Experience

Broadband Technology Corporation (www.1btc.com)

• Business Development Officer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  United States Precision structured LAN/WAN cabling and network fiber installations for next generation data centers, legacy network equipment decommissioning, office renovations for commercial and Government agencies fixed and wireless IT, VoIP, Audio/Video services.



GDIT a General Dynamics Co. VoIP Architect

• UC-VoIP Architect US ARMY National Guard

  • Mar 2015 - Jan 2021

  United States Contract ended.



SPToro

• France
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Infrastructure Engineering Consultant-RAN/VOICE/VOIP/INTERNET

  • May 2011 - Mar 2015

  Växjö, Sweden Strategic Consulting, for network design, M&A integration, product development, network deployment, project/process management and business plan & sales strategy development. Focusing thirty years experience for rural, municipal , private and public operator network deployments in fixed/wireless voice-internet-voip services. I still work with a variety of vendors technologies in satellite earth stations, wireless distribution networks PTP, PTMP, Wimax RAN, CDMA, LTE7 and the… Show more Strategic Consulting, for network design, M&A integration, product development, network deployment, project/process management and business plan & sales strategy development. Focusing thirty years experience for rural, municipal , private and public operator network deployments in fixed/wireless voice-internet-voip services. I still work with a variety of vendors technologies in satellite earth stations, wireless distribution networks PTP, PTMP, Wimax RAN, CDMA, LTE7 and the migration/integration to IP based networking and core data center from traditional TDM networks which includes the data center design with installation/operations/remote or onsite. Notable vendors are Huawei,ZTE,Intracom, Alvarion and Cisco AS. Show less



S8NET

• Senegal
• Environmental Services

• Principal Technology Consultant

  • Dec 2011 - Dec 2013

  Malmo, Sweden ; Virginia/Washington D.C, USA; Frankfurt, Germany S8NET has been structured to provide both technical and project management services for municipal , private corporate and public operator network deployments. S8NET has thirty years of experience in fixed/wireless voice-data-voip networking, design and integration. S8NET supports satellite earth stations, wireless distribution networks PTP, PTMP, Wimax RAN, CDMA and recently LTE trials in Africa. S8NET has experience in traditional TDM networks and migration/integration to IP based networking… Show more S8NET has been structured to provide both technical and project management services for municipal , private corporate and public operator network deployments. S8NET has thirty years of experience in fixed/wireless voice-data-voip networking, design and integration. S8NET supports satellite earth stations, wireless distribution networks PTP, PTMP, Wimax RAN, CDMA and recently LTE trials in Africa. S8NET has experience in traditional TDM networks and migration/integration to IP based networking and core data center design with installation/operations/remote or onsite management outsourcing. Current municipal network focus is in southern Sweden rural areas and globally. Recent African and Middle East experience has been onsite at Addis Abba, Ethiopia; Algeres, Algeria; Amman, Jordan; Accra, Ghana; Lagos.Nigeria; Monrovia,Liberia; Conakry,Guniea; Casablanca,Morocco with remote support to Tripoli, Libya; Cairo, Egypt: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Baghdad,Mosul, Kirkuk , Sulaymaniyah. Show less



WTXC FTZ LLC

• Technical Consultant-Director of Technical Services

  • May 2011 - Dec 2012

  Malmo, Sweden ; New York/Virginia/Washington D.C, USA; Tunisia; UAE Completed the clients migration of voip traffic from prior platform to NexTone platform and new billing system. Currently supporting clients voip traffic and new route development. Adding clients to new distributed data centers with vaulted services.



DiscoveryTel

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO and VP Network Engineering

  • Jun 2005 - May 2011

  Malmo,Sweden Technical leader for DiscoveryTel Group across markets in the USA,EU,Africa and Middle East. Recommending to management the RFP/RFQ vendor selection, capex and technical solutions to be deployed in each market/ project. Also setup daily telco operations in Guinea and Ghana. I worked onsite in Algeria, Morroco, Nigeria, Jordan,Liberia to name a few. Experienced in fixed/wireless network designs for voice/voip/data using satellite, PTP/PTMP and Wimax technology. Oversaw the vendor selection… Show more Technical leader for DiscoveryTel Group across markets in the USA,EU,Africa and Middle East. Recommending to management the RFP/RFQ vendor selection, capex and technical solutions to be deployed in each market/ project. Also setup daily telco operations in Guinea and Ghana. I worked onsite in Algeria, Morroco, Nigeria, Jordan,Liberia to name a few. Experienced in fixed/wireless network designs for voice/voip/data using satellite, PTP/PTMP and Wimax technology. Oversaw the vendor selection process and deployment of Wimax 802.16e solution in Ghana,Accra 2010. In addition, the selection of Huawei for the Nigerian CDMA network plan for PHC,Uyo and Wari states.

• Manager Switching Systems/VOIP-Cisco

  • Feb 2003 - Jun 2005

  Reston,Viginia USA Integrated chapter-11 acquired companies into new Discoverytel.



