Summary
Chris Marks is an Agile Lead with over 13 years of professional experience and more than two decades in product design and development, currently steering delivery at Kimball Midwest from Dublin, Ohio. He blends hands-on development (JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, git) with pragmatic Scrum and Agile coaching, having helped found an internal Agile Center of Excellence and piloted adoption across teams. Chris is skilled at turning tool data (Jira, Jenkins) into actionable dashboards and automations—he’s built pipelines that auto-create sprints, generate release notes from git, and surface missing acceptance criteria via Slack—to keep projects predictable and teams shipping. Comfortable with difficult conversations, he routinely escalates resourcing and requirements gaps to stakeholders and executives to protect delivery. An experienced trainer and content creator, he speeds ramp-up with multimedia onboarding resources that help new hires commit code earlier while preserving institutional knowledge.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Illustration and Animation, Bachelor of Arts, Illustration and Animation at Columbus College of Art & Design
Associate of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Associate of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Penn State University