Christopher Lambert

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Managing Director at Verge Logistics | ex-Block

Verge Logistics
San Diego, CA · PT (UTC-8)
14+ years experience
Penn State
English
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Overview

I've spent 21 years on retail and consumer - first at EY, now at Verge Logistics. Ran commercial diligence on 23 deals. Most at home with go-to-market and retail strategy. Learning to sail.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about cloud infrastructure
  • Second opinions on go-to-market decisions
  • Working sessions on customer analytics
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  • Courses and coaching offers
Skills
retail strategygo-to-marketpricingcustomer analytics

Experience

  1. Managing Director
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Verge Logistics · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Moved 61% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Associate Partner
    Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
    Block · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 15 a week to 3.
  3. Business Analyst
    Aug 2017 - Jun 2021
    Visa · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 40 a week to 1.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 21% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Consultant
    Feb 2014 - Aug 2017
    JPMorgan Chase · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Delivered 17 engagements across 3 countries.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $74 million.
  5. Business Analyst
    Jul 2012 - Feb 2014
    EY · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 24 a week to 2.
    • Shipped 10 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with go-to-market and pricing. 2697 people used it last year.

Cloud infrastructure benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing go-to-market and retail strategy on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Penn State
    BS, Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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