Christopher M. Bowles

Strategment

Drive exponential growth and operational excellence for private and family-owned businesses through strategic guidance and hands-on consulting. Transform business performance with executive sessions, coaching, and workshops that align operations and strategic planning. Expert in KPI development and monitoring, rapid business scaling, organizational optimization, and leadership enhancement. Deliver actionable solutions to critical challenges, resulting in significant revenue growth, increased profitability, improved operational efficiency, and sustainable success.

Consultant | Growth Advisor

Magna Fides Ventures

Partner

The Haro Group of Keller WIlliams Historic District

Chief Operating Officer | Advisor

Homes for Heroes®

Managed day-to-day business operations concentrating on developing the leadership team, setting the operational direction and tempo, crafting and executing strategic and operational plans, guiding effective decision making, effectively allocating resources for maximum return, and leading teams in achieving goals and fulfilling company’s mission.

Trajectory: Sales Rep → Sales Manager → General Manager → VP of Ops → President | COO

President | Chief Operating Officer

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Oversaw the human resources function for the firm’s Atlanta, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, and Redwood City offices. Consulted with firm management on employment law, organizational development, performance management, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and recruiting and staffing needs. Project team leader for introduction of firm-wide employee recognition program. Managed firm’s staff performance evaluation, market pricing, and merit increase processes.

Senior HR Leader

U.S. House of Representatives

Office of U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad: Represented Minnesota’s Third Congressional District.

Representative's ambassador at public meetings, events, and ceremonies.  Managed constituent correspondence, drafted staff letters, and responded to complaints and inquiries.  Researched and analyzed legislative issues.

Congressional Assistant

United States Marine Corps

2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein).  2/7 War Dogs.  "Ready For All, Yielding To None.  Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war." 

Sergeant of Marines.  Successfully planned, coordinated, and executed the battalion administrative functions for numerous deployments in support of combat operations.  Principal assistant to the Commanding Officer in all matters pertaining to legal personnel issues, internal organization, and operation of the legal section.  Supervised, trained, and developed a combat ready team of Marines.  Oversaw the accurate pay, benefits, personnel tracking, awards, and promotions for the battalion (1,000+ Marines and sailors).  Served as the Executive Officer’s Personal Security Detachment Team Leader during combat operations.  

Battalion Color Sergeant  
Rifle Range Top Shooter (11/2003) 
Corporal’s Leadership Course Honor Graduate (10/2003)

Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Battalion Legal Chief, and Personnel Administrator

Guiding $5M-$50M businesses to Multiple 8-Figure Growth | Generated $100M+ for clients | Growth Advisor | Ex: COO + President | US Marine

If your $5M-$35M business is facing:

- Slowing or stagnating growth
- Growth beyond infrastructure capacity
- A significant downturn requiring swift, strategic change

I've been there. And many businesses have encountered these obstacles and have not only reversed course, but leaped forward to multiple 8-figure growth.

And this transformation can happen without:

- Increasing your workload
- Incurring additional expenses
- Sacrificing more of your personal time

I've guided transformation from the ground up, enabling leaders like you to achieve dream outcomes. Here are some highlights:

- Boosting owner earnings by $12M+
- Elevating real estate, tech, and services firms to multiple 8-figure growth
- Uncovering $5M for a luxury resort through strategic marketing and process optimization
- Leading businesses in diverse sectors to dominate their markets, generating over $100M in sales
- Doubling a marketing agency's sales with a strategic pivot

My approach is simple: Identify growth barriers and deploy proven solutions for lasting, scalable success.

Here’s how I can help you:

1. Subscribe to the Multiple 8-Figure Growth newsletter at christophermbowles.com for weekly insights. Learn from case studies of businesses scaling their operations and revenues, with actionable strategies to fuel your growth.

2. Comprehensive Business Diagnostic: A deep dive to discover obstacles and hidden opportunities. Like an x-ray for your business, highlighting effective areas and uncovering potential earnings in sales, marketing, leadership, and finance. On average, we find over $1M in easily achievable earnings, with a clear roadmap to access these gains and more.

3. Business Operating System Install and Implementation: Custom solutions to make your operations smoother and support sustainable growth. We streamline your processes, set clear goals, and introduce tools and methods to boost productivity across your business.

4. Ongoing and Bespoke Coaching and Consulting: Tailored, continuous support to tackle the complexities of scaling. Includes strategy sessions, actionable advice, and accountability practices to keep you on track toward your ambitious goals. Whether it’s refining your model, exploring new markets, or building your leadership, our coaching evolves with your needs.

Ready for transformational growth? Choose one of the options above and let's get started. 

To your growth, success, and impact. 

Christopher M. Bowles (CMB)

Xtravar Group

Provide fractional technology strategy and leadership, align technology priorities with business strategic vision, mentor teams and drive outcomes.

Engagements:
- CTIO (insurance industry)
- Consultant (payment and fraud industry)
- Data Advisor (partner consulting group)

Founder and Chief Fractional

Liberty Rent

Fractional CTIO

Cupalo

Domain expert engaging in conversations with talented individuals on career and industry.

Member of The Cupalo Curatorium

Nelson Executive Coaching LLC

Member of the Board of Advisors

Optum

Senior Principal Architect

Strategic Education, Inc

Advisor to the CTO

VP IT Operations & Chief Information Security Officer

Bluestem Brands, Inc.

Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations

Sr. Director Infrastructure, Network, End User and Operations

Responsible for database, unix, windows, and hosting engineering teams as well as a fully redundant and industry leading operations center team. Core hosting technologies: storage (XIV, A9000 and NetApp), compute (Cisco, HP, Dell), AS400 (iSeries/IBMi), VMware and AWS. Core server and database technologies: Windows (2003 - 2016), Linux (redHat, Centos) and Database (Postgres, MSSQL and Oracle). 

Leader of Agile and DevOps methodologies, disciplines and tooling throughout the infrastructure engineering teams. Led several organizational transformations driving infrastructure teams towards a new level of partnership and proximity to application development engineering teams. Promoted a culture of mentorship and experimentation. Brought a software engineering mindset and concepts to an infrastructure team at the inflection point of Infrastructure As Code (IaC). 

Fostered a culture of automation throughout the infrastructure space resulting in a significant decrease in time to deliver infrastructure to application engineering teams and business users.

Manage vendor relationships, contract negotiations an overall budget. Accountable for regulatory compliance and multiple successful audits (SOC, SOX and PCI).

Sr. Director, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations

Responsible for server delivery and engineering support of Unix and Windows physical and virtual servers. Responsible for DevOps tooling such as logging, monitoring, dash-boarding and infrastructure automation. Leader of Agile into DevOps methodologies in an infrastructure context. 

Responsible for the 24x7x365 operational stability and monitoring for a $2B organization. Led the effort to build a state of the art Operations Center with application centric dashboards and a high attention to running the business. Continued the development of the team into higher level operations and functions enabling engineering teams to focus on engineering. Continued the development of an internal talent pool if highly skilled and motivated analysts resulting the promotion of several people into the engineering teams.

Maintained a budget for tooling, keeping inline with organization needs both from a technology and a financial perspective.

Led the effort to integrate two $1B companies at the infrastructure level resulting in a geographically redundant Operations Center and server teams responsible for the combined windows and linux servers. Operations Center and Server teams manage data center, warehouse, office site and cloud servers.

Director IT, DevOps & Operation Center

Lead architect on several projects including a customer opt-in protection program, an Oracle inventory and planning system and a distributed architecture price service. 

Defined and promoted patters of monitoring, logging, testing and system design. Promoted system engineering design principles of domain driven, bounded context, defensive programming and fault tolerance. Advocate of agile methodologies in software development. Led traditional .NET development into Java / NoSQL stack.

Technologies: ZooKeeper, Riak, Apache open source frameworks, Oracle, WebLogic, MSSQL, .NET (C#, ASPX, VB)

Principal Technical Architect

Best Buy

Built an enterprise application for automated data endpoint monitoring ensuring data integrity between enterprise and store systems.  Application included scheduled auditing, e-mail notification, multiple data endpoint capabilities (Oracle, SQL, File systems, etc.) and an ASP.NET application (Web API) for users to interact with the application in a safe and controlled manner.

Built an MVC 3.0 site for non-production environment data display helping to ensure non-technical users are able to understand the status of their environment at any given time.  System included a generic distributed component used to display device specific information.

Improved process definition for the requirements portion of Application Life-cycle Maintenance.

Manager, IT Technical Lead

Target

Technical lead for Point-of-Sale portfolios comprised of centralized and distributed systems, multiple technologies and multiple application suites.  Lead and design projects, consulted with business clients, led contractors and coordinated software release cycles.  

Technical lead for two guest facing programs resulting in increased sales traffic and larger guest basket sizes.
•	Technical Lead for multiple high-impact projects for Point-of-Sale systems.
•	Developed a foundation poised for multiple year and platform growth.
•	Technical Expert for multiple systems spanning several business platforms.
•	Led multiple development teams spanning multiple global locations.
•	Interacted with multiple internal and external business clients to provide technical guidance.
•	Key contact for production support and issue resolution.

Engineer, Guest Facing Systems (Point-of-Sale)
Designed and implemented several promotional offer projects offering increased shopping incentives to guests.  Developed integrated software solutions between Point-of-Sale and back office systems to drive employee efficiency and optimize workflows.
•	Participated in multiple efforts to drive documentation, knowledge sharing and process development.
•	Coded solutions to integrate with web services, both internal and external.

Senior Engineer, Domain Center of Excellence

Medtronic

Designed hardware and software test systems to perform automated testing of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators.  Designed and coded communication libraries to interface between implantable devices and external diagnostic equipment.  
•	Extended automated test architecture to enable 24/7 testing availability.
•	Built test fixtures to enable component level testing.
•	Led efforts to develop best practices in automated test development.
•	Created report generation tools for consistent device testing results

Senior Design Technician
Designed and coded automated tests in LabVIEW software for use in automated test architecture for device testing.  Troubleshoot and fix device test fixtures.  
•	Troubleshoot test setup issues.
•	Device failure analysis and troubleshooting.

Test Engineer, Device Hardware Test (DvT)

Eric is a Fractional Technology Leader, with over two decades of experience across the spectrum of Information Technology roles and across several industries.

Eric helps small to midsize organizations align their technology strategy to business outcomes, driving efficiency and enabling growth.

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