Chris Miller

Highly motivated, self-starting individual with more than 9 years experience in software application development, network engineering and systems analysis. Excellent interpersonal skills, team oriented player with entrepreneurial spirit who looks for solutions “outside the box.” Strong background in financial accounting, business development and operations.

6PS Media Group (2005-Present)
Partner, Chief Operations Officer

• Responsible for company-wide financial accounting and financial planning.
• Negotiated acquisition of Brazilian firm to form foundation of organization’s production team.
• Experience in bridging culture gaps to bring teams together in unique ways.
• Implemented organization workflow and knowledge systems for customer relationship management, project management and company administration.
• Work directly with clients in consulting role for systems administration, application architecture development and business process services in a variety of environments and industries.

6PS Corporation (2005-Present)
Partner, Chief Operations Officer

• Responsible for company-wide financial accounting and financial planning.
• Responsible for implementing of backend systems to facilitate automation of account provisioning and effectively manage customer orders and data.
• Develop and maintain partner relationships for Value Added Reseller services
• Responsible for architecture and systems administration of the hosting provider network across seven datacentres
• Consulting with clients for systems administration, application development and business process services in a variety of environments.
• Expanded company into Brazil, Portugal and UK, spanning a business environment of four currencies across three continents.

Intellithought Inc., Kingsport, TN (2002-2005)
Senior Systems Engineer

• Maintained all internal systems for organization using products such as Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2000, SQL Server 2000, Windows Terminal Services, Cisco PIX firewalls and TrendMicro.
• Engineered and maintained entire customer web hosting network using technologies such as Active Directory, ASP.NET, IIS, SQL Server and BackupExec.
• Instrumental member in the IS services team that provided outsourced IS services for local small- and medium- sized businesses in the area. Customer-facing position to troubleshoot problems and deploying new customer networks and services.
• Audited and influenced customer network security policies implementing antivirus and firewall solutions including Microsoft ISA Server, Cisco PIX and Cyberguard.

• Software
  Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft ISA server, Windows Media Services, Veritas BackupExec, TrendMicro, Symantec Norton, McAfee, GFI security products, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Subversion, CVS, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft DNS, ISC BIND, Apache, Exim, qmail, SmarterMail, ProFTPd, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Lucene, memcached, Vyatta
• Operating Systems
  Windows 95 and above client operating systems, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, OpenBSD, Darwin (Mac OS X)
• Hardware
  Dell, HP, SuperMicro, IBM; Cisco PIX, Cisco Catalyst series switches, Cisco IOS-based routers, Foundry Networks switches, HP switches, ExtremeNetworks switches and routers, 3com Switches, Cisco Aironet
• Networking Theory and Protocols
  OSI model, through DNS understanding, VPN, TCP/IP, dynamic routing protocols, switching infrastructures, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VRRP, HSRP, VTP
• Programming Languages and Frameworks
  C# 4.0 (.NET), PHP 5 (OOP), Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Perl
  Knowledge of HTML/CSS, Basic JavaScript
  Experience with ASP.NET 4.0 (including MVC and AJAX frameworks)
  Knowledge of Test Driven Design (TDD) and Agile philosophies
  Experience in XML
  Experience with Web services and SOAP
  Knowledge of UML and object oriented design principals
  Experience with high-traffic websites using clusters, memcached and Lucene technologies for indexing and caching.

Northwestern California University (June 2014)
Juris Doctor, Law

Middle Tennessee State University (December 2009)
Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Obtained 2008)
  Cisco network equipment certification
• Microsoft Technology Specialist: Windows Vista (70-620) (Obtained 2008)
  Part of the MCITP Enterprise Administrator path
• CompTIA A+ (Obtained 2007)
  IT hardware and desktop support certification