Chris van Hoven
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07.2018-
ongoing
ongoing
Senior Product Owner “Digital Onboard Experience”
AIDA Cruises, Rostock, Germany
Development of a vision, strategy and roadmap for the AIDA’s complete onboard digital guest experience for all digital touch points: cabin IPTV, (interactive) digital signage, mobile and special touch points.
Responsible for the identification of customer and stakeholder requirements, including its priorities – in the context of the strategic company targets.
Ensuring a unified multi-device user experience along the customer journey.
Management of interdisciplinary product development teams.
Responsible for the product backlog and sprint planning.
Tracking and reporting of relevant KPIs.
Responsible for budget and human resources.
Observing and analysing market development and competitor activities as well as technological developments.
VOD product management
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“VOD management”
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“Selection of set-top-boxes and conditional access”,
“Optimizing of outage notification processes”,
“Concept, setup and launch of a digital info channel”,
“Creation of EPG; user manual development”,
“VOD/IPTV project manager (first IPTV cable trial in Germany)”,
“Set-top-box and smartcard migration; set-top-box certification”,
“Testing support for STBs, Pay TV Provisioning and EPG”
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“Concept and prototype development of an EPG/Portal media-service for interactive digital TV”,
“Concept and prototype development of an interactive game show for interactive digital TV”,
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“Definition of API requirements for set-top-boxes”,
“Testing support for STBs and EPG”
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“Concept for an AXA Colonia game”
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“Product management CMGA: first multiplayer gaming community site for the Deutsche Telekom”
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“Concept for a website user interface based on the TV metaphor”
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“Investigation of opportunities in new media”,
“Cross-media concepts (television/Internet/CD-ROM), i.e. Mini Playback Show”,
“Direct response television concepts using virtual technologies and feedback loops (CallTV)”
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“Consultancy on CD-ROM Perspektiven”
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“CD-i Consumer title Die CD-i mit der Maus”,
“Hybrid consumer title for WordPerfect/Novell America: Hard Evidence – Marilyn Monroe”,
“Initiation/supervision of on-line-related activities”
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“Programming of a digital video title (DVI and OS/2)”
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“title”: ” Actor – Acteur Brengt Vensters Tot Leven”,
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“title”: “Programmeren Onder Windows”,
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“title”: ” Microsoft C 6.0 Professional Development System”,
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“title”: ” Pc-Lint 4.0 – Fehlerjagd”,
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“title”: ” C_Talk/Views – Windows Und Klassen Für C”,
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