Chris V.

Recovering accountant turned Solutions Architect

My experience can be considered a jack of all trades and a master of none. From managing a grocery store in high school to selling cars, jewelry and pharmaceuticals (I was a pharmacy tech, haha). Eventually I decided to grow up and become an accountant; that didn't stick, so I went back into selling safety supplies before moving into tech 4 years ago. Prior to Procore acquiring the company I worked for, Levelset, I was an account manager and idea tester (think product team needing a footman to manage beta ideas). Now, for the past two years, I've been at Procore helping our customers take ideas for efficiency and turning them into solutions via the Procore API.

I make Procore talk to other software systems.

Using Procore's open API, I help customers turn ideas into working integrations. This is usually moving data in or out of Procore to ensure that the source of truth...remains truthful. Have you ever been working in two software systems and wondered why the data from one doesn't make it to the other? Our customers have those questions too, so we make it possible by drilling down into the business process that can make that happen. Our customers have great ideas on how they want to make their tech stack work for them; my team gets that work done through integration development or integration consulting.

Fighting problems with solutions.

You know that feeling when you finally were able to solve y=mx +b for the first time? Yeah, no, definitely we all remember math problems from early in life. LOL But that's what I live for: working hard to finally figure out that answer and solution to a problem. It's true in math and at Procore that there is more than one way to solve a problem, and finding a way that my customer and I both feel will help out that end user is what motivates me.

Don't be afraid to stand out.

Speak up and speak often. Being a fully dispersed workforce at Procore means we don't know each other's strengths and weaknesses, and the only way to know is by being vocal about what you can do. If you see a question in Slack and you know half the answer, reply to that thread. That may get the person pointed in the right direction faster. At Procore, we want to know you!

I created an integration that is being used by 10+ customers

Keep it simple silly. I had the opportunity to find a way to make using our Workforce Planning platform more useful for more customers. The solution is a simple integration, using a scheduled CSV upload. It's not the most complex thing out there, but sometimes the solution isn't complicated logic and tons of work; it is the solution that provides a quality, dependable outcome.