn around duplication and satellite up-link facility in the heart of midtown Manhattan. My job responsibility consisted of duplicating large quantities of commercial programs for distribution to advertisers' markets within specified deadlines

1989 - 1989 High Speed Video Malvern, PA

Master Control / Duplication Operator

High Speed Video was a high volume videotape duplication facility of feature length films for release on VHS and Beta formats. I was responsible for setting up and running multiple passes for both real time dubbing and the creation of Mirror Masters for use in high-speed dubbing.

Education

1993 - 1995 Vermont College Montpelier, VT

MFA in Writing

Lecture: "Stay Tuned You May Say Something Brilliant at Any Moment."

I presented this lecture to the students and faculty of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program as part of the requirements for graduation. This lecture examined how some contemporary poetry enters into meaning via abstraction, which is to say through the interplay of the imagination and the reality-based world. This discussion of poems that effectively wed reality to the functioning of the imagination is balanced by examples that point to the breakdown of meaning that occurs when the concrete world does not live in the abstract, and by the same token where the abstract nature of experience does not live in the concrete world.

Critical Thesis: "Reading the Waters: Evolution, Influence, and Rebellion."

This sixty page critical paper consists of an interview with poet Harry Humes between a critical preface and an exegesis of poems by Humes, James Dickey, and myself. The paper is an insightful look at influence and rebellion in the relationships between poets and their mentors.

Creative Thesis:Background Noise.

This manuscript contains twenty-eight poems that were completed during my tenure in the Master of Fine Arts Program from July 1993 through July 1995. The organization of the poems in this manuscript supports a loosely implied narrative that contemplates coming of age on the fringe of a lost generation. The poems arc from explorations of youthful folly to adulthood before plunging into issues of relationship and self-identity.

1991 - 1993 Kutztown University Kutztown, PA

BS in Telecommunications with emphasis in Professional Writing

Served as Poetry Editor for Essence: Kutztown University Literary Arts Magazine. During the Spring semester of 1992 and Fall Semester of 1993 I served as a contributing writer for the Kutztown University Keystone writing a column that focused on environmental concerns at both the local and national levels.

1989 - 1991 Brooklyn College, CUNY Brooklyn, NY

Film Production Major

While attending Brooklyn College I wrote directed and produced film and videotape projects, learned the principles behind TV, stage, and photographic lighting, as well as gained competency with cameras, video switchers and effects generators, film and video editing systems, multi-channel audio boards and character generators.

Publications

“Genesis" and "Starryeyed" will appear in Dream International Quarterly. "Background Noise" has been reprinted in The Prague Review. "CrossRoads" appeared in The Eleventh Muse. "Song" was included in The Voice Within an anthology published by the National Library of Poetry. "Background Noise" appeared in Yarrow: A Journal of Poetry "Closed Quarry," "The Wind," and "Hunter's Play" appeared in Thesaurus "Shadows of the Wild," "Classroom Afternoon," and "Words to Accompany the Storm" appeared in Essence: Kutztown University Literary Arts Magazine

Awards received

Gallo Award in Creative Writing from Kutztown University. National Society of Arts and Letters- Pittsburgh Chapter: Received Honorable Mention for the teleplay "The Gallows" in the 1993 Teleplay Writing Competition.

Christopher Smith

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