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    Chris Bucchere

    Chris Bucchere

    Co-founder of @social-collective and @bdg • Worked at @plumtree-software, @sun-microsystems, @microsoft, @trilogy • BS in Computer Science from @stanford-university-1

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    Experience
    Sun Microsystems
    Exit
    Sun Microsystems
    Intern, Javasoft Group 1997 (3 months)
    Ported Java 1.0 sample applications to Java 1.1 (including Patrick Chan's internet-famous "hangman" app). Wrote online docs, learning Java inside and out in the process.
    Sun... more Microsystems was acquired by Oracle.
    Trilogy
    Trilogy
    Intern 1995 (3 months)
    Wrote a test framework/harness in VisualBasic for their ERP application that was used by their consulting team to test their custom deployments.
    Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Intern, Excel Team 1996 (3 months)
    Prototyped the macro virus protection system now built into every version of Excel in VBA. Also prototyped some interesting "smart table" heuristics
    features that didn't... more have quite the same level of fame and glory, but did influence some features that made their way into future versions of Excel.
    Plumtree Software
    Plumtree Software
    Lead Engineer 1998 - 2002 (over 4 years)
    Deployed Plumtree's Enterprise Portal at the first several customer sites; architected and built administrative and end-user UI for the portal in ASP and later in Java; designed... more and built several gadget/portlet products including portlets for Excel (in VBA), Microsoft Exchange, IMAP/POP, Lotus Notes, Documentum, SAP and Siebel (all in Java). Invented the concept of a "gadget
    framework" and applied this new technology to the Siebel, SAP and Excel Frameworks. Managed teams of Senior Engineers.
    BEA acquired Plumtree in 2005 and Oracle acquired BEA in 2008.
    Miso
    Miso
    Senior Software Engineer 2012 (2 months)
    Miso was acquired by Dijit.
    Created a Spotify music import and analysis system that provided an endless psuedo-random office playlist, automagically influenced by everyone... more in the office.
    Built the Facebook Open Graph integration for Quips, Miso's iPhone application that enables people to screen-capture and comment on nearly
    everything on TV.
    Dijit Media
    Dijit Media
    Senior Software Engineer 2012 - 2013 (about 1 year)
    Dijit was acquired by Viggle.
    Maintained, refactored and built upon the Ruby on Rails based API server that supports Dijit Remote, NextGuide for iPad and NextGuide for... more the web, helping Dijit improve and enhance their service-oriented architecture.
    Created a service that provides access to redis, resque and redis scheduler for caching and processing of background jobs.
    Created an email templating system that supports creating, styling and sending one-off and recurring emails through Mandrill, MailChimp's transactional email platform.
    Overhauled and service-enabled the neo4j-based collaborative filtering engine that provides recommendations for suggested media and users to follow.
    Social Collective
    Social Collective
    Founder
    bdg
    bdg
    Founder
    Social Collective
    Social Collective
    Founder & CEO 2009 - 2010 (over 1 year)
    Started a social software product company that conceived, developed, launched and marketed three products used by millions of people:
    - Earn Mojo, a social game where people... more can check into websites, Twitter and Facebook to compete for awards and recognition;
    - Crowd Campaign, a web platform on which people can set up and run a social contest on Facebook or Twitter in minutes;
    - Social Collective, a scheduling and attendee networking platform used by SXSW, Oracle Open World and dozens of other large events.
    We wrote all the web-facing products on Ruby on Rails running on Nginx on Rackspace Cloud servers with a MySQL backend.
    Pathable acquired Social Collective in 2011.
    bdg
    bdg
    Founder and CTO 2003 - 2010 (about 7 years)
    Founded, grew and managed an Enterprise 2.0 consultancy focused on Plumtree, BEA Systems and Oracle products that provided installation,
    configuration, development/integration,... more management, support and other services on the AquaLogic/WebCenter product line to hundreds of private sector and government customers.
    Worked with dozens of these customers personally, including Central Inteligence Agency, Defence Technical Information Center, Exxon Mobile, Fanny Mae, Glaxo Smith Kline, Merck Medco and Veteran's Heath Administration. Worked in tandem with consultants from Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Schlumberger, Northrop Grumman and
    SAIC. Carried a TS/SCI security clearance.
    My former partner earned me out of BDG and has owned and operated the company since 2010.
    Viggle
    Viggle
    Managing Engineer & Senior Software Engineer 2014 - 2016 (about 2 years)
    Managing Engineer
    Developed web and mobile-based applications and games in the entertainment loyalty/rewards space. Led and supported global engineering teams building... more the Viggle App, Wetpaint.com, NextGuide, Viggle Store, and Choose Digital.

    Senior Software Engineer
    Led the design and development of transactional, service-oriented web/ mobile prediction game for a popular TV show.
    Lawrence Lessig
    Lawrence Lessig
    CTO
    Lawrence Lessing
    Lawrence Lessing
    CTO 2015 - Present (about 11 years)
    Worked with an amazing team of engineers, product managers, social media, marketing and PR experts to build and support tools for Larry Lessig's campaign for President in... more 2016. Currently supporting his fundraising, marketing and software development efforts targeted at reforming the Electoral College.
    Lark
    Lark
    Professional Services Manager 2021 - 2023 (over 1 year)
    Lab Zero Innovations
    Lab Zero Innovations
    Software Engineer 2016 - 2021 (over 5 years)
    Currently developing, designing, and providing strategic consulting in web, mobile, and enterprise technology for our portfolio customers. We can augment an existing team... more or work with you from scratch to build a product. Some of our recent projects include: pure software development, project management, user testing, system integration, advisor/leadership roles,
    content strategy, visual design, interaction design.
    Walmart
    Walmart
    Senior Software Architect - contract 2011 - 2012 (over 1 year)
    Worked on the following projects on Walmart.com's search team:
    - Processing a search-term-to-sale report and turning into a "related searches" tag cloud to improve SEO... more traffic by 10% (Java/J2EE, bash scripting, JSP, HTML/CSS, Struts, JSTL)
    - Sending various signal feeds (social and otherwise) into the Endeca search engine to increase results relevance, lifting sales 7% (Endeca, Java/J2EE, XML)
    - Writing scripts for @WalmartLabs to assist them with search engine automation, scripting for fault-tolerant index updates, server restarts, etc.
    (Lucene/solr, bash scripts)
    Founder
    Social Collective, bdg
    Employee
    Miso, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Dijit Media, Trilogy, Plumtree Software, Viggle, Social Collective, bdg, Walmart, Lab Zero Innovations, Lark, Lawrence Lessing, Lawrence Lessig
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    About
    Achievements

    Thought leader in social enterprise and consumer software, designer and developer of award-winning web applications, writer, professional public speaker, and political activist. Built and supported the technology stack for Lawrence Lessig's campaign for President in 2016 and served as the Managing Engineer for Viggle's San Francisco office. Led design and development of several key product initiatives for Viggle including a recommendation engine, a transactional email system built upon Mandrill and a media reminder scheduling system built upon redis and resque. Imagined, designed and developed the first official web and mobile social network for SXSW and dozens of other conferences, trade shows and festivals. Featured speaker at SXSW, Oracle Open World, BIL and scores of other events. Inventor of Gadget Frameworks, a system for utilizing Plumtree's (then BEA's, then Oracle's) patented technology to expose customizable views of enterprise applications through a single page component.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Ruby on Rails Rackspace Cloud Nginx Balsamiq Javascript Linux Enterprise Applications Enterprise Software Web Applications Elixir Node.js React.js React Native Mobile Development Amazon S3
     
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    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

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