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.More...