Experience

Zeetta Networks

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Jan 2022 - Aug 2023

  Republic of Ireland & UK

• Vice President Of Product Management

  • Mar 2021 - Jan 2022

  Dublin 4, County Dublin, Ireland Joined the leadership team to turn product vision into a product strategy and lead execution to make Zeetta Networks a successful company in building solutions transforming the enterprise networking landscape.



Dogpatch Labs - Ireland

• Startup Mentor

  • Nov 2020 - Jan 2022



EXFO

• Canada
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Industry Ecosystems & Digital Transformation Expert

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2020

  Ontario, Canada - Dublin, Ireland Joined EXFO to contribute to the company’s transformation from a product to a solutions vendor, developed EXFO’s strategy to address market changes towards network virtualization and cloud native; Leading and orchestrating internally and externally a successful go to market strategy resulting in several new large Tier 1 and multinational service provider contracts.



Trendium Inc., Boulder Colorado (Acquired by Viavi)

• VP Customers Solutions & Alliances

  • Jun 2012 - Sep 2013

  Boulder Colorado Joined Trendium to complement the executive team and execute a strategy leading to a successful exit, by providing a go to market strategy for network analytics solution, delivering a clear value proposition to customers, and utilizing my global contacts to penetrate the market in the Middle East and Asia. Company acquired by Viavi



Avvasi Incorporated

• Canada
• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Marketing and Business Development

  • Jan 2010 - May 2012

  Joined Avvasi to complement the executive team with my telecom experience; built a complete product development and go to market strategy resulting in transforming an OTT video centric prototype into a saleable product/solution for the telecom market; this resulted in winning the first reference accounts in Canada, US and Europe, paving the road for growing revenues and successful exit. Company acquired by Netscout



CARTI

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Vice President Product Management

  • Dec 2006 - Nov 2009

  Boston/Toronto Hired by Comcast Investment Capital (Cartiza’s customer and investor) to be part of the founding executive team to develop the concept and build a 4G product targeting the MSO market; provided the complete product, marketing and go to market plan as part of the company’s investor pitch, resulting in US$18M raised and successful product launch for Comcast USA.



Redline Communications (now Aviat Networks)

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Product Management

  • Nov 2004 - Dec 2006

  Joined Redline to lead their Network Management and WiMAX 4G product line, extended this role to lead internally and externally the deployment of the product part of a complete multivendor solution; Worked closely with Cisco, Intracom Telecom and several other local integrators to deploy the first wireless broadband network in Saudi Arabia as a reference account, which resulted in rapid market access in the region.



Nettest Canada Inc.

• Technical Project Manager

  • Feb 2002 - Sep 2004

  Led the development of the first wireless 3G passive monitoring system, managing 15 engineers in Canada and 40 outsourced engineers in India.



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Director – Telecom Innovation Centre

  • Nov 1996 - Jan 2001

  Contributed to the establishment of Siemen’s first centre of competence (Telecom Innovation Centre) in Canada focused on OSS/BSS; Following completion of several successful projects, was promoted to Senior Director managing 45 engineers in Canada and 150 outsourced engineers globally.



Nortel Networks

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• System Engineer - Team Leader

  • Oct 1992 - Nov 1996

  Joined as lead software system engineer, part of a joint project with Harvard, CMU and funded by ARPA; Developed the first broadband ATM switch and switching of the first IP packet over broadband ATM in Nortel.