Chris Samp

About Chris Samp

Experienced technical sales professional delivering complex cloud-native developer and operations platforms to senior technical leadership and executives at Fortune 100 companies in manufacturing, retail and finance. Build candidate architectures and define motion from current state to future state. Articulate value from technical, financial and organizational perspectives. Credibility provided by deep background as practitioner, development manager, architect, consultant and start-up CTO experience; Chicago Booth MBA; and roster of named customers such as Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Walmart, Fidelity, Allstate, AutoZone, Boeing and GE Healthcare.

Experience

1. Principal Solution Architect

   Broadcom

   Nov 2023 — Present · Ann Arbor, MI, US

   Tanzu division of VMware by Broadcom. Lead customers through significant changes to licensing and pricing by showing platform value. Increase coverage responsibility into Retail and Financial. Grow existing accounts through expansion and new product use cases. Sell and support cloud-native developer platforms based on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Help customers accelerate development and manage risk.Executed PoC of new Kubernetes management platform on customer’s site; escalated to and coordinated with Product and R&D leadership and engineers to recover from roadblocks; won adoption of core Kubernetes platform within Walmart department.Recovered non-renewing customer by working with customer engineers to ensure smooth upgrades, resolve issues. Advised champions on competitive products like Google’s GKE and Cloud Run.Delivered on-site workshops on practices like Platform as a Service, DevOps, SRE, DORA, Golden Path, CI/CD, Blue/Green deployment, Infrastructure as Code, traceability, scalability and resilience.

Education

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  MBA

  2008 — 2008

• Michigan Technological University

  BS, Scientific and Technical Communication

  1991 — 1997

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

  Entrepreneurship

  2011

• Michigan Technological University

  AS, Electromechanical Engineering

  1991 — 1997

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  MBA, Economics, International Business, Finance

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Software Development
• Java
• Budget
• Analytics
• Data Analysis
• Statistics
• Project Management
• Oracle
• Sql
• Management
• Integration
• Sdlc
• Enterprise Software
• Sharepoint
• Agile Methodologies
• Budgets
• Linux
• Product Management
• Cloud Computing
• Strategy
• Mobile Applications
• Start-Ups
• Requirements Analysis
• Consulting
• Program Management
• Leadership
• Testing
• Saas
• Business Development
• Salesforce.com
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Xml
• Software Project Management