Chris Petersen

Current

Development Technical Lead at Marchex
Chief Operations Officer at Schedules Direct
Advisory Council Member at Akili Dada

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Education

University of Chicago
Whitman College

Recommended

13 people have recommended Chris

Connections

151 connections

Industry

Internet

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Chris Petersen’s Summary

Lead Web Developer and technical/project manager with broad experience in web technologies, particularly related to website architecture and SEO, e-commerce, CRM and ERP.

Chris Petersen’s Specialties:

Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, MythTV, Open Source culture.

Chris Petersen’s Experience

Development Technical Lead

Marchex

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MCHX; Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

Technical Lead, Manager, and PHP/Perl/Java Developer for Marchex Directories sites like yellow.com and 50states.com.
Chief Operations Officer

Schedules Direct

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Founding member of this small nonprofit corporation that provides TV listings data to users of Open Source and free software. I resigned from the board of directors in January of 2008 to take up the position of Chief Operations Officer.

I am also responsible for design, implementation and maintainance of the schedulesdirect.org website, using PHP, Perl, SOAP, CSS and Javascript technologies, as well as coordinating and overseeing the work of other developers on the website and related services.
Advisory Council Member

Akili Dada

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

I serve on the advisory council of this nonprofit organization dedicated to providing high-school scholarships to young women in Kenya.