14 Walter Street
San Francisco, CA 94114, USA 
(415) 305-4496
ckm@onebox.com

MOST CURRENT RESUME AT www.chrismaresca.com

Systems/Infrastructure Architecture: Design of highly scalable, redundant architectures using solutions from Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Netscape, Frontier Global Center, Exodus, ATG, Red Hat Software and Bay Networks, among others.

Project Management: Skilled in technical project management, object design, technical documents authoring, process analysis and implementation. Knowledge of software development methodologies and project management tools.

Strategy: Experience in strategic analysis, including technical and marketing analysis using industry standard sources such as Zona Research, Forrester, Simmons, Jupiter, I.Pro and Media Metrix.

Communication: Speak five languages, three fluently (English, French and Dutch). Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to communicate highly technical information to non-technical co-workers and clients. 

• Independant consultant specializing in scalability, e.commerce, and infrastructure design for internet projects.
  Current work includes:
  • aquisition targets technology audits, focusing on implementation quality and technology differentiation, as well as integration potential with existing enterprise infrastructure
  • strategic & management consulting for several start-up companies.
  • infrastructure and technology assessment, focusing on scalable deployment platforms
  
  Specialties include:
  • e.commerce
  • scalability
  • infrastructure design
  • distributed application design
  • technology assessment and auditing
  • strategic and management consulting
  • project specification
  • management and process infrastructure

• Strategic and management work. Infrastructure implementation, technology assessment, partnership formation.
  Temporary position until appropriate candidate was found.

• Strategic and management work. Infrastructure imp lementation, technology assessment, partnership formation.
  Responsibilities include:
  • Personnel managment (hiring/firing)
  • Internal and external infrastructure planning and development
  • Vendor and contractor management
  • Financial planning and controls (engineering)
  • Strategic planning

• Strategic and management work. Technology assessment, infrastructure implementation, process design and documentation.
  Temporary position until appropriate candidate is found.

• Engineering team lead on high-traffic e.commerce websites for high-profile brands. Lead in creating engineering and systems architecture, e-commerce application frameworks, scalable internet application infrastructures a nd globally scalable systems. Clients included Starbucks Coffee, Kinko's, Hewlett-Packard, AutoZone and Rx.com.
  Responsibilities included:
  • e-commerce and data-driven applications architecture
  • technical and engineering consulting
  • new business development
  • technical competitive analysis
  • technology evaluation
  • technical project management and oversite
  • scalability and growth planning
  • process implementation
  • risk & client management

• Providing technical analysis & design on responses to RFPs, as well internal/external technical & strategic consulting. Team lead on internet/intranet development projects. Lead in creating end-to-end publishing systems for print & web, including integrated electronic commerce. Responsibilities included:
   
  • strategic analysis & planning 
  • electronic commerce applications 
  • messaging infrastructure design 
  • access control/firewalls, 
  • meta-document storage 
  • complex search engines 
  • database applications 
  • multi-server cataloging & management 

• Setting-up, creating and managing Internet services (web, email, ftp, etc.) for government and commercial clients on multiple platforms. Designed sites up-to 4000 pages. Responsibilities included:
  • Unix/NT administration,
  • site architecture and design
  • access control
  • formatting for internet distribution,
  • distribution strategies
  • information acquisition/creation
  • dynamic document generation
  • complex interface & information flow design
  • information systems integration

• Advised start-ups on company structure, business plans, computer systems design, international trade & potential problems. Also designed marketing collateral on a freelance basis (copy + graphic design), including HTML-based promotional material.

• Managed the start-up of Kingsbury International, an international trading and consultancy company with a specialization in opening new trade ventures with Eastern Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union. Managed partners and employees in four countries, created promotional materials, and designed/implemented limited intranet.

• Directed and oversaw investments in the Netherlands by Russian companies. Investments included real-estate, import/export, and off-shore holding companies as well as commodities and currency trading.

• Collected agricultural data about Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Oversaw daily data input into computer marketing programs. Involved in re-configuration and writing of manual with procedure standardization for USDA's AMES marketing databases worldwide. Security clearance. 

University of Maine
Orono, Maine USA
Bachelor of Arts, 1991
International Relations/History