Chris Peeler
Associate Chair, Creative Business Leadership
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Peeler is an accomplished media and academic leader with 25+ years shaping television, digital news, and product strategy, now serving as Associate Chair of Creative Business Leadership at SCAD where he teaches entrepreneurship, finance, and global strategy. He led CNN Digital’s video operations to billions of annual views, grew audiences more than 500%, and doubled mobile app consumption through data-driven content and workflow innovation. Chris blends hands-on production experience—from GameTap and Sony to Channel M—with strategic roles in sales and acquisitions, giving him rare cross-functional fluency across content, distribution, and monetization. An Emmy-winning producer and Peabody honoree who has judged the Emmys, he also contributes to open-source tooling efforts (notably PHing) that reflect his technical savvy in build systems and legacy PHP support. Based in Savannah, he mentors creative leaders and helps startups scale through practical operations, budget management, and organizational change.
16 years of coding experience
BA, Communications, BA, Communications at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Leadership / Organizational Behavior / Strategy, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Leadership / Organizational Behavior / Strategy at University of West Georgia
Github Skills (7)
php10
build-tools10
ant10
build-automation10
phpmd10
makefile9
gnu-make9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phingofficial/phing
May 2014 - Feb 2019
PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `phing` build system, making changes related to the integration and compatibility with the PHPMD tool. Their work focused on resolving paths, class names, and formatting issues to ensure the proper execution of PHPMD within the Phing environment. The commits involved modifications to PHP files related to PHPMD integration, demonstrating expertise in build system configuration and tool integration. Furthermore, the user made efforts to support legacy PHP versions and to fix formatting issues.
build-projectphpapachegnu-makegnu
chasepeeler/Slim
Apr 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
phpframeworkslim-frameworkslim
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