Jonathan Abon

Jonathan Abon

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Products

Objective of this page

This page showcases the different products I have designed, launched, operated, and managed in my career. Many are in collaboration with a team. It is listed in chronological order to show increased scope and responsibilities. It is segmented into three (3) parts: Corporate, Entrepreneurial, and Academic.

Corporate Experience

Product: Trackball Mouse Microprocessor Module

Description: Control unit for the remote trackball mouse for high- end television using first- ever point-and-click interface for TVs

Company: Zenith Electronics

Target Customers: Consumers

Objectives Achieved: Increased high-end projection TV sales by 5%

My Role: Hardware/ firmware design engineer

Product: Echo Canceller Resource Module

Description: Hardware platform to eliminate voice echo in telecom networks to improve call quality

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers, Telecom Solution Providers.

Objectives Achieved: Increased echo detection and elimination in 32ms using normalized least mean squared (NMLS) algorithm

My Role: Hardware/ firmware design engineer

Product:Tandem Free Operation Module

Description: Hardware platform to compress 64 voice calls into 1

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers, Telecom Solution Providers.

Objectives Achieved: 64x voice signal compression which lead to reduction in long distance voice call costs

My Role: Engineering lead for multi-site development (Illinois, Indiana, Helsinki)

Product: Voice Quality Enhancement Product Portfolio

Description: Multi-product portfolio that improved voice quality in mobile networks

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: Helped drive $100m annual revenue with 5% CAGR

My Role: Market manager focused on tier 1 service providers

Product: Broadband Digital Cross-connect Switch

Description: Hardware/software platform that digitally aggregates lower bandwidth connection to higher/faster connections

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: Deployed at a large US telecom service provider. Integrated and product packaged software management layer with hardware system.

My Role: Senior Product Manager

Product: Metro Ethernet Switch

Description: Hardware/software platform that aggregates and delivers ethernet services to the edge of a metropolitan geography (“edge of a city”)

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: White-labeled an existing product from a partner (“buy-vs-build”) and integrated as part of software management layer. Deployed at tier 2 telecom service providers.

My Role: Senior Product Manager

Product: Dense-Wave Division Multiplexer / Optical Networking

Description: Hardware/software platform that converted and aggregated digital signals into light waves

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: Drove $200m annual revenue. Drove $33m cost reductions. Setup supply chain and manufacturing at different contract manufacturers spanning China, Thailand, Mexico, and US.

My Role: Senior Staff Product Manager

Product: Packet Core Gateway

Description: Hardware/software platform that connects the mobile internet into telecom networks

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: Due-diligence and post- merger integration of acquired company. Deployed in first WiMax and LTE mobile networks in US and Spain.

My Role: Senior Staff Product Manager

Product: Network Analytics Platform

Description: On-prem/cloud-based software platform that connects disparate telecom systems and predicts potential network issues

Company: Tellabs

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: Built the team and product from the ground-up. Sold and deployed in Vodafone Ireland; Piloted in EMEA and APAC telecom networks.

My Role: Group Product Manager

Product: Cybersecurity

Description: Cloud-based multi-factor authentication platform (“early version of LastPass”)

Company: Vasco Data Security

Target Customers: Financial Services, Government, Online Gaming

Objectives Achieved: Established partnership with AMD to embed software kernel in chipset that connects to security cloud

My Role: Director Business Development and Product Marketing

Product: Fixed Wireless Broadband Portfolio

Description: Point-to-point and point- to-multipoint fixed wireless systems

Company: Cambium Networks

Target Customers: Telecom Service Providers

Objectives Achieved: Defined and executed GTM for tier service providers. Published whitepaper at 2014 Mobile World Congress Small Cell Forum.

My Role: Global Product Manager

Product: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Platform

Description: Cloud-based big data analytics PaaS platform used to develop applications on top via DIY/self-serve including integration of ML/AI

Company: Saggezza

Target Customers: Financial Services, Automotive, Telecom, Retail/eCommerce (B2B & B2C), Transport & Logistics, Healthcare, Print & Publishing

Objectives Achieved: Productized an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform and sold offering to different industries and market geographies. Reduced operating costs by combining platform technology and information technology to utilize common resources. Packaged offering as product subscription and professional services.

My Role: Senior Director Product Management and Information Technology

Product: Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Platform

Description: Cloud-based big data real- time DaaS platform used to develop AV/ADAS applications on top via DIY/self-serve including integration of ML/AI. Hosted company-wide software services.

