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A seasoned senior product manager within the mobile & consumer services space with a solid technical background. Significant domestic and international experience in the mobile, telecommunications and digital media market. A proven track record of successful delivery of: product management, project management, research & development, operational support, pre-sales, technical account management, marketing, business and corporate development. Product...

A seasoned senior product manager within the mobile & consumer services space with a solid technical background. Significant domestic and international experience in the mobile, telecommunications and digital media market. A proven track record of successful delivery of: product management, project management, research & development, operational support, pre-sales, technical account management, marketing, business and corporate development. Product and Project Delivery, understanding what it takes to design, build, deliver, manage and review complete solutions and propositions. Experience in managing and working with 3rd party suppliers. Solid Technical and In Depth Understanding of mobile networks, complimentary wireless IP technologies and services, brought about by extensive experience in mobile network engineering. Drives Business, knowing and having what it takes to turn concepts or visions into solid business objectives and meaningful products or services. A proven track record in product management covering both enterprise and consumer propositions Creative Thinker with an Entrepreneurial Spirit, continuously looking at how to best exploit both current business assets and emergent trends into a net company gain. A passion for technology and effective services. Commercially Astute, extensive experience in business case development, partner selection, contract negotiation, product and solution ownership with experience of tier 1 carriers and organisations. Powerful Communicator, translating industry jargon into evocative messages for a broad audience and in various forms: from internal evangelist, through customer and partner presentations, to conference speaker and panelist, media liaison and press releases, white papers and workshop facilitation. Extensive Domestic and International Experience, having been responsible for aspects of 5 Vodafone network launches and mobile services which run across networks in Europe, The Middle East and the US.Head of Engineering @ As a key leadership role reporting to the CEO, I am responsible for the Engineering, Product Management and UX/UI teams. Our current projects include: Copyright Hub - A digital licensing platform and online marketplace for copyright holders Data Catalyser - A platform and proposition to help organisations create value from mixing and analysing closed data in a highly secure and robust way. GMDSP - A groundbreaking linked open data project running in the Greater Manchester area Environmental Data Exchange - A discovery platform enabling users to search, discover, use and share both open and closed environmental datasets. The Milton Keynes Low Power Wide Area Network Project is one of the first large-scale, pilot/demonstrators for IoT telecommunications. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomBusiness Mentor @ MassChallenge connects high-impact early stage startups with mentors, partners & investors – while providing free (and no equity taken!) support during a 4-month accelerator period in London. From May 2015 to Present (7 months) London, United KingdomHead of Product Innovation Engineering (Hibu Labs), Product Development @ Responsible for running the Product Innovation Engineering Team. The team are composed of solution architects, front and back end developers, App developers, UI / UX designers, QA. Delivering innovative solutions and processes to the business. Current projects include: Hibu Voice, a complete suite of voice based solutions offering utility to our merchant customers. CallConnect – a patented solution that allows hibu to measure all calls to all merchants, thus providing proven value metrics to our customers as well as a feed of data to our Big Data analysis. Review and recommendations to enhance the sales tools currently utilised by the business leading to an overall reduction in the number and their complexity. Responsibilities & achievements include: Leadership in innovation & R&D in the digital product team project and product roadmaps, feature specification, user experience design, story development, sprint cycle planning and review, SCRUM master, initial delivery and post launch review and analysis. Responsible for new concept market research, feasibility studies, qualitative analysis and the running of consumer focus groups. Author of patents for innovative solutions and IP. From October 2012 to June 2014 (1 year 9 months) London, United KingdomProduct Director - Developer Platforms @ Responsible for design, specifications, product management, deliver and roll out all outward facing platforms and interfaces to support the WAC product portfolio. This included Network APIs for