Chris Clevenger

🗣 LinkedIn Top Voice: Leadership • Team Building • Leadership Development • Team Leadership • Lean Manufacturing • Continuous Improvement • Change Management • Employee Engagement • Operations Management

Over 20 years of Business Operations Management experience, with full P&L accountability, in Manufacturing, Distribution, Service, Rental & Sales, incorporating Lean Manufacturing Techniques, Six Sigma / Continuous Improvement Methodology and Team Concept, with focus & emphasis on Safety & Quality. Financial responsibility for producing annual revenues up to $60M and leadership of 150+ Employees including Individual Department, Single Location & Multi-Locations.

Extensive background in Supply Chain Management, including managing all US locations Materials Management program (Inventory Control, Purchasing, Production Control). Accountable for $30M of on-hand Inventory Value and Product Supply to the US Operations, supporting $250M in annual revenues. Member of the Strategic Procurement Group and Inventory Review Board managing Global Inventories of over $500M.

Specialize in Leaning-Out and Growing operations. Identifying & removing waste in operations, while managing change and acquiring team member buy-in so everyone takes ownership in the company’s success. Strong background in employee, customer and vendor relations, improving operational efficiencies, team building, and developing & leading process improvement initiatives, while utilizing a hands-on approach.

Steel manufacturing (Machining, Fabrication and Forming) Including managing welding operations in accordance with AWS D1.1. overseeing more than 60 welders carrying certifications from 3G through 6GR in various metal material grades from mild alloy A36 to high yield A514. Also including machining (CNC & Manual), forming (Shear, Brake, Press, etc) and assembly operations planning & scheduling, maximizing labor & resource utilization.

Professional Training & Certifications:
Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt Certification)
5S / 8 Wastes
(CI) Continuous Improvement Manager
Lean Manufacturing & Value Stream Mapping
(TPM) Total Productive Maintenance
Project Management - Lean Process
(TQM) Total Quality Management
Change Management
Diversity Management
Corporate Ethics Management
Lean Supply Chain Management
Strategic Customer Service Skills
Corporate Risk Management
OSHA 10 Hour & 30 Hour Safety

Experience implementing and managing Quality Management Systems in a Manufacturing & Service environment, including:
•	QMS / Certifications: ISO 9001 | API Q1 | API 4F | API 8C
•	Recommended Practices (Inspection, Maintenance, Repair & Remanufacture): API 6D | API 8B | AESC Cat 1-4

Thank you,
Chris Clevenger
432.254.4346
Chris.Allen.Clevenger@Gmail.com

Recruiting / Talent Acquisition (Founder)

Founder & Lead Recruiter at #OpenToWork Careers

With a solid foundation in Operational Business Management spanning over two decades, including:

   - Leadership
   - Leadership Development
   - Team Building
   - Lean Manufacturing
   - Continuous Improvement

I transitioned into Contract Recruiting and Talent Acquisition, applying my extensive experience in recruiting, interviewing and hiring for a diverse range of roles, from general labor to mid-senior level management. My journey led to the establishment of #OpenToWork Careers, a recruiting agency where my passion for connecting talent with opportunity thrives.

At #OpenToWork Careers, I specialize in understanding both the client's needs and the candidate's aspirations, ensuring a perfect alignment of goals and skills. My hands-on experience in operational management has endowed me with a unique perspective, allowing me to recognize the intricate requirements of various positions across multiple industries.

Key Achievements:
- Successfully placed candidates in specialized roles such as NDT Level 2, Mechanical Engineers, Manual Machinists, EHS Managers, Drafters/Designers, Project Engineers, and more, across states including Texas, California, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- Navigated complex hiring landscapes to fill positions ranging from technical roles like Engineering Technicians to strategic positions such as Branch Managers and Directors of HR.
- Built a robust network of professionals and companies, facilitating seamless placements and fulfilling numerous operational and managerial roles, including Operations Managers and Accountants.

My approach is rooted in a deep understanding of the nuances of various industries and the ever-evolving job market. At #OpenToWork Careers, we don't just fill positions; we foster long-term professional relationships and contribute to the success of both individuals and organizations.

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Web3, blockchain, DeFi, casino, sports betting software development services

I work with startup founders who need a dedicated software development team but don’t want to gamble on hiring, random outsourcing, or opaque delivery.
Most founders face the same problem sooner or later.
Early technical and team decisions lock the product into tech debt, slow delivery, missed milestones and constant re-hiring. By the time this becomes visible, fixing it is already expensive.

