Chris Palmer

Founder / CEO / Developer @Undefeated Software

🔥 Startup Founder✔️ ITBusiness Owner💼 C-level Executive👍 Sales & BizDev🧨 Consulting✨ Business OwnerBackend DeveloperFrontend DeveloperProduct ManagerEmbedded DeveloperiOS DeveloperTech SupportWeb DeveloperData EngineerSolution IntegratorBusiness AnalystCEOCTODatabase Developer

Chris Palmer has over 23 years of experience in the IT industry using a wide ranging list of tools and methodologies. At IBM, Chris came out of college as a programmer in html and C++ but was thrust into the role of IT Architect due to a need and lack of skills in the industry to be able to communicate and translate business requirements into technical requirements. At IBM he successfully led teams at Boeing, USDA, Sprint, Verizon and AT&T . After his career at IBM, he decided to go out on his own and started Contra Software from the ground up. In 2013 he began development on a product called Studio Fusion with a team of 6 developers and 3 business analysts. The product was launched in February of 2014 and 20th Century Fox immediately reached and a relationship was formed to begin rolling out the software to those who needed it. In 2016 Chris was introduced to NBCUniversal by a business partner and quickly entered into an agreement to expand the scope of Studio Fusion to encompass NBC's requirements and rolled out an agile product that was used at NBC's warehouses. In 2018 the product was mature enough and the relationship with NBCUniversal was so strong that Contra Software's assets were sold to an LA based company. What differentiates Chris from other IT professionals is his ability to communicate at a high level but also understand business problems and budgets. At the same time Chris is keenly adept at understanding and solving technical challenges at a deep level. For example, at Contra Software the product required an iOS application and at the time objective C programmers were super expensive so Chris learned the language and ended up writing the application on his own. The application had several thousand lines of code including offline storage of data including raw image data in iOS data store.