Bart Chellis

Background

About Bart Chellis

Accomplished technology leader with experience leading large development and support teams, managing complex IT and software projects, and delivering successful user experiences and designs. Creative project manager with proven success delivering vision, driving coordination and collaborating across disciplines, while delivering simple, elegant software, IT and user-experience solutions. Specialties: mobile applications, user experience, user interaction, iOS, Mac, project management, program management, agile, team leadership, cross-team collaboration, partner management, feature design, AI, chatbots. • Led design, planning, and successful launch of first 1:1 laptop program at BCS providing increased learning opportunities and improved teacher-student communication • Led Windows 10 rollout of 500+ machines, modernizing organizations system and improving network security • Led cross-suite engineering effort to bring VB automation back to Mac unblocking millions in enterprise Office sales • Designed Word Ribbon control and AutoSave models on the Mac, modernizing and significantly improving the user experience of the interface and cloud-based file management • Developed vision-aligned strategic plan for all UI components across Office for iPad and led team building the components resulting in industry accolades for premier mobile user experience design • Designed and managed development of touch-optimized Ribbon, becoming the standard on all Office platforms • Pioneered, designed and led the teams developing AutoSave and DocStage cloud-based file I/O experiences for Office on iPad, becoming the model for Office on all other platforms • Designed gpsCompass for iPhone app, an early top compass app selling over copies • Designed and led development of multi-million dollar "Try & Buy" program, driving significant increase in sales