As a CTO and software architect, I help founders design, build and run dedicated development teams that work as a true extension of the startup. Not as a black-box vendor.

My focus is on complex products where mistakes are costly:
* Web3 and blockchain platforms
* FinTech and regulated products
* High-load startup systems
* MVP → scale transitions

We don’t do body-shopping.
We don’t sell generic outsourcing.

Instead, we help founders:
* build the right team structure from day one
* keep technical ownership and transparency
* scale delivery without losing control
* avoid vendor lock-in and hidden risks

Teams are aligned with the product roadmap, business goals and long-term architecture. Not just short-term velocity.

If you are a startup founder building an MVP or scaling an existing product and want a dedicated team that behaves like an internal one, feel free to DM me the word "TEAM".

Dmytro Nasyrov, PhD

13 years in Pharos Production - web3 software development as a Founder and CTO is a long way.
Over the past 13 years, we have built more than 48 production-ready products, taking them from functional requirements and early-stage startup ideas to full-scale platforms serving up to 10,000 daily users.

We have created a technical infrastructure that allows our clients to focus on business while we take full responsibility for architecture, scalability, security and performance. Our systems are optimized for high load, resilient against attacks and designed for rapid iteration and continuous feature delivery. 

Our team has grown from 8 to 56 professionals. We are also deeply integrating artificial intelligence into platform development and optimization, enabling us to accelerate feature delivery by up to 6x.

I truly appreciate your support and look forward to the next stage of growth together! 🤝

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#softwaredevelopment #web3 #developmentteam #blockchain

CTO | Build dedicated software development teams for startup founders | Web3, blockchain, FinTech

Founder and CTO celebrating 13 years of Pharos Production highlighting software architecture leadership, scalable high-load platforms, AI integration and growth from startup development to production systems serving 10000 daily users

SEO AI: How to Get into AI Search Results

AI answers in search and voice assistants are increasingly replacing traditional search results. Users receive a ready-made answer without visiting the website.
Under these conditions, traditional SEO (top search results) no longer guarantees traffic.
The key goal is to become the source that AI selects for answers.

📌 Mini-checklist for getting into AI answers
1️⃣ Focus on top-rated articles
The "rating" format is one of the most convenient for AI:
structure, hierarchy and an immediately clear "best option."

2️⃣ Adaptation to AI logic
Content is built according to the formula:
❗️ Question → short, direct answer → rating with explanations
Headlines are in question format, with the answer right at the beginning.

3️⃣ Publications on External Platforms
Ratings are posted on authoritative resources (without direct advertising)
to expand the pool of sources from which the AI can choose.

4️⃣ Strengthening Behavioral Factors
Readability, engagement and attention retention. All of these increase trust among both users and algorithms.

5️⃣ Satellites with ratings + link boosting
Additional review and comparison sites
Expand the content ecosystem and add weight.

Why does this work?
AI doesn't rank websites the same way traditional search does.
It chooses the most understandable, structured and usable answer.
This is why explicitly worded ratings work best.

Bottom line: getting into the top results in generative search isn't a coincidence but a controlled process if you understand how AI reads and selects content.

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If you want your brain to operate at peak efficiency and solve complex non-trivial problems quickly, physical training is not optional. For any software developer, it is essential.

For me, that choice is CrossFit. It combines strength work, cardio, and functional movement. It is the best reset after intense brainstorming sessions and long hours of deep technical focus.

Today I hit a personal record: 80 kipping pull-ups. And I did them after the full workout.

The session itself was solid. We started with rowing, dumbbell swings, SkiErg intervals, and squats with 15 kg dumbbells. Then five rounds of strength work, again mostly dumbbells plus SkiErg. And at the end, after all of that, 80 kipping pull-ups broken into sets of 14 and 12.

An intense midday workout like that does something powerful. Your brain works sharply in the morning, you train hard, and then your cognitive performance stays high into the evening. No brain fog. No crash.

Physical load is one of the most underrated productivity tools for developers. It directly impacts clarity, speed of decision-making, and resilience under pressure.

What kind of sport do you practice? How do you reset and stay sharp during a demanding workweek?

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#crossfit #sport #worklifebalance #softwaredevelopment

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Today, our team was working through one of the last but very important bugs in a project we’re building.

The project focuses on short-term bets on cryptocurrency prices against the US dollar. And the issue we analyzed today turned out to be surprisingly interesting from a product and engineering standpoint.

To allow bets with a duration of five seconds or less, the entire in-game animation has to feel instant. There can’t be any perceptible delay. Speed is the core of the experience.

