1. Christopher Filkins

  2. Christopher Filkins w/ Dog
  3. My name is Christopher Filkins. I am a computer professional. During the last 15 years I have developed & managed an online e-commerce vehicle at Condomania (http://secure.condomania.com/). Launched in 1995 the site is a thriving business with sales of well over six figures (US) annum. During this period I have amassed a great depth of knowledge in web development & marketing and sharp skills in the production of ecommerce & transactional websites. I am detail oriented, organized and have a collaborative orientation to web development I have managed numerous projects with a wide variety of vendors and industry leaders while leading a small team to deliver the best consumer experience in ecommerce. In addition, as an accomplished merchant and web developer, I have been a key player in the production of numerous other profitable websites spanning a wide selection of industry. I am looking for new challenges.
  4. Chronotope Design
  5. The Russian philologist and literary philosopher M.M. Bakhtin used the term chronotope to designate the spatio-temporal matrix which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. The term itself can be literally translated as "time-space".
  6. During the last 15 years I have managed to keep my firm at the top of search results for the keyword "condoms" through a constant attention to the full panoply of SEO white hat techniques. I find black hat methods to be reprehensible as they degrade the quality of searches across the entire net. Emplying many different methods I engage the entire organization to develop dictionaries, tagging methods, and styles which both support any firms SEO needs while allowing the institution to maintain its own internal standards for content production.
  7. As a devotee of shopping analyst Paco Underhill I find inspiration in the work of Edward Tufte, Jesse James Garrett, Dan Brown, Jokab Neilsen in taking the real world experience of shopping at a store and transforming it to fit nicely into the online environment. I believe in data based decision making and as a retailer and information architect I try to steer the client towards industry standard, open sourced, data intensive decision processes which will ultimately increase conversions and the aquisition of qualified leads through a well designed and efficient web retail ecosystem.