Chris Latko クリスラトゥコ

Bio

Summary Chris graduated with honors from Indiana University with a double major in Business Economics and Japanese Language and Literature. In 1994, he developed his first Web site and has since acquired fifteen years in Web development experience, a major part of which has been his participation in the development and deployment of over 200 Web sites that required his contribution in virtually all areas of the production process, including management, programming, design, and system administration. Other keynotes in his career include working for a Fortune Global 500 company (Sony) and several start-ups (WTIC, GBOT, Brand Ichiba). Chris has produced over $15 million in revenue for his companies through the deployment of systems such as a content management system and Web site deployment tools for the world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. His Web site creation tools are used for 1,000,000 Japanese distributors for Amway, a global leader in multilevel marketing. He is responsible for creating the Cialis Web sites for the Oceania region of the global pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly and Company. Chris has also designed content management systems for sites such as Audi, Clarion, Daiwa Securities, Dunlop, Fiat, Itochu, Nissan, Renault, Sanyo, Sharp, THK, and Warner Brothers. In his latest role as CTO for Ashley Associates, Chris has built the infrastructure for Web interface source code management, bug tracking, replication of Web sites across servers, and versioned build deployment, saving his company over $1 million per year in infrastructure costs. Specialties Web devlopment with server-side languages: PHP, Cold Fusion, Ruby, J2EE, Perl, Lasso, and ASP and client-side languages: Javascript, CSS, XML/XSLT, and "AJAX". Database: MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and Oracle. Other languages: Bash, C, Python, Ruby and J2ME for mobile devices. Frameworks: Fusebox, Spring, Ruby on Rails, Zend. SysAdmin: Apache, Apache Modules, Sendmail, Postfix, Bind.