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EMPLOYMENT TIMELINE

January 1, 2007 - Present
I am currently preparing for my second month long visit to Beijing, with the goal to find employment, a teaching position, something to get me involved in the exciting development that is happening in China, where it is "all going on". Got bit by the bug - again, I guess. Will be stopping in Hanoi on the way back, where former co-worker Andy is based. He is telling me "it" is happening there, too, so I might as well make him prove it to me.


April 1, 2001 - January 1, 2007
Verizon Enterprise Solutions (combined with MCI to form Verizon Business)
Senior Staff Consultant, Product Management / Product Development
Switched Ethernet Service (SES) - a.k.a Transparent LAN Service (TLS, "East" product) and Trans LAN Connect (TLC, "West" product).
I accepted an early retirement package from Verizon Communications at the end of 2006.


January 1, 2000 - April 1, 2001
Verizon Advanced Data, Inc, New York, NY (ADSL Sales & Marketing)
Technical Manager
E-Commerce Development

May 5, 1998 - December 31, 1999
Verizon Global Networks, Arlington, VA (network provider for Verizon Long Distance)
Director (Consulting Member of Technical Staff)
Corporate Information Systems

1990-1998
Verizon Technologies (formerly NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.), White Plains, NY
Staff Director - Member of Technical Staff
New Services Platform

1980-1990
Proxy Ltd., London, UK / Interleaf, Inc., Miami, FL., Network Engineering Consultancy
Director of Business Development (founding partner)

1979/1980
Freelance journalist, London (member NUJ Freelance Branch)
Design Magazine, NRC Handelsblad, PC Magazine, Die Zeit, Stern, Telegraaf, Personal Computing

1979
Romca B.V., Waalwijk, Netherlands (merged into Apple Nederland B.V.)
Managing Director ad interim

1976-1978
De Geillustreerde Pers (a VNU publishing house - VNU is now The Nielsen Company), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Commissioning & Technical Editor, Avenue - Contributing Editor, VNU Business Publications

1976
IBM UK Ltd., Croydon, Surrey, UK
Field Engineer, DP-SE Systems/360

1974-1976
Shaffy Theater (now Felix Meritis), Amsterdam, Netherlands (Steve Austen & Co, N.V.)
Artist & Theatre Manager

1973/1974
International Tourist Information S.A., Geneva, Switzerland / Amsterdam, Netherlands (VNU & Chanowski Productions joint venture)
Manager, Audio-Visual Systems Engineering

1969-1973
IBM Nederland N.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Deputy Branch Manager, DP-CE Systems/360

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Career Highlights

Verizon, Inc.

(formerly GTE, Bell Atlantic Corporation and NYNEX Corporation)

Verizon Advanced Data, Inc, New York, NY

• PLM Group Manager, Product Launch of TLS (Transparent LAN Service) and GigE (Gigabit Ethernet) Nationwide

   Consequential to the merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE, Verizon is consolidating product offerings in its former multiple footprints, and relaunching the product through 2003, to include, additional to fiber based 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet.

   

• 9/11 Service Recovery

   On September 11, 2001, I was Product Manager for Transparent LAN Service and Gigabit Ethernet Service for the Verizon data service subsidiary. As such, I and my team were tasked with the rebuild of our service offerings both in downtown Mahattan, and in Federal Government facilities in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, VA.

  During an eight month period, we rebuilt services in and around Wall Street, and under an FCC emergency waiver, extended service across the Hudson River to the Jersey Shore, where many financial insitutions that had been in the WTC had relocated. Downtown servers and fibre switches were for the most part replaced, having sustained water and smoke damage, while interim services were provided from our server park in Midtown Manhattan.

  In Washington/Arlington, we were able to restart service almost immediately, using an existing backup fibre node (our primary node had been destroyed).

  A narrative and photographs are here.

   

• Project / Implementation Manager - BBI / Enron / Verizon East Coast Service Trial

    New York, December 18, 2000 -- Using technology provided by Enron Broadband Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. (NYSE:ENE) and Motorola, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, today successfully turned up Video on Demand service over residential DSL at a customer residence in Northern Manhattan. Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE:BBI), a publicly traded subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA, VIA.B), provides streaming on-demand consumer video with fully interactive capabilities (fast forward, rewind, pause, restart etc. during this technical trial. The Manhattan installation is the first of its kind that utilizes installed consumer ADSL with existing Verizon customers.

   

Verizon Enterprise Solutions, New York, NY

• Technical Manager - E-Commerce Deployment
  • Verizon Enterprise Solutions (formerly the Bell Atlantic Data Solutions Group) provides Advanced IP solutions to enterprises nationwide

  Responsible for deployment of IP services and their associated infrastructure, my team's first deployed product is the Auto Registration server system.

