Academic years 2000 – present Stevens
Hoboken NJ
Program Director - eTechnology, Business & Technology Program
First faculty member hired for a new undergraduate program which has grown to ~300 students. Developed eight new technology-enabled courses in the program. Our graduates are applying this combination of business and technology education in many industries, including the top firms on Wall Street.
Contining patent and academic research. Academic year 1998-1999 Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Executive in Residence – Management Information Systems and Telecommunications.
While teaching four graduate and undergraduate courses, actively engaged in academic research. Academic Year 1997 Farleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ
Adjunct, Taught Economics at the graduate level while employed at AT&T WorldNet. Academic Year 1996 William Patterson University
Wayne, NJ
Adjunct, Taught Management Information Systems at the graduate level while employed at AT&T WorldNet. Spring 1988 Temple University
Tokyo Japan
Visiting Associate Professor. Taught Economics at the graduate level while working at AT&T International in Japan. Undergraduate Courses taught at Stevens
BT 122 IT and Communications: Introduction to E-Business
BT 191 Scientific Computing - MATLAB
BT 223 Applied Models and Simulation
BT 412 Business Consulting in Eng. or Eng. Mgmt. Design I
BT 413 Business Consulting in Eng. or Eng. Mgmt. Design II
BT 414 E-Commerce Infrastructure (Supply Chain Management)
MGT 243 Macroeconomics
MGT 401 eCommerce - MIS/DBMS/Networks
MGT 401 Supply Chain Management - eTechnology Infrastructure
Graduate Courses taught at Stevens
Mgt 623 Financial Management Graduate Courses at other Universities
Management Information Systems
Managerial Microeconomics
Telecommunications Business Experience
1997 - 1998 Alta+Cast
Horsham, PA
Chief Financial Officer
As one of the five co-founders, led the financial planning for a product line which won the industry award for the best information systems application in Healthcare at the 1997 and 1998 Microsoft Health Users Group annual conference. This product line integrated multiple legacy systems in hospitals, providing an easily modifiable Internet interface for adding non-legacy features such as multimedia, communications and interactive database. Business acquired by third largest health care information company in the US in 1998. 1996 - 1997 AT&T WorldNet (AT&T Internet Business Unit)
Bridgewater, NJ
Business Development
Responsible for planning and executing AT&T’s high-speed Internet access business. Developed the business strategy and business plans for rollout of cable, satellite and high-speed wireless. Managed the team that developed the technical requirements, organized the field trials for these Internet services with national cable companies. Led the strategic evaluation of alternative high speed Internet technologies, quantified business potential and negotiated the business relationships. 1994 - 1995 AT&T Chief Information Office
Parsippany, NJ
Global Business (Supplier) Relations
Chief negotiator for AT&T with all the internet based networking suppliers including: Bay Networks, Cisco, Newbridge Networks, Cabletron, Sterling Software and Ascend. Managed requirements, products and contract conditions across 26 AT&T business units. Directly negotiated these strategic partnerships. Documented over $100 Million in savings in second year. 1991 – 1994 AT&T Bell Laboratories - Research (Murray Hill)
New Providence, NJ
Member of Technical Staff, Supervisor - Research Development
Responsible for Business Development for the Area 112, the basic research area of Bell Labs that provided for software, communications and mathematics research for AT&T business units and ventures. Led the transfer of advanced technologies from Bell Labs research to AT&T Business Units and Ventures ranging from business uses of new software tools such as C++ to circuit design and advanced wireless. Produced the video research reports that were the keynote presentation of the annual Area 112 strategy planning session of the AT&T business unit heads. Headed the technology team for the Wall Street analyst technology conference that raised AT&T’s stock value by $1 Billion in a single day. Brought over 2,000 high-level VP's, directors and managers into direct interaction with Bell Laboratory researchers. 1990 – 1991 Advanced Decision Support Systems
New Providence, NJ
Research Supervisor, Advanced Development Group [Karmarkar Venture])
Managed the ADSS Research Group at Murray Hill (AT&T's basic research location) in support of the Advanced Decision Support Systems. My group of 18 developed software algorithms and architectures, providing very large-scale airline and production scheduling, transportation and inventory management (Supply Chain) products in a client-server environment. 1989 – 1990 Advanced Decision Support Systems (Mathmatical Venture)
Morristown, NJ
Vice President – Technology and Business Development
After AT&T divested the data and computer business including operations in Japan, recruited to manage the strategic planning for this new AT&T mathemcatical optimization venture start-up,
1988 – 1989 AT&T Japan
Tokyo, Japan
General Manager – AT&T Japan Data Systems
Responsible for all operational aspects of the AT&T computer business in Japan. Implemented and delivered the world’s first, multi-language UNIX (Japanese, German, Chinese, and English) integrated data communications system. Managed the multiple indirect distribution channels in Japan whose 600 sales professionals sold AT&T computer products and products manufactured in Japan by the AT&T Ricoh joint venture. Also managed the AT&T data communications business with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph. 1988 – 1989 AT&T Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Special Additional Assignment - AT&T Business Manager – AT&T / Toshiba
