Project: Middleboro CLEC Business Plan Development and Implementation
Description: Evaluated business strategies and developed a business plan for Middleboro (MA) Gas and Electric to enter the telecommunications business, selected a telecommunications partner, developed a marketing strategy, supported development of a legal strategies to develop the business, and provided management guidance to the roll out services. Strategies included resale of services, partnering, and overbuilding using FTTN, FTTC, and FTTH.
Client: Littleton ELD
Project: Littleton ELD CLEC Business Plan Evaluation and Implementation
Description: Evaluated previous telecommunications business development plans for the Littleton (MA) Electric Light Department; directed the procurement of partnering arrangements with vendors; evaluated vendors' responses; and negotiated contracts with them to develop telecommunications as a business area for the municipal light department.
Client: Wellesley (MA) MLP
Project: Wellesley MLP CLEC Business Plan Executive Guidance
Description: Provided executive consulting to the General Manager as he was evaluating telecommunications build out options.
Client: Burlington (VT) Electric Department
Project: Burlington Electric Department CLEC Business Plan & Implementation
Description: Provided management and expert guidance to Burlington (VT) Electric Department as it negotiated with carriers for pole access and evaluated its options to work with the embedded CATV company. Directed the procurement of an agreement to partner another firm to develop a new business to provide competitive telephone, data and Internet, and CATV services (the triple play) within the city. Supported negotiations with prospective vendors. Recommended a vendor and provided technical and management guidance to executive management as the business area developed.
Client: Kanas Telecom
Project: Kanas Network System Reliability, Maintainability, & Availability Analysis
Description: Calculated the availability of Kanas Telecom's fiber, microwave, and satellite network backbone in Alaska to demonstrate it met contractual obligations. The network was a complex SONET ring with many interlocking rings and sub-rings.
Client: Hudson Light and Power
Project: Hudson Light and Power CLEC Business Plan Executive Guidance
Description: Provided management guidance to Hudson Light and Power as it procured a telecommunications partner with which to develop a telecommunications business. Alternatives evaluated included services resale, overbuilding with fiber, and partnering with another firm.
Client: Cooperative Communications
Project: Cooperative New Business Area Evaluations
Description: Developed new strategies to provide services that are independent of the embedded local exchange carrier (Verizon) as well as new services.
Client: Cooperative Communications
Project: Cooperative Board of Directors
Description: Member of the Board of Directors of Cooperative Communications, a CLEC and interexchange carrier.
Client: Systems Unlimited
Project: VoIP Switch Software Evaluation
Description: As an expert, developed the arguments that VoIP switch software a major vendor claimed it had lost was technically and commercially viable and used several algorithms to estimate its value at between $500 million and $2 billion. Was deposed.