***

Here’s the challenge:

If the price chart updates in true real time, the line looks jagged and visually rough.
If we introduce a slight delay to interpolate intermediate points, the line becomes smooth and visually appealing but now we’ve added latency. And that latency makes fast bets impossible.

The essence of short-duration betting is immediacy. It has to feel dynamic. You shouldn’t be waiting around to see whether your bet wins or loses. The result should happen almost instantly. That’s where the excitement comes from.

At the same time, UI quality matters. A lot. A choppy chart undermines trust and reduces perceived product quality.

***

So today we’re working on synchronizing three things that don’t naturally align:
real-time data, fast gameplay and beautiful animation.

It’s a non-trivial systems problem at the intersection of frontend rendering, streaming data and user psychology.

Challenging. But solvable.

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#web3 #games #softwaredevelopment #mvp #startups

Frontend dashboard showing a real time cryptocurrency price chart in USD with instant five second betting interface illustrating the balance between smooth animation low latency data streaming and high performance rendering

Founders are getting one thing wrong about AI in software development.

Tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, and Gemini can absolutely make teams faster. I use them myself. The productivity gain is real.

But speed is not the same as judgment.

Recently, we received a React application from a client. The app was stable, clean, and functional. No major bugs. But the stack was outdated and it did not fit our internal environment.

I used Cursor to modernize the stack and generate the integration layer we needed: Docker Compose for local and production environments, PostgreSQL setup, migrations, Dockerfile updates, and the wrappers required to deploy cleanly into our Kubernetes cluster and CI/CD pipelines.

The result was fast.

I built the full integration wrapper in about 20 to 40 minutes. Doing it manually would have taken at least a full day and likely pulled our DevOps engineer away from more important work.

But here is the real point:

If you do not understand architecture, you cannot properly use AI in software development.

You will not know what to ask for.
You will not know whether the output is correct.
You will not know what will break later.

Pasting logs into AI and retrying prompts is not a strategy. It is just a faster way to create messy systems and technical debt.

AI gave me leverage.
Architecture gave me control.

For startups, that difference matters. Faster code is useful. Faster progress is what actually compounds.

Founders and investors, is AI improving execution inside your teams, or just making weak engineering look productive?

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#Startup #AI #SoftwareArchitecture #TechLeadership #CTO

Dmytro Nasyrov discussing how AI tools like Cursor increase development speed while software architecture remains critical for startup teams

The best industry events aren't about who you meet, but whether anyone would notice if you didn't show up.

Most companies show up at industry events chasing leads.

They set up a booth, print some banners, and hope the foot traffic hands them growth.

This has never made sense to me.

If your product only stands out when you're shouting in a convention center, it's not differentiated. It's desperate.

Real impact comes when your solution is so well integrated into the market that people expect to see you at the top-level events.

Not as a vendor. As a standard.

That's how we approach it.

When we land in a new city for an industry conference, our goal isn't just "meet people." It's to make it obvious, even to competitors, that our systems and execution set the pace.

It's not about the booth. It's about whether your presence changes what people expect from the industry.

If you're still measuring event ROI in badge scans, you're missing the point.

Build something that people recognize before you even introduce yourself.

That's the only real advantage left.

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Interoperability won't magically fix fragmented liquidity in Web3. 

Everyone chants the same thing. 
Connect all the chains. Bridge the assets. Unify liquidity. 
Cue the drumroll. 

The story sounds great. 
But it's fiction.

Interoperability in tokenization doesn't erase control. 
It just hides it in new places. 
It decides who gets to coordinate the whole show.

Look at what's actually happening as real-world assets go on-chain. 
Liquidity doesn't flow everywhere. 
It splinters into pools. 
Each pool fenced by compliance, jurisdictions, and eligibility. 
Not one global ocean, but a patchwork of small lakes.

It's not chaos. 
It's air traffic control for assets. 
Planes don't set their own routes mid-air. 
Someone draws the maps. 
Someone sets the rules. 
Someone decides who lands and who circles. 

Same for tokenized markets. 
Interoperability isn't just tech. 
It's a governance layer. 
A filter for who moves assets, how, and when. 
Who decides? 
Not code. 
Not "the market." 
People. Institutions. Maybe you, maybe not.

So here's the uncomfortable truth. 
The next moat in tokenized finance isn't about who mints tokens, or who commands the biggest pools. 
It's about who controls coordination. 
If you think interoperability will decentralize power, ask yourself: who's setting the flight plan?

Are we headed for open skies, or a new breed of gatekeepers?
Drop your take below. 

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