Benjamin Hill

Current

• Product Manager at Pie Digital

Past

• Sr. Product Manager at Ebay
• Co-Founder, CTO at inChorus, Inc.
• Researcher at CommerceNet Labs

• Masters Student at School of Information
• Consultant at 170 Systems, Inc.
• Senior Consultant at Answerthink

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Berkeley - School of Information
• Dartmouth

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Recommended

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Connections

490 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

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 2009 — Present (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 2007 — October 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 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )

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

• Researcher

  CommerceNet Labs

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

• Masters Student

  School of Information

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

  September 2004 — June 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)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

• Senior Consultant

  Answerthink

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Benjamin Hill’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  MIMS , Information, Management, Technology , 2004 — 2006

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

  Activities and Societies:

  vern2, Mycroft, AMP

• University of California, Berkeley - School of Information

  2004 — 2006

• Dartmouth

  BA , Computer Science, Engineering , September 1995 — June 1999

Additional Information

Benjamin Hill’s Websites:

• My Website

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