Company: HERE Technologies

Target Customers: Automotive, Transport & Logistics, Supply Chain, Marketplace/eCommerce (B2B)

Objectives Achieved: Established a 300-person platform organization with locations in Chicago, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Singapore and managed a budget of €60M. Built a global Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform used by customers and internal teams with 50+ contracted customers, 240+ customer pipeline, and +€400M book of business. Served as an envoy for platform organization and interacted regularly with C-Suite and board/shareholders. Steered team to develop and deploy a global Minimum Viable Product (MVP) platform to automotive OEMs. In addition, migrated internal HERE products to run on platform to gain efficiencies. Collaborated and worked closely with a Chinese company and operationalized a joint venture in China. Additionally, secured customer contracts in North America, Australia, APAC, and EMEA.

My Role: Vice President Product Management

Product: Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) Distribution Services Platform

Company: Utopia

Target Customers: Music, Financial Services, eCommerce (B2B, B2C, D2C)

Objectives Achieved: Scale the distribution services business unit to €80M with a path towards €300M by integrating three (3) acquired companies into the business unit consisting of software assets and physical warehouse distribution centers. Locations included London, Chicago, and Dallas. Define the overall product strategy for the distribution services business unit. Navigate and drive the global expansion of distribution services Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) application. Provide executive leadership to 5 direct reports and manage $2M operating budget annually. Authored the product manifesto and strategy- to-execution plan for the distribution services business unit, receiving C-Suite and board approval for the overall product strategy. Bootstrapped core product management processes for the company, including customer lifecycle management, product development lifecycle, roadmapping, product/service cataloging, and capability mapping. Worked closely with the leadership team and Human Resources to implement career architecture for the product organization and the accompanying performance management and development process for the entire company.

My Role: Vice President Product Management

Product: Virtual Product Manager (VPM) GenAI application

Company: Infinera

Target Customers: Internal (Product Managers, Account Managers, Sales Engineers, Commercial Managers, Technical Support), External (Contracted Customers, Channel Partners)

Objectives Achieved: The Virtual Product Manager (VPM) is a GenAI application that scales the facilitation of question and answer about product capabilities. The objective is to efficiently answer questions about product features and capabilities using generative search. The key result is to reduce the time to accurately answer product related questions from days/hours to seconds (8 days down to 10 seconds). The overarching benefit of VPM is efficiency resulting in faster time-to-market and higher quality customer engagements thus potential of increase revenue and profitability. The quantified value is at least $2.3m per year. It started as an application running on internal virtual machines and migrated to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Vertex AI using Model Garden.

My Role: Senior Director Product Management

Entrepreneurial Experience

Product: Healthcare Management System

Description: Software application with multiple modules: Healthcare worker (nurse, therapist, etc) patient clinical assessment portal, Human capital management (HCM) healthcare worker scheduling, Healthcare durable goods warehouse inventory and eCommerce, Per patient pro- forma P&L analysis. Hardware platform consisting of in-building networking, client-server computer system.

Company: Abon Computer Consulting Enterprise

Target Customers: Small-Medium Size Healthcare Companies, eCommmerce (B2B)

Objectives Achieved: Designed and coded entire software application. Designed and deployed in-building network. Reached ~$30k annual revenue.

My Role: CEO/Founder with three (3) contract employees

Academic Experience

Product: Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Cable Automated Testing System

Description: Software to efficiently test coaxial cable radio frequency emissions

Company: Andrew Corporation

Target Customers: Telecom

Objectives Achieved: Increased testing speed by 2.5x from testing 10 cables per day to 25 cables per day

My Role: Software design intern

Product: Short-wave Paging System

Description: Paging system that notifies people of an appointment, e.g. pre-cursor to restaurant in-person wait- in-line reservations

Company: University of Illinois at Chicago

Target Customers: Restaurant and Entertainment

Objectives Achieved: Proof-of-concept for consumer application

My Role: Undergraduate student (hardware/firmware design engineer)

Product: Autonomous Self-Driving Robotic Vehicle

Description: Z80 microprocessor-based with infra-red detection of a road that enabled a robotic vehicle to drive autonomously around a track

Company: University of Illinois at Chicago

Target Customers: Automotive

Objectives Achieved: Proof-of-concept for self- driving cars

My Role: Undergraduate student (hardware/firmware design engineer)

Product: Noise Reduction in Speech Processing

Description: Application of least-mean square (LMS) algorithm to remove background noise from speech for recorded audio and real-time phone calls

Company: University of Illinois at Chicago

Target Customers: Telecom, Music

Objectives Achieved: Proof-of-concept for fast-converging speech processing

My Role: Graduate student (data scientist/software design engineer)

Product: Natural Language Processing for Voice Security

Description: Application of LAMSTAR neural network to detect words and tonality as voice password to open a virtual security box

Company: University of Illinois at Chicago

Target Customers: Cybersecurity, Consumer Electronics

Objectives Achieved: Proof-of-concept of ML/AI applied in cybersecurity

My Role: Graduate student (data scientist/software design engineer)

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