Alan Lewis

Current

• Creator/Product Manager, eBay Desktop at eBay

Past

• Technical Evangelist at eBay
• Technical Writer at eBay
• Technical Writer/Product Manager at Fair Isaac

see less...

Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara
• The University of Sheffield

Recommended

3 people have recommended Alan

Connections

419 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Alan Lewis’s Experience

• Creator/Product Manager, eBay Desktop

  eBay

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Created eBay Desktop, a cross-OS desktop eBay tool that makes it easier to bid, buy, search, and win on eBay. I conceived of the idea, and have headed up a small team made up of eBay and Effective UI employees since the project inception. In my on-going role as product manager I am responsible for defining the feature set, high level design direction, marketing, community management, customer support, QA lead, day to day budget management, and evangelism.
  
  eBay Desktop has just launched as 1.0 at http://desktop.ebay.com It is the premiere Adobe AIR application. It has also won awards and received rave reviews from users and press, but you can download it (for free) and judge the quality for yourself.

• Technical Evangelist

  eBay

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Evangelized eBay's Web Services platform (http://developer.ebay.com) by speaking at conferences, writing articles, and working directly with companies and projects building on eBay's platform. Created eBay toolbar for Firefox prototype, which has since evolved into the "eBay Firefox Companion" product. Managed the eBay Starter Kit for Visual Studio 2005, a highly successful project that launched with Visual Studio 2005.

• Technical Writer

  eBay

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Wrote internal and external documentation for eBay tools, processes, and Web Services platform. Implemented documentation build automation tools. Invented web services documentation methodology and tool, similar to "JavaDoc" that defines a metadata structure for web services documentation tags. Created Java-based tool that reads these tags and generates HTML-based documentation directly from a WSDL.

• Technical Writer/Product Manager

  Fair Isaac

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FIC; Computer Software industry)

  August 2000 — April 2004 (3 years 9 months)

Alan Lewis’s Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  Bachelors, Philosophy, 1996 — 2000

  Studied abroad at University of Sheffield, UK - 1998-1999.

• The University of Sheffield

  Philosophy 1998 — 1999

Additional Information

Alan Lewis’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Alan Lewis’s Groups:

eBay

•    eBay Employees and Alumni Group

Alan Lewis’s Honors:

Adobe 2007 MAX Award Winner, Best Rich Internet Application
Adobe 2007 MAX Award Winner, Community Choice Award

Alan Lewis’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch