Consulting Experience
- Advised Adobe Systems for their data center facilities and eCommerce platforms prior to executive committee decisions. You can read the opinion here.
- Advised United Airlines on their $100M global internet and telecommunications expansion.
- Advised Verizon and Arbinet, and paid for Arbinet’s initial four Cisco AS5300 gateways ($100K not inflation adjusted), to facilitate their first VoIP-orginated trials, and together we effectively globalized Voice over IP.
- Advised Microsoft on the integration of the first VoIP client internally embedded into a computer operating system.
- Advised Genuity of the patent requirement for the system of establishing the availability of an internet gateway port to receive a VoIP call [US Patent 6940849].
- Advised Lucent on a patent co-op with the University of Paris for a $5 million technology share of the g.729 codec.
- Expert Witness to Federal Courts, and State Superior Courts in over $7 billion of financial exposure related to telecommunications and internetworking; including being retained for the defense of the CEO, CTO, and CFO of AT&T in the largest telecom lawsuit in the USA since the divestiture of the Bell Companies.
Expert Witness Casework
- AT&T Shareholders vs AT&T Corp & CEO [C. Michael Armstrong], CFO [Dan Somers], CTO [John Petrillo] (Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood) $2.4B – I was paid $100K to research this case and write my opinion in 2004—not inflation-adjusted. You can read the opinion here.
- WorldCom Shareholders vs. WorldCom Corp & CEO, Bernie Ebbers (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle) $1B
- Global Crossing Shareholders vs Arthur Andersen (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle) $1B
- C2 vs AT&T, Verizon, Level 3, Qwest, Global Crossing, BellSouth, and Sprint-Nextel, [US Patent No. 6,243,373, the seminal patent of VoIP] (Sussman Godfrey, Monts & Ware) $1B
- Genuity Bankruptcy Committee vs. Nortel (Lovells) $263M
- Qwest vs. Novo, AxisTel, and eVentures (Brownstein, Farber, & Hyatt) $250M
- Lucent vs Network Access Solutions (Lowenstein Sandler) $54M
- Lucent vs Telephony International (Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe) $50 million
- MicroAge vs AT&T Global Network Services, GE Interlogix (Gleaves, Swearington, Potter)
- Cogent vs eBroadBandNow (Law office of Byron Fleck)
- TKTel vs Ericsson (Altman & Company)
- La Touraine vs Navisite
- Laci & Scott Peterson murder trial
Customer Aquisitions (partial list)
Over 900 customers included the following enterprises: Cisco Systems, Stanford University, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, Visa, Intel, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, E*Trade, Charles Schwab, Novell, National Semiconductor, MasterCard, Sun Microsystems, Google, NetGravity, Canon, Universal Music Group, Digital River, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fox Broadcasting, ZDnet, Reuters, Kenneth Cole, MSNBC, Major League Baseball, Time Warner-Road Runner, AOL, Chevron, AAA, US Steel, Bank of America, Coors Brewing, Target, McDonalds, McKesson, Discovery Channel, Royal Dutch Shell, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, ADP, Nordstrom, Nike Air Jordan, Jeep-Chrysler, Marriott Hotels, Ritz Carlton, Akamai, United Airlines, WorldCom, AT&T, Lucent, Global Crossing, Arthur Anderson, Qwest, Genuity, Level 3, AAA, and Costco.
Career Team Awards
- Digital Island was named the “Most Innovative Service Provider of the Year” in Network Computing for the year 2000 by CMP Media.
- Data Communications Magazine: “Data Communications’ Hot Products Award,” announced in the January 1998 issue, for our new Managed Bandwidth Service. The Hot Products Award acknowledges “The Brightest Ideas in Networking.”
- Computerworld magazine selected Digital Island as one of 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000, awarding its e-Network Services’ innovative approach to enabling e-Business for Fortune 1,000 corporations.
- Internet World Industry Awards, Industry Access Services Category, 1998. “The Best Service Enabling Internet or Intranet Functions Beyond Basic Connectivity.” Examples of services measured included website hosting and transaction processing.