Nordiska Tele8 AB and Facilicom Int'l Inc

• Dir Eng&OPS and AVP Global Eng

  • Jun 1993 - Oct 1999

  Malmo, Sweden-Washington DC, USA After the Tele2AB design and successful launch 1990-1993, I was invited to Fonetel Global Communications which became Nordiska Tele8AB in the city of Malmo in 1993. I was employee#3, Manager responsible to define technical organization structure and staffing for engineering and operations for the Ericsson AXE-10 international switch, micro wave radios, AT&T PCME/ECI DCME, billing server & PBX. I established the OMC according to the ITU-T. I selected and procured all test equipment. I specified… Show more After the Tele2AB design and successful launch 1990-1993, I was invited to Fonetel Global Communications which became Nordiska Tele8AB in the city of Malmo in 1993. I was employee#3, Manager responsible to define technical organization structure and staffing for engineering and operations for the Ericsson AXE-10 international switch, micro wave radios, AT&T PCME/ECI DCME, billing server & PBX. I established the OMC according to the ITU-T. I selected and procured all test equipment. I specified the AXE-10 installation and facilities with oversight of building 11 meter earth station. I wrote the technical contribution to the business plan and reported to the CEO. After overcoming funding issues with the business plan released to investors, we achieved 2mil minutes/day of traffic 1994-1995, with limited resources. In May 1995 I was promoted to VP Engineering and Operations responsible for international network design, leased facilities, all technical infrastructure, direct operating agreements, national interconnect agreements. I developed a staffing plan to meet network growth with skill sets required for fifteen technical staff. Once approved, I searched and hired the candidates. I established 0&M routines, departmental areas of responsibility and interfaces between the technical organization towards marketing, international relations and national sales. I was a member of the management steering committee. I developed the capital and operating expense budget plan at $8 million USD. June of 1996 FCI acquired 60% of Tele8 and Aug of 1997 I moved to FCI Washington DC HQ. For the FCI-Tele8 organization, I worked with Nortel reviewing their off the shelf voice switch platforms for the business vision yet nothing worked until we agreed to develop the DMS GSP. 1998-1999 we deployed 15 Nortel GSP switches with ATM transport connectivity 12 switches where in Europe/Scandinavia and the remaining in the USA. Show less



Comvik SkyPort/Tele2 AB

• Mgr. Switch Engineering and Operations

  • Dec 1990 - Jun 1993

  Leesburg, Virginia USA and Kista,Stockholm Sweden This role was my first overseas assignment as a manager of voice switch engineering. My task was to define the initial network equipment, plan the capital expense, work with the RFI/RFP team for switching and network management systems including requirements from the partner Cable&Wireless and Tele2 Marketing stakeholders. I became the technical subject matter expert supporting Tele2 switching product development for Tele2 Marketing and recommended the selection of 007 prefix with the first… Show more This role was my first overseas assignment as a manager of voice switch engineering. My task was to define the initial network equipment, plan the capital expense, work with the RFI/RFP team for switching and network management systems including requirements from the partner Cable&Wireless and Tele2 Marketing stakeholders. I became the technical subject matter expert supporting Tele2 switching product development for Tele2 Marketing and recommended the selection of 007 prefix with the first national fixed network (Equal Access) interconnection with Televerket (Telia). Tele2 successfully launched service 17/03/93. The services were direct access to corporate PABX’s and in-direct access with Televerket (Telia) Equal Access country wide in Sweden. My subsequent role was manager for Switch Engineering/Development, and new product development. My duties included technical liaison with Cable & Wireless staff. I was employee #26 and arrived at my Kista office March 1991. Show less



MCI Telecommunications Inc.

• Systems engineer 3 -Integration-test and verification

  • Jan 1981 - Nov 1990

  New York, NY As a voice switch technician in 1981, I was responsible for daily switch preventive maintenance routines across all shifts for 6 voice switches. This included daily recovery of billing data, database image and software backup/recovery, installation of hardware and software upgrades/retrofits, resolved daily customer trouble reports and performed requested change management and control of site specific database of client accounts and network routing. In September 1983 I joined the MCI HQ as… Show more As a voice switch technician in 1981, I was responsible for daily switch preventive maintenance routines across all shifts for 6 voice switches. This included daily recovery of billing data, database image and software backup/recovery, installation of hardware and software upgrades/retrofits, resolved daily customer trouble reports and performed requested change management and control of site specific database of client accounts and network routing. In September 1983 I joined the MCI HQ as a systems engineer working in the test lab with the MCI-DSC team responsible for network field support of DSC DEX-400 switches and new Equal access software. I later became lead engineer responsible for lab testing new DEX hardware/software for integration, and deployment. I was later assigned as lead engineer for integration, test, deployment and support of three DSC DEX-600 prototype voice switches. The DEX-600 field trial success followed with a network wide upgrade program of thirty-three switches of which I authored the setup and migration procedures. I later became Vendor technical manager/engineer for DSC and Ericsson AXE-10 International switches and supervised a staff of three engineers for DSC/Ericsson software test plan development, regression/integration and SS7/C7 interworking tests. I contributed with field test results, analysis and site surveys for the planning of MCI network timing, radio network alignment and clock synchronization architecture. Show less