Christopher Chrcek Email & Phone Number

Holmdel, New Jersey, Us

As Senior Director of Product Management, I have the incredible opportunity to lead our Network APIs division. In this strategic role, I set the vision and direction for our API products, driving innovation and ensuring we align with our overarching business goals. I lead a talented team of product managers, collaborating closely with engineering, marketing, and sales teams to deliver high-quality API solutions that not only meet customer needs but also respond to market demands. Some of my key responsibilities are as follows:- Craft and execute a visionary product strategy for Network APIs that aligns with the organization's long-term goals and aspirations.- Inspire, mentor, and empower a dynamic team of product managers, fostering a culture rich in innovation and accountability.- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define impactful product requirements and prioritize features, guided by customer insights, market trends, and business impact.- Conduct insightful market analysis to reveal growth opportunities and establish a competitive edge for our API offerings.- Propel the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery while upholding the highest standards of quality.- Establish meaningful metrics and KPIs that reflect the success of our API products and inspire future development initiatives.- Engage passionately with key stakeholders—customers, partners, and internal teams—to gather insights and ensure our efforts resonate with market needs.- Champion an exceptional developer experience, ensuring our APIs are intuitive, well-documented, and supported by comprehensive resources.- Stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies in APIs and networking, seamlessly integrating groundbreaking advancements into our product strategy.

Tampa, Florida, Us

Responsible for defining and implementing a growth strategy for our market leading enterprises platform as a service offering. This includes provide leadership to assist sales in moving towards an outcome-based selling model. Leads a team of product managers who are championing strategic sales plans & business development initiatives to ensure accelerated funnel growth & ultimately new business. Responsible for defining and executing initiatives that will better position our sales teams to secure large global accounts & to build strategic partnerships and exploring M&A opportunities. - Building a high performing team by providing strong mentorship, coaching and guidance

Chalfont St Peter, Gb

Bringing 20+ years’ experience in product management to RWS. Deep expertise developing product roadmaps for enterprise platforms by driving the strategic, technical, and market-based decisions required to build successful solutions, with a strong focus on customer success. Prior to RWS, I was Senior Director of Product at Mavenir (formerly Xura). held product leadership roles at Nokia, Motorola, and IBM.

