Chris Chevalier Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Established Zed Foundry to provide Product Management and Product Marketing consulting and contracting services to organizations.• Help clients determine specific strategies for marketing campaigns, perform competitive assessments, provide analysis of market surveys. • Produce product marketing materials including sales training decks, whitepapers, infographics, product datasheets, blog posts, and long form articles.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

• Manage endpoint security and data security products installed on 2 million computers, generating $16 million in revenue. Customers include Fortune 500 companies, military, government, large enterprise, and medium-sized businesses in Europe, U.S., Asia, Middle East, and Africa.• Act as Scrum Product Owner for up to 4 teams of software engineers and quality assurance testers, located in the U.S., Europe, and China.• Responsible for roadmap planning, release planning, managing development resources through relationships and influence, establishing, justifying, and communicating market value, working with Marketing, Sales Engineering, and Sales teams to establish positioning, customer benefits, interviewing customers to determine current pain points and future needs, and prioritizing product maintenance work.• Developed and launched new products (0 to 1) in addition to managing existing products in Data Protection Group.• Managed encryption products through FIPS140-2 government certification process to increase adoption among high-security market segments.• Instituted several Product Management processes and communication vehicles in the company to improve transparency, stay aligned with customer and market needs, manage expectations, and communicate priorities.• Promoted from Senior Product Manager. Directly supervised Product Managers, Beta Programs Manager, Technical Product Manager, and Certifications Manager

Scottsdale, Arizona

• Created and launched a nationwide network of consumer local search sites monetized through small and medium sized business advertising, automating the company's natural search optimization expertise. Hired and managed a 10-person team including developers, copy writers, and sales. Achieved #1 search result and other page 1 listings in Google Search for our clients.• Created a new online brand reputation monitoring service offering and supporting software, giving clients actionable insights into their brand presence on social media. Success with large clients including Bank of America, Symantec, others.

Scottsdale, Arizona

• Developed a 15-product portfolio of consumer electronics products which generated $200 million in annual revenue.• Balanced the requirements of major retailers, the capabilities of emerging technologies, our business goals, and factory capabilities to produce tens of thousands of units a month for the North American market.• Managed 15-20 direct reports in Engineering, Service, QA, and Technical Writing departments. • Managed production at multiple factories in Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, England, and Germany• Evaluate market feasibility and technical viability of new products and product features and manage the development of those products. • Developed products with development cycles ranging from 3 months to 1 year, with budgets of essentially zero to $500,000

Ludwigsburg, Germany

Team lead for UHF radio relay van. Member of tower team. Selected for advanced training. Awarded Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal.