Product Management Professional
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Platform Manager at Auctiva
- Past
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- Platform Product Manager at Ning
- Creator/Product Manager, eBay Desktop at eBay
- Technical Evangelist at eBay
- Technical Writer at eBay
- Technical Writer/Product Manager at Fair Isaac
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
- The University of Sheffield
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Alan Lewis’s Experience
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Platform Manager
Auctiva
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
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Platform Product Manager
Ning
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2008 — February 2009 (7 months)
Responsible for Ning's OpenSocial implementation. Defined requirements and UI specs for the Ning platform. Also worked on requirements and UI for the core Ning social networking application.
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Creator/Product Manager, eBay Desktop
eBay
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)
July 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 2 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 is available 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. Less than 6 months after launch it had been downloaded more than 1 million times. -
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.
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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.
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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
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors , Philosophy , 1996 — 2000
Studied abroad at University of Sheffield, UK - 1998-1999.
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The University of Sheffield
Philosophy 1998 — 1999
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FICO Alumni
Alan Lewis’s Honors:
Adobe 2007 MAX Award Winner, Best Rich Internet Application
Adobe 2007 MAX Award Winner, Community Choice Award
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