Chris Loosley
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Internet |
| Occupation | Principal and CTO, UpRight Marketing |
| Location | San Mateo, California, United States |
| Introduction | I have 30+ years' experience in the field of software performance. From 1999 until 2006, I was a Consulting Director then General Manager of the Professional Services business unit at Keynote, working on all aspects of Web site performance management. Before that I was a consultant and a founding partner of Database Associates, and a principal consultant at BACHMAN. During 16 years with IBM, I was a Sales Engineer in London specializing in IMS performance, then a developer of the DB2 database system in San Jose, where I worked on software performance modeling, measurement, and tuning. |
| Interests | Software performance engineering, Web site performance management, Architecture and Design, Technical Research and Writing, Music, Wine, Baseball, Chess, Crosswords, Numbers, Language and Etymology, Politics, Track, Wales |
| Favorite movies | Lord of the Rings, Jackie Brown, Chariots of Fire, JFK, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Easy Rider, As Good as It Gets, The French Connection, Noises Off..., O Brother Where Art Thou?, Quick Change, Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Broken Flowers, Field of Dreams, The Gods Must be Crazy, Oh! What a Lovely War, 'Z', Winged Migration |
| Favorite music | Electric Blues, Classic rock, Pink Floyd, Santana, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Fairport Convention, Wishbone Ash, Buffalo Creek, Del Amitri, The Who, Peter Green, Savoy Brown, Mark-Almond, Andreas Vollenweider, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, Dire Straits |
| Favorite books | Tolkien, Kurt Wallander novels by Henning Mankell, Catch-22, Surpassing Wonder by Akenson, Dictionaries |