Chris Sousa

Software Engineer

My Background

I am a Solutions-focused, team oriented software engineer with broad-based experience and hands-on skill in the successful implementation of highly effective enterprise solutions ranging from integrated consumer portal and production facility workflow to business intelligence and decision support solutions development.

I have the proven ability to successfully lead development teams, analyze an organization's critical business process requirements, and identify deficiencies and potential opportunities. I have 15+ years experience developing innovative solutions for increasing reliability and efficiency, while improving ROI and product life cycle.

In addition, I have in-depth knowledge of computer hardware and networking, including firewall configuration, load balancing, bandwidth and latency issues as related to application architecture, server performance, management, and troubleshooting experience as well as limited mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge.



What's Up Lately

The history of system architecture has seen several renaissance periods, in the past 2 decades.  Dumb terminals were replaced by personal computers, now desktops  replaced by thin client appliances.... Enter .NET Framework 3.x WCF the next paradigm (read more)

Semmens & Semmens CPA is an Orange County based CPA firm and a long time customer of mine. See their Customer Portal. SaS has been pursuing a system that is open enough to support over 30 accounting related applications as well as unknown future applications and platforms. The solution had to be platform independent while securing the layered bounds of the enterprise. (read more)

OK, I do play now and then.... some say I am too broad or even use the horrible label "Generalize Specialist"  I say they are full of it!  Knowledge is the spice of life. Along those lines, VOIP is a technology that just can't be ignored Asterisk and has been drawing my interest for several years now. The first distribution to really captivate me was Asterisk@Home, now know as   Trixbox (read more)