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    The candidate has over 14 years of experience in product management and marketing in the telecom industry. They have experience managing products for SMS, MMS, IPTV, unified messaging, and other value-added applications. They also have experience performing competitive analysis, market studies, and business case preparation. The candidate has extensive experience with various network technologies including IMS, VoIP, IPv4/6, IPTV, broadband, Ethernet, VPNs, and legacy SS7 networks. They have worked directly with customers internationally and in various customer-facing roles. The candidate is interested in the Tektronix position due to restructuring at their current company and believes Tektronix has similar products.

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    The candidate has over 14 years of experience in product management and marketing in the telecom industry. They have experience managing products for SMS, MMS, IPTV, unified messaging, and other value-added applications. They also have experience performing competitive analysis, market studies, and business case preparation. The candidate has extensive experience with various network technologies including IMS, VoIP, IPv4/6, IPTV, broadband, Ethernet, VPNs, and legacy SS7 networks. They have worked directly with customers internationally and in various customer-facing roles. The candidate is interested in the Tektronix position due to restructuring at their current company and believes Tektronix has similar products.

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    The candidate has over 14 years of experience in product management and marketing in the telecom industry. They have experience managing products for SMS, MMS, IPTV, unified messaging, and other value-added applications. They also have experience performing competitive analysis, market studies, and business case preparation. The candidate has extensive experience with various network technologies including IMS, VoIP, IPv4/6, IPTV, broadband, Ethernet, VPNs, and legacy SS7 networks. They have worked directly with customers internationally and in various customer-facing roles. The candidate is interested in the Tektronix position due to restructuring at their current company and believes Tektronix has similar products.

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    Product Manager Questions

    1. How many years of product management experience do you have in a


    telecom environment and what kind of products have you product managed?
    If you also have product marketing experience please describe that
    separately.
    I have approximately 14 years in various facets of product
    management. Most recently, I was with Tekelec, determining
    customer requirements, giving product seminars, deciding on new
    features, training sales engineers and deciding on future roadmap
    requirements. Previous to that, I put together technical training,
    developed requirements from C level, engineering and marketing,
    developed systems from the ground up by understanding and
    working with customers to develop requirements.
    I have worked in mainly within wireless telecom and with cable
    customers with products such and SMS, MMS, IPTV, Unified
    Messaging, (Data/Voice/Video) and similar value added applications.
    On the marketing side, I have written a great deal of collateral such
    as product feature guides and have done market studies to identify
    market requirements.

    2. What experience do you have in market and competitive analysis, business


    opportunity assessment, business case preparation? Please elaborate.
    I have done a great deal of competitive analysis, doing studies of
    competitors, SWOT analysis, reviewing of third party market
    analysis, writing business cases for new products, showing
    customers and sales personnel how products are used to drive
    revenue and achieve ROI
    3. What knowledge and experience do you have with the following network
    technologies and related protocols: IMS, VoIP, IPv4/v6 networking, IPTV,
    Broadband Data, Managed Business Services, Carrier Ethernet, VPN?
    My Experience is as follows:
    IMS With Ericsson, Acision, Perficient, Nokia and Tekelec
    VoIP Tech Consultant (Ministery of Finance Saudi Arabia),
    Ericsson, Unified Messaging, Acision, uOne product

    IPv4 Common to all my positions, I was originally certified as a


    network engineer and have taken CCNA course work for IPv6. Have
    also worked with IPv6 at Tekelec, as customers are now more
    commonly requesting it
    IPTV- Did a lot of work consulting Nokia on IPTV, wrote a number of
    deep dives on efficiencies of IPTV technology for Nokia
    Broadband Data have had experience with this at Ericsson, Unified
    Messaging and with Acisions uOne product, sold to cable networks.
    Managed Business Services Was responsible Ericsson SMS hosted
    system as system engineer responsible for supporting all new and
    previous customer requirements
    Carrier Ethernet I am familiar with all facets of Ethernet since I have
    a background as a network engineer, I have worked with Ethernet
    since 1993
    VPNs Very familiar with VPNs, Since I worked for AT&T wireless in
    1997 I have worked with VPNs getting customer requirements and
    provisioning VPNs
    4. What knowledge and experience do you have with legacy SS7 voice network
    technologies and related protocols?
    I am familiar with various SS7 voice protocols such as ISUP, IAM, I
    initially had to work with these on the old Octel Serria platforms with
    Lucent and Ericsson and with prepaid voice platforms

    5. Are you willing and able to read a protocol specification understand it, and
    discuss it with the development team? Have you done this before? Please
    elaborate.
    Yes I have used standards many times, I am familiar with i.e. 3GPP,
    ANSI, TIA and others. I have used them many times as reference and
    for market compliance issues

    6. What experience do you have in Engineering (hardware, software, or systems


    development) and/or technical sales?

    14 years of non stop experience, as a sales engineer / technical product


    manager developing requirements for customers needing solutions in
    the mobile and cable telecom area

    7. Please describe your customer-facing experience (both domestic and


    international) in terms of type of interaction, at which level, direct vs. indirect,
    etc.
    Sampling of Customers:
    AT&T Wireless, Vodafone, (Europe), Verizon, TMobile, Western
    Wireless, Dobson, Bell Mobility, Claro, France Telecom, Cricket,
    Telecom Personnel Argentina, TIM, Telcel, Ameica Movil, Cincinatti
    Bell, Dobson, Millicom, Orange, Triton, Quest, Iusacell, Telefonica,
    Ericsson (Hosted SMS), Batelco
    Charter, Comcast, Time Warner, Cox
    Cross Functional Leadership: worked with Leaders of Industry, i.e.
    (All Direct) CEOs, Vice Presidents, task forces, committees,
    standards groups, user groups, providing cross functional
    leadership through recommendations, proposals, innovative
    decisions, ensuring that requirements are met in a cost effective and
    efficient manner.
    8. What is your educational background?
    CITY UNIVERSITY, Bellevue, Washington
    M.B.A., Telecommunications Management, 1996
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, California
    Professional Designation, Microcomputers and Local Area Network
    Support, 1993
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Northridge, California
    B.A., Political Science, International Relations (concentration) 1982
    Microsoft Certified Professional
    Novell Certified Network Administrator
    Novell Certified Network Engineer
    Certified Microsoft Product Specialist
    Tekelec SMS Router & Firewall Training, 2008
    Tekelec STP Maintenance and Data Base Training, 2008
    CCNA Training Boot Camp, 2007

    LogicaCMG SMSC Detailed 2 Cisco IPT Course, 2005


    LogicaCMG SMSC Basic Operator Course, 2005
    LogicaCMG Business Tools 2.0, 2005
    LogicaCMG Messaging Application Router, 2005
    Ericsson MMSC System and Administration, 2002
    Ericsson Messaging Over IP, Unified, 2001
    Dale Carnegie Course, 2001
    Lucent Sierra Maintenance, 2001
    Intro to Project Management, 1999
    Project Management, Kepner Tregoe, 1999
    Iplanet Messaging Services Analysis and Planning 5.0, 2002
    I
    9. Do you have any experience working in an Agile engineering environment as
    Product Owner?
    Yes, in developing products it was necessary to use the Agile
    methodology in developing requirements for customers
    10. Why are you looking to leave your current position and what is your interest in
    the Tektronix position?
    Currently looking for a position due to Tekelec restructuring, Tektronix
    has similar products

    11. Are you willing and interested in working as an individual contributor for this
    position? What are your career goals?
    Yes, be the best that I can be in the position

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