Chris Brawley

Christopher Brawley 1008 Chalk Hill Ln, Haslet, TX 76052 -- Objective I am an entrepreneur and freelance consultant looking for opportunities to lead product/offering creation and development, guide customers to successful solution outcomes and participate in my own value creation activities with engagement in startup and offering development efforts. Professional Profile Elevation72, LLC, Fort Worth, TX January 2019 to Present Founder and Lead Freelance Architect and Development Consultant Responsibilities: I am the founder of a freelance software development company that enables me to lead the creation of innovative software solutions to customers that are seeking great talent from individual freelance solution architects and developers. Key Engagements: Secure Package Product Delivery – Windows 10 Kiosk Development January 2018 – Present Engaged as a solution architect and developer to deliver a proof of concept kiosk solution for a startup company that is development a secure package delivery solution to market. This solution makes use of a biometric palm scanning device and associated API as well as a secure photo ID verification service to assist in enrolling, validating and providing a secure login capability for individuals who have a need to take secure delivery of packages and products. Solution Technologies Presentation Layer – Windows Presentation Foundation / XAML Integration Layer – Azure Functions, Azure App Services and WebAPI Data/Storage Layer – Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage (Queues, Blobs) Casino Travel Agency – Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development January 2018 – April 2018 Engaged as a mobile solution architect and developer to deliver a mobile solution that runs on iOS and Android phones and tablets and enables a casino travel agency to drive customer engagement and collect feedback on customer travel experiences. This solution also enables travel agency customers to log into their accounts and keep track of profile and membership information to maximize their benefits from their travel excursions. Solution Technologies Presentation Layer – XAML / C# Cross Platform Development Layer – Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin Forms Christopher Brawley Estaite Solutions, Fort Worth, TX August 2018 to Present Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Responsibilities: I am the co-founder of a real estate software solutions company that is currently in a startup phase. I am responsible for the technical strategy, solution development and mapping of business solution requirements to development roadmap and timeline. Additionally, I work with my cofounder to establish the backlog of feature capabilities to align our product delivery timeline to required functionality for our customer needs. Microsoft Corporation, Irving, TX Microsoft Consulting Services June 2015 to July 2018 Regional Architect/Area Solutions Architect Responsibilities: As an Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services business unit, I provide enterprise level consulting in application architecture, project management, and strategic planning capacities with Microsoft customers. In this capacity, I frequently engage stakeholders from department level directors to CxO level business leaders to identify vision for a solution, build business justifications and capital expenditure requests, report out project status/scorecard information, and perform escalation and resolution activities for troubled projects. Key Engagements: Microsoft Consulting Services – Regional Architect/Area Solutions Architect June 2015 – July 2018 Engaged as a Solutions Architect to support sales efforts for the South Central and Central Region consulting organizations. In this role, I was responsible for meeting with customers to scope consulting engagements, assist with consulting proposal development, participate in driving sales pipeline growth and maturity, and review deliverables from active engagements to ensure a high level of delivery quality. • • - Sales Impact - I led $12M of new work sold contributions to Central Region with the following key strategic wins: o Major Snack Foods Manufacturer (Dynamics 365 / Power BI) o Major Beverage Manufacturer (Power BI / Analytics Solution Deployment) o Major Power Solutions Company (SQL Server Data Estate Upgrade Lab) o Major Natural Gas Drilling Corporation (Power BI / Data Estate / Analytics) - Sales Impact - I led $10M of new work sold contributions to Central Region with the following key strategic wins: o Major Retailer (Azure IaaS/PaaS Adoption & Migration) o Technology Insurance Solution Provider (Azure Migration Planning) 2 Christopher Brawley o Major Beverage Distributor (Power BI / Analytics Solution Deployment) o Global Petroleum Drilling Corporation (Azure IoT Solution Design/Planning) Sparkhound, LLC, Irving, TX September 2014 to June 2015 Practice Director Responsibilities: As a Practice Director at Sparkhound, I engage with customer stakeholders from department level directors to CxO level business leaders to identify vision for a solution, build business justifications and capital