Christopher L. Butler
185 Franklin St., Apt. 14, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 577-9130
[email protected]
Work Experience
August 2003 - Present
Architect and Software Design Engineer
Orange Magazine, San Francisco, CA
Set strategic and creative direction for the online San Francisco style and culture magazine.
Aligned website usability, style and functionality to editorial mission.
Specified and developed magazine, news alerts, community and content management infrastructure.
Implemented various services with PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript (XMLHttpRequest) and CSS.
July 2000 - Present
Program Manager
Microsoft Corp., Mountain View, CA
Coordinated and managed high impact projects for MSN that included: Hotmail data warehouse; Hotmail and Calendar meeting request integration service; Outlook Connector; company wide, next generation Calendaring schema; and Hotmail account management tools.
Lead and coordinated multiple teams in product development cycles from business planning to development to deployment and maintenance.
Created detailed technical specifications for products.
Directed requirement, schema and specification reviews.
Appointed to MSN Hotmail backend security champion role with the responsibility to coordinate security training, threat modeling and process documentation.
Actively drove process improvements, changing start-up culture to a more efficient and rigorous environment, helping ship products faster and at a higher quality bar.
December 1999 � May 2000
Software Design Engineer
CogNective Inc., Cambridge, MA
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.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Engineering, May 2000
Boston University School of Engineering, Boston, MA
Dean's List
Introduction to Computer Games (Design), Spring 2002
Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA
Skills
Programming (C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, MySQL), software architecture, project management, team leadership, mass communication and data analysis.
Hobbies
Video games, urban planning and industrial design.
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