Biographies
Christopher Morley - founder of Depahelix.com. Chris Morley acts as an independent consultant for Four Roads, a Telligent partner, and Depahelix.com produces software as a service.
Primarily a "hardcore computer programmer", 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 and this is where Chris excels. 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). Particularly interesting to Chris are applications in the XRM (CRM++) space, community creation, and sales and marketing automation.
Christopher Morley is a big thinker, with varied interests and enjoys reading articles on the Internet, meeting new people, discovering new ideas!
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 earned 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, Vault Solutions and Four Roads.
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.
With Four Roads, Chris is engaged every day, customizing to the hilt, top tier installations of Telligent Community, the choice of Dell, Microsoft, Readers Digest, Conde Nast and MySpace.
Chris 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. Read more about Newmarket, NH.
His interests include current affairs, math and science, religion and spirituality, 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 PBS, NPR and Charlie Rose.
Chris enjoys getting to spend time every other weekend with his 2 children, Xander and Phoebe, 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.
Chris highly recommends The Riverworks Tavern. Great food, great company.