expenditure requests, report out project status/scorecard information, and perform escalation and resolution activities for troubled projects. Additionally, I provide sales support to our consulting sales team in the completion of contract documents, SOWs and extensions for consulting engagements within our customer accounts. Finally, I am responsible for the people management and professional development responsibilities for our DFW based consulting practice including the completion of annual reviews, salary/merit increase reviews and development/training plan creation and tracking for eight direct report employees. Key Engagements & Activities: Sales Impact I led $2M of engagement sales contributions to the Sparkhound DFW and Houston businesses with the following key strategic wins: • National Collision Repair Corporation (General Ledger, HR, & Customer Sat Survey PowerBI Solution) • Large Legal Firm (.NET MVC Case and Client Management System) • Global Metal Recycling & Manufacturing Company (PowerBI Bid vs Actuals Measurement, Materials Shipping Improvement Analytics.) • Regional Title Company (.NET MVC Title Commitments Search Portal) • Regional Mortgage Company (SharePoint 2013 Lending Process Portal) • Global Oil & Gas Midstream Tools Corporation (SharePoint 2013 Public Web Site & Content Management Process Deployment) • Global Metal Galvanizing Corporation (SharePoint 2013 Intranet & HR Portal Deployment) Operational Improvements I implemented the following operational improvements within Sparkhound to increase delivery consistency and repeatability as well as create standard fixed price/fixed scope offerings to increase sales team efficiency. • Solution Assessment Offering – Implementation of a standard deliverable and sales content for a solution review and assessment offering. • SharePoint Intranet Offering – Fixed price offering for a specific set of IP and deliverables for SharePoint Intranet scenarios based on premise SharePoint 2013 or O365 SharePoint Online. 3 Christopher Brawley • Delivery Status Reporting Process – Standardized the templates and established norms within the organization regarding status reporting to customers to ensure customer satisfaction and quick issues awareness and resolution. • Sales & Delivery Reporting Process – Implementation of PowerBI and SSRS reports based on the Sparkhound billing and invoicing system (Tenrox) to provide weekly revenue and hard/soft booking visibility to the business. This solution also enabled the business to provide monthly revenue/billing forecasts to the finance team for organizational financial planning. Microsoft Corporation, Irving, TX Microsoft Consulting Services March 2000 to September 2014 Architect/Principal Consultant Responsibilities: As an Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services business unit, I provide enterprise level consulting in application architecture, project management, and strategic planning capacities with Microsoft customers. In this capacity, I frequently engage stakeholders from department level directors to CxO level business leaders to identify vision for a solution, build business justifications and capital expenditure requests, report out project status/scorecard information, and perform escalation and resolution activities for troubled projects. Key Engagements: Microsoft Consulting Services – Regional Architect November 2012 – Current Engaged as a Regional Architect to support sales efforts for the South Central and Central Region consulting organizations. In this role I was responsible for meeting with customers to scope consulting engagements, assist with consulting proposal development, participate in driving sales pipeline growth and maturity, and review deliverables from active engagements to ensure a high level of delivery quality. • - Sales Impact - I led $23M of new work sold contributions to Central Region with the following key strategic wins: o Major Furniture Retail/Manufacturing Corp (ERP/BI/Integration/SharePoint) o Large Auto Finance Corporation (SharePoint Migration) o Global Telecomm Infrastructure Corporation (BI/SharePoint Deployment) o Global Petroleum Surveying Corporation (Lotus Notes App Migration) Microsoft Managed Applications – Solutions Architect June 2011 – November 2012 Engaged as a Solution Architect on the newly formed Microsoft Managed Applications team. In this role I was responsible for meeting with customers to scope post production operations of MCS developed/led applications, assist with proposal development, creation of MMA offering components, creation of the MMA sales lead management and pipeline tracking 4 Christopher Brawley process and, and initiation/oversight of engagements to ensure a high level of delivery quality. In this role, I developed two packaged offerings for the MCS Active Directory Migration Service solution to enable our startup team scale to the demands upon us from the MCS sales teams and enable sales velocity for this full lifecycle solution offering. This newly developed offering quickly resulted in $2.5M in MMA sales in the first year of the team. Microsoft Consulting Services – Regional Architect August 2008 – June 