San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Content Platform Evangelist at Dash Navigation
- Past
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- Senior Lead Program Manager at Microsoft Corp.
- Architect at Orange Magazine, LLC
- Software Design Engineer at CogNective Inc.
- Education
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- Acadamy of Art
- Boston University
- Connections
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360
connections
- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Chris Butler’s Experience
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Content Platform Evangelist
Dash Navigation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
March 2008 — Present (8 months)
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Senior Lead Program Manager
Microsoft Corp.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — February 2008 (7 years 9 months)
• Launched in July 2006 and grew community into most visited personalization site on the internet with 6.4 million unique users in December 2007 (Nielsen NetRatings).
• Lead a team of three program managers.
• Set vision and strategy for community including user generated content, advertiser sponsored content and transactional content with Microsoft Points (first within Windows Live; joining Xbox and Zune).
• Drove user experience requirements, testing, implementation, deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Coordinated cross-team effort for Personal Expression in Windows and Windows Live including Messenger, Spaces, Live.com, Hotmail, Writer and others.
• Presented at conferences regarding widget ecosystem including Web 2.0, PDC, Widget Summit, CES and others.
• Evangelized, developed and coordinated agreements with external partner companies. -
Architect
Orange Magazine, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
August 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 9 months)
• Set strategic and creative direction for an online San Francisco style and culture magazine.
• Specified and developed magazine, news alerts, community and content management infrastructure.
• Implemented various services with PHP, MySQL, DHTML, JavaScript and CSS. -
Software Design Engineer
CogNective Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1999 — May 2000 (6 months)
* Developed application adapters for CommonFace engine.
* Directed research of emerging technologies for use in the CommonFace engine.
* Prototyped adapters and engine embracing technologies such as XML, XSLT, Java and JMI.
Chris Butler’s Education
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Acadamy of Art
N/A, Introduction to Computer Games (Design), January 2002 — May 2002
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Boston University
BS, Computer Systems Engineering, September 1996 — May 2000
Additional Information
Chris Butler’s Websites:
Chris Butler’s Honors:
Patents pending:
Web engine search preview, Secure application program interface, Mechanism for third party content display and transfer
