Since March of 2007, Kris has been a contributing innovator at HarQen, a voice asset management platform provider located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He loves his work, his team, and their vision.
His present large-scale professional portfolio consists of HarQen projects VoiceScreener and the HarQen platform, where he has been the lead designer and front-end developer. He was the lead developer and designer for ComicWonder, which was an initial proof-of-concept prototype for the HarQen platform back in 2007. A few more large-scale Web applications are being developed for 2010.
In general, his lead roles are as a user-centric designer, project manager and client-side coder for HarQen, but his normal work week includes supporting many parts of the team. He works tightly with marketing strategy and implementation, sales and client services, Java and PHP, SQL and Postgres databases, advertising and design, business strategy and vision planning.
In his roles he focuses first and foremost on usability. His level of empathy towards those using his products drives him to never quit until the full scope of his work is complete. At a tertiary level he focuses on the real-world implication of everything he touches. Revenue models, market fit, culture influence and technical achievement are some of the standards he measures his work and thoughts.
Before 2007, Kris was active with several small start-ups and many large projects within his academic career, all of which were great primer for the life he leads now. Highlighted projects and responsibilities include lead UI designer and front-end developer at a former marketing start-up firm in Milwaukee (2006), user interface design consultant to Carroll University (2005) and the student representative on the Presidential Search Committee at Carroll University (2005-06).