Christopher E. Hill Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

A multi-billion-dollar global digital media company known for leading brands like PCMag, IGN, and Everyday Health. Responsible for technology, engineering and operations of the Ziff Davis brands including Spiceworks, Ziff Davis Performance Marketing, PC Mag, Mashable, ExtremeTech, Lifehacker and AskMen. Contributed to the company's success in generating significant revenue through diverse streams, including wholesale and retail lead generation, digital advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce.•Transformed a global team of 105 lacking confidence and trust into a cohesive unit operating on openness, transparency, and accountability during a challenging period of low revenue and company confidence. •Strong experience working with global teams in India, understanding cultures and growing trust that leads to better productivity and technical discipline.•Optimizing financials by eliminating technical debt and reducing wasteful spending, saving nearly $2M (~15%) in the technology operating budget.•Acquired a deep understanding of lead generation and large-scale data processing, gaining skills in Snowflake, AI with Large Language Models (LLMs), data science, and RAG technology based on Vector databases. •Rebooted the highly trafficked legacy Spiceworks Community on the Discourse platform to upscale the technology and better serve its millions of monthly active users.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Managed strategy and led team driving hybrid cloud developer advocacy across the IBM ecosystem charged with driving hybrid cloud consumption by ISVs and cloud build partners. •Managed a team of 100 direct and indirect reports, including software engineers, designers, content editors, project managers, product managers, and team leaders.•Oversaw team and managed talent acquisition, career development, performance evaluation, and human resources.•Led strategy across the organization to empower developers and accelerate customers’ adoption of IBM and Red Hat hybrid cloud products.•Created content and code for developers internally and externally. Partnered with companies including SAP, Workday, New Relic, Vonage, and The Weather Company.•Developed a set of products built and tuned to operate successfully in different environments.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Transitioned to executive leadership role following IBM’s acquisition of The Weather Company. Led organizational change and supported team throughout IBM’s acquisition of The Weather Company. Managed software and enterprise architecture with a focus on large-scale systems.•Served as Chief Architect, ensuring engineering was aligned with enterprise-grade cloud development practices.•Directed a team of 12-15 direct reports and between 260-650 total staff members. •Led organization with oversight of talent acquisition and development, human resources, personnel management, project management, and budget management.•Developed strategy and mobilized team to execute technical vision across the organization. •Managed engineering and development for globally scaled The Weather Channel mobile app, Weather Underground, Weather.com and Weather’s globally scaled enterprise API platform. •Coached and mentored team to develop AI advertising systems, B2B applications, and video streaming applications. •Implemented compliance standards across enterprise-scale products and applications, including CCPA, GDPR and ISO 27001.

Brookhaven, Georgia, Us

Promoted through progressively responsible roles, ultimately operating TWC’s globally scaled, enterprise API distribution platform providing weather data to Apple, Google, and generally every smartphone on the planet.•Built and managed a high-performing team of 45 staff members with 5 direct reports leading the development of highly scaled enterprise applications.•Coordinated data platform and services for Weather API platform, a high-volume application with 1M requests per session. •Managed engineering, third-party business systems and tools, and ERP systems.

Brookhaven, Georgia, Us

•Ran globally scaled and redundant TWC-branded digital properties, including Weather.com.•Oversaw Weather.com’s successful migration from on-premise data centers to the cloud.•Led a team of over 50 employees through an organizational culture shift and digital transformation during migration.•Served as one of the company Agile Ambassadors. Supported and guided team to use Agile practices to become more lean, leveraging the Scrum Product Owner approach to building great products that customers love.•Managed engineering, third-party business systems and tools, and ERP systems.

Brookhaven, Georgia, Us

•Developed and ran all broadcast localization technologies. Gained extensive experience with cable headends and broadcast topologies. •Led IT operations, data analytics, data warehouse, and business reporting for Peoplesoft HR and Financials ERP systems.