In-application and mobile payments and the WAC 2.0 runtime ecosystem. Delivered the functionality, features and look-and-feel of the core WAC platform including: product design of end user payment flow, end user portal, customer care portals, the developer portal and systems to enable the creation and management of in app payment items and events. Responsible for all detailed requirement specifications, which include all user cases, functional specifications, wireframes, final graphics, user flows, interaction, sequence and UML diagrams. From February 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomConsultant Product Manager for Vodafone 360 @ Responsible for delivering the market and functional requirements for the next releases of the Vodafone 360 Superstore Proposition. Launched in November 2009 and went live in 8 markets. Direct responsibilities, accountability & achievements: Roadmap, MRS and functional requirements for the next release of the Vodafone Superstore. Architect and requirements owner for the Vodafone Premium Partnership Program. Overall technical expert within the product management team, ensuring that all new requirements and product modifications were effectively specified. Responsible for On-net search capabilities. From July 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 6 months) Director of Product Management & Marketing @ Defined Livewire Mobile’s portfolio of products and managed services including: music download, storefront, ring tones, videos, and ringbacks. Supplying and servicing operators including: Vodafone, 3, Bell, Sprint, Orange. Direct responsibilities, accountability & achievements: Management of the Product marketing (5 direct reports), with full accountability to management. Delivered the 2008 and 2009 prioritised roadmap for entire product portfolio of both managed service and CAPEX offerings. Personally produced product propositions, business cases and detailed technical requirements documents for all roadmap items. Responsible for the business case development, including market entry, product and pricing strategies for all services and products; this involved presenting the business case justification to Livewire’s CEI, and gaining subsequent commercial approval. Product pricing, financial modelling, bid, proposal and RFx response production and sign-off. Worldwide sales support and collateral generation. Successful service launches at operators including Vodafone Greece and Portugal, 3 – UK, BSNL - India, Bell - Canada, Sprint – US, Cricket US, TNZ – New Zealand. From February 2008 to June 2009 (1 year 5 months) Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager @ Responsible for the team dedicated to promoting NEC’s Value Added Services (VAS) and Enterprise product portfolio towards the European operator and ISP market. Portfolio included, VoIP Seal, Mobile Advertising, i-mode and associated services, DRM, streaming, A-GPS, IP messaging and transcoding. Key customers included, O2, Telefonica, Bouygues, BT, COLT. Direct responsibilities and accountability Leading the NEC Europe product team Engaging with customers and providing sales with all collateral, technical backup and demos and pricing guidance. Management of the VAS roadmap in Europe and go to market strategy including key customer selection, market intelligence and engagement. Created the new product development process taking raw ideas from the market and turning them into coherent product descriptions backed up with business cases. European marketing and sales support including management of customer trials, demand requirements and management, RFI/RFP/RFQ preparation and sign off. Support for NEC conference participation including MWC and CTIA – Hong Kong. Strategic partnerships and business development including partnership with Seeker Wireless, Toshiba for AGPS trial. From August 2005 to January 2008 (2 years 6 months) Product Manager @ Responsible for the entire Ring Back Tones (RBT) commercial and marketing proposition at Vodafone Global. Management of the commercial team, made up from the product managers of 15 Operations Companies (OpCos). Responsible for the service P & L, product roadmap, the commercial and brand proposition, supplier relationships and definition of service. Management of the interfaces to other Vodafone departments and external organisations such as: user experience, supply chain and content partners. The RBT service was a high profile within Vodafone Global for 2005/06. Launched in 18 VF properties and saw rapid growth, customer acceptance and hit all targets. From June 2004 to August 2005 (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomRBT Technical Project Manager @ Responsible for delivering a global technical solution for the Ring Back Tones (RBT) service to the Vodafone group. I manage a technical team of 15 people and am responsible for all technical aspects of the project. These include the high level design and overall project management. The RFI, RFP process, vendor trials and selection. Solution roll-out across the Vodafone group of companies as well as support for supply chain management. The new service which