Christian Nichols - President
A versatile CTO/Chief Architect with over 23 years of experience, Christian has been responsible
for the architecture, design and development of 4 client/server and web based enterprise applications
across finance, retail, banking and e-commerce. His most recent work was to establish the vision and
technology for a Service Oriented Architecture framework for the e-commerce systems at Digital River Inc.
This involved bringing together teams from 15 different product lines so that a common framework and
backend processes could be established. Out of this effort a new services platform, Helios, was
developed to support this work.
As a chief architect with DR's globalTech division, his work was used to support the release of
Microsoft Office 2007 Trial and Buy web sites (http://www.trymicrosoftoffice.com), the Windows
Anytime Upgrade system for Vista and most recently the Office 2010 Beta site (http://office2010beta.microsoft.com).
This encompassed websites across the globe in 57 languages and 34 currencies. He have led the development
of COTS software systems with over $40M in sales and has managed teams of up to 35 software development
and quality assurance personnel and have worked with all major Microsoft technologies (.Net, SQL Server, Windows)
and Unix/Linux (Java/PHP, Oracle). The e-commerce systems he has worked on support over $2B in sales annually.
Recently Christian has been involved in the design and development of several iPhone/iPad
applications:
- iPrescribe - an application used by doctors to provide electronic prescriptions.
iPrescribe has been available on the Apple AppStore since August 2010 and supports over 400
doctors. This application is approved by the Surescripts electronic prescription network.
- MobileQ - a private iOS application for the iPad for use in the pharmaceutical industry.
Specifics:
- 6 years of experience architecting high-transaction volume SAAS transaction systems for e-commerce. This includes development of distributed systems technology that works in multiple, redundant data centers across the world. All of these systems were based heavily on an SOA/Model Oriented Design.
- 17 years of experience developing client/server applications in Java, .Net (C#) and C++ in Windows NT and Unix environments.
- Well versed in the latest development techniques including Model Driven Design, SOA, UML, XP, J2EE technologies and patterns, .Net (1.0/2.0/3.0/3.5), WCF, and XML/SOAP (including WS-I specifications).
- 15 years of experience architecting applications using SQL Server (4.2, 6.0, 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008) and Oracle (8.x, 9.x and 10g) including system optimization, the use of procedures and partitioning strategies involving 100's of millions of rows.
- 3 years experience designing and developing applications for iOS including both iPhone and iPad.
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