TheCriners LLCOhio

About Chris

The person behind the systems.

Chris Criner has spent 25+ years making operations and technology keep running — contact centers, CRM platforms, messy migrations, and now the controls around autonomous agents. He owns TheCriners LLC in Ohio, and still writes the software.

Also making · version 3.7.1

Keep Three 3.7.1

An original match-3. Drag a stone onto its neighbor. Meet the Warden. Climb the keep. Free Android APK — not on Google Play yet. This build has ads off.

Sideload. Android will ask to allow this source. Original files — not a clone of another match-3. About 80 MB. This is version 3.7.1.

Also making · version 0.5.0

Glowthief 0.5.0

Kill the lamps before the moth lands. Free Android APK — ads off.

Selected numbers

From employment history. These are not claims about current product revenue.

80 → 1,000+Workforce scale at ITM Marketing
$4.8MContract-negotiation revenue at ITM
$200k / $100kExpense reductions, Enactus and ITM IT
30 daysOn-site to fully remote transition at ITM

The professional story

Chris started in a 500-seat call center at MCI, writing the reports operations actually used — Excel, Access, Crystal Reports — and fixing the computers when they failed. That is still the temperament: if the floor cannot run, the architecture does not matter.

At Enactus (formerly SIFE) he migrated data off Blackbaud onto Salesforce, cut about $200,000 in expense, and supported an intranet used in 38 countries. At ITM Marketing he went from Director of IT to Director of Operations and Business Development. He hired and scheduled on-site and remote workforces, moved the company fully remote in 30 days, and negotiated the contract that grew the operation from 80 people to more than 1,000. The $4.8 million figure on his résumé is career contract revenue from that work, not a TheCriners product claim.

At Therapy Brands he was Senior Manager of Systems and Processes: Zendesk SME, Salesforce administrator, EDI/ERA enrollment, Revenue Cycle Management, ACD ownership, and a Zendesk-to-Salesforce migration. He built a sentiment-analysis path on OpenAI’s davinci-003 for customer feedback. The organization was about 300 people, under HIPAA PHI/PII rules. PCI compliance is listed from the ITM years.

Since 2024 he has operated independently — including substantial international travel — and has been building TheCriners LLC in public: Company OS, the Money Hunter storefront, Packet Press, and the later productized reports. The current engineering is demonstrated work. It is not rewritten as employment he did not have.

Career, in order

March 2024 – Present

Independent consultant / TheCriners LLC

Owner. Company OS, public products, consulting, and senior-employment conversations. Not a claim of product-market fit.

Therapy Brands · January 2022 – March 2024

Sr. Manager of Systems and Processes

Zendesk, Salesforce, RCM, EDI/ERA, ACD, HIPAA. Migration work that had to survive a real billing floor.

ITM Marketing · October 2014 – May 2021

Director of Operations & Business Development

Contact-center operations, workforce scale 80 → 1,000+, $4.8M contract revenue, $100k IT expense reduction, Salesforce implementation, 30-day remote shift. Earlier: Director of IT / Interim Director of Operations.

Enactus (formerly SIFE) · October 2006 – July 2014

Business & Data Systems Analyst / Software Developer

Salesforce from Blackbaud, $200k expense reduction, intranet across 38 countries.

MCI · May 1999 – June 2006

Statistics / Reporting Analyst

Reporting for a 500-seat center; in-center databases and websites; hands-on networking.

Technology and systems

What this laboratory actually runs, plus platforms from employment. Coursework is labeled as coursework. Exams not taken are not claimed as certifications. OpenAI cloud inference is off here.

AI models

Working model is Grok 4.6 through the Grok Build CLI — agents, code, research, and the public-site work. Cheap classification and format jobs can stay on the host with Ollama: Qwen3 30B / 14B / 8B and Qwen2.5-Coder 7B. Named workers get a grant, not a shared keyring. Sentiment analysis on OpenAI davinci-003 is career history at Therapy Brands, not the current stack.

Languages and programming tools

How the companies run

Career platforms

What I can help with

Written commercially, limited to work Chris has actually done or is demonstrably doing.

AI / automation architecture

Designing agents that are allowed to act, with grants and receipts instead of hope.

Operational automation

Taking a real floor — billing, tickets, workforce — and removing the steps that only exist because nobody rewrote them.

Customer-support systems

Zendesk, Salesforce Service, VICI Dial, 3CX, other Linux ACD, and the unglamorous routing that decides who talks to a customer.

CRM / contact-center transformation

Migrations that have to keep taking calls. Not a greenfield demo.

Data and reporting automation

The reports operations will actually open. SQL, warehouses, and the glue around them.

Autonomous-agent governance

Isolation, ALLOW/HOLD/DENY, public/private boundaries, and saying no to WAN-published dashboards.

Fractional technology / operations leadership

Interim director energy: hire, schedule, negotiate, migrate, and stay until the system is boring again.

Troubleshooting and modernization

When something is down, wrong, or held together with a spreadsheet. Rapid technical problem solving is the through-line from MCI forward.

Work together

Consulting, employment and leadership conversations, partnerships, and technical questions after you have looked at the public systems. Email is the reliable path.

No fake testimonials. No invented current revenue. GitHub: TheCriners.