(hā-kōōp'): What's in the Hopper?

Saturday, April 4, 2009

What's in the Hopper?

In response to a number of questions about what's under test right now...

New stuff includes...

Netgear's Entertainer HD
Netgear's Powerline HD Plus Ethernet adapters
Siemens' Gigaset A580IP DECT phones
Major League Baseball's MLB.TV Premium

...along with the existing array of Boxee, Promise's 2-slot DLNA NAS, Windows 7 (which ABC.com doesn't support yet, annoyingly), the Logitech diNovo Mini (which is awesome--the ideal living room/HTPC keyboard), the new Blackberry App World, and a few other random bits of consumer tech...

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Who is Coop?

After 20+ years in high tech, in positions ranging from systems engineering to sales to marketing to business development, I decided in 2007 it was time to put my accumulated knowledge to use for more than one organization at a time, while also evolving my focus from pure networking to the emerging Internet of Energy--the Enernet. From my time at places such as Microsoft/WebTV, Cranite, and Tzero, I've developed a unique perspective on Smart Grid, wireless, mobile, and the digital home, some of which I'll be sharing with you here.

I'm active in a number of professional organizations, including serving on the SGIP Board of Directors, IEEE, the Bluetooth SIG, UPnP Forum, the FBI’s InfraGard, and AFCEA.

Learn more at www.linkedin.com/in/mikecoop

Why Coop?

Quite a few folks have asked what prompted me to launch my own consultancy. While you can imagine that answers exist on about a million different levels, the net-net is that I'm a consumer electronics guy, a digital home guy, a service provider guy, a retail guy, a military security guy, and for the last four years, a Smart Grid guy. Precious few "jobs" allow a person to keep one foot in the CE world and the other in the DOD and utility worlds. One moves at the speed of light; the others move much more deliberately, but with decidedly more in-depth strategic analysis before stepping off the curb. More often than not, utility- and military-focused solutions simply can't fail--a desire in the CE space, but definitely not a design characteristic.

Since I wasn't looking for my next "job", I chose instead to step off my own figurative curb and make a career out of what I love most--working with customers and partners to define markets and solutions, enabling delivery of world-class capabilities to end users. Consulting is the best method for me to do so. Interestingly, some of the capabilities needed by a consumer electronics user, by a Smart Grid system of systems, and by a warfighter are one and the same, so the disconnect is often less than you might think...

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

What's in the Hopper?

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