Chris Page – Software Engineer

Site purpose

My name is Chris Page.  I’ve thrown up this site as a sort of  journal and presence where I can blog my happenings and interests in hopes of helping myself, but also as a way to contribute something to the bigger community of programmers that may stumble upon me.  By trade, I’m now a young Sr Software Engineer – but I shouldn’t say trade so much, as I am one of “those guys”, where as, it’s more of who I’ve always been – a virtual craftsman with a deep passion expressed by my innate tendency to compose and build art!

I’ve also recently re-relocated to Morgantown, WV with my wife, dog, and as of recently newborn!  So I intend to do some blogging about my home life as well.

High up view of work experience

My work experience starts in 1999 as a paid intern for MCI WorldCom, and moves up towards the last 5 years developing extensive entrepreneurial experience as a ground floor developer at multiple web 2.0 start-up companies, one of which was sold almost 2 years ago, another is on its way right now.  In addition to being a start-up junkie, I’ve consulted for numerous other company and institution types honing my abilities as an expert software architect.

My areas of especial expertise and interest lye in LAMP style development, social networks, and business computer infrastructures.  I have experience building and maintaining large scale, high traffic web systems from the core up.  I’ve been a project lead in numerous team projects, and have supported high profile clients.  I multi-task several projects at a time – and wouldn’t have it any other way.

Just a little more…

I’ve additionally authored an open source PHP5 MVC Framework, coined Typhoon, which is in production on several web 2.0 sites.

The most recent project I leaded from the ground up was www.firststring.com,  Is yours next?

I love what I do for a living.  I’m a team player, and total geek!

Outside of my personal freelancing, I’m networked with a team of freelancers all with equivalent are higher experience than myself.  While this site is geared for myself, if you have need for a full on development team, we may be available as a team or solo.

I understand the power of networking and often take advantage of it, visit my LinkedIn Profile and please ask for more details!