I am a highly experienced telecommunications and data networking professional, having worked in both the vendor and customer areas. As a vendor, I teamed with our sales force and our customers to tailor configurations that served their application needs and budgets and at the same time worked to meet corporate goals for profitability and success. As a customer, I helped our line of business clients to define their application needs and to solicit vendors to provide input for budgets, field trials and contracts.
My experience in line and management level positions has driven me to appreciate and understand what management expects in the way of budgets and time lines and how that affects ...