About

Photo of Chris Shull on the Great Wall of China

Chris Shull, President and Founder
on the Great Wall of China outside Beijing, July 2005

He is a business-saavy Information Technology leader with P&L experience and an outstanding record of partnering with business leaders to solve important problems using Information Technology.

Selected accomplishments:
  • Partnered with Sales Executives to address prospect CIO issues, reducing lost sales due to IT obstacles by 90% and increasing sales by $13.5M in one year.
  • Prepare and present technology portions of red herring documents for successful IPO.
  • Reengineered data management processes to scale from 3 to 120 hospital customers.
  • Redesigned technical architecture for high availability and 9 times the performance at one fourth the cost per customer. Implemented system and application monitoring for Internet delivered information products, raising up-time from 96.5% to 99.3%.
  • Turned around loss-earning service to earn 30% margins, achieving 700% revenue growth.
  • Improved key business systems and procedures to increase security and privacy protections and ensure PCI and HIPAA compliance.

Education and Affiliations

Wharton School, Master of Arts in Operations and Information Management, 1995
University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics, 1983

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Greater Philadelphia Senior Executives Group (GPSEG), Penn Alumni Club of Philadelphia, Penn Grapplers Club, Technical Executives Networking Group (TENG), Wharton Alumni Club of Philadelphia.

Target Opportunities

  • Information Technology consulting leadership roles such as interim or part-time CIO, CTO, Director of IT, Vice President of IT or Project Manager.
  • Small to Mid-size company facing acknowledged mission-critical Information Technology development, implementation and operational challenges.
  • Industry focus flexible. Demonstrated ability to apply skills in varied companies, organizations and industries. Clients include a commercial auto insurance underwriters, a commercial publishing and prepress services firm, a business travel agency, healthcare restructuring consultants, healthcare IT consultants, a medical products company and a healthcare economics research institute.

Value Add

  • Rapid insights into information technology contributions to business objectives and bottom line.
  • Coaching staff to apply new skills and approaches to build capabilities and attain goals.
  • Create measurable improvements in software and systems performance and business value.