Howe School Faculty

Dr. Audrey Kames Curtis

• Ph.D.(1980) New York University (Experimental Psychology)Random Walk Model for Same-Different Judgments in Word Recognition
• M.S. (1975) Polytechnic University (Industrial Engineering/Operations Research)
• B.A. (1973) Simmons College (Psychology)

• Structure of the Telecommunications Industry
• Global Project Development and Strategic Management
• Telecommunications Policy
• Service and Network Management
• Emerging Technologies

• Audrey Curtis has had a 27-year industrial career.
• Chief Technology Officer for a communications start-up, eLink Communications, providing broadband services to small-medium sized business customers
• 26 years at AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, and Concert.  Her last assignment was as a Vice President for Technology Strategy and Product Alignment for the joint venture between AT&T and British Telecom (Concert).  Her prior assignments included:  leading the Internet Applications Development Lab (350 people); managing software development projects, leading major process improvement initiatives between Bell Labs and the Network Systems unit, small business systems planning & design, large scale consumer market research.
• Named Director of Stevens Telecommunications Management program.

• Executive Director,Graduate programs in Project and Telecom Management
• Advisor, MS in Telecommunications Management
• Advisor, MBA Project & Telecom Management
• Advisor PhD in Telecom Management
• Chair, Howe School Curriculum Committee

• Planned and implemented the technical strategy and organization for Concert- the global joint venture between AT&T and British Telecom.
• Led the organization that developed and deployed AT&T’s first business internet services: web hosting, e’commerce, directory,and the first consumer VoIP service.
• Led ATT-wide initiatives in software process improvement and design, manufacturing and delivery interval reductions and process improvements.
• Led the software implementation of a large –scale math programming breakthrough (Karmarkar algorithm) into commercial applications for the airlines.

IEEE- Member

NJTC- Advisory Board member