2011 Engaged as a Regional Architect to support sales efforts for the South Central and Central Region consulting organizations. In this role I am responsible for meeting with customers to scope consulting engagements, assist with consulting proposal development, participate in driving sales pipeline growth and maturity, and review deliverables from active engagements to ensure a high level of delivery quality. • 2011 Sales Impact - I led $8.1M of new work sold contributions to Central Region with the following key strategic wins: o Large Shipping Corporation (Mobility Development) o Major Petroleum Exploration and Refinery Corporation (SharePoint Migration) o National Health Food Grocery Corporation (Custom ERP .NET Solution) o National Grocery Corporation (Data Warehousing) o Regional Grocery Corporation (Digital Couponing Site Overhaul). Additionally, I led a large Windows Azure pursuit at a Large Petroleum Refinery Corporation to migrate an existing LOB application to Windows Azure from an existing SAP based implementation. • 2010 Sales Impact - I led $2.6M of new work sold contributions to Central Region with the following key strategic wins: o Major Petroleum Exploration Corporation (Custom Application Catalog) o Major Petroleum Exploration Corporation (BI/Reporting Solution) o Large Commercial Real Estate Corporation (Public Website Rewrite) o Major Commercial Airline Corporation (Mobile Cargo Tracking Application) Major Commercial Airline – MCS Delivery Architect February 2009 – May 2010 Engaged as the Program Manager responsible for the delivery of a large scale mobile device solution to provide granular tracking and reporting of cargo for the cargo business unit within a major airline. This solution involved the creation of a custom developed device application that integrated with a set of outsourcer provided business web services to accept, build, track and deliver freight for customers. I was responsible for interfacing with the business and technical teams to collect and document requirements, translate those requirements into a functional specification, and directing a solution team of three developers towards the successful delivery of this solution. This effort included the direction and integration of an offshore application support and maintenance team that is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the application after the MCS engagement. In my role as program manager, I was responsible for constructing a training and knowledge transfer plan and transitioning the 5 Christopher Brawley ownership of the project in a structured manner to the offshore team to reduce customer cost of maintenance once the application was completed. Solution Technologies Presentation Layer – .NET Compact Framework 3.5 (C#) Business Layer – .NET Framework 3.5 (C#) Integration Layer – .NET Framework 2.0 (C#) Data Layer – SQL Server 2008 Compact Edition, DB2 Tax & Accounting Publishing Corporation – MCS Delivery Architect May 2007 – August 2008 Engaged as the Program Manager responsible for the delivery of a large scale sales compensation solution that is responsible for tracking commission payments and quota attainment for sales representatives in the customer organization. The successful delivery of this custom developed solution involved the integration with the customer’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system as well as the customer relationship management (CRM) system to obtain data necessary to calculate compensation information based on a set of defined compensation rules. I was responsible for interfacing with the business team to collect and document requirements, translate those requirements into a functional specification, and directing a solution team of four developers and three testing resources towards the successful delivery of this solution. The primary goal of this solution is to provide an automated variable compensation system that operates at a lower cost and provides a higher return on investment than the legacy mainframe solution previously responsible for this business function. Solution Technologies Presentation Layer – SQL Server Reporting Services, ASP.NET (C#), AJAX Business Layer - .NET Framework 2.0 (C#) Integration Layer – SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, BizTalk Server 2006 Data Layer – SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, Oracle 9i Freight Shipping Corporation – MCS Delivery Architect March 2006 – May 2007 Engaged as a Program Manager responsible for the delivery of a mobile device solution that acts as an extension to the customer ERP system for providing delivery instructions, routing information, and load tracking data collection for an over the road trucking fleet. The successful delivery of this solution required integration with an existing mainframe ERP system and provide timely delivery instructions and load updates to truck drivers in the field to maximize resource utilization and minimize dead time on the part of fleet drivers. Return on investment for this solution was provided by the elimination of a must more costly proprietary solution serving this purpose for the customer. Solution Technologies Presentation Layer – .