has shown unprecedented popularity and usage in Asia is likely to overtake the ring tone market within the first few months of service. From September 2003 to June 2004 (10 months) GPRS & 3G Network Designer @ Responsible for the strategy and implementation of content and IP optimisation for the Vodafone Office and Vodafone Live suite of products. • Through this program, Vodafone was able to halve the download times for general internet web access and accelerate corporate e-mail access over GPRS by a factor of six, thus making Vodafone the market leader in service performance. Vodafone rolled out this technology in 16 of its OpCos. Responsible for the technical aspects of Vodafone’s push e-mail solution. This included feature specification, vendor evaluation & roll out Responsible for QoS aspects of the GPRS and UMTS core network which included heading the 3G QoS working group at Vodafone Global & architecture of the Vodafone Global IP backbone network. From August 2001 to September 2003 (2 years 2 months) GermanySwitching Network Manager @ Seconded to Vodafone - Malta to head the Core Switching Network. Responsible for the IN platform team, Switching team and BSS team. Direct line management of 9 staff and group budget. Responsible for the budget of the group which included the cap-ex, op-ex and training budgets. Architecture and topology design, MSC/BSC configuration management, IN platform and IN services, MSC/BSC software upgrade specification, the evaluation of new features and services, and the testing, verification and integration of new network elements. Oversaw the capacity planning and forecasting, numbering plan, and MSC/BSC dimensioning. Due to the network improvements that the team put in place we saw a 30% increase in the number of subscribers and a 85% decrease in the number of dropped calls. From November 2000 to July 2001 (9 months) MaltaInterconnect & Numbering Manager @ Seconded by Vodafone Airtouch to establish and head the Signalling, Interconnect and Numbering section of the Engineering department of the third GSM operator in Hungary. VF Hungary represented the first VF launch in Eastern Europe which to date continues to thrive and grow. Design of the signalling and interconnect network with the local PSTN (MATAV) and other mobile operators (Pannon and Westel 900). Responsible for the technical and commercial side of the interconnect agreements as well as the development of the network numbering plan. Responsible for the network interconnect accounting definition and implementation on the Nokia switches as well as the dimensioning and planning of the additional MSCs in the network. From September 1999 to October 2000 (1 year 2 months) Budapest, HungarySwitching & Interconnect @ Seconded by Vodafone in the UK to develop the Signalling and Interconnect group for Click GSM – a Vodafone/Airtouch joint venture. Established the primary test ISUP interconnects with the PSTN International and Local exchanges. Built the roaming testing team which enabled Click GSM to go live with 8 roaming partners at the launch of commercial service, growing to 50 partners in the first year more than doubling the initial business plan. Developed the MAP interconnect signalling strategy which provided the network with significant redundancy and signalling overflow capabilities. Responsible for the acceptance testing of all the GSM MSCs both in terms of hardware and software From July 1998 to August 1999 (1 year 2 months) EgyptEngineering Telecoms Engineer @ Joined as a graduate engineer and was responsible for the software and acceptance testing the various network nodes. Gained an extensive knowledge of BTNUP, ISUP, MAP, TCAP and SCCP signalling as well as the Vodafone SMS, Pre-Pay and Voice Mail systems. Responsible for all IN node testing which included the Pre-Payment System, Group Services Platform, SMSC, Smart Message Relay, Message Location Register, and the Ericsson voice messenger. Responsible for the IR24 and IR26 call feature and data testing required for a bilateral roaming agreement. Personally responsible for the connection of over 50 roaming partners to the Vodafone Network, an activity which accounted for 27% of Vodafone’s annual profit. Seconded to work for Libertel in Holland for three months to aid with the testing and connection of roaming partners as well as to train the Dutch test engineers. From October 1995 to June 1998 (2 years 9 months) Newbury, UKBEng (hons), Electronic Engineering @ University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.M.I.S.T) From 1991 to 1995 Rugby school From 1985 to 1990 Rugby school From 1985 to 1990 Peter Karney is skilled in: Telecommunications, Mobile Payments, NFC, In application payments, QR codes, QR, Applications, 3G, Payments, Managed Services, Product Management, GPRS, Mobile Communications, Mobile Advertising, Wireless, Strategic Partnerships, Line Management, Pre-sales, Mobile Devices, VAS, Mobile Technology, Business Development, Mobile Internet, VoIP, Mobile Applications, Enterprise Software, Mobile Commerce, IP, Product Development, User Experience, Outsourcing, Management, Entrepreneurship, Solutions Marketing