Bell Atlantic Global Networks, Inc., Arlington, VA

• Director - Corporate Information Systems
  • Bell Atlantic Global Networks, Inc. is the provider of network infrastructure and operational services to the Bell Atlantic Long Distance effort, comprised of Bell Atlantic Communications, Inc. and the NYNEX Long Distance Co. Bell Atlantic Long Distance began commercial operations in New York State in early 2000.
• ISO 9000 Assessor / Lead Assessor (certified, IQA)
• Compliance Officer, Affiliate Transactions / Telecommunications Act of 1996
• Y2K Auditor

Responsible for support of the GNI Desktop (Windows and UNIX), systems support of the Network Operations Center, Glass House (data center and network surveillance) and general computer infrastructure, corporate information systems and administrative network backbone, Inter-, Intra- and ExtraNet, Operator Services network and IP layer development support.

Bell Atlantic Science & Technology, White Plains, NY

• Senior Systems Engineer, Automated Functions Node deployment.
• Business Development, Bell Atlantic Speech Platform (deployed) and Automated Functions Node
• Lab Manager, Network Systems Advanced Technologies
• ISO 9000 Assessor / Lead Assessor (certified, IQA); NYNEX Science & Technology first research lab to certify.
• Project Management, Operator Store and Forward trial
• Integration Engineering, Operator Store and Forward trial
• Infrastructure Design & Implementation, Operator Services Systems Workgroup Environment (deployed)
• Systems Engineering & Implementation, Automated Functions Node (deployed)
• Infrastructure Design, Operator Information Services (deployed)
• Test Environment, Operator Services Multi-Function OSDI Workstation (deployed)

Papers

• The New Millenium: Where did Corporate Research & Development go? (Bell Atlantic, 1998).
• Collection and Storage of Human Factors data from the Operator Services DMS switch interface in the NYNEX telephony network (1994).
• High Reliability in New York Telephone and New England Telephone Development Projects (1994)

NYNEX Network Systems Company, White Plains, NY

• Infrastructure Design & Site Management, Satellite Earthstation joint venture, NNS Monaco

NYNEX Science & Technology Asia, Bangkok, Thailand

• General Manager Information Technology, Excelcom GSM joint venture , PT NYNEX Indonesia

Information Builders, Inc., New York, NY

Redesign and networked computerization, Corporate Communications Department
Manager-ad-Interim. Staff of 35. Consultant.

The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, New York, NY

Design of Metropolitan Area Network and management of implementation team, TBTA Columbus Circle Headquarters & Randalls Island facility
Team Manager. Staff of four. Consultant.

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit, NJ

Virtual DOS / MS Windows User Interface Design under AT&T UNIX SVR3
Consultant.

Other Assignments, London, UK

Wide Area Network design and implementation, Rank Xerox London, UK, Rochester, NY, and Maastricht, Netherlands
Wide Area Network design and implementation, Forbes Magazine, London / New York
Wide Area Network design and implementation, Chemical Bank, London / New York

IBM

IBM Nederland N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Development and implementation of Trouble Tracking System, DP-CE Amsterdam, Netherlands
Manager/Deputy Manager, Systems/360 DP-CE Field Admin Dept. (Amsterdam). Staff of eight

Education & Training

1. EE equivalence at IBM Nederland N.V.
2. Managerial training at IBM Nederland N.V., NYNEX Corp. & Verizon Communications
3. Mainframe, DP/CE, DP/SE and SNA training at IBM Nederland & IBM U.K.
4. Training at Verizon:
   1. ISO 9000 (certified auditor)
   2. Quality Systems
   3. Project Management
   4. Lotus Notes
   5. Speech Technologies
   6. Digital Cellular Radio
   7. Wireless Telephony (AMPS, D-AMPS, GSM, PCS, CDMA, TDMA)
   8. Telecommunications Technology
   9. Broadband Technology
   10. Wireless Communications
   11. Central Office (switching, carrier, engineering) Technology
   12. Telecommunications Regulatory
   13. C programming
5. Transmission Satellite (VSAT) Engineering training, Satcom Ltd. of Toronto, Canada.
6. Miscellaneous training:
   1. systems, operating systems, legal, financial transaction processing, telecommunications and networks at:
   2. IBM, British Telecom, Citicorp, First Boston Corporation, Information Builders, AT&T Bell Laboratories (Summit, NJ), Bell Northern Research (Raleigh, NC) and NYNEX Science & Technology (White Plains, NY).Other Skills

   Other Activities

   1. Company Director (UK, Netherlands)
   2. Published Author
   3. Published Photographer / Photojournalist
   4. Commercial Film and Theatre Production

   Other Languages

   1. German
   2. Dutch (native)
   3. French

Current Professional Interests

• Digital Video
• Video Conferencing (ISDN & Dialup, mobile)
• Multiprocessor Server Design
• Electronic Publishing - Web / Net client/server applications)

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