Jim Harper
Jim Harper is a Senior Manager of Technology Marketing in Renesas Mobile Corporation’s Worldwide Marketing and Sales Unit. His current area of focus is wireless modem requirements, wireless access technologies, and technology marketing in the North American region.
Jim served in a variety of roles during a 15 year career at Nokia. During his first nine years with with Nokia Networks, he served in core network systems engineering, core network product management, account management, and 3G radio access business development. Most recently, he spent six years at Nokia Mobile Phones where he held technology marketing positions focused on wireless access requirements of major operators in the Americas and the promotion of Nokia-supported wireless access technologies. He was also an active participant on the 4G Americas Board of Governors.
Prior to his career at Nokia, Jim held positions at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and Lear Astronics Corporation. While at Bellcore, he was part of the Intelligent Network Systems engineering team. At Lear Astronics, he served in various roles in the design and development of fly-by-wire flight control systems.
He holds MSEE and BSEE degrees from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Session: In-Hand Innovators
Date: Thursday, Oct. 27
Time: 1:30 PM
