Christopher Smith
Managing Director at State Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Smith is a Managing Director and seasoned senior leader with 15+ years guiding finance, operations, and product strategy across private markets and institutional businesses. He builds centralized product control and PMO functions that deliver full P&L ownership, cost transparency, and scalable operational excellence, having driven multi-million dollar savings and improved resource utilization across complex global environments. A trusted advisor to C-suite and boards, he blends strategic finance, risk management, and cross-functional leadership to support mergers, market entry, and digital transformation initiatives. Christopher also advises clients as a consultant, delivering tangible results like $1.5M in annual cost reductions and 25% liability improvements through debt restructuring. Notably, he pairs this enterprise leadership with hands-on technical curiosity—contributing backend work to the Haskell-based CodeWorld project around graphics primitives—illustrating comfort with both financial systems and engineering-minded problem solving. Based in Colorado Springs, he excels at turning complex organizational challenges into measurable, long-term growth.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Major: Business Administration, Concentration: Finance and Management, B.S., Major: Business Administration, Concentration: Finance and Management at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Github Skills (5)
graphics-programming10
haskell10
api-design9
math9
mathematics9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
google/codeworld
May 2014 - Oct 2022
Educational computer programming environment using Haskell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 1737 commits, 284 PRs in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily involve modifications to the CodeWorld API, focusing on the underlying mathematical and geometrical primitives used in the creation of pictures. They have worked on the deprecation and replacement of existing functions and constructors, while also implementing several functions related to graphics and text display. Additionally, the user is working on the integration of code that allows for parametric drawings.
ghcjsfunctional-programmingprogramming-environmenthaskellfiddle
cdsmith/HMock
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Mock framework for testing in Haskell
Contributions:1 review, 357 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
testingmockhaskell
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