John Hoeppner

John Hoeppner is currently a Program Director at Ciena, where they oversee key initiatives in the communications sector. They previously held roles as a Senior Manager, Field Services, and Senior Consultant at Ciena, managing service deployment projects and providing expert consultancy. From 2007 to 2011, they served as a Project Manager at Ciena/Nortel Networks, leading the deployment of optical networks. John began their career as an Optical Network Engineer at Nortel Networks from 2000 to 2007, specializing in designing and implementing optical network solutions. John earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Regina in 2000.