Chris Stratton

Chris Stratton has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Chris started their career as an IT Contractor at the City of Fairfield in 2009. Chris then worked as a Helpdesk Support Intern at Intelligrated in 2011 and as an IT Co-op/Intern at Madison County Schools from 2011 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014, they participated in the Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP) at Fifth Third Bank. After that, they worked as a Sr. Database Administrator - DB2 z/OS at Fifth Third Bank from 2014 to 2015. Following that, they joined 84.51° as a Senior Data Developer from 2015 to 2016 and later as a Lead Data Developer from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, they briefly worked as an Analytical Lead at the Harvest Group before returning to 84.51°. At 84.51°, they held various positions including Technical Team Lead and currently serves as the Director of Software Engineering.

Chris Stratton attended Eastern Kentucky University from 2008 to 2012, where they obtained a B.B.A in Computer Information Systems - Network Management. In 2014 and 2015, they attended Marist College and studied z/OS DB2 Application Programming. Prior to their university education, Chris graduated from Mason High School in 2008. Chris also holds additional certifications in Developer Training for Spark & Hadoop from Cloudera (obtained year not specified) and ITIL Foundation Certificate v3 from EXIN (obtained in 2013).