Benjamin Hill

Product Manager at Pie Digital

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Product Manager at Pie Digital
Past
  • Sr. Product Manager at Ebay
  • Co-Founder, CTO at inChorus, Inc.
  • Researcher at CommerceNet Labs
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Berkeley - School of Information
  • Dartmouth
Connections
490 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Benjamin Hill’s Summary

Founder, entrepreneur, product manager, with heavy experience in IT consulting and software development. An "idea" guy with implementation, prototyping, and team leadership skills. Graduate of the School of Information, UC Berkeley, and went on to found inChorus, a collaborative knowledge/widget startup.

Benjamin Hill’s Specialties:

Product Management, Rapid Prototyping, Consulting, Modeling, Design, R&D,, Usability, Integration


Benjamin Hill’s Experience

  • Product Manager

    Pie Digital

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2009Present (6 months)

    Champion the conceptualization, development and implementation of products and services at all stages of the product development lifecycle. Driving product innovation differentiation positioning and messaging. Developing business and technical requirements and writing supporting MRD, PRD and Use Case documents. Evangelizing the product internally across all functional business teams and externally with customers partners and others.

  • Sr. Product Manager

    Ebay

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

    October 2007October 2008 (1 year 1 month)

    C3, Finding, Catalog/Categories/Classification

  • Co-Founder, CTO

    inChorus, Inc.

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2006June 2007 (1 year )

    Co-Founder and CTO of inChorus (http://inchorus.com)

  • Researcher

    CommerceNet Labs

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20062006 (less than a year)

  • Masters Student

    School of Information

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2004June 2006 (1 year 10 months)

    During his time at SIMS, Benjamin worked as the Development Lead for the Mobile Media Metadata (MMM2) project with Garage Cinema Research, published papers on democratic online collaboration (VERN), built an AJAX-enabled calendaring system (Vern2), interned at Yahoo-Berkeley Labs, interned at Commerce.Net, built a crowdsourcing application, and generally enjoyed himself.

  • Consultant

    170 Systems, Inc.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20022004 (2 years )

  • Senior Consultant

    Answerthink

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    19992002 (3 years )


Benjamin Hill’s Education

  • University of California, Berkeley

    MIMS , Information, Management, Technology , 20042006

    2006 Dr. James R. Chen Award, for best thesis project "Mycroft"

    Activities and Societies:
    vern2, Mycroft, AMP
  • University of California, Berkeley - School of Information

    20042006

  • Dartmouth

    BA , Computer Science, Engineering , September 1995June 1999


Additional Information

Benjamin Hill’s Websites:

Benjamin Hill’s Groups:

Garage Cinema Research Berkeley

  •    CSIXConnect
  •    UC Berkeley School of Information
  •    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
  •    Product Management
  •    Dartmouth College Alumni
  •    ----- The Startups & Societal Ventures Network ----- Innovating more effectively
  •    eBay Employees and Alumni Group
  •    Mobile Product Management
  •    Internet Product Management Group
  •    Cal Alumni Association | UC Berkeley
  •    LHH Alumni Network
  •    Agile
  •    The Hackett Group Alumni Network
  •    The Braintrust: Knowledge Management Group
  •    Future Trends
  •    Dartmouth Computer Science
  •    Enthiosys P-CAMP 2009 @ Yahoo!
  •    Prediction Markets Cluster
  •    Collective Intelligence

Benjamin Hill’s Honors:

Dr. James R. Chen Award for Best Thesis Project (Berkeley School of Information)


Benjamin Hill’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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