From 2006 until present, he has emerged as a LAMP specialist, with specialty in complex database-driven web projects. His project management skills have grown, as has his coding expertise. PHP5 is the language of choice, especially when used in conjunction with MVC frameworks, such as Symfony, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter, etc. He hires employees for basic coding tasks, allowing him to focus on the more challenging tasks, and thus streamline the production process. Customer satisfaction is now his main business goal, more so than before. He also began hosting his clients' websites (on reliable Linux, of course!), using a custom designed distributed backup system, with load balancing and automatic DNS failover, which allows for nearly perfect 100% uptime!

For 2005 and 2006, Chris has worked full-time on contract application programming jobs for USA and UK customers, by the hour or by the project. Most programming has been in SQL, object-oriented PHP or perl/cgi, Javascript, AJAX, and Unix shell scripting, on the LAMP platform. For example, he wrote some perl & php web spiders, rebuilt overgrown content management systems, set up credit card processing, took a college course "Various (Advanced) Topics in IT", wrote an RSS parser, published an SMTP bounce handler class, redesigned and implemented a distributed SEO/Adwords application, etc. He also remotely maintained web servers and mail servers (both Unix deriviatives and Windows), and developed custom anti-spam / anti-virus setups for several small businesses. He briefly studied Ruby On Rails, then rejected it in favour of PHP MVC.

In 2003 and 2004, Chris sought and obtained financing to work full-time on anti-spam research and development, using open-source software on Linux/Unix operating systems. He successfully created and marketed an independant POP-forward mail filter http://spamEater.com

Chris was nominated for the "Innovator of the Year" award at the 2004 Kootenay Associaton of Science and Technology "Spirit of Innovation Awards", for his work with anti-spam research. You can read an interview here (summarizing his thoughts on anti-spam): https://spameater.com/anti-spam-man.com/interview.html

Since January 2000, Chris studied PERL/CGI and PHP programming and developed several database driven websites. He is competent with SQL and relational database design in MySQL and Oracle. Although partial to UNIX, he is familiar with Microsoft ASP, VBScript, MS-SQL Servers, and Visual Basic programming. He can write C++ code.

He did his undergraduate research in Robot User Agents, and wrote a working program which successfully combined Wintel, Perl, SQL, and TCP/IP protocols into a complex, fully automated network application, acting on the users behalf. He is proficient in JavaScript, DHTML, HTML and CSS.

Since the summer of 1999, he has provided PC technical support for many customers, including the installation of LANs with proxy server and ADSL. He has built, repaired and upgraded many PC computers. He is capable of debugging difficult hardware problems.

He taught computer skills to adults. He has authored many websites, and in multiple languages (English, French, Danish). He updated his school faculty website extensively and built other multimedia-intensive websites from scratch. He successfully promoted three websites into the 'top ten' rankings, using Internet search engine promotional techniques, producing substantial traffic and revenues for his customers.

He is a past board member of KICS, a non-profit Internet server that provides websites to community organizations.