Biographies
Christopher Morley - the founder of Depahelix.com, Recruiters and Hiring Managers please note that this is a micro website and not a commercial enterprise. I do independent contracting and Depahelix.com produces software. There is no d/b/a, LLC, Inc. or anything like that. It's just me. I still need work!!
Primarily a "coder", Chris uses Microsoft and Adobe products as well as free and open source tools to build database applications for the web and Windows. Chris likes to make sure that people and computers can talk and stay connected in ways that benefit businesses and individuals. Chris' favorite language is C# and his favorite database is SQL Server 2008. Chris also enjoys using Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator when design work is needed. Chris likes to design and code the database, design and make the front end, and he thrives in logic, middleware, Windows services and web services - the invisible glue. The spaces-in-between that most people take for granted are what keep everything in order and running efficiently! Chris is great at designing and implementing those intricate little castles which act like gems of power that light your business up. He is interested in creating rich internet applications with Silverlight, and .NET 3.5 applications with WCF and WPF in conjunction with SQL Server 2008 and its Advanced Services (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS). Chris would like an opportunity to join a crew of developers working on such projects. Particularly interesting would be XRM (CRM++) type applications and sales and marketing automation.
Christopher Morley is a big thinker of varied interests and enjoys reading articles on the Internet, meeting new people, discovering new ideas, and generally finding out about what is going on!
Chris has been a computer programmer since the 4th grade when he learned LOGO. Using Apple computers until the 8th grade, he switched to a 386-33 DOS machine with 4 MB of RAM and a 120 MB hard drive and learned Quick Basic and started to connect to BBSes. In high school, at the prestigious Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale Florida, Chris excelled in most of his subjects, especially Computer Science (with Pascal and C++), and Studio Art and graduated from high school with honors in 1996. Chris has been an avid Internet user all along and is aware of the existence, origins and history of many things.
During the summers in high school, Chris was a sailing instructor at the Megansett Yacht Club. Read more about Megansett.
Chris was awarded a Master of Management at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2005, after having attended Brown University in Providence Rhode Island and Queen Mary and Westfield in London for undergraduate studies in primarily Computer Science. During college, Chris used Java and Oracle, among other technologies.
During the course of his decade-long career, Chris has had opportunities to work at The Foxboro Company, Lincass, ABC Software, Brown University, Software.com Inc., Openwave Systems Inc., inCode Wireless, Cingular Wireless, Avantel Mexico, Charter Communications, JobsInTheUS.com, Direct Capital Corporation, Alexander Technology Group and Vault Solutions.
Notably at Openwave, Chris maintained the Java HTTP carrier side server for web and phone accessible email served by ISPs.
At JobsInTheUS, Chris acted as a database administrator and a CRM system developer.
At Direct Capital Corporation, Chris had the opportunity to be a manager for the first time, to build and to augment many software systems including CRM systems and call center systems, and to lead a group doing internal software development.
He currently lives in southern New Hampshire close to the NH seacoast (the nation's shortest stretch of state seacoast), close to the Massachusetts line, close to Hampton, the 3rd oldest city in the U.S. and a place where Benjamin Franklin worked as Postmaster. Chris is successfully writing software at home, working at home on the occasional contract, and honing his skills in exciting newer technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight. He is also actively seeking contract work (- to hire) in the Greater Boston area (preferably north of Boston) and Seacoast New Hampshire and works with Alexander Technology Group on specific short term assignments. Chris is open to 25% travel and is happy to telecommute. Read more about Newmarket, NH.
His interests include current affairs, math and science, religions, sailing, skiing, movies (his favorite movies growing up were E.T., Back to the Future and the Goonies), Red Sox baseball and listening to techno on Pandora Radio (DJ Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, the Thrillseekers, among others with his favorite track currently being possibly Saltwater by Chicane). He enjoys listening to NPR, and prefers CNN over Fox News.
Chris met his girlfriend in September 2008 in Newmarket and has been happy ever since. Julie is currently working on an Associates in Computer Technology with a Graphic Design and Animation certification.
Chris enjoys getting to spend time every other weekend with his children, who live in Rhode Island.
Chris spends time in the Boston area a lot and during the summertime goes down to Cape Cod and gets to go sailing.
During the winter, Chris often gets up to Sugarloaf in Maine to go skiing.
Chris and his girlfriend and their Jack Russell Terrier, Bandita, live in beautiful downtown Newmarket, New Hampshire and enjoy going to the Riverworks Tavern for dinner.
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