Chris Knowlton is a Senior Program Manager on the Internet Information Services (IIS) media server team at Microsoft, where he helps drive media server strategy and engineering.  The team delivers platform technologies for delivering audio and video with Windows Server 2008.  Key deliverables are Windows Media Services 2008 and IIS Media Services, including the adaptive streaming technology known as IIS Smooth Streaming.  

 

 

Chris has been helping Microsoft bring leading-edge streaming media technology to market since 2002.  Prior to Microsoft, he spent ten years in project management, group management, alliance marketing, and leadership positions at several firms.