About

Founded by BEA Systems, Inc. alumni Matt Chiste and Ashish Bhutiani, Function1 takes a customer-centric approach to developing the most usable, functional, and scalable portal solutions for the enterprise. Tapping into over a decade of ALUI architecture, implementation, and development experience, and almost three decades of IT experience, we can help even the most demanding enterprise achieve its goal of delivering enterprise portal functionality to its customers.

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Ashish started his career in Information Technology 10 years ago as an original employee of Millioneyes.com, a Rockville, MD based start-up offering branded free dial-up internet services. After helping the company grow from a handful of people to over 40 people, he took a job with Plumtree Software as a Software Consultant. Over the next six years, Ashish worked his way up the services organization. In 2005, he was promoted to a Practice Manager in the Federal Region with responsibility for all Civilian Services Accounts.

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Matt has over 12 years of Information Technology and development experience. His extensive experience includes business development as well as architecting and developing complex systems management, portal, and web-based applications. Working as an Implementation Manager and then a WW Technical Consulting Manager at Plumtree Software (acquired by BEA Systems, Inc. in Oct '05) for the last several years, he contributed to the architecture, implementation, development, and training on some of Plumtree's largest and highest-profile accounts.

Matt was a founder of TriActive.com, a web-based Systems Management portal, where he architected and co-developed core agent technology, then worked to build a best-in-class Services organization.

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John was an early employee of Plumtree Software and worked in the Engineering group at Plumtree headquarters in San Francisco. Upon leaving the Bay Area and moving east to D.C., he joined Plumtree's Public Sector Consulting team where he leveraged his skills at a wide variety of public sector and non-profit projects. Having worked with the portal and related products from its early stages to where they are at today, John has over 5 years of Plumtree / BEA AquaLogic experience. Prior to joining Plumtree, John worked for several years with Accenture in its Public Sector and State and Local practice groups.