Christopher Ford

Christopher Ford has a diverse work experience, starting their career as an Instructor in the United States Navy from February 2003 to February 2013. Christopher then pursued higher education at Columbia College, MO, where they maintained a 3.5 grade point average as a Student from October 2013 to January 2015. Additionally, Christopher worked as a Contract Web Developer for a brief period in February 2015. Christopher then joined vCreative in April 2015 as a Web Developer, gaining expertise in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS while also learning Symfony, Doctrine, jQuery, and Bootstrap. In March 2019, they became a Project Lead at vCreative, and in January 2021, they advanced to the position of Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead. Christopher's experience demonstrates their growth and proficiency in software engineering and project management.

Christopher Ford earned an Associate's Degree in General Studies from Columbia College, where they attended from 2013 to 2017. In addition to their formal education, they have obtained several certifications, including "Prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Exam," "Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers: 1 Cloud Concepts," "Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers: 2 Security," "Node.js Essential Training (2019)," "Programming Foundations: Web Security," "Ethical Hacking: Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications," "Learning Amazon Web Services Lambda," "DevOps with AWS," "Kubernetes: Your First Project," "Cybersecurity Foundations," "Overcoming Overwhelm," "Inclusive Leadership," "Prioritizing Effectively as a Leader," "Angular: Progressive Web Apps," "Angular: Securing Apps," "Learning RxJS," "New Manager Foundations," "Performance Management: Setting Goals and Managing Performance," "OWASP Top 10: #5 Broken Access Control and #6 Security Misconfiguration," and "OWASP Top 10: #7 XSS and #8 Insecure Deserialization." These certifications were obtained from LinkedIn, with the most recent certification acquired in July 2022.