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Christopher Willis11610 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills, CA, 94024415-367-5373, tibchris@yahoo.com

Experienced product/program manager with executive level experience with a successful track record at developing and commercializing products in a broad range of markets from healthcare, defense, operations, retail, manufacturing, to e-commerce. Creating value has been the underlying focus of his career.Recent Key Accomplishments● Led a large 3D team in the creation of a manufacturing platform and community of

developers.● Led a multi-lab team that developed a major medical demonstrator as a center for

HP, enabling integrated research on situational awareness using remote sensors, signal processing, analytics, electronic medical records etc.

● Developed a software suite used for managing large amounts of data and inputs across many large and distributed screens using mobile devices as controllers.

● Managed a diverse group of experts in developing a cloud-based software suite for the computational organization of images based on content, importance and quality, enabling automated creation of content such as cards and books.

● Led a team towards the development of a portfolio of web products for video, audio, imaging, community management, security and fraud prevention, and many e-commerce optimizations for a multinational website with 300 million consumers.

● Led new technology development for DARPA/IARPA intelligence projects.● Built an online rendering system for TV, movies and commercial projects and

managed it as an independent unit, then subsequently sold it as a corporate entity.● Led a team in the production of 3D content for retail use by the world’s top fashion

stores.

Work ExperienceSnapfish.com, Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service owned by District Photo. Snapfish is based in San Francisco, California. Members can upload files for free, and are given unlimited photo storage.

2016-PresentSenior Product Manager of Assets and Library Manage Product Management teams in delivering APIs and front end services for Snapfish's imaging and E-commerce platform. Building stories, and roadmaps and adding technological advances for the engineering teams to build and deliver a compelling user experience to monetize on personalized photographic products. Analyze and assess competition, technologies, metrics, and feedback to optimize the customers

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experience. Control costs and efficiency of the site in order to enhance return on investment.

Autodesk, Digital Manufacturing Group, Pier 9, San Francisco.Autodesk DMG group provides software for the new digital manufacturing revolution, of 3D printing, CNC manufacturing and composites product creation.

2015-2016Senior Product Manager of the Spark 3d Digital Manufacturing Platform Drive the adoption and development of the Spark development platform, as well as driving APIs to the Forge development platform, designing, desktop and cloud applications using these APIs. Creating an ecosystem of companies contributing to the platform as well as driving OEM adoption of custom applications for third parties. Led development teams locally and abroad to develop the applications and development platform.

HP Labs hpl.hp.com a division of HP, Palo Alto, CA.

HPLabs is the research arm of Hewlett Packard and is comprised of 6 worldwide labs with 500 PhD researchers.

2008 - Present Program Manager Operations Wall Software, HP Labs Healthcare Demonstrator, and Emerging Technologies Product Research

Enabling technology transfer, productizing technology and bringing business, competition and customer focus to research projects. Worked with teams dealing with the healthcare, analytics, security, semantic web, image analysis/auto tagging, 3D, projector technologies, operations walls, desktop tools, social networking and web analytics. Developed incubation websites, product roadmaps, desktop and cloud products for consumer, small business and enterprise. Published peer reviewed articles, filed several patents and typically made over 100 external demonstrations per year to executive audiences.

SNAPFISH snapfish.com a division of HP, San Francisco, CA

Snapfish is one of the world largest consumer websites for photo printing and print products.

2004 –2008 Core Product Manager & Emerging Technologies Manager

Directed the development of core services/products within its’ family of websites. 

▪  managed products by participating in: competitive research; integration of 3rd-party, and HP Labs technology. Also undertook product definition, ROI analysis, product

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development, Q/A, marketing; product launches; remote development, alliance research, product integration, account management, internationalization and quality standardization.

▪  delivered products including video, slideshows, music, audio cards, photo contests, fraud prevention, marketing coupons, as well as up-loaders, cross-sell/up-sell and desktop software.

▪  played key technical lead in strategic role in defining long term corporate plan.

▪  led consumer research and testing including quantitative, qualitative and

ethnographic studies across multiple countries.

