4228 Rickey’s Way Unit #E

Palo Alto, CA 94306

+1 650 283 8068

John A. Loughney

EMPLOYMENT

Head of the Tech Community.

(650) 283 8068

john.loughney@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/jloughney

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Microsoft Mobile Devices.

Mar 2014 – present.

In this position, I worked on both short-term tactical architecture projects as well as longer term structural

processes to drive innovation into R&D teams. Examples of the shorter term projects include designing the

architecture to bring Rich Call (RCS), VoLTE and Operator video calls into Lumia Tablets; defining the local

connectivity architecture to power tablet, PC and phone companionship experiences. The longer-term projects

focused on defining a scalable process for creating and filing IPR inside the Microsoft Mobile Devices Group;

defining the process and execution of an ideation and hackathon strategy for Microsoft Mobile Devices Group, as

part of a company-wide Hackathon in July 2014, the results were 8000 registered participants and 3000 hacks.

Head of the Tech Community.

CTO Unit, Nokia.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2014.

The purpose of the position, as defined by the CEO, was to drive Nokia R&D to higher functioning state, increase

risk taking and speed innovations to market. My team acted as a tiger-team, working with R&D teams across the

company, to build R&D and technical competencies; identify and resolve productization bottlenecks and to improve

innovation. Part of our initiatives were to stage a series of over 20 Nokia-wide hackathons for achieving three key

goals: driving innovation; building R&D competencies and driving engagement. Results were that over 30 hacks

were put on product roadmaps; over 50 invention reports were filed; dozens of product innovations were vetted

and over 1000 internal developers created their first Windows Phone app. Key technology themes were defined

across all of business groups to improve R&D focus. These technologies included Nokia PureView imaging, HTML5

application development, Software Defined Radio, and Internet of Things. My team was responsible for running

Architecture Camps across the main business groups to resolve technical blocks during product creation and review

lessons learned from the previous product cycles.

Head of Product Management.

MeeGo, Nokia.

Sep 2009 – Jan 2012.

I was responsible for bootstrapping the product strategy and product requirements for highest tier smartphones in

the Nokia portfolio for North America. Worked with Nokia Design to create a portfolio of 8 devices for North

America for 2010 through 2012 –t he Nokia N950 and N9 were part of that portfolio. I worked directly with US

operators in defining product requirements, application and ecosystem requirements. As this was a new platform, I

also created the processes for capturing operator and ecosystem requirements, resulting in a 2-fold improvement

over other existing Nokia Platforms. I helped to define the application ecosystem approach for Meego and oversaw

management of $10 million fund for application creation. Finally, I worked with a series of partner managers to

define the application experiences with major application providers such as Mozilla, Foursquare, Twitter, LinkedIn,

etc. and delivered them as part of the Nokia N9.

Collaboration Manager.

Maemo OS, Nokia.

Nov 2008 – Sep 2009.

Responsible for managing partners, engaging in business development and scouting for potential disruptions.

Managed the development project to ensure preloads as well initial Ovi Store content for the Nokia N900, with a

budget of $4 million. Responsible for creating North American developer ecosystem strategy for Maemo and then

executing it with key partners.

Senior Trials Manager.

Nokia CTO unit, Palo Alto

Jan - Nov 2008.

Specified, designed and managed a team that built out a co-creation cloud infrastructure for running innovations

and large-scale trials with internal Nokia Teams, Nokia customers as well as with university partners. The platform

consisted of commodity hardware running LAMP stack with added key cloud service enablers. As part of this effort,

we ramped up 12 beta services, serving over 100,000 users on an experimental basis. Responsible for a co-creation

platform for researchers, University partners, selected commercial partners and lead users for trialing out early

stage development services and clients. Budgetary responsibilities of $5 million per year.

Business Development Manager

Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto.

2007 – 2008.

Responsible for engaging and planning strategic research projects with mega-operators such as Vodafone, China

Mobile, AT&T. Arranged and ran pilots and trials with collaboration partners. Engaged with Markets organization

and platform teams in ensuring that the trials lead to successful productization and market introduction.

Responsible for defining next generation call, messaging and communication services. Delivered a working

prototype, and contributed to building consortia to drive it in the operator channel.

Collaboration Manager

Nokia Research Center, Helsinki.

2006 – 2007.

Responsible for engaging and planning strategic research projects with Vodafone, Orange, AT&T and China

Telecom. Oversaw implementation of research projects centered on messaging, Rich Call Service and future

concepts as well as end-user studies for these projects. Ensured that projects were aligned markets and platforms

roadmaps. Created first specification for the Rich Call Specification (RCS) and headed a team that implemented the

specification using IMS technologies.

Principle Engineer

Nokia Research Center, Helsinki.

1997 – 2006.

Program manager for the research program focusing on multi-access connection middleware for Nokia terminals.

Coordinated research with external suppliers such as Intel, which resulted in key IP being developed in chipsets that

were delivered to tens of millions of phone. Prepared Nokia-wide strategies on Internet (2004) and Multiaccess and

Multiradio (2005). Involved in internal standardization for Next Generation Networks, 3G LTE work, WLAN

interworking and WiMax integration into existing mobile networks. Helped to develop Nokia's vision for future

mobile wireless networks. Line Manager in Nokia Research Center from 2002 – 2004 for a team of 11 in Helsinki

and a team of 8 in Beijing. Projects included delivering open source implementation of next generation transport

protocol, which shipped in Nokia Networks’ core network elements. Helped to develop WLAN drivers for Symbian

and Symbian’s overall connectivity framework. Responsible for Podcasting app on Symbian, as well as the first

mobile Bit Torrent client.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science, Pace University.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Vermont.

Nokia Executive Management training.

Nokia Media Training.

TECHNOLOGIES

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, TCP/IP, IPv6, HTTP, TLS, AAA, RADIUS, Diameter.

Sensor technologies, Android, Windows Phone, embedded Linux.

ADDITIONAL HONORS & AWARDS

Former Chair of the Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) WG IETF

Former Chair of the AAA and the Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (DiME) WGs, 2003 - 2006.

IPv6 Forum Fellow

Member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE SIGMOBILE