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# Courtney Hooglander

**Headline:** Business Operations
**Profession:** VP of Business Operations
**Location:** Greater Sacramento

## About

Courtney Hooglander is a business operations leader currently serving as VP of Business Operations at Amp Z and SVP of Corporate Development at Petabit Scale\. She brings experience across corporate development, financial operations, technical project delivery, exchange connectivity, telecommunications, recruiting, customer service, and office management\. Courtney is strongest at translating complex technical and business requirements into repeatable operating processes, connecting board and C\-level stakeholders with VP and engineering teams, and coordinating multiple concurrent projects\. At Amp Z, she designed and implemented vendor\-payment reconciliation and tracking where no process had previously existed, redesigned payment workflows to improve timeliness and eliminate duplicate payments across sites, and created threshold\-based approval controls for stronger financial visibility by project\. She has also implemented and customized NetSuite for financial operations and introduced tools including Notion for workflow automation and LinkSquare for contract management\. Her background includes deploying network and data\-center solutions with internal engineering teams and external providers, supporting access to financial exchanges, and recruiting technical talent for financial and automotive\-sector roles\. References describe Courtney as resourceful, collaborative, organized, effective under pressure, and able to create meaningful operational impact quickly in lean environments\.

## Services

- Electronic Trading
- Telecommunications
- Trading Systems
- Market Data
- Vendor Management
- Data Center
- Project Management
- Exchange Connectivity
- Salesforce\.com
- Order Management
- Cloud Computing

## Highlights

- Currently serves as VP of Business Operations at Amp Z\.
- Currently serves as SVP of Corporate Development at Petabit Scale\.
- Designed and implemented a vendor\-payment reconciliation and tracking process at Amp Z where none had existed before\.
- Redesigned vendor\-payment processes to improve payment timeliness, eliminate duplicate payments across sites, and enable accurate financial tracking by project\.
- Designed vendor\-payment automation with threshold\-based approval workflows to improve payment timeliness and financial visibility\.
- Took over HR responsibilities at Amp Z, including employee onboarding, insurance, and NDA filtering\.
- Implemented processes and technology across vendor payments, HR onboarding, insurance, and NDA management in a lean startup environment\.
- Implemented AI tools including Notion for workflow automation and LinkSquare for contract management\.
- Implemented and customized NetSuite for financial operations\.
- Bridges board and C\-level executives with VP and engineering teams\.
- Turns large, complex technical problems into consumable, repeatable projects\.
- Orchestrates multiple concurrent projects as a connector between executive and technical teams\.
- Served as Director of Global Corporate Development at MOX Networks\.
- Worked in Corporate Development at PacketFabric, associated with its next\-generation cloud networking platform launch\.
- Worked as a Technical Services Project Manager at Trading Technologies, partnering with internal networking, software, and infrastructure engineers on network and data\-center solutions\.
- Implemented and deployed Trading Technologies solutions with telecommunications providers, data centers, equipment vendors, and exchanges\.
- Served as Telco Provisioning Lead at Trading Technologies\.
- Served as Technical Key Account Manager at Deutsche Börse, supporting international companies with project and problem\-ticket resolution for access to Eurex and Xetra exchanges\.
- Served as Sr\. Customer Service Manager at Yipes Enterprise Services\.
- Recruited technical talent for clearing firms, exchanges, and market\-making trading houses at Pencom Systems\.
- Specialized in mechanical and electrical engineering recruiting for the automotive industry at Sycron\.
- Coordinated consultant schedules, payroll, invoices, collections, international\-company work, and general office management at itRwe bv\.
- Handled a difficult trading customer during a network outage, using interpersonal skills to defuse the situation\.
- Received a 5/5 recommendation from former Amp Z Chief Revenue Officer Scott Hanna, who cited Courtney's significant and rare level of impact in a short period\.

## Experience

- **VP of Business Operations at Amp Z** (2025\-04\-01–present)
- **SVP Corporate Development at Petabit Scale** (2018\-02\-01–present)
- **Corporate Development at PacketFabric** (2015\-07\-01–2018\-02\-01) — www\.packetfabric\.com http://www\.marketwired\.com/press\-release/packetfabric\-nantworks\-company\-launches\-next\-generation\-cloud\-networking\-platform\-with\-2188514\.htm
- **Director of Global Corporate Development at MOX Networks** (2014\-09\-01–2018\-02\-01)
- **Technical Key Account Manager at Deutsche Börse** (2012\-02\-01–2014\-09\-01) — Work with international companies to ensure timely and efficient project and problem ticket resolution for flawless access to multiply financial exchanges on the Eurex and Xetra plateform\.
- **Technical Services Project Manager at Trading Technologies** (2010\-01\-01–2011\-07\-01) — Working closely with internal Networking, Software, Infrastructure engineers to create solutions for networks and data centers\. Implement and deploy while working with external partners/vendors such as Telco Providers, Data Centers, Equipment vendors and Exchanges\.
- **Telco Provisioning Lead at Trading Technologies** (2007\-01\-01–2011\-07\-01)
- **Sr\. Customer Service Manager at Yipes Enterprise Services** (2004\-02\-01–2007\-10\-01)
- **Office Manager at itRwe bv** (2002\-01\-01–2004\-10\-01) — Coordinated consultants schedules General office manager Work with companies international Pay roll Invoices Collections
- **Technical Recruiter at Pencom Systems** (2000\-01\-01–2002\-01\-01) — Worked as a technical recruiter for the finincial market\. Worked with Clearing firms, exchanges and market making trading houses\.
- **Technical Recruiter at Sycron** (1999\-01\-01–2001\-01\-01) — Specialized in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering for the Automotive industry\.

