Chris Butler
Bio
Chris Butler is the lead program manager for Windows Live Gallery, Microsoft's personalization portal for widget content. He has worked at Microsoft for over seven years in the Bay area on projects that include MSN Calendar, MSN Hotmail, Hailstorm, Windows Desktop Search, Windows Live Toolbar and the Vista Sidebar. Chris lives in San Francisco and works at Microsoft's Silicon Valley office in Mountain View.
Work History
- March 2008 - present
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August 2003 - April 2005
• 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.
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June 2000 - February 2008
• 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.
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December 1999 - May 2000
* 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.
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