Christopher Evans

Need Instructions LLC

Need Instructions LLC

NeedInstructions.com – Instructions, Manuals & How To’s On Just About Everything Out There!

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Profitable

Chris Evans is the of CEO of Need Instructions LLC and founder of NeedInstructions.com. NeedInstructions.com is a Website that provides users with step-by-step instructions, manuals, and how to’s on just about everything out there. Chris Evans got the idea for the site after a particularly frustrating experience when purchasing a large product that had to be assembled. After purchasing the product he found out there where no instructions included. While not finding any instructions on the product he decided to visit the company’s web-site to see if he could find the instruction he needed to assemble the product. After spending an hour searching the company’s web-site and the World Wide Web, the idea of NeedInstructions.com came to be.

Chris Evans has extensive management, technical, consulting and customer service skills. He provides hands-on expertise in project leadership and management, assessments, methodologies, data modeling, database design, meta data, systems analysis, and development. He has worked with multiple platforms, and his experience spans a wide range of operational and data warehouse environments. In addition to his BI background, Chris Evans has a experience in marketing strategy for major consumer brands.

Chris Evans earned an M.B.A. in Accounting/Finance from Regis University and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from SUNY Farmingdale.

Employer:	Need Instructions LLC
Position:	CEO/Founder
Time period:	August 2004 - Present
Description:	Established an instructional how to web-site called NeedInstructions.com. Work involved handling all aspects of IT development, testing, business development, including legal issues, sales and advertising.

Employer:	IBM
Position:	Consultant
Time period:	September 2006 - February 2009
Description:	Client: ADT • Contribute to resolution of 3 mappings that where not processing correctly. • Helping team members that need extra assistants in any task they have. • Provide support and PowerCenter knowledge transfer to client development teams. • Validation of data loaded through Informatica mappings - sanity check, testing against business rule. • Completed standard system administration tasks, tuning operating systems, extracting data from source systems and transforming data. • Followed up with the team confirm what development issues needed to be looked at first and how they needed to be resolved. • Gave weekly status updates in regards to my development • Gave advice on how development issues should be tackled Client: IBM (GHD) • Project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure. Client: Pfizer (PMO) • Served as 2/3rd level lead technical support person for HLC. • Wrote UDPs (user defined processes) utilizing SQL scripts. • Prepared development project reports for executive management. • Edited software manuals and other product documentation Client: Pfizer (HLC STATE SPEND) • Interacting with the Client for requirements clarifications and definitions • Involved in analysis and study of existing systems • Worked extensively with Informatica mappings using Expressions, Filter, Stored Procedures, Lookup, Sorter, Aggregators, Router, Update Strategy and Union to extract from sources and feed into Data Ware house. Client: General Motors • Completed standard system administration tasks, tuning operating systems, extracting data from source systems and transforming data.

Employer:	INFORMATICA
Position:	Analyst
Time period:	March 2005 - September 2005
Description:	Client: JPMorgan & Chase • Completed multiple forms of documentation including source to target matrices for data warehouse. • Tested Informatica Mappings and Workflow on Informatica server tools to transfer data between multi sources like CSV/text file, Excel file, SQL Server and Oracle databases. • Validation of data loaded through Informatica mappings – sanity check, testing against business rule. • Performed installation and configuration of Informatica PowerCenter 7.1.2 on Windows 2000 OS for development, QA and production environment. • Executing pre and post session scripts. Client: Pfizer • Helped client write ETL standards Document using Velocity’s Best Practice on Naming Conventions. • Designed and developed transformations to load both historical tables as well as monthly fact tables. Mappings included error handling procedures update strategies and variable logic. • Modified several mappings to suit updated business rules. • Assisted in both unit testing and integration testing.

Employer:	ACCENTURE
Position:	Analyst
Time period:	August 2004 - March 2005
Description:	Client: Ricoh • Helped with the configuration and development, testing, validation, and implementation of new or modified procedures and processes with the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. Client: Charter • Responsible for testing an integrated desktop application “Matrix II.” The desktop application integrated Charter’s current legacy systems (web based tools, billing systems, ping modem tools, Win-32 apps, and etc.) and providing data sharing capabilities across applications. Also was the Quick Test Pro lead towards the Matrix II project.

Employer:	MARSH INC
Position:	Notes Project Analyst Intern
Time period:	May 2004 - August 2004
Description:	Maintained Notes Project Queue, and executed requests for access to Marsh Databases. Created manuals for Dominos Notes 6.5 and helpdesk documentation. Beta tested all functions for the Notes 6.5 client on an XP client. Interacted with various levels of management and clients and contributed to the successful operation Domino Notes 6.5 roll out.

Employer:	JPMORGAN & CHASE
Position:	ETS Intern Consultant
Time period:	April 2002 - May 2004
Description:	Chosen following a competitive selection process to work with two major systems, the Avistar System and Desktop Internet Access (DIA). Utilize Lotus Notes R5 to create and maintain databases and use Vignette Content Management for ETS Web Technologies Web Site to create and update sites. Maintain equipment inventories, test functions and assist with user connections of the Avistar product. Identify all users of the DIA for accurate billing. * Rapidly mastered Lotus Notes and created the Web Technologies Lotus Notes database, capable of holding more than one million names and DNS entries, one week ahead of schedule.

Employer:	YORK CONSULTING
Position:	Junior Loan Officer
Time period:	July 2001 - April 2002
Description:	* Brought on to interview applicants for personal, student and business loans and mortgages and to assist Senior Loan Officers in preparing statements on delinquent accounts. * Successfully captured 22 new accounts by promoting credit and loan services, solidifying position as the top closing Junior Loan Officer.

Employer:	VIACOM
Position:	IT Internship
Time period:	April 2001 - July 2001
Description:	Selected for competitive internship in the IT department, working on a project called “Studio Central 3.0,” with responsibility for Beta testing functions. Added user names and deleted assets from the database of the current version “Studio Central 2.2.”

University:	Regis University
Time period:	2005 - 2008
Degree:	Accounting and Finance, MBA

University:	State University of New York System - College of Technology at Farmingdale
Time period:	1999 - 2004
Degree:	Computer Information Sysytems, BSc