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (C#) Business Layer - .NET Framework 2.0 (C#) 6 Christopher Brawley Integration Layer – SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, .NET Framework 2.0 (C#) Data Layer – SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, DB2 IT Outsourcing Corporation – Enterprise Strategy Consultant May 2004 – March 2006 Engaged as an Enterprise Strategy Consultant with a premier Information Technology Outsourcing Corporation responsible for creating offerings that leverage Microsoft technologies for sale to customers in the market. As a strategy consultant my responsibilities were to construct technical offerings, sales collateral, and provide tools to the customer that allowed for pricing of offerings based on size of deployments for the purpose of inclusion into very large outsourcing deals to their customers. Additionally, a great deal of my time was spent identifying the areas of the offering in which return on investment makes the offering a positive financial business choice for the customer to purchase. Rental Car Corporation - Enterprise Strategy Consultant August 2000 – May 2004 Engaged as a Program Manager and Enterprise Strategy Consultant with a large leisure rental car corporation to manage the delivery of multiple large scale technology projects focused on development on the Microsoft platform. In this role I managed the delivery of redesign and deployment of the customer’s eCommerce web site, core reservation system, and central pricing and reservation rate engine. Additionally, in this role I managed the delivery of an enterprise application integration solution that allowed for the integration of rental transactions from third party sources for the purpose of driving incremental revenue sources from vacation tour vendors that do not feature a high level of technical sophistication. Solution Technologies Presentation Layer – VB6, .NET Compact Framework 1.1 (VB.NET) Integration Layer – BizTalk Server 2004/2006 Business Layer – VB6, .NET Framework 1.1 (VB.NET) Data Layer – SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, Oracle 8i/9i Telecommunications Corporation – Senior Consultant March 2000 – August 2000 Engaged as a technical delivery consultant responsible for designing and delivery a mainframe integration solution for a large telecommunications company. In this role I was responsible for providing an integration solution that allowed a new customer call center application based on modern web technologies to leverage existing corporate back end mainframe system assets that contained all line of business data for customers in various locations across the country. Solution Technologies Integration Layer – Host Integration Server 2000 Business Layer – Visual Basic 6.0 Data Layer – SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition Aloha Technologies, Bedford, TX 7 Christopher Brawley October 1997 – March 2000 Software Engineer Responsibilities: As a Software Engineer, my responsibilities were to design, develop and unit test packaged point of sale software products for the restaurant and hospitality industry. Additionally I was responsible for the implementation of customized features specifically requested by and paid for by customers to enable deployment of our solutions into their business operations. In addition to my software development responsibilities, I acted as Technical Lead for back office server application suite development team providing technical leadership to a team of four developers. Finally, as part of our customer outreach operations, I delivered presentations to customers on efficient usage of the company’s products and solutions to optimize operations and reduce costs. Technologies Presentation Layer – Visual C++ 6.0 MFC Business Layer – Visual C++ 6.0 ATL/COM/DCOM Data Layer – SQL Server 7.0/2000 Standard Edition Micrografx, Richardson, TX August 1996 – October 1997 Software Engineer Responsibilities: As a Software Engineer, my responsibilities were to design, development and unit test software components for packaged business & consumer graphics software applications. I acted as the lead developer for the image translation and conversion filter application that was leveraged in all graphics software applications sold by the company. Additionally, I functioned as a team developer on multiple product teams to provide feature development and solution release testing prior to product release. My experience in this role allowed me to acquire and leverage the skills and process knowledge necessary to deliver high quality software products to the market. Technologies Presentation Layer – Visual C++ 5.0 MFC Education Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Master of Business Administration December 18th, 2010 Indiana University – Kelly School of Business Certificate – Microsoft Business Management Program September 30th, 2003 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Bachelor of Science – Computer Science 8 Christopher Brawley May 15, 1995 Contact Information Christopher Brawley 1008 Chalk Hill Ln Haslet, TX 76052 Home:- Mobile:- Home E-Mail:- 9