About

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Christopher Patterson

Chris is the founder of Celerify, a Philadelphia Web Design agency focusing on web development and web marketing. He is also a Senior Architect at the American College of Physicians.

Chris loves working with a wide assortment of development technologies including Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, PHP, Drupal and WordPress among other.

As a youngster Chris had a strong passion for computers and technology. He turned that passion towards programming in his teen years when he started developing software applications at the age of 15. After graduating from LaSalle University with a degree in Computer Science, Chris started his career in FMC Technologies’ automated material handling division. There, he developed software for robot material handling systems, complete with a web-based interface for user interaction.

Chris then spent time working with Electronic Medical Record software at STI Computer Services; he developed a communications hub for electronic prescriptions still used today. Chris continued his career at Yellowbook, where he assumed the role of Software Architect for yellowbook.com as well as e-commerce products.