Hi, I'm Chris Lukenbill and this is my website. Give it a look and hopefully it'll give you a better idea of who I am and what I do.

Currently, I'm working out of my home here in Rochester, MN as a developer for Blend Interactive which is based out of Sioux Falls, SD. The majority of the work that we do is custom CMS installation for clients throughout the US and Canada. We specialize in implementation of eZ Publish, EPiServer and WordPress sites, but we have experience with many other content management systems beyond those. In addition to CMS implementation, I have also done some custom web applications, which include Channel Cat (www.ChannelTheWeb.com) and an internal time tracking system which is something I'm definitely proud of. If you ever want me to talk your ear off, just ask me about it sometime.

My career leading to the point I am now has been relatively short, but extremely broad. I started the journey at Valley City State University studying Computer Information Systems. After realizing that VCSU wasn't the school for me, I moved on and was proud to finish up my degree at South Dakota State University with a degree in Computer Science. Throughout college and since graduation I've worked in various aspects of the development process including: Software Quality Assurance (both as a student and a department lead), Business Intelligence, Database Development, Application Development, and Web Development. Now outside of my usual full time gig I've been able to broaden my experience even further with Project Management, Product Design, and Marketing of our mobile applications with TriMutiny, LLC (TriMutiny.com).

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My Resume

Here is a small subset of projects that I've worked on during my free time including the LLC that I am a partner in.

The rest of my life has been just as broad and varied as my career has been. I grew up in Northern Minnesota outside the little town of Warroad, MN. I spent my summers doing everything from RC airplanes to motocross. My falls were filled with football, which did end up spilling into the rest of the year with weightlifting and training for the next year of football. After high school I started my college career in Valley City, ND playing college football as a fullback until I figured out that college football wasn't for me and neither was VCSU.

That summer I started fairly consistently with my next big hobby/obsession, paintball. When most people think of paintball they think of bachelor parties out in a patch of wood somewhere just running around shooting randomly at whatever they can see. What I did was a little different. It was speedball and you may have seen it on ESPN2 once or twice. Speedball is a very fast paced version of paintball with two teams on a completely symmetrical field, both running plays to attempt to eliminate the opposing team by literally shooting lanes of paintballs down the field and maneuvering their teammates up the field. I started playing paintball even more once I got to SDSU with what became a group of lifelong friends. We travelled around the Midwest playing in tournaments whenever we could and just having a blast. Then in 2007, I decided that I wanted to find out how far I could go with the sport and ended up playing nationally with a team based out of Omaha, NE. Shortly into that year, I realized that I didn't have the time or the will to make that type of commitment with my life to the sport of paintball and resigned my position on the team. I still play paintball from time to time, but not nearly as competitive as I did at one time.

The next hobby I have been able to enjoy is snowboarding. Snowboarding has been a great hobby and I'm not good enough at the sport to worry about having it become a part time job like paintball did, but I enjoy it just the same. I spend each winter riding at the local hills and getting the rust off from the previous summer and I have been lucky enough to be able to schedule a trip each year out west to go snowboarding with my best friend Reid. That is definitely one of the major highlights of snowboarding for me, the ability to visit the mountains and enjoy them to their fullest. Another great aspect of snowboarding that has just started is that I'm able to share it with my wife.

Speaking of my wife! Lisa and I have been married now for just over 6 months. It really sounds like a short amount of time when I write it out like that, but in all reality, we've been best friends for 7 or more years. We met in college (both computer science geeks) and have been a great pair of crazies ever since.

We love to spend our free time camping, snowboarding, biking and just trying to keep ourselves in the best shape we can! We love living back here in Minnesota, where we are both from. Rochester is a great community to be a part of, and Lisa and I enjoy everything from being able to shop at a great farmers market to having an endless amount of entertainment options. Along with that, if we want to catch to a Twins game or anything else we could ever want to do the twin cities are just north of here and just over an hour away.

Lisa and I doing our best to stay in shape is what contributed to the last little hobby that I've picked up, racing in triathlons. So far, I've only done sprint triathlons which usually consist of 400-500 meter swims, 10-12 miles on the bike and a 5k to finish it up. It's a great goal to work towards when trying to stay in shape and is about the perfect combination for me to train for and compete in. I am a fairly good swimmer for the most part, I love to ride bike and I can put up with the running. Beyond the fun of it all, it's just a great accomplishment!

Well, that's me in a nutshell!