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As Project Manager, Product Manager, Systems Engineer and Team Builder with extensive credentials in telecommunications, from the lab into the field, I have managed budgets up to US$ 58 million and staff up to 400 specialists and managers, including hiring, firing and building their work environment. I have worked on practically every aspect of managing carrier growth, from creating new services to building new subsidiaries, providing the Fortune 500 with wide area networked IT solutions, and building out and integrating Metropolitan Area Networks owned by NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, GTE, and MCI into what is today the worldwide Verizon Business network. I took a (voluntary) Verizon management buyout after sixteen years of helping to build the company.

I relocated to the Seattle, WA area in July of 2011.

Many thanks to Raymond Sonoff for his help getting this resume in shape.

Employment History

Recent Projects:                                            

0. Measuring Equipment Manufacturer – Bellevue, WA - Concept Development (for more click here)
0. Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturer – Shenzen, China - Service Proposal Development (for more click here)
1. XL Axiata – Jakarta, Indonesia - RFI Response Development (for more click here)

Due to compliance, regulatory and security aspects of my work, some information about Verizon projects assigned to me since my relocation to Washington, D.C., in 2000, is not in the public domain, and not listed here.


Verizon Communications (and predecessor companies Bell Atlantic and NYNEX) 1990 – 2007:

Subsidiaries assigned to during Verizon career:                                            

1. Verizon Business – Basking Ridge, NJ - Senior Staff Consultant, Product Management / Product Development, Gigabit Ethernet (for more click here)
2. Verizon Advanced Data – New York, NY - Group Manager, Product Management / Product Development, ADSL (for more click here)
3. Bell Atlantic Global Networks – Arlington, VA - Director, Information Systems, Long Distance Company (for more click here)
4. NYNEX International – Hong Kong - General Manager Information Technology, Pt. Exelcomindo Pratama (for more click here)
5. NYNEX Science & Technology – White Plains, NY - Member of Technical Staff, Systems Analysis Laboratory (for more click here)

Proxy Ltd., London, UK - 1980 – 1990:

Director of Business Development (founding partner). Moved to the USA permanently in 1985 (for more click here).

 

Accredited freelance journalist/correspondent, Amsterdam / London - 1978-1980:

Published in Design Magazine (UK), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), PC Magazine (Netherlands) , Die Zeit (Germany), Stern (Germany), Telegraaf (Netherlands), Personal Computing Magazine (UK). Member of Dutch and UK journalist unions. Moved to the UK permanently in 1979 (for more click here).

VNU (now The Nielsen Company), Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1976-1978:

Commissioning and technical editor, Avenue (for more click here).

 

Steve Austen & Co. N.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1974-1976:

Manager of the Shaffy Theatre (now Felix Meritis) and assistant manager in Steve Austen artist agency (for more click here).

 

International Tourist Information, S.A., Amsterdam, Netherlands/Geneva, Switzerland - 1973-1974:

Manager Audio/Visual System engineering (for more click here)

 

IBM Nederland N.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1969-1973:

Deputy Branch Manager, DP-CE Systems/360 (for more click here)




Career Highlights

 

Build, Design and Maintenance Design of High Availability / NEBS compliant systems and networks.                          

6. I turned up (personally) the first ever speech recognition device integrated into a public telephone system in New York in 1997, in the Bronx, New York. This patented system, for which I did the systems engineering and network integration, would eventually put as many as a million speech ports in the network, serving Operator Services and Directory callers in New York State and in New England.

9/11 Service Recovery.                          

7. On September 11, 2001, I was nationwide Product Manager for Transparent LAN Service and Gigabit Ethernet Service for the Verizon data service subsidiary, commuting between my Manhattan office and Arlington, VA residence. As such, I and my team implemented emergency services and then rebuilt our service offerings in downtown Manhattan, and in Federal Government facilities in the Washington metropolitan area (for more click here).

Rollout of DSL and network based Ethernet Metropolitan Area Networks.                          

8. I was the Product Manager for ADSL, by 2000 delivering the first million consumer ADSL connections in downstate New York. This included the first Pay-per-View system ever attempted in New York City, using Alcatel DSLAMs, with media delivery by Blockbuster.

Verizon Long Distance                          

8. In 2000, Verizon took the first call through its new Long Distance subsidiary, a company I was brought down from New York to help build in Arlington, VA. It was the first time a regulated "landline" phone company designed and built a deregulated carrier company with Federal approval, for which I got to gut the former Bell Atlantic headquarters, and turn it into a 21st Century digital Central Office and Network Operations Center - in 18 months.



Professional Profile

 

10. Accomplished patent holding technology specialist

United States Patent 7,606,359 (October, 2009)

United States Patent 6,480,598 (November, 2002)

United States Patent 6,188,907 (February, 2001)

(see Google Patents)

11. Accomplished IBM trained manager (“2nd level” in telco environments) – directly managed departments with up to 400 specialist staff and managers, and contracts with a value up to US$ 58 million, with simultaneous responsibilities in 30 U.S. States and 4 overseas countries.
12. Permanently authorized to work, reside and operate businesses in the United States and the European Union.
13. Experienced and trained in Secure and Cleared operations.
14. Experienced and trained in diversity and EEO requirements.
15. Experienced and trained as compliance (federal, state, local, international) and corporate security officer (physical as well as data).
16. Hands-on or management experience (in many cases, both) of practically all platforms and operating systems in the IT and communications environments, on mainframes, servers, clients, terminals, mobile and wireless devices, and switching environments. I was in “the cloud” decades before the buzzword was invented.
17. Running 802.11n/Gigabit Ethernet NFS network environment with Windows Vista Business RAID server, EMC NAS, Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate clients, Network Solutions HP-UX Apache webserver, IP-COM hard firewalls, T-Mobile Linksys, Blackberry and Nokia VOIP.
18. Accomplished (published) multilingual writer and photographer.
19. A registered Hostmaster and domain owner, I have had a personal internet presence since 1997, am an experienced web server manager and programmer, and have managed web presence for NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon companies.



Education

 

Gaspard de Coligny                                     The Hague, The Netherlands  

1e Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum                 The Hague, The Netherlands

The old style Gymnasium in The Netherlands bridges U.S. Style High School and College as university preparatory education.




Verizon Certification

 

ISO 9000 auditor

Quality Systems (QMS)

Project Management (PMS)

C programming

Lotus Notes / Domino server

Telecommunications Regulatory (compliance)

VSAT network creation




Other Training and Education

 

SNA – Citicorp

Company Director - UK

Printing, Publishing & Page Makeup - VNU

Film & A/V Production – M. M. Chanowski Productions




Languages

 

Dutch (native, fluent, published)

English (primary, fluent, published)

German (fluent)

French (spoken)

Italian, Spanish (working knowledge)




Security

 

European Union Citizen (Netherlands, native)

UK Permanent Resident (1979)

USA Permanent Resident (1985)

TSA approved for Global Entry




References

 

On Request (including Cleared)

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