DVDStation, www.dvdstation.com San Francisco, CA

DVD Station is a DVD kiosk developer with kiosks in Sony Metron, Intel, Grand Central Station. It also runs its own line of stores.

2003 Director of Product Management

Directed the production of DVD sales/rental kiosks for nationwide distribution.  Implemented databases, graphics, inventory management and packaging, software and the hardware integration with a team of eight.  Maintained bug lists, feature lists, product lifecycle and project files while working with marketing and engineering.  Integrated new display, sound, receipt, interface and POS technologies to create state-of-the-art kiosk systems.

Equilibrium, www.equilibrium.com San Rafael, CA

Equilibrium has been developing and selling applications for the automation, transformation and delivery of high definition video, audio, image and text media.

2000 -2002 Director of Product Management

Managed a suite of products from definition, design and development to release and beyond and acted as technological resource for the company in digital imaging and web imaging.  Also created all collateral and support documentation for products, as well as generated product positioning within chosen markets.

Insight Strategy + Logic(ISL), www.islco.com San Francisco, CA

ISL Consulting is an end-to-end web production facility.

1999-2000Senior Web Producer

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Led a group of Java programmers, HTML, XML content engineers, web designers, Oracle database engineers and infrastructure engineers in the design of e-commerce websites for pharmaceutical content.

Asset Factory, San Francisco, CA

The first internet based rendering farm,  Asset Factory used 3D Studio MAX 2, Lightwave3D, SoftImage, and Alias tools to create final rendered products for film, commercial, TV and pre-visualization work. NetRender was the first cloud based rendering system.  This product was developed and implemented for special effects houses worldwide.

1997 - 1999  Chief Technical Officer/Vice President of Engineering

▪  managed  the NetRender product line and services including development, sales, marketing, 3rd party support, engineering management, customer relations and web design.

▪  assumed management aspects of the company and ran it as a subsidiary of Newtek.

▪  closed sales deals for post production services for major productions such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, From the Earth to the Moon, among others.

▪  responsible for all aspects of engineering and management of Asset Factory as well as worked with venture funding, business plans, marketing and sales.

▪  designed a virtual vault service for mass multimedia storage and distribution over the net. NewTek, newtek.com San Francisco, CA

Newtek is a leading 3D animation/special effects company and producer of cutting edge video production tools.

1998 - 1999 Product Manager Lightwave3D

▪  managed Lightwave 3D modeling and animation product line including design, development, monitoring of 3rd party development, contracts, marketing, sales and training sessions.

▪  revamped quality assurance, beta tracking and release procedures

▪  contributed to the design of AURA, a video paint tool.

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Sense8 Corporation sense8.html Mill Valley, CA

Sense8 was the world leader in Virtual Reality Software at the time it was acquired by E.A.I.. Managed engineers and graphic artists in the creation of cutting edge virtual reality 3D graphics.  Projects varied from design to overlooking development, integration, support, and marketing.

1996 - 1997 Senior Project Manager

▪  designed and built the first immersive PC based truck-training simulator for tanker truck drivers for Amoco Oil Company.

▪  designed and built a Formula 1 racecar simulator for DEC PowerStorm board release.  The simulator included a full car version with integrated helmet and wheel, plus a desktop version for distribution with all DEC products.

▪  designed and built virtual breast surgery application for dealing with biopsies

▪  designed and built virtual Sausalito VRML world for low income housing (internet

gateway), designed the virtual city (newscast multimedia center) and the cimble (team building via web)

CAE Electronics, cae.com Montreal, Canada

The world’s largest simulator manufacturer with over 1 billion in sales annually.

1993 - 1996  Held positions of increasing responsibilities from programmer to becoming the leader of CAE’s largest design group

Senior Group Leader

▪  managed a group of 40 engineers, technical staff and graphic artists in producing virtual reality scenes for both military and civilian pilot training.

▪  hired team, designed production methodology and tools.  Produced over 100 visual databases of cites for over 20 different international customers.

▪  provided demonstrations and helped sales achieve over $500 million in yearly sales.

▪  helped win 4 Merkur awards for outstanding design and new original product.

(MAXVUE)

Education : Carleton University Honours BSc 1987