Philip Dixon

Philip Dixon
VP Engineering, Shopzilla

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Phil Dixon is the VP of Engineering for Shopzilla.com one of the largest and most comprehensive shopping networks on the planet. Each day millions of consumers shop for virtually anything via our websites Shopzilla.com, Bizrate.com and Beso.com and our publisher network.

Prior to Shopzilla, Phil was co-founder, director and CTO of Project.net — a premier provider of Enterprise Project Management software. From its inception in 1999 to over 200,000 seats deployed worldwide, Phil was a driving force behind the company’s launch, its technology innovation, its sales success and its eventual sale.

A serial entrepreneur, Phil also founded or had senior leadership roles with numerous other high-technology companies including NetProfit Investment Technologies, Rockwell Semiconductor systems, Sourcefinder where he served as Chief Technology Officer; and Internet Services Corporation a full-service Internet services company.

Phil studied Advanced Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Phil has a family, lives in San Diego and has lots of varied interests including sailing, golf and flying airplanes (often to work!).

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/phildixon

Twitter: @philipdixon

Sessions

Keynote , Web Performance
Location: Regency Ballroom
Philip Dixon (Shopzilla)
Average rating: ****.
(4.12, 26 ratings)
In 2007, Shopzilla, a leading comparison shopping service, realized that our sites were far too slow for our users and had become difficult to change and more difficult still to support. We were presented with a classic dilemma for an established internet market player: Could we really afford the costs and the risks of re-engineering a site platform responsible for all our revenue? Read more.
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