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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.