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Résumé of Menno E. Aartsen
Verizon Data Services India, in Chennai
Visiting Verizon Data Services India, Chennai

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"I think to me a geek is someone who is passionate about technology, who really cares about innovation and how to drive innovation and refine society"

Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems




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    Click here for a description of United States Patent 6,480,598 (November, 2003)

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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



    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

    NYNEX Network Systems Company, White Plains, NY

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

    NYNEX Science & Technology Asia, Bangkok, Thailand

    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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