Chris Goodacre

Professional Summary

Pragmatic technology leader with a propensity for bringing together stakeholders, clients and staff to build creative software solutions to business problems. Believes that how things get done is important, but who gets them done more so; developing both is the most reliable path to success.

Enterprise Software | Global Development | Agile | Datacenter/Hybrid/Cloud

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Experience

ZS, Inc.

Senior Technical Architect

Responsible for providing technical leadership and execution related to Software-as-a-Medical Device (SaMD) product development, including:

  • Authored and contributed to standard operating procedures related to technical topics within the QMS
  • Authored project plans to fulfill the standard operating procedures of the QMS
  • Coached team members and developed team attitudes and behaviors consistent with medical device development
  • Provided technical leadership in the form of supplier selection, architecture oversight, design and code review
  • Supported Stage I and Stage II ISO 13485 audits - no findings

php | vuejs | AWS | SaMD | ISO 14971 | ISO 13485 | IEC 62304 | AAMI TIR45

Discovery

Software Development Manager

Lead a cross-functional organization of roughly 30 analysts, developers, testers, engineers and application support staff maintaining and evolving the large software ecosystem responsible for the receipt, ingest, metadata enrichment, and enterprise search of the legacy Scripps Networks media portfolio.

java | angular | AWS | hybrid | elasticsearch | graph | full SDLC

SunGard

Technical Product Manager

Chiefly responsible for understanding the competitive landscape from a technology perspective, defining the technical roadmap to optimally position our product in the market and executing on that roadmap.

Define and communicate investment parameters and project returns associated with each step in the technical roadmap.

Lead technology investment projects across our global development teams.

Develop technology marketing collateral for multiple audiences.

SunGard

Implementation Support Manager

Responsible for reducing the software implementation time and cost for our strategic customers by providing enhanced technical support for our front line technical service representatives. Configuring SunGard's accounting software to our clients' unique data centers. Assist clients in evaluating and tuning system performance and capacity planning. Serve as a client advocate during SunGard's software release planning process.

SunGard

Architecture Manager / Lead Distributed Architect

Provided architectural vision for our mixed-technology midrange application suite; participated in corporate architectural initiatives and ensured that were aligned with such; prioritized and directed work of architecture team members.

Education

Northern Illinois University

Master of Business Administration

Executive MBA (accounting/finance/management/marketing/business law). Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society.

University of Delaware (Incomplete)

Graduate Cognitive Psychology

Ph.D. - terminal program with a concentration in Cognitive Psychology. Area of study: knowledge representation in humans and machines. Neural networks, fuzzy logic models, Lisp.

Southern Illinois University

Bachelor of Arts: Psychology

Neuro-psychology; heavy lab experience analyzing EEG data for perceptive, cognitive tasks. Senior Honors Thesis. Cum Laude.

Skills



Business



Technical

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