Chalfont St Peter, Gb

Turnaround specialist who has a successful track record of taking legacy or underutilized assets and repositioning then to be better aligned with today’s market requirements and creating double digit growth and significant margin expansion opportunities for the company. I am currently responsible for defining the vision, developing the strategy and contributing to the product roadmap for RWS’ content management suite (Tridion). Worked closely with RWS’ product development teams and strategic partners to deliver the RWS’s content managment product offerings. Served as the product champion to both internal and external audiences. - Managed a team of product managers and product owners that were responsbile for the rollout and broad adoption of the SAFe/Agile framework and principals across RWS’s Content Solutions Business.- Engaged with field account sales, product marketing, communication, developers, and customers as an all-around product resource to explain functionality, demonstrate benefits, and build relationships to grow the business.- Proactively identified, prioritized and drove resolution to project issues.- Developed partner channel strategy to assist in acceleration of new technology rollouts as part of the customers broader multi-faceted digital transformation strategy around content management for employees, customers and partners.- Oversaw market research and monitor competitive activity.- Prepared for business reviews, financial analysis & forecasting.- Engaged with regional sales and product marketing around Go-To-Market plans. - Explored promotions and partnerships to extend product line into new customers, verticals, education, and late adopters.- Defined and led efforts to define the product strategy and worked closley with product development, UX and strategic partners to define the requirements associated with delivering on that strategy.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Responsible for setting the direction, product vision, and strategy for Mavenir’s Enterprise-focused cloud services platform(s) based on WebRTC and A2P Messaging. Owned all of the product road-maps and associated requirements for Mavenir’s enterprise portfolio. Coordinated internal groups to lead, define, build, and deliver on Mavenir’s enterprise solutions --> including outward facing efforts which were designed to provide guidance and coordination to our key customers and channel partners. Evangelized the product portfolio both inside and outside of the company. Worked closely with partners (ecosystem creation/launch), engineering resources, operations, and Mavenir’s financial teams to deliver enterprise offering in the required timelines and on budget. Guided the technical teams in terms of ensuring that Mavenir’s enterprise solutions not only met the current market requirements but could easily be enhanced to address the rapidly evolving demands of our customers.Supported problem escalations as required. Led the product development process across organizations by ensuring that clear directions were communicated to engineering and operations teams – which included defining and prioritizing new features/product enhancements and/or platform improvements. Defined and reported on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify trends and opportunities. Performed regular operations reviews and status updates with senior leadership and investors.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Responsible for driving business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility and integration with technology via continuous process improvemen. This too should include the following activities:Own all the critical processes that support the operational execution of the S3G business. Responsibilities include Business processes definition and simplification as required including compliance management, validation and/or readiness. Responsible for all cross functional and domain Knowledge Management (intellectual capital) which is essential in driving a common practice and understanding across the organization with efficient reuse of all possible information and learning’s. Provided leadership to define and execute the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Architecture strategy for Information. The scope of Information covers structured and unstructured types of information such as information stored as data in databases or information stored in content, knowledge, document or record management systems. Created a strategic plan that aligned ALU's IT road-map with the business strategy.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Responsible for the identification of new technology/applications trends in the region that will allow ALU to further expand its overall services presence. This too includes the following activities: Responsible for defining the long-term strategy for the Nokia professional services/solution portfolio, with a particular focus on assisting the various NokiaServices Business Divisions in defining services investment plans based on future market needs. The overall goal was to map out a 3+ year roadmap with each business division based on the needs of the region and insure that we are fully prepared to address the evolving requirements of the market (proactive focus). One key success from my efforts was creation of new Nokia Services Operating Environment/Software Oriented Architecture – which provided the foundation for the rapid creation of new OSS/BSS related services, specifically targeted at emerging industy veritcals (for example: analytics, cloud and/or M2M).Also, was responsible for the strategic planning and for performing feasibility analysis’ on new business opportunities including joint venture partner and acquisition targets.Leveraged "best practices" and "inter-regional collaborative information sharing" to insure that we are fully capitalizing on the extensive solutions and/or knowledge repository contained across Nokia, to better assist us in positioning our offerings and growing our business in the Americas. Driven the data gathering, analysis and dissemination of information on competition/competitive environment -- which will may include the following elements. Work with product and technical marketing to identify the most compelling competitive differentiation for our products. Develop tangible sell-against messaging, positioning and materials for the field in partnership with the business units and corporate marketing, and educate the field on how to use these tools.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- (Miami, FL): January 2004 – August 2008:Responsible for all regional operations and solutions development -- assoicated with Nokia's Convergence Portfolio (Multi-core Solutions, Convergent Payment Platforms, Multi-media Solutions and/or IMS-related Enabling Platforms and/or Applications and all associated services.• Account Development – Responsible for developing custom technical solution solutions with “key” customers in the region (creating differentiation approach to secure certain portions of the customer business in a highly commoditized environment. • Portfolio Management – Conducted revenue, market share, profitability and ROI analysis, industry and technology benchmarking• Project Management – Developed project timelines, defined crossfunctional teams, completed risk analysis/feasibility studies and implemented mitigation plans when required.• Regional CTO Responsiblity - Evaluate technology choices of Noelia's various solutions groups to insure that that their products and future roadmaps where aligned with the needs of the Latin American region. Developed a very strong background in regards to understanding competitors solutions and how to counteract any threats that these offering may impose on our overall position in the region.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Detailed knowledge in Access, Convergence (including VoIP/IPTV), CATV, Optical, Storage, Wireless Networking Products and/or Services:Business Operations - Responsible for setting target costs, creating and executing on plans to meet these targets. Lead a team that also distributed a monthly forecast for production planning purposes. Customer and Sales Support - Provided successful pre/post sales support (presentations, technical responses, network designs, pricing and competitive comparisions). Including the development and implementation of the division's quality initiatives (ISO9001/TL9001).Financial Management - Defined and managed a $196M R&D budget. Responsible for the overall profit and loss for multiple product lines and defined strategies that insured a positive positive contribution margin to the corporation.Development Leader - Responsilble for leading a team that defined/configured the detailed product level archtitecture for complex optical transport systems. .Pricing Strategiest - Developed competitive product pricing, conducted profitability and margin analysis, created product configurator and pricing tool.Product Launch (including Life Cycle) Management - Managed the phase-in/phase-out of products based on the 4 phases of the process management architecture strategy.Product Management - Developed business cases, feasibility analysis, market analysis, competitive intelligence, including profit and loss analysis.Sourcing Lead - Responsible for defining sourcing strategies and assisting in price and contractual negotiations with strategic supply line partners.

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for soliciting, analyzing, and approving bids for goods and services. Monitored obsolete and excess inventory, and arranged for the sale of scrap, obsolete, and surplus materials and by-products. Ensured compliance with production, research and development engineering, and global supply, in the development of components, equipment, and product specifications. Established and maintained supplier performance metrics. Developed a detailed reporting matrix that compared forecasted demand against current and planned capital equipment, labor, and potential working hours available. Lead an implementation team for Oracle ERP and I2 Demand Planning Modules.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for procurement and inventory control on all supplier sourced kits/components. Initiated early supplier involvement program on all high dollar mechanical components. Maintained daily interface with suppliers, quality control, and engineering to ensure an adequate supply of required items and adherence to all ISO 9001, internal audit, and Quality System Review requirements.; One of the world's largest providers of advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and/or microelectronics.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for source development selection of over one hundred and fifty million dollars worth of supplied material. Developed and evaluated supplier proposals, and negotiated contracts for turnkey operations and future business partnerships. Documented, facilitated and verified completeness of cost and investment estimates.