Career Objectives

To succeed in a dynamic environment where I can utilize my creativity, management and technical expertise to produce business results.

Personal Summary

Highly motivated team player dedicated to customer satisfaction. Extensive experience within the telecommunications industry (AT&T Canada, Ainsworth Technologies Inc., Canstar Communications, Amdahl Communications and Bell-Northern Research). Recognized for taking personal initiative and working well with others. Proven ability to lead a team. Expertise includes:

• Marketing Product Management
• Regulatory Support
• Marketing/Competitive Intelligence
• Product Design And Verification
• Problem Solving And Decision Making
• Sales Engineering
• Local Area Networks

Employment Experience

AT&T Canada Long Distance Services
Senior Product Manager, Data Services

1994 - Current

Developed and co-ordinated strategies and tactics to achieve the revenue, profit and market share goals for various products within the Data Services portfolio.

Accomplishments:

Planned and implemented various product strategies to ensure the growth of AT&T Canada's leading edge data communications services

• Expanded the geographic coverage of DataVPN Frame Relay Service by 50% over a one-year period. Service is available in more communities and regions in Canada making DataVPN a truly national service.
• Introduced DS-3 (45 Mbps) dedicated private line as a general service offering. Customers increasing demand for high capacity transport services can be provided as a standard service rather than a special assembly
• Restructured customer rates for DS-1 (1.5 Mbps) dedicated access service. Service rates for DS-1 access are now grouped into multiple rate bands and are competitively consistent with the provincial telephone companies

Ainsworth Technologies Inc.
Engineering Manager/Principal Consultant

1990-1994

Engineering Manager overseeing the preparation of major proposals and principal consultant for Local Area Network (LAN) engineering projects.

Accomplishments:

• Developed and delivered an enterprise network system design for al large campus environment
• Orchestrated the development of a $7 million multi-disciplinary proposal for an integrated data communications infrastructure.
• Project managed the delivery of a $250,000 turn key network system within 1 month of award; as required by the customer.

Canstar Communications (division of Alcatel)
Project Leader

1986-1989

Successfully led multi-disciplinary product development teams in the development of state-of-the-art optical fibre based local area network system components.

Accomplishments:

• Completed a joint product development of an Internet Protocol (IP) gateway with Cisco Systems. The gateway was accepted in field trials with a U.S. government organization.
• Primary technical contributor to the 100Mbps Ethernet bridge connection module development program. This product concept was ahead of the industry by 5 years.
• Co-developed the Product Development Procedure Specification adopted as the internal company standard.

Amdahl Communications Incorporated
Design Engineer

1984-1986

Developed rapidly into a senior engineer responsible for the design of equipment modules that formed the heart of the company's leading product offering.

Accomplishments:

• Completed the development of a complex common logic module for Amdahl's leading multiplexer product.
• Completed the development of the alarm and common logic module for a protocol translator product need to ensure compatibility with U.S. data communication standards
• Introduced and standardized the use of High Speed CMOS and Advanced Schottky technologies into product designs.

Bell-Northern Research Limited
(division of Northern Telecom and Bell Canada)
Member of Scientific Staff

1982-1984

Refined academic knowledge with hands on experience concerning actual products and practical engineering issues.

Accomplishments:

• Developed and applied a comprehensive reliability model for a DS-3 (45 Mbps) digital voice multiplexer. The model predictions affirmed the decision to implement fault tolerance design for key system elements.
• Developed and completed an extensive environmental performance evaluation for a voice concentrator product. The evaluation helped focus the design team on specific shortcomings present in the engineering prototype.
• Conducted an environmental performance evaluation of a digital microwave transmission system.

Education

Masters of Business Administration
University of Toronto, Faculty of Management

Expected 1997

Certificate in Management
Canadian Institute of Management

1991

Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc.)
University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering

1982