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Hi, I am Ganiman

Chris Manigan

IT Director

I am a passionate IT engineer with over 20 years of working experience. I built a community of over 500,000 gaming fans. My tools help billion dollar companies safely deploy infrastucture onto almost any platform. Sometimes, I work on some fun projects such as hosting game servers and scaling them.

Leadership
Team Work
Hard Working
Awesome

Skills

Experiences

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The Hanover Insurance Group

May 2025 - Present

Worcestor, MA

Insurance

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

May 2025 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Implementing and mentoring DevOps practices
  • Using Infrastructure as Code to streamline deployment processes
  • Building cross team functional relationships

Penny Arcade Expo

May 2025 - Present

Boston, MA / Phildelphia, PA

Gaming Culture Festival

[E]nforcer

May 2025 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Keeping the Main Theatre awesome
  • Line queues and loading attendees into theatre seating thousands
  • General front of house responsibilities
  • Supporting panelists with extra tasks and requests
  • Taping floors, doors, or other things that need taping
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OpenNMS

August 2016 - Sep 2024

Apex, NC

Open source network monitoring software

IT Director

August 2016 - Sep 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for organization’s infrastructure
  • Lead operations team
  • Planned migration of legacy on-prem systems into cloud
  • Managed integration team after aquistion
  • Organized the last Dev Jam ever

WB Games

May 2015 - August 2016

Waltham, MA

Video game publisher and developer

Lead Online Operations Engineer

May 2015 - August 2016

Responsibilities:
  • Lead Online Operations team of 4 SREs for MMOs: Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Asheron’s Call
  • Inherited and maintained online leaderboards for Mortal Kombat and Injustice
  • Partnered with external design firms to build and deploy web sites for Batman Arkham titles
  • Maintained online services for other titles including Legends of Chima and Scribblenauts
  • Developed enhancements and upgrades for the Turbine account system
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RxInsider

Sep 2014 - May 2015

Warwick, RI

Pharmacy related SaaS products

DevOps Engineer

Sep 2014 - May 2015

Responsibilities:
  • Introduced organization to version control with git
  • Designed new infrastructure for Dev, QA and Production environments
  • Planned and lead development of new SaaS products

Towerstream

Nov 2007 - Sep 2014

Middletown, RI

Wireless Internet Server Provider

Lead Systems Engineer

Nov 2007 - Sep 2014

Responsibilities:
  • Supervised a team of 5 systems and software engineers
  • Created IP management system
  • Designed multi-market customer DNS platform and created custom internal front-end management interface
  • Planned and implemented backend services for Wi-Fi network spanning all of Manhatten
  • Spearheaded implementation of Radius integration with between Tier 1 ISPs
  • Wrote applications to manage, monitor and service customer premise equipment
  • Performed R&D and POC to load test network infrastructure
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Telatexo

Jan 2006 - November 2012

Pawtucket, RI

Building gaming communities

Founder

Jan 2006 - November 2012

Responsibilities:
  • Managed relationships with video game publishers
  • Partnered with game producers on community events
  • Provided reporting on community
  • Managed site operations
  • Supervised hundreds of content editors
  • Provided news and interviews at E3 and PAX
  • Developed custom extensions and integrations for MediaWiki and phpBB
  • Lead aquisition of FFXIclopedia into Fandom