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Chris Koopmans, a founding engineer at Bytemobile in 2000, is responsible for engineering, product management and information technology (IT). He has over 10 years of industry experience in hardware and software engineering and architecture. In eight years at Bytemobile, he has held a wide range of technical leadership positions. Most recently, he served as chief architect, with direct responsibility for the Unison Multi-Service Platform and suite of mobile data, web, multimedia, and advertising services. Previous management assignments included director of Engineering for Unison Optimization Services Node (OSN) Monaco Edition. He was also the architect responsible for product integration following Bytemobile’s acquisition of ProQuent Systems and subsequent transition of the Unison architecture to off-the-shelf hardware platforms and a fully interoperable product suite. Koopmans’ contributions include eight issued and pending patents covering wireless internet protocol (IP) services and optimization technology. Prior to Bytemobile, he held engineering positions at Intel Corporation's Microcomputer Research Laboratories and Silicon Graphics' Cray Research subsidiary. He earned a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received the Bronze Tablet Award for outstanding academic performance as an undergraduate student. He also received an honorable mention in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Awards, which recognize the research potential of an elite selection of students. Koopmans was working toward M.S. and Ph.D. degrees on a fellowship from the National Science Foundation when he left to help found Bytemobile. | 