Chris Stremlau

Sr. Director of Software Engineering and Head of Seattle Technology Development Center

Best Buy

Nov 2022 - Current (3 years 10 months)

Engineering leader for Best Buy’s Seattle Technology Development Center responsible for teams with a wide-ranging impact across the Best Buy enterprise. Below are some of the teams and software engineering initiatives I am responsible for: • Vendor and Product Systems - Responsible for systems that onboard vendor partners, ingest and manage all product/SKU data, and make it available across all Best Buy channels at web scale • Fulfillment and Availability Systems - Responsible for real-time eCommerce product availability and fulfillment technology • Digital Downloads and External Subscription Management - Responsible for the technical systems that enables Best Buy to sell digital SKUs and manage digital subscription services with our exter

Sr. Director of Software Engineering

Best Buy

Jan 2021 - Nov 2022 (1 year 11 months)

• Consumer Retail Native Mobile Apps - Responsible for the flagship iOS and Android retail apps that delivers a fluid shopping and services experience, and a best-in-class omni-channel shopping experience • Best Buy Health Native Mobile Apps – Built a new set of engineering teams to deliver the iOS and Android apps for the Best Buy Health division. These include the apps targeting Remote Patient Health Monitoring that connects to Bluetooth medical devices and aging-in-place services • Digital Advertising – Responsible for the engineering teams that build the Digital Advertising platform that serves ads across all Best Buy digital channels • Satellite Office Leadership – One of a small group of executives that are responsible for the day-to

Director of Software Engineering

Best Buy

Jan 2017 - Jan 2021 (4 years 1 month)

• Consumer Retail Native Mobile Apps - Responsible for the flagship iOS and Android retail apps that delivers a fluid shopping and services experience, and a best-in-class omni-channel shopping experience • Best Buy Health Native Mobile Apps – Built a new set of engineering teams to deliver the iOS and Android apps for the Best Buy Health division. These include the apps targeting Remote Patient Health Monitoring that connects to Bluetooth medical devices and aging-in-place services • Conversational AI Platform – Leader of the team that builds the channel agnostic chatbot platform that powers several Best Buy tools. Have integrated several third-party ML tools as well building in-house tooling • IoT Control App – Started an engineering t

VP of Software Engineering

Porchcom

Dec 2013 - Dec 2016 (3 years 1 month)

Porch.com’s mission is to build a dynamic marketplace that makes it easy for homeowners to find and hire quality home improvement professionals. As a technical leader, I ran many aspects of software and product development at Porch, from the initial creation of much of the Seattle development team, to the mobile apps, to both the homeowner and professional facing sides of the marketplace. I worked regularly with C–level executives and business owners to translate broad business objectives to tactical plans for the organization to follow, and use system feedback and data to define new opportunities for business to pursue. - A Sample of Major System Ownership • Design and implementation of Porch’s eCommerce backend systems and internal sa

Director of Software Development, Mobile Technologies and ActiveWorks Camps

The Active Network

Oct 2010 - Dec 2013 (3 years 3 months)

Responsible for the technology development of two major initiatives: Corporate Mobile Technologies and the ActiveWorks Camps division. As the technology leader of the Mobile team I managed a team of designers, developers, and QA, and was responsible for all mobile initiatives across the company. I was responsible for building a team targeting native app, mobile web, and mobile services development, as well as helping to define corporate product strategy and roadmap. - Awards and Accomplishments • 2012 Appy Award in the Health & Fitness Category for the Couch-to-5K iOS application • Couch-to-5K iOS app shown in Apple iPhone 5C product launch video • Couch-to-5K app - Consistent top-5 ranked app in the iTunes App Store Paid Health & Fitness

Director of Software Development, Mobile Technologies

George P Johnson

Oct 2008 - Oct 2010 (2 years 1 month)

Successful exit - Mobile technology and team acquired by Active Network. Managed a team of developers and budget, and worked as an architect and developer for several software applications. The MobilePromote product was acquired by GPJ from ActiveSymbols, and I was hired to drive their strategic initiative into the mobile marketplace. My responsibilities at GPJ were multi-faceted and included financial planning, management, system architecture, development, and customer interaction. Strategy and Business Planning - One of my first tasks at GPJ was defining and documenting a three-year strategic plan to expand GPJ's suite of mobile services, and to expand from event-based services into year-round, global services that supported our custom

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VP of Engineering

ActiveSymbols Eyealike

Aug 2006 - Sep 2008 (2 years 2 months)

Successful exit - Mobile technology and team acquired by George P. Johnson Managed a team of developers in a startup environment through the design and build of two software products; SymbolSearch and MobilePromote The Eyealike/SymbolSearch application is an image-to-image search engine that allowed for facial recognition, object recognition, and OCR. The MobilePromote application allows customers to communicate in real time to a target audience with a call to action through SMS, WAP push, or email that tie into web applications configured for PC and mobile web browsers.

Senior Technical Consultant

Logicalis

Jan 2006 - Aug 2006 (8 months)

Mobile technology spun off from Logicalis to form ActiveSymbols/Eyealike as a separate entity. Worked as a technical consultant on several projects in the Seattle area for Logicalis customers in the mobile space.

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Director of Software Development

Convenxia

Dec 2001 - Dec 2005 (4 years 1 month)

Managed an international team of developers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Malaysia. Tasked with developing and maintaining enterprise solutions based upon a proprietary Java framework and web-based UI technologies. The 3-tiered architecture used JSP web pages for all user interfaces, an in-house developed object-oriented Java transaction server similar to a J2EE engine, and an Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and/or PostgreSQL database. The final product was an end-to-end solution with an integrated web store, call center, help desk, and fulfillment house applications that a client could rapidly deploy, covering all aspects of being able to sell products online and through call center campaigns. Responsibilities include

Private Consultant

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

May 1999 - Dec 2001 (2 years 8 months)

Tasked with converting legacy interfaces from Baan IVa to BaanERP including the design, programming, and testing. Involved developing for optimum performance due to severe hardware limitations and coordination of system testing on an extremely large scale. Programmed several interfaces and was involved with beta testing on a new Visual Basic-based software package, BaanCF. Responsible for daily maintenance and performance of several interfaces using SQLPlus, UNIX scripting, and Baan performance tools. Other responsibilities include managing a 24x7 production support team, environment checkouts, and periodic regression testing.

Consultant

Accenture

Jan 1997 - Apr 1999 (2 years 4 months)

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