Chris Hoover

Current

VP, Product Management at Openet Telecom

Past

Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Narus, Inc
Director, Marketing at Traverse Networks (acquired by Avaya, Inc.)
Director, Product Management at Sonim Technologies

Product Management at Openwave
Producer at Netscape
Comedian at Various improv and skit comedy troupes

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Education

University of Maryland College Park

Recommended

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Connections

287 connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

www.chrishoover.org

Chris Hoover’s Summary

More than ten years’ marketing and product management experience within tier one networks and similar complex systems. Strong experience across a variety of domains, including application layer services, bearer layer services, and OSS/BSS services.

A strong technical acumen is helpful for marketers and product managers within the telecommunications industry. Specific geek credentials include three IMS-related patents (one granted, two pending), participation in network standards bodies, and a book (co-author), "Dynamic WAP Application Development" (Manning, 2001, ISBN 1930110081).

Chris Hoover’s Specialties:

wireless networks, DOCSIS, broadband networks, telecommunication, DPI, OSS/BSS, policy, PCRF, 3GPP standards, marketing, product management, product marketing, product strategy, product requirements, usability, process planning

Chris Hoover’s Experience

VP, Product Management

Openet Telecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Openet provides SCTE 130 compliant advanced advertising solutions, online charging (including rating and balance management), offline charging, and network policy solutions (PCRF) for tier-one telecommunications operators.

Responsibilities in brief: Define and lead product strategy. Manage globally distributed product management team. Frequent speaker at industry events worldwide.

Specific initiatives include:

* Defined product strategy for SCTE-130 compliant Advanced Advertising solutions, including audience measurement solutions, for cable operators and IPTV deployments.

* Evolve Policy and Charging Control (PCC) solutions to align with needs of "post-flat-rate" next generation business models within telecom.
Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Narus, Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Narus leverages L7 information received from in-line taps to enable early detection and mitigation of network anomalies (such as DDoS attacks), as well as keyword targeting for lawful intercept of specific online communication. Narus' key differentiator is to provide these service at core network speeds (10GigE), something no other vendor is capable of doing. Customers include the worlds largest operators, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and KDDI.

Brief job description: Recruited, trained and managed product team. Developed product strategy, defined product requirements, and implemented formal requirements management process for a product line protecting the integrity of the most complicated, behaviorally unpredictable networks in the world.
Director, Marketing

Traverse Networks (acquired by Avaya, Inc.)

(Wireless industry)

April 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Promoted to senior marketing executive (reporting to the CEO) within six months of joining company. Led team responsible for all aspects of marketing, user interface, and product management for an innovative product line enabling mobilization of enterprise communication systems.
Director, Product Management

Sonim Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

February 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 3 months)

Sonim provides IMS-compliant Push-to-talk services designed for GPRS (2G) networks. Enabling low-latency, high quality real-time VOIP within a commercial GPRS network was a significant technological achievement.

Promoted from product manager to director within one year of joining company. Conceived and implemented multiple innovative products, resulting in three patents (one granted, two pending). Managed co-development of product with global corporate partners, including Ericsson and Nortel.
Product Management

Openwave

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OPWV; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )

Openwave was the pioneer of wireless internet connectivity, providing the first WAP gateways and WAP-capable handset clients.

Worked with developers, product managers, customers and analysts to articulate the value proposition and competitive differentiation via presentations, whitepapers, case studies, web content, webinars, customer newsletters and demos. Contributions helped land the largest (to that date) sales contract in company history.
Producer

Netscape

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Produced the (then) most profitable site on the Internet, including oversight of the integration of the Google search engine into NetSearch. This was Google’s first commercial endeavor, and perhaps the overlooked watershed event behind their success.
Comedian

Various improv and skit comedy troupes

(Entertainment industry)

January 1991 — July 1993 (2 years 7 months)

Wrote, directed, and performed stand-up, skit, and improvised comedy in venues throughout the Eastern seaboard.

• No longer funny.