For six months, while AT&T recruited a Japan based manager for the Toshiba PBX venture, led the restructuring of our strategic partner relationship after a product failure. As the only manager stationed in Japan in this period, provided daily operational management and support of the 800 mainly Japanese speaking sales and support professionals in the sales channel that Toshiba dedicated to this business. 1985 – 1989 AT&T Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Vice President – Senior Member of the Board of Directors
As the senior AT&T Executive in the venture, led the formation and start-up of AT&T’s first office automation / manufacturing venture in Japan. Negotiated the joint venture agreement and the funding by the Japanese partner. Managed multiple design and manufacturing activities with a focus on a multi-country design. Exceeded all business case financial objectives in the first two operational years of the venture. The ventures office local area network product was the first of all Japanese products to inter-operate with the diverse Japanese computer operating systems used in Japan. The Merlin PBX (Voice data communication system) which was designed for Japan’s competitive cost targets and multi-country operations subsequently became a exceptional business success in the US market. Organized and managed the US/Venture support systems to support the 600 sales people reporting to the joint venture. 1982 – 1985 AT&T International
Morristown, NJ
Venture Development
As one of the first 50 people in this new AT&T venture, managed the AT&T R&D budget for internationalization of all AT&T products including the negotiation of deliverables with each AT&T line of business. Conducted market studies in Asia and Europe and developed successful business proposals for new international markets. Lead the strategic formulation, technical planning and business negotiations for AT&T’s first manufacturing venture in the Far East. 1978 – 1981 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
Manager of Strategic Planning and New Ventures
Responsible for the strategic planning of Business Marketing. Initiated a new business strategy to proactively redesign customer’s voice/data networks, eliminating a major competitive threat and retaining major tier 1 customers. Planed and started the network-planning group. Developed the optimization software for the automated design of customer voice networks. Led the redesign of the State of Pennsylvania data network reducing dedicated lines by 21,000 miles and recovered the account from a competitive loss. Led the sales management software design team that reorganized business marketing sales from geographic assignment to industry specialization for the top 70,000 customers. AT&T used this software to reorganize the marketing of multiple regional operating companies. Developed the online sales management system to manage all sales proposals based on maximum marginal revenues. Scheduled all sales and implementation personnel for all business customers across Pennsylvania and Delaware.
1973 – 1978 Advanced Controls and Measurements, Eagle, PA
Co-Founder
Co-founded an embedded microprocessor design and development company that produced a successful line of industrial weighing and measurement equipment. Designed real-time operating systems for the product line and software for designed software applications ranging from medical equipment to industrial control. This profitable company was sold after the death of another co-founder, the chief engineer.
During this period I also undertook my MBA and Ph.D. studies. 1971 to 1973 Acrodyne Industries, Inc.,
Montgomeryville, Pa
Head - Systems Engineering Laboratory,
Started and managed the Systems Engineering Laboratory of a new, 12 person, startup company which during my tenure grew to over 100 employees. Recruited and managed the engineering staff. Developed engineering proposals both technically and financially. Successfully conducted sales presentation to commercial customers and government agencies including the Joint Chiefs of R&D at the Pentagon. Achieved both growth and profitability during a major recession in the electronics business Examples of equipment my group designed and produced included: the first all-solid-state TACAN (airport navigation) transmitter; the first all-solid-state, high-power, television translator; militarized megabit-per-second data links for NASA; portable radar with ECL distance processor; S-band video data links for carrier based aircraft; and the radio frequency, power amplifiers for the Bell Laboratories prototype of the Advanced Mobile Communications System (AMPS Cellular) which was used for many years in the system test fixture of the 1G cellularsystem.
1971 – 1971 American Electronics Laboratories,
Colmar, PA
Chief Engineer – Biomedical Division Computer Skills
Managed AT&T UNIX Business in Japan. Managed development of very first UNIX application with multiple language interface; English, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Managed AT&T networking and data communications business in Japan and managed development of AT&T’s first Japanese networking product.
Initiated and managed network design group in Bell of Pennsylvania.
Financial modeling, database and simulation languages.
Econometrics Ph. D. Thesis using only APL software I developed for Econometrics Algorithms and Natural Language Databases
Taught MATLAB at Stevens Institute of Technology
Completed Ph.D. coursework in operations research (management Science) before transfering into economics
Proven software management and development skills in multiple computer languages and operating systems. Languages
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