Editor-in-Chief at SiliconANGLE
Tyler, Texas Area
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Mark Hopkins’s Summary
Mark spends his days expanding his horizons in the New Media world, writing and editing for rizzn.com, and producing a wide variety of multimedia content for clients and public consumption alike.
Aside from recent forays into New Media like Associate Editor at Mashable.com and his own sites, he has worked as a coder and project manager for many large corporations such as Apple Computers, Nokia, Cox Communications and CompUSA Corporate. In 2001, Hopkins left the large corporations to try his hand in executive management in the field of dot com startups, and has worked for companies such as PerfectInvoice, Ninjaco, Parallad Studios, BlipMedia and most recently PoddedMeat, Mashable, and Studio.Rizzn.
Mark Hopkins’s Specialties:
social media, public relations, podcasting, video production, audio production, on air talent, writing
Mark Hopkins’s Experience
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Editor-in-Chief
SiliconANGLE
(Internet industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
When not participating in SALabs R&D projects, maintain the 250-person contributor blog, pen thought pieces and whitepapers and contribute editorial and news pieces to the main blog.
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big kahuna
studio.rizzn
(Entertainment industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
An ad hoc production company designed to produce a number of short run video and audio podcasts for clients as well as a number of creative works. The most popular podcast we produced averaged, at its peak, around 300,000 downloads a month.
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Associate Editor
Mashable
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
September 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Mashable is among the top 10 of the blogs in the world and the largest one devoted to social networking.
One of three editors on staff, reporting directly to Senior Editor Adam Ostrow.
Also responsible for the production, broadcast and some of the ad sales of Mashable's audio and video podcast series, Mashable Conversations and Elite Tech News. During the run of all the series, combined total views downloads peaked out at over 60k per month and well over 500k in total. -
Product Manager
5Tribe
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Designed, managed and maintained from the ground up custom automation hardware and software for the purposes of automating database communication to legacy system as well as in the field data acquisition systems.
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Founding Member
BlipMedia
(Internet industry)
January 2005 — January 2006 (1 year 1 month)
I wrote all the code and managed podcaster relations for what was the first free podcast hosting company on the Internet. At our peak, the service played host to almost two thirds of all the podcast producers in existence. During Hurricane Wilma, unfortunately, our servers were destroyed in the wreckage. Consequently, our remaining assets were sold off to a competitor.
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Developer
Nokia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
July 2000 — May 2001 (11 months)
Three Projects under Nokia’s Consumer Internet Marketing Group:
1)General and ongoing upkeep for www.NokiaUSA.com; the site was a ecommerce and product information site for the American line of Nokia phones.
2)Ringtone Development: Under the mandate to come up with alternative income sources for the phone manufacturer, the “Digital Services” suite was conceptualized, and I led the team that wrote protocols and transfer utilities so that custom ringtones could xferred from a PC to a mobile via the SMS. Was considered Nokia’s primary expert on digital services and the SMS protocol outside the research and development department. During this project, I was responsible for writing standards for a Nokia ringtone file format (see Nokia RTX v.2a specs).
3)Participated in the development and deployment of Nokia’s American digital service site and the e-commerce engine behind it.
