Hello, World.

I'm Christopher Robison.

Turning ideas into reality.

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About

Let me introduce myself.

I love to code. There I've said it. Sure, I have a unique blend of technical know-how, leadership skills, and business acumen but my lifelong love is for coding. A little background about me: I have extensive experience in software engineering plus I've learned that I have a special skill: leading groups of unruly programmers. I am also skilled in a wide range of programming languages, including JavaScript, C, C++, Java, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, Go and others. I have a proven track record of successfully meeting deadlines and delivering code that is robust and well tested. Most recently, I brought D. Harris Tours, a small transportation company, into the 21st century by modernizing their operations, resulting in a fleet expansion from 2 to 12 buses and a corresponding 10X increase in revenue. I could go on but I'm afraid I've said too much already 😁

Profile

  • Fullname: Christopher Robison
  • Job: Turning ideas into reality.
  • Website: www.cdr2.com/
  • Email: cdr@cdr2.com

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Resume

More of my credentials.

Work Experience

CTO

Feb 2020 - Jun 2024

D. Harris Tours, Inc.

  • Designed and implemented a end-to-end transportation management system
    • CRM
    • Scheduling (Drivers & Buses)
    • Automated Notifications (Phone, Email or SMS)
    • GPS Tracking of Assets
    • Invoicing
    • Payment Collection
    • Customer Portal
  • Spearheaded technological transformation and business processes that allowed D Harris to grow from a fleet of two buses to 14(!) buses.
  • Updated and enhanced the company's systems with modern tools to better manage the growing business, including real-time bus data, automated maintenance notifications, and automated trip confirmations and notifications via email and SMS.
  • Implemented route optimization algorithm to identify opportunities for one bus to handle multiple trips, increasing their daily revenue by 30%.
  • Implemented automated notifications for trips, bus maintenance, and billing and invoicing.

Manager, Software Engineering

Jul 2010 - Feb 2020

Conversant, Inc.

Designed, developed, and maintained the infrastructure and code-base that served many millions of mobile and rich media ads each day. Led the Rich Media effort and helped modernize the ad serving infrastructure and metric collection. Designed and implemented a RESTful API for serving rich media ads and built out scalable backend services to handle integration with existing servers and infrastructure.

Web Architect

Sep 2007 - Jul 2010

Mindjet

Led Mindjet's initial Software as a Service (SaaS) product, Mindjet Catalyst. Transformed Mindjet's business model with the new service nearly doubling monthly revenue.

CEO / Founder

Apr 2006 - Sep 2007

Simple Software, Inc.

Mr. Robison provided contracted software development and consulting, developed the Simple Software Application Platform that provided content management systems and business process management applications to small to mid-sized businesses.

VP Engineering

Jun 2004 - Apr 2006

Genetic Savings & Clone

Genetic Savings & Clone was a genetic services company that offered commercial banking of genetic material as well as cloning services for cats. Responsible for architecting, developing and deploying Clonesoft, a bespoke business process automation software that ran every aspect of the company including employee and customer management, order tracking, tracking clone progress, and delivering the cloned pet to the customer.

Technical Director

Dec 2001 - Jun 2004

Inter@ctivate, Inc.

As Technical Director for Interactivate, Inc., Mr. Robison's responsibilities were extensive and included, but were not limited to managing and maintaining IT resources including customer applications and websites. Help grow the company from 10 to 65 employees.

Volunteer Work

Esteemed Leading Knight / House Committee Chair

Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

San Francisco Elks Lodge #3

As Leading Knight and House Committee Chair I was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Lodge restaurant and bar as well as organizing and holding events to raise money for local underprivileged children. During my tenure as House Committee Chair, with the help of the SFPD, we were able to build 100 bicycles to give as Christmas presents to children which were very well received. We raised over $34,000 for the children in that year.

Education

Degree

Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

City College of San Francisco

Japanese, Business

Degree

Jan 1988 - Jan 1991

California State University-Chico

Computer Science

Degree

Jan 1988 - Jan 1990

Butte Community College

Computer Science, General Education