- Dialpad was awarded Internet Telephony Magazine’s “Product of the Year Award.” Internet Telephony’s Product of the Year Award is presented to companies whose products exemplify innovation, a commitment to quality, and have had a significant impact on moving the IP-based telecommunications industry forward.
- Dialpad was named the “Best Internet Telephony Site for 2001” by Yahoo! Internet Life.
- Dialpad was ranked “Number One in Internet Telephony Traffic” by Nielsen Net Ranking.
- Dialpad maintains “Number One Ranking Among VoIP Service Traffic,” according to Frost & Sullivan.
- Dialpad Communications was named the “Best of Show” winner at the 2001 Internet Telephony Conference & Expo.
- ITU ranks Dialpad Communications “Market Share Leader” among VoIP carriers.
- Dialpad was awarded Internet Telephony Magazine’s “Product of the Year” award for 2000.
- Awarded by Cisco Systems as their 2011 Global Service Provider Partner of the Year.
Federal, State, Telecommunications, and InterExchange Carrier (IXC) Licenses
- Cisco Certified Network Asssociate (CCNA)
- Feature Group D (FGD) Carrier Identification Code (CIC): 1225
- ACNA: YMN
- FCC 499 ID: 824344
- FCC 214
- Also licensed in 35 of the 50 states which required telecom carrier registration, i.e. PUC of California: U-6754-C
- HAM Radio Technicians license: KZ7MAX
- Real Estate Broker, State of California, 1990, required 8 college courses.
Most notably, I have contributed in senior leadership roles with many exceptionally talented people who together accomplished what became 15 prominent internet milestones:
- In 2001, we provisioned and managed the network operations for the fastest-growing web portal for 10 million subscribers in internet history, faster than Yahoo! and AOL combined.
- In 2001, we provided the telecom operations for the first 1 billion minutes originated using Voice over IP (VoIP) worldwide, two years prior to the founding of Vonage and Skype.
- In 1996, I co-founded Digital Island, an international telecommunications company, where I was responsible for acquiring the network infrastructure that connected 95% of the regionally significant ISPs and internet users together, worldwide, seamlessly over one autonomous network, for the effective globalization of the internet, web, and eCommerce.
- In 1997, I initiated communications with the Minister of Telecom for China (Professor Xing Li, Tsinghua University) and then traveled to Beijing to negotiate and contract for the first internet peering with the People’s Republic of China.
- In 1996, I negotiated and signed a service contract with Cisco Systems to host Cisco.com, when they were the 587th largest company in the USA. Three years later, in 1999, they became the most valuable company in the world just 15 years after their inception and while employing our network to scale and support their meteoric growth.
- In 1997, we enabled the globalization of eCommerce with VISA, MasterCard, eTrade, and Charles Schwab.
- In 1997, we enable the globalization of eLearning and ePublishing with Stanford University.
- In 1997, we developed the network platform that made possible the first global Content Delivery Network (CDN), also known as Local Content Manager, two years prior to the founding of Akamai.
- In 1998, we enabled the globalization of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) with the industry’s first on-demand allocation of bandwidth over the web, Resource Reservation Protocol (aka RSVP).
- In 1999, we built the largest media streaming network in the world, partnering together with Microsoft, Compaq, and Intel.
- In 1998, we provided the internet services platform that Google’s founders used for upstream ISP connections to build the first repository of Google search results while they were graduate school students at Stanford University in 1998 (google.stanford.edu).
- In 1998, Cisco Systems honored the global network I acquired with the award for building the world’s first “Cisco Powered Network.” This designation is now an industry benchmark.
- In 2001, we provided the platform integration infrastructure to Microsoft for the first unified communications (UC) telephony application embedded internally within a computer operating system (Windows XP SIP VoIP client).
- In 1995, I created one of the world’s first 7,000 websites. At the time, with 7 billion people on the planet, that equates to being 1 website owner per 1 million people.