Christopher Phan

Austin, TX 78754 | chris [at] phan [dot] cx
Technologist ◆ Quality Advocate ◆ Systems Engineer ◆ Developer Advocate

Summary of Qualifications

  • Extensive real-world customer experiences in enterprise architecture and global infrastructures.
  • Creative problem solver with know how to get things done and ability to lead others to success.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop easy rapport with others while building trust.
  • Success driven, passionate, and committed to excellence, high standards, and customer satisfaction.

Work Experience

Director of Competitive Intelligence | Tanium | Kirkland, WA

September 2020 — September 2021
  • Generated criteria used by WideNarrow platform to automatically extract news from different sources (RSS, XPath) and transform them into feeds, making it easy for CI team to consume and publish.
  • Leveraged Microsoft O365 to create a personalized CRM with SMEs and established automatic cadence (Kanban) in order build positioning against competitors.
  • Scripted (NPM) Google Slide API to automatically generate PPT presentations with updated materials at internal team's request.
  • Built a (Power Automate) bot to distribute intelligence over Slack, Microsoft Sharepoint and Teams.

Technical Account Manager | Tanium | Emeryville, CA

February 2018 — September 2020
  • Pioneered adoption of black box appliances (physical/virtual), cgroups, Mac OS notarization, SAML, BitLocker, integrity monitoring, REST token lifecycle with customers, and created documentation on implementation.
  • Advocated for customers and interfaced them with user experience designers and other developers to ensure thoughtful and coherent user experiences.
  • Submitted PR after testing platform in various browsers (TestCafe), devices, and OS (Packer) to ensure cross-compatibility and accessibility.
  • Proposed and implemented scalable code (Python) to solve issues identified with customers and their applications.

Solutions Consultant | Code 42 Software, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN

March 2015 — February 2018
  • Delivered on SOWs around 5G, IPv6, SCCM, GPO, Munki, NSIS, Casper (JAMF), Meraki, KACE, Ivanti, VMware, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Symantec.
  • Wrote modern, performant, and robust code for a diverse array of client and internal projects.

Tier 2 Customer Champion | Code 42 Software, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN

July 2013 — March 2015
  • Monitored cloud and appliances using observability tools such as Zabbix.
  • Deep log dives to RCA and posted patch file to JIRA.

Technical Lead | IBM | Minneapolis, MN

May 2012 — July 2013
  • Engineered and maintained major features of Evergreen's CRM using Lotus Notes 8, LotusScript, DB2, SQL, and CSS
  • Designed and implemented campus-wide Windows 7 migration tool streamlining performance and reducing cost.

Deskside Representative | IBM | Minneapolis, MN

September 2010 — May 2012
  • Provided on-site and remote hardware and software support for Dell, Lenovo and ManageNow.
  • Provided Install, Move, Add, Change accordingly to RFPs.

Web Developer / Tech Support | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN

May 2008 — September 2010
  • Developed new business portals around JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery, CodeIgniter, ASP.NET, SQL, etc.
  • Developed and shipped interactive web application for dormitory walk-through.

Education

Metropolitan State University | Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science | MN

Carlson School of Management | Business Management Information Systems | MN