Chris Bennett

Current

Founder, President and Online Preparedness Guru at OneStorm

Past

Founding Chief Technology Officer at America's Emergency Network
Consultant at Virtual Advisor
Founder & CEO at Ah-Ha! Media

Multimedia Design Manager, Instructor at High Tech Institute (formerly Chubb)
Site Builder at CoreTech Consulting
Webmaster at RadioOne (formerly Y100/WPLY)

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Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Connections

163 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Chris Bennett’s Summary

Scary-savvy web technology designer and project manager with a balanced educational foundation in business and education from Wharton and Harvard. Focus on Web 2.0 applications that improve people's lives in the areas of disaster preparedness and compliance training.

Chris Bennett’s Specialties:

Unmatched web storyboarding and design expertise, web 2.0 strategy, e-learning design, streaming media

Chris Bennett’s Experience

Founder, President and Online Preparedness Guru

OneStorm

(Public Safety industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

Creator of http://www.onestorm.org/, the Internet's most comprehensive free hurricane planning resource for families and businesses.
Founding Chief Technology Officer

America's Emergency Network

(Telecommunications industry)

January 2007 — February 2009 (2 years 2 months)

America's Emergency Network is new national platform designed to distribute emergency communications from government emergency centers and other organizations to the public and the media. The system will provide instant connections for short-fuse situations, and it will continue to work after disasters when telephone, power, cell phone, and terrestrial internet systems have been knocked out. (See: http://www.emergency.info/)
Consultant

Virtual Advisor

(E-Learning industry)

March 1995 — December 2007 (12 years 10 months)

Provide consulting services in the areas of web design, e-learning and content management for small business education sites such as Visa and Bank of America.
Founder & CEO

Ah-Ha! Media

(E-Learning industry)

April 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Founder of an e-learning company offering employee compliance courses in harassment, ethics, diversity and workplace violence.
Multimedia Design Manager, Instructor

High Tech Institute (formerly Chubb)

(Public Company; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

September 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 10 months)

Co-authored a 1,000 hour design program; taught 14 Web & graphic design courses; implemented new e-learning technologies.
Site Builder

CoreTech Consulting

(Public Company; Internet industry)

May 2000 — March 2001 (11 months)

As a member of the Creative Services Department, responsibilities included site design, layout, programming, & backend integration.
Webmaster

RadioOne (formerly Y100/WPLY)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

April 1999 — February 2000 (11 months)

Managed all web services and promotions for a major Philadelphia radio station; doubled site traffic in a 3-month period

Chris Bennett’s Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Education

Ed.M. , Educational Technology , 2004 — 2005

3.95 GPA

Activities and Societies:

BRIDGE (Education & Business Alliance)
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

BBA , Management, Marketing , 2000 — 2004

First in class (3.99 GPA)