Christian Burtt

20 years software development experience.

CEO & FOUNDER / FOREFRONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, PLC FOREFRONTETHIOPIA.COM

JANUARY 2020 – PRESENT

• Built our team from the ground up.
• Secured 100% initial startup funding through our NGO, Hope Takes Root, in the USA
• Managed our development team to create KinashApp from scratch, using Microsoft Azure as our
• cloud-based backend. (kinashapp.com)
• Launched KinashApp in 2021 with currently 800+ small businesses registered and over 1000
• customers registered. Oversaw Development in PHP, Swift, Java, Node.js
• Hired and mentored 5 underprivileged young adults as Forefront interns and another as Intern
• Coordinator

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / HOPE TAKES ROOT HOPETAKESROOT.COM

AUGUST 2018 – PRESENT

• Raised 100% initial capital for Forefront Software
• Face to face fundraising meetings with 500+ donors
• Organized a live-painting raffle ticket fundraising event, October 2019.
• Coordinating ongoing fundraising endeavors.

FULL STACK WEB DEVELOPER / FREELANCE SECONDHANDWEBDESIGN.COM

JULY 2009 – PRESENT

• Designed websites for 20+ companies
• Built Agrifond Business Intelligence form the ground-up (agrifond.eu)
• Developed United Legal Open Sesame from the ground-up (ulsupport.com)
• Built Harvest Metanoia Chisinau Church Resource Management System
• Implemented Harvest Metanoia Network Shared Resources Database
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and over 18 years experience in software development (Wordpress,
• PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Node.js)

NATIONAL TRAINING DIRECTOR / ARFO ARFO.RO

DECEMBER 2016 – AUGUST 2018

• Oversaw 2x YoY increase in domestic adoptions in Romania
• Developed a national training module strategy in cooperation with Back2Back ministries
• Surveyed 100+ Romanian orphan-focused NGOs, determining training requirements and specifics

ORPHAN ADVOCATE AND TRAINER / ANCHOR OF HOPE JANUAR Y 2014 – DECEMBER 2016

• Ran 3 summer camps with 100+ orphans aged 3-18
• Daily English lessons and mentoring in Romanian state orphanages
• Led 10+ volunteer teams of 2-15 people