Christopher C. Seifert

2-170 Brickworks Lane
Toronto, ON M6N 5H7 /
(416) 300-8642

Related Work Experience:

2015 – Current /

Ariad Communications

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Toronto, ON Canada

Director, Digital Development

Leading the web development department of this marketing agency,I encourage my team to work together to create the best solutions for our clients and empower them to take a leadership role on each of their projects. I drive transformation in the team and the company by pushing forward new processes and best practices. I champion collaboration at all levels, and have elevated communication and partnership across departments. As the primary client contact for technical expertise, I assess the needs and architect solutions that drive the expressed business objectives forward for clients such as TD, CIBC, BMO, Unilever, Reliance Home Comfort, SCENE Loyalty, Johnson & Johnson and many others.

2005 – Current /

ComicBookDB.com

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Toronto, ON Canada

Creator / Lead Developer

Using PHP and MySQL, created and grew this comic book database to a community of 50,000+ users by managing a team of administrators to build one of the largest websites of its kind in the world.

2005 – 2015 /

BOLD Internet Solutions

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Toronto, ON Canada

Senior Web Developer

The senior programmer for this web development company. Led the programming team using PHP, ASP and ASP.NET with an emphasis on accessibility and standards compliance. Built web solutions and databases integrating functionality and data from a variety of sources including external databases and APIs. Defined technical requirements and wrote specifications. Involved in projects from the initial idea to the launch of the final product. Numerous high profile clients included Black’s Photography, HMV, Campbell’s Soup, Canada Beef, Tennis Canada, Altus InSite, several ministries of the Ontario government and others.

2003 – 2005 /

Raymour & Flanigan Furniture

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Liverpool, NY USA

Web Developer

Designed, programmed, and maintained the corporate website and intranet of this $600 million dollar retail furniture company. Using ASP, C#, and SQL, built programs for several corporate departments including the Transportation, Customer Service, Supplies, Networking, and Sales departments. Major projects included programs to control inbound shipments in the Transportation department, an e-commerce site to sell clearance merchandise online, the company's furniture catalog and a bridal registry website.

2002 – 2003 /

CommunitySite, Inc.

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North Syracuse, NY USA

Systems Administrator / Web Developer

Lead web developer in all projects for this web development and hosting company. Built and maintained the company network and intranet. Interacted extensively with clients, designed websites to their specifications and took each project through the web development life cycle from design to deployment.

Education:

St. John’s University

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Collegeville, MN USA

B.A. – Computer Science (1999) / Minor – Communications

Technical Summary:

Programming Languages:

PHP
SQL
WordPress / Javascript/jQuery
AJAX
Laravel / HTML/CSS
ASP.NET
Foundation / JSON
C#

Server Software:

Microsoft Windows
Microsoft IIS / Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL / Linux/UNIX
Apache / Git