Chris Leon

Prior to joining Robert Navin at Real Time Risk Systems LLC in October 2004, Chris worked at TopCoder Software as a Project and Account Manager. TopCoder is based in Glastonbury, CT, and works on developing and applying new approaches to software engineering for clients. His clients included Philip Morris USA, ABB, Pfizer and ING, who represented about 33% of TopCoder Software’s revenue in 2004. His work included managing ongoing development and design contracts at each client, discovering opportunities for new projects, and developing new processes to improve and expand upon TopCoders innovative engineering processes.

Prior to his time at TopCoder, Chris worked at MicroStrategy, a leading business intelligence provider, based in Vienna, VA. While there he worked primarily on the Narrowcast Server product, which in 2001 accounted for roughly 25% of MicroStrategy’s $100 million annual license revenue. His roles on the team included being one of three software design leads, managing a team of three other engineers, leading classes for training and education of consulting staff on major product upgrades, and interacting with Product Management and customers to gather feature requirements. Upon leaving MicroStrategy, he worked as a free-lance consultant for various MicroStrategy clients to assist in deploying major Narrowcast and Intelligence Server deployments, including George Weston Bakeries and Polk Automotive.

His time as an engineering lead at MicroStrategy and a Project Manager at TopCoder enabled Chris to develop his ideas to improve the speed, consistency and reliability with which a software project can be developed and maintained. Using ideas culled from a variety of software development methodologies, he was able to assist TopCoder to refine their processes to enable them to successfully implement custom projects involving independent contractors dispersed worldwide.

Chris graduated with honors from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Computer Science in 1998.