CHRIS OTT FOUNDER AT ATARAXIA LLC http://www.shufflelabs.com Summary 25+ years designing, developing, selling, marketing and managing enterprise, n-tier architectures and infrastructure software. Experienced with federal and commercial marketplaces, with a history of negotiating multi-million dollar deals to closure. For the past eight years I have been concentrating on technical design and implementation, although in the past I have successfully sold solutions as well. Specialties: Cloud and Hybrid Implementations, Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture, Software Development, N-Tier Architectures, Security, Identity Management, Federal Sector Penetration with New Technology Offerings, Enterprise Sales Resume: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/7y3rngbuz Skills SharePoint Server SharePoint Administration Amazon Web Services (AWS) Web Services Office 365.NET Visual C# Visual Studio Red Hat Linux Ubuntu Mac OS Workflow Applications Business Intelligence Microsoft SQL Server Windows Server InfoPath JavaScript PHP Enterprise Software Security Pre-sales Integration Identity Management Professional Services Telecommunications Product Management Business Development System Architecture CRM Strategy Software Development Start-ups Systems Engineering Complex Sales Management SharePoint Managed Services DoD Federal Government Cloud Computing SaaS Enterprise Architecture Consulting Experience Ataraxia LLC 07 / 2015 - Present Founder Building a new services company specializing in hybrid solutions. ShuffleLabs 06 / 2013-06 / 2015 VP Business Solutions
Business Development and Account Management Services. Project Management, and Systems Architecture as well as Business Analysis and Software Engineering Services. Multiple SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 and SharePoint Online implementations, including Migrations from SharePoint 2007 and 2010 systems to SharePoint 2013. Integration with custom SSO solutions to Association Management solutions. Business Intelligence development and integration with on-premise SharePoint 2013. Development and support for public website using Office 365 and SharePoint Online. Web Services development and solution architecture. Development and support of Apache/PHP web applications. PMG Global Solutions 01 / 2010-12 / 2014 Software Architect Redesigned and implemented complex accreditation support system integrated with Department of Transportation fleet safety information. Solution required installation and support of underlying OS SharePoint 2010, SQL Server platforms, as well as complex state machine workflow integrated with offline data collection through multipage InfoPath forms. Visual C#, Custom Workflow Activities, WSP, Visual Studio. Performed complete migration of solution, including unrelated customer linux based web applications from one managed services provider to another. Included database migrations, SharePoint site migrations, and migration of additional supporting infrastructure. Administration and development support for Red Hat Linux hosted PHP web applications, including installation, upgrades and configuration of web, ftp and smtp services. Administration and support of multiple Ubuntu web applications hosted on Amazon Web Services, including maintenance and operating system and software services upgrades and configuration. Drupal, PHP, Linux, Account Management, VSFTPD, DNS. Administration and development for SharePoint 2007 multi-agency collaboration platform for US Government Agency. Visual Studio, Visual C#, WSP. Business Development including leading proposal efforts, negotiating contract terms. White paper authoring. NextLabs, Inc. 09 / 2007-01 / 2010 Principal Systems Engineer Implemented pilot programs of NextLabs' integrated Data Loss Prevention platform leading to successful production implementations. Performed ITAR compliance audits for engineering firms with international clients. Epok, Inc. 03 / 2007-09 / 2007 Director of Business Development Oracle 12 / 2005-03 / 2007 Federal Identity Managment Sales In this role I led the sales efforts for the Federal Defense and Civilian market for the Identity Management products in Oracle's portfolio. Hosted and led technology forums related to identity management, and lead the technical sales team in pursuit of enterprise and tactical identity management opportunities.
Thor Technologies 04 / 2005-11 / 2005 Sales Director, Federal Responsible for bringing Thor's powerful Identity Lifecycle Management story to government customers. Worked with systems integrators on including Thor's provisioning solution within their solution stacks. Epok. Inc. 04 / 2004-05 / 2005 Director of Government Sales Successfully placed Epok's early product offering within systems integrator solutions for the Department of Defense. Worked to clarify the message and offering for the US Government sector. Opsware 12 / 2000-11 / 2003 Strategic Systems Engineer && District Sales Manager Responsible for pre-sales and post-sales hardware and software architecture definition for mission critical n-tier applications for commercial and government customers. Worked on dedicated and cross-matrixed sales and implementation teams. Responsible for identifying company resources from marketing, engineering, and professional services groups and bringing those resources to bear on critical customer situations. Acted as lead infrastructure architect for trailblazing government project. This role required negotiations wit and leadership of major systems contractors and the government customer. Led effort to complete first sales of Loudcloud's software into external customer base, critical to Loudcloud's transformation into a software company, Opsware. These projects required significant interactions with executive management and founders. Exceeded quota or aided sales teams in exceeding quota in each fiscal year. Kabira, Inc. 01 / 2000-10 / 2000 Director of Systems Engineering Responsible for the hiring, training, and management of pre and post sales engineers. Led and managed customer implementations involving Kabira and third-party consultants. Responsible for negotiating consulting agreements with customers. Responsible for technical briefings to consulting partners. Kiva/Netscape/AOL 10 / 1997-01 / 2000 Systems Architect - Tiger Team Began as a Systems Engineer with Kiva, and progressed through multiple acquisitions by Netscape and America Online to become a Systems Architect with a global territory and a focus on strategic accounts. Provided expertise in application servers and n-tier architectures critical to the success of sales and implementations throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East. Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Retail verticals were early adopters of application servers, and among the clients supported. As member of Tiger Team, participated in solutions sessions with customers, developed
and delivered sales training worldwide, and led application infrastructure sessions with G500 companies. Booked 300% of quota as application server sales overlay. Exceeded MBO targets in each non-quota quarter. Netscape 1997-2000 Solution Architect Netscape 1997-2000 Application Server Specialist Traveled the globe supporting Application Server sales and implementation efforts. Supported clients include General Motors, Rabobank, Bank of America, Thomson Group, US Government, State Governments. Kaizen Institute Consulting Group, Ltd. 1992-1997 President and Founder Started as an individual consultant, then added staff and clients, growing company to a high of 35 employees and 2.5M in annual revenue over five years. Acted as lead engineering consultant for much of this time, developing applications and systems in C and C++, as well as multimedia applications using Macromedia Director and world wide web technologies. Created duplicate billing system for major long distance carrier, replacing microfiche with WORM optical disc storage and retrieval. Responsible for prototyping first online services and evaluating technologies for Bell Atlantic, leading to the creation of Bell Atlantic Internet Services. Led and managed technical support team for Bell Atlantic s Digital Production Studio. Acted as Systems Architect for the DPS, integrating desktop multimedia workstations with digital television production suites. Acted as Chief Technical Officer for Viewcall America, an interactive television startup. Microdynamics Group 1990-1992 Programmer/Software Engineer Built applications for customers using APIs to MDL s document imaging system. Developed and taught training in the use of the APIs. Ported existing APIs to new integration platforms. Developed new entry points and performed maintenance on API code base. Electronic Data Systems 1988-1990 Systems Administrator/Programmer Installed, supported and maintained local area network, network printers and network fileservers. Designed and developed a networked digital asset tracking database for proposal graphic files. Prototyped an Executive Information System for the division president. Developed a data communications and transfer module for a nationally distributed sales tracking database. Education Centennial High School 1977-1981
Education Centennial High School Diploma Languages English Mandarin French