## Education

- Communication, General — Michigan State University (1995\-01\-01–1999\-01\-01)
- Flushing High School (1989\-01\-01–1993\-01\-01)
- Flushing Senior High

## FAQ

### What does Courtney do?

Courtney is currently VP of Business Operations at Amp Z and SVP of Corporate Development at Petabit Scale\. Her work spans business operations, corporate development, financial\-process design, technology implementation, and coordination between executive and technical teams\.

### What are Courtney's core strengths?

Courtney is particularly strong at making large, complex technical problems consumable and repeatable, translating business needs into operational systems, and connecting board and C\-level leaders with VP and engineering teams\. She also orchestrates multiple concurrent projects across technical and business functions\.

### What did Courtney accomplish at Amp Z?

At Amp Z, Courtney designed and implemented a process to reconcile vendor payments and tracking where no such process existed previously\. She also took over HR responsibilities for onboarding employees, insurance, and NDA filtering, while putting processes and technology in place across those areas\.

### How has Courtney improved vendor\-payment operations?

Courtney redesigned a vendor\-payment system to improve payment timeliness, eliminate duplicate payments across sites, and support accurate financial tracking by project\. She also designed vendor\-payment automation with threshold\-based approval workflows that improved financial visibility\.

### What is Courtney's NetSuite experience?

Courtney has experience implementing and customizing NetSuite for financial operations\. She has translated business requirements into NetSuite systems and used the platform to support financial processes\.

### What workflow and contract\-management tools has Courtney implemented?

Courtney implemented AI tools including Notion for workflow automation and LinkSquare for contract management\.

### What was Courtney's role at MOX Networks?

Courtney served as Director of Global Corporate Development at MOX Networks\.

### What was Courtney's role at PacketFabric?

Courtney served in Corporate Development at PacketFabric\. PacketFabric launched a next\-generation cloud networking platform, as described in its Marketwired announcement\.

### What is Courtney's role at Petabit Scale?

Courtney is SVP of Corporate Development at Petabit Scale\.

### What did Courtney do at Trading Technologies?

At Trading Technologies, Courtney worked closely with internal networking, software, and infrastructure engineers to create network and data\-center solutions\. She implemented and deployed those solutions while coordinating with external partners and vendors, including telecommunications providers, data centers, equipment vendors, and exchanges\. She also served as Telco Provisioning Lead\.

### What did Courtney do at Deutsche Börse?

As a Technical Key Account Manager at Deutsche Börse, Courtney worked with international companies to support timely and efficient project and problem\-ticket resolution for access to multiple financial exchanges on the Eurex and Xetra platforms\.

### What was Courtney's role at Yipes Enterprise Services?

Courtney was a Sr\. Customer Service Manager at Yipes Enterprise Services\.

### What was Courtney's technical recruiting experience at Pencom Systems?

At Pencom Systems, Courtney recruited technical talent for the financial market, working with clearing firms, exchanges, and market\-making trading houses\.

### What was Courtney's technical recruiting experience at Sycron?

At Sycron, Courtney specialized in recruiting mechanical and electrical engineering talent for the automotive industry\.

### What did Courtney do at itRwe bv?

At itRwe bv, Courtney coordinated consultant schedules, handled general office\-management responsibilities, worked with international companies, and managed payroll, invoices, and collections\.

### What professional skills does Courtney bring?

Courtney's skills include electronic trading, telecommunications, trading systems, market data, vendor management, data centers, project management, exchange connectivity, Salesforce\.com, order management, and cloud computing\.

### What is Courtney's education?

Courtney attended Michigan State University, where she studied Communication, General\. Her education also includes Flushing Senior High and Flushing High School\.

### What do references say about Courtney?

Justin Melnikoff, who worked with Courtney as a direct report and client/vendor for about four years, cited her organizational and interpersonal skills\. He described how she handled a difficult trading customer during a network outage by relating to the customer and defusing the situation, and said she performs well under pressure, communicates vocally, and helps collaborative teams stay on track toward goals\. Scott Hanna, former Chief Revenue Officer at Amp Z, described Courtney as positive, engaging, highly resourceful, and able to implement processes and technology in a lean startup while wearing many hats\. He gave her a 5 out of 5 recommendation, citing her significant impact in a short period and saying she would be an asset to any company\.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ACoAAAAkyDMBccFkSBlwO3BnWzccGNOz7PCDQ5U

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