Team Bios
Chip Lewis VP Operations
Chip is currently VP of Operations for neutralspace. Chip began his career by computerizing all the pre and post production systems for the television game show giant Mark Goodson Productions. Beginning with simple cross checking of words for Super Password, moving up to Family Feud surveys and eventually writing custom programs to manage prize winnings and contestants for The New Price is Right.
After moving to Bend, Oregon in 1993, Chip founded AutoExec Systems, the first company to produce a Windows based CRM system for car dealerships. Chrome Data (now Chrome Systems) in Portland took notice of this product and hired Chip in 1997 as VP of Product and Development where he led their transition from a DOS based automobile configuration into Windows and then onto the internet. Chrome's three-tiered architecture was the brains behind most of the early automotive websites such as Cars.com and CarsDirect.com.
He left Chrome in 2000 to join the founding management team of learning.com, an early era internet company that produces rich multimedia lessons delivered online for students in grades K-12 to learn to use technology. After surviving the infamous internet bubble burst, Chip led the Internet team at Hollywood Video, worked as a Senior Strategist/Project Manager for ISITE Design – a cutting edge Portland web agency and developed the launch strategy for an immense e-commerce platform designed to support 14 catalog retail brands as a Senior Project Manager at Orchard Brands.
Chip has managed software development efforts since before the internet and has launched over 30 websites over the course of his career. He brings a deep background of project and process management to the Operations of neutralspace and also has strong entrepreneurial experience. Chip studied Music Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston so will no doubt write us a catchy jingle someday.
