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Chris differentiates himself in the hyper-competitive technology landscape through his extensive experience in AI and financial technology, combined with his entrepreneurial drive as founder of Root Labs.

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Education

MBA Music Business

Middle Tennessee State University

2024

MS Data Analytics

University of Colorado

2023

BS Operations & Information Management

University of Colorado

2017

AA General Business

Front Range Community College

2014

Experience

Founder, AI/Data Engineer

May 2023 - Present

Root Labs

- Nashville, TN

• Engineered a Python database ingestion pipeline application with optimized append functions to reduce financial data subscription costs by 79% (from $118 to $25 monthly) through selective data retrieval and containerized PostgreSQL storage
• Orchestrated a virtual multi-environment Docker infrastructure using Compose for dev/prod deployments and Swarm for orchestration, creating a unified development environment that ensures consistent workflows across cross-functional teams.
• Developed a chart-to-text pipeline leveraging the Gemini LLM API to automatically convert stock market visualizations into descriptive narratives, enhancing trader comprehension of technical patterns.
• Architected SQLAlchemy ORM framework to systematically transform nested API responses into optimized relational tables, ensuring consistent data types and relationships across all ingestion processes.
• Implemented hybrid cloud architecture using Windows Server 2022 as a central hub integrated with Azure services, enabling flexible resource scaling and distributed computing while maintaining control over critical onpremise operations
• Successfully recruited and retained a 4-person team of skilled professionals through strategic networking and relationship-building (zero recruiting budget), driving collaborative innovation that delivered key project milestones on schedule.

Data Analyst—Global Markets

February 2018 - November 2021

Socrates Platform

- Saint Petersburg, FL

• Managed daily operations of e-commerce platform by monitoring automated systems and ensuring seamless website updates, maintaining business continuity and system reliability as de facto operations manager.
• Maintained round-the-clock availability as primary systems administrator, safeguarding data center operations against critical failures and environmental threats while minimizing downtime for revenue-generating online platforms.
• Collaborated with legendary economist Martin Armstrong, developer of foundational AI-driven economic modeling since the 1970s, gaining rare insights into advanced predictive analytics while supporting the Socrates platform.
• Ran critical data importer and data updater workflows processing 200GB+ of daily financial data through ASP.NET environment, coordinating C# and VB.NET components to ensure seamless integration and maintain database integrity.
• Managed capital markets data pipelines, enabling $100K in monthly subscription revenue
• Coordinated technical partnerships with major financial data vendors (S&P Global, Reuters, and CSI Data) and MongoDB Atlas administration, ensuring seamless integration between external feeds and internal database systems.
• Led a geographically distributed team of 4 backend developers across multiple time zones, implementing agile workflows and communication protocols that accelerated project delivery while ensuring code quality and knowledge sharing.

Data Quality Analyst—US Markets

May 2017 - November 2017

Intrinio

- Saint Petersburg, FL

• Led NLP initiative under CFO guidance to automate XBRL tag classification into financial statement line-items, implementing tidy text principles, TF-IDF vectorization, and n-gram analysis to improve data accuracy by 15%.
• Performed detailed data validation and manual corrections using internal dashboard interface, enhancing financial data accuracy by 10% through systematic quality control of 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K filings.
• Collaborated directly with C-suite executives (CEO, CFO, CMO) in an agile team environment, consistently contributing prepared insights and strategic questions during weekly team meetings to drive data quality initiatives.

Data Analyst—Consumer Lending Intern

May 2016 - August 2016

Wells Fargo

- Chandler, AZ

• Collaborated cross-functionally within Consumer Financial Services with underwriting, fraud, fulfillment, call center, and analytics teams to successfully process 400,000+ monthly credit card applications, ensuring seamless workflow coordination across departments.
• Streamlined underwriting processes using Microsoft SQL Server and machine learning models (logistic regression, decision trees) via the Provenir platform, achieving a 30% reduction in review time and hundreds of thousands in annual labor cost savings.
• Engaged in an intensive corporate leadership development program alongside senior executives, demonstrating cross-functional problem-solving by facilitating trade agreements between teams during strategic simulation exercises.