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The Best & The Brightest - Chris Whitmore

We couldn't keep this place running without them, so we thought we should share them with you. This bi-monthly feature is about the people behind the scenes that keep this ship afloat.

Name:	Chris Whitmore
Title:	Senior Developer
Age:	0000011001
Height:	0.00187817259 Kilometers
Nickname as a child:	Oggy
Likes:	movies, writing, hockey, and all things geek
Dislikes:	doing dishes, redundancy, inefficiency

How long have you been at Vision Critical?
I've been here just over a year now. Long enough to see the company more than double in size and the product we've been working on morph into something extremely cool.

What role do you play at VC?
I am a c#/asp.net developer working on the core features of our Panel+ product. My current focus is on development of the user interface. This includes conceptualizing and creating interfaces for the latest and greatest features coming down the pipeline as well as revisiting the application to examine usability issues and find ways to improve the way we do things.

What is your background and how does it benefit VC clients?
Before starting with Vision Critical I worked for nearly six years as a market research programmer. Two and a half of those years were spent programming surveys in a CATI environment. I then moved into the newly founded online data collection division where I was responsible for programming surveys for the web and dreaming up ways to actually pull off all the new ideas about what _could_ be done online. I think this pioneering spirit and my experience having worked on literally hundreds of projects are great assets to our clients. I've also taken a number of short programming courses and am about two thirds of the way through my computer science degree (slow and steady).

What major improvements in products or service delivery have you seen in your tenure at Vision Critical?
Having worked with a number of market research platforms and tools in the past I am astounded at how advanced our current product is. We now support much of the functionality that I was accustomed to having in big clunky enterprise software packages, but we've made it easy to use. Plus we have a number of Internet specific tools and technologies that really separate us from the pack. It's really exciting, and having this solid base is going to allow us to do some really impressive things in the next year. Our users are going to be impressed.

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Posted on April 13, 2005
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