Chris Butler

Past

• Content Platform Evangelist at Dash Navigation
• Senior Lead Program Manager at Microsoft Corp.
• Architect at Orange Magazine, LLC

• Software Design Engineer at CogNective Inc.

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Education

• Acadamy of Art
• Boston University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Chris Butler’s Summary

Currently, Chris Butler is looking for opportunities in evangelism and product management positions for location aware and mobile platforms.

Previously, as Dash's Content Platform Evangelist, Chris oversaw the company's open platform initiative and encourages the creation of new location-based services both from third party developers and Dash's active customer community. Chris launched Dash's Dynamic Search API, the first connected platform for the car, in May 2008 and has already grown the number of DashApps to over 50. Prior to Dash, Chris worked for Microsoft at the company's Silicon Valley Campus for over seven years. During his tenure, he worked on projects including Calendar, Hotmail, Toolbar, Desktop Search, the Sidebar gadget platform and Windows Live Gallery. Chris has been a featured speaker at numerous industry events including Web 2.0, Graphing Social Patterns, Where 2.0, PDC, Mix, Plug and Play and others. He holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University.

Chris Butler’s Experience

• Content Platform Evangelist

  Dash Navigation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  March 2008 — November 2008 (9 months)

  * Directed Dash’s open platform initiative and fostered the creation of new location-based services both from third party developers and Dash's active customer community.
  
  * Launched Dash's Dynamic Search API, the first connected platform for the car, in May 2008 at Where 2.0 and grew the number of DashApps from zero to over 70 in under four months. Top DashApps were installed manually by over 40% of Dash’s user base.
  
  * Set vision and strategy for Dash’s platform monetization for advertisements, coupons, lead generation and transactions.
  
  * Drove user experience requirements, testing, implementation, deployment and ongoing maintenance for the platform.
  
  * Contributed to various standards, including W3C Geo API.
  
  * Presented at conferences regarding location based services and in-car connected experiences including Where 2.0, Plug and Play, Graphing Social Patterns and others.

• 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

• Acadamy of Art

  N/A , Introduction to Computer Games (Design) , January 2002 — May 2002

• Boston University

  BS , Computer Systems Engineering , September 1996 — May 2000

Additional Information

Chris Butler’s Honors:

Patents pending:
Web engine search preview, Secure application program interface, Mechanism for third party content display and transfer