Vice President, Research at Demand Media Inc.
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
-
- Vice President, Research at Demand Media Inc.
- Past
-
- Vice President, Engineering at eNom Inc., a Demand Media company
- Software Design Engineer / Test at Microsoft
- Programmer / Analyst at Advanced Semiconductor
- Education
-
- Arizona State University
- Recommended
-
12 people have recommended Chris - Connections
-
121
connections
- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Chris Cowherd’s Summary
Senior management and technical leadership taking a startup to the second largest domain name registrar in the world. Brought extensive Windows development expertise to all projects and guided teams toward efficiently creating world class server software.
Responsible for overall architecture of software systems and leading a deeply technical group of developers through cracking some of the toughest problems.
Formed a tight-knit multi-talented software research and development team to prototype a very wide variety of products in insanely short time schedules. Projects range from incredibly fast web crawlers and analysis tools to Flash based massive multi-user applications and video tools.
Chris Cowherd’s Specialties:
Management: Software development team leadership, direction and management.
Windows: .NET, C++, Win32, ATL/COM, Windows Server development, threading, DirectX, network programming (sockets, many protocols like DNS, POP, SMTP, SSL, HTTP etc)
Web: Flash, Flex 2, Flash Media Server (FMS), Flash Video, ActionScript, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS
Servers: SQL Server 2000/2005, T-SQL
Chris Cowherd’s Experience
-
Vice President, Research
Demand Media Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
-
Vice President, Engineering
eNom Inc., a Demand Media company
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
July 2000 — March 2008 (7 years 9 months)
-
Software Design Engineer / Test
Microsoft
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
December 1997 — July 2000 (2 years 8 months)
-
Programmer / Analyst
Advanced Semiconductor
(Semiconductors industry)
June 1990 — December 1997 (7 years 7 months)
Chris Cowherd’s Education
-
Arizona State University
Mathematics / CS 1991 — 1996
Additional Information
Chris Cowherd’s Websites:
Chris Cowherd’s Interests:
Technology, mathematics, physics, software development, movies, travel, food
Chris Cowherd’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
