Chris Young
IT Leader - Commercial Services at Dow
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolChris Young is an enterprise IT leader with 13 years of experience driving commercial platforms and digital strategy at Dow, specializing in Dynamics 365, pricing modernization, and customer-facing digital products. He leads and mentors cross-functional teams of ~25 developers and solution managers, creating technical career paths and coaching talent across the organization. Notable outcomes include decommissioning a legacy pricing platform that delivered a $60M multi-year value case and $2M in annual savings, and de-customizing CRM to better leverage out-of-the-box and AI capabilities. Chris blends hands-on architecture and delivery experience—from large-scale CRM and portal migrations to performance tuning for 200k-user applications—with a pragmatic focus on reducing risk and operational cost. Based in Michigan, he pairs deep enterprise domain knowledge in commercial services and healthcare with a knack for translating complex business problems into simplified, scalable technical solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Saginaw Valley State UniversityPre-Engineering, 3.78 / 4.00, Pre-Engineering, 3.78 / 4.00 at Delta College
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Github Skills (7)
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Github contributions (5)
cjyoung/MouseBitesWPF
Nov 2012 - Dec 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 7 pushes, 5 comments in 4 years 1 month
cjyoung/keep-dns-in-sync-with-ip
May 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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