MBA Student at Harvard Business School
Greater Boston Area
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- Student at Harvard Business School
- Past
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- Consulting Architect at BBC
- Principal Group Program Manager (Director), Zune Services at Microsoft
- Research Program Manager at Vulcan, Inc
- Director of Advanced Technology at Echo Networks
- Architect and Engineer at Edusoft
- Associate at Scient
- Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab
- Education
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- Harvard Business School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Upper Canada College
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Oliver Roup’s Summary
Product focused technology leader with career focus on network delivered services and experience centered on digital media. Direct experience conceiving products, building teams from scratch, establishing culture, leading with nebulous goals and building products with tight timelines and strong resource constraints. Comfortable in a start-up or large corporate environment.
Oliver Roup’s Specialties:
engineering and program management, product ideation and refinement, product planning, functional specification, product launch, day-to-day operations. Ongoing technical proficiencies.
Oliver Roup’s Experience
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Student
Harvard Business School
(Higher Education industry)
September 2007 — Present (9 months)
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Consulting Architect
BBC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)
July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)
Performed end-to-end review of technical and organizational architecture of 5-year, 200-person software effort, driving significant technical, organizational and cultural changes: reorganization from a dozen product teams to three, consolidation of job titles, movement to a monthly release cycle and a common toolset, elimination of non-strategic projects and change of vendors to reduce costs and increase flexibility.
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Principal Group Program Manager (Director), Zune Services
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — March 2007 (4 years 1 month)
Built multi-disciplinary team from scratch: secured approval, recruited and managed team, and executed product development from concept to delivery. Worked laterally to develop Zune brand, customer promise and strategy. Set services direction, wrote specs, led design reviews, established schedules, briefed corporate leadership and ensured successful service launch across PC, XBOX and Zune platforms. Crafted complex deals with MTV, all major music labels and vendors like MusicNet and SyncCast. Frequently represented Microsoft in acquisition due-diligence, partner management, recruiting, legal deposition, internal evangelism and on-site European market examination. Managed teams as large as 35 and launched numerous other products including multiple versions of MSN Music, Video, Movies, Radio and TV.
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Research Program Manager
Vulcan, Inc
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2002 — March 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Worked for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, managing various projects including IP portfolio management, due diligence on technology investments and digital media strategy. Founded and managed Project Halo, a ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence research project in “Question Answering”. Managed multiple teams locally and overseas with multi-million dollar budgets. Presented at DARPA and semantic web conferences.
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Director of Advanced Technology
Echo Networks
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — December 2002 (3 years)
Acted as both product manager and core engineer for award-winning online radio product. Led cross-company team through multiple product iterations. Designed and implemented the technical architecture for real-time communication service supporting thousands of concurrent users. Developed formal partner engagement plans and strategy for technology investment and development.
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Architect and Engineer
Edusoft
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
October 2001 — December 2001 (3 months)
Designed, built and deployed core subsystems of the Edusoft platform including automatic grader using custom OCR and commodity sheet-fed scanners reducing per-test costs roughly 100x. In November 2003, Edusoft was acquired by The Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Associate
Scient
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SCNT; Internet industry)
September 1999 — January 2000 (5 months)
Developer responsible for design and implementation of a financial institution messaging system including all PKI and message integrity verification. Scient is now part of SBI Group.
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Research Assistant
MIT Media Lab
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 1994 — June 1999 (4 years 10 months)
Founded “Hive”, a popular open-source toolkit for making distributed software systems. Conceived, implemented and oversaw project, which served as basis for three masters theses including my own: Hive: A Software Infrastructure for Things That Think. Routinely briefed sponsors including fortune 100 C-level executives. Presented at Intel Play consortium and Nokia’s “Things That Link” workshop in Helsinki, Finland. Created a hardware and software system for the real-time acquisition and analysis of telemetry from wired athletes, deployed on runners in the Boston and San Francisco marathons in support of sports-medicine research.
Oliver Roup’s Education
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Harvard Business School
MBA, 2007 — 2009 (expected)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Eng, Computer Science, 1998 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Coordinator of Nightline, Graduate Resident Tutor at Senior House
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.Sc, Computer Science, 1994 — 1998
- Activities and Societies:
- Member and Rush Chair of Theta Delta Chi, Nightline Staff, Freshman Crew Team
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Upper Canada College
1989 — 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- Board of Stewards, Editor College Times, Varsity Crew, Little Theatre, Debate Team, Frybrook Crew
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Oliver Roup’s Interests:
connected entertainment, scalable distributed systems, connected devices
Oliver Roup’s Groups:
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Upper Canada College Alumni member -
MIT Alumni Class of 1998 member
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