Our staff includes many people who were and continue to be instrumental in shaping the telecommunications industry as we know it today. The following is a sample list of some of our staffs' backgrounds and expertise. If you would like to know more about our staff please see Consulting Services, and contact us at consulting@kohlgroup.com.

• Network Operations. Former Vice President, NYNEX Corporation. BS, The Cooper Union;  MBA, CUNY, Baruch School.

• OSS Requirements and Operations Integration, Mergers/Acquisitions, Unbundling, LNP, Operations Processes. Former District Manager Provisioning Planning at Bell Atlantic.  MBA, Pace University.

• Former Chief Technical Officer and member of Board of Directors of the Network Cable Systems Division of Lucent Technologies and Vice President Operations for Iridium LLC. PhD, Purdue University.

• Broadband Multi Media Strategic Planning. Expert in legislation and business strategies and network architectures for new services and technologies. Former Vice President, NYNEX. MS, Polytechnic Institute of New York and MBA, Pace University.

• Human Resources, Pre-IPO Strategy, Start-up HR Infrastructure, Executive Coaching & Leadership Development. Former Vice President of HR and General Manager Switching Systems for Teleport. MS, Pace University.

• Access Technologies and Transmission Expert; Inventor of ADSL and HDSL. PhD, Polytechnic Institute of New York. IEEE and Bellcore Fellow.

• Officer-level (President, CEO, VP) P&L Manager, Cable Television Companies in the US, Asia and Latin America. Expertise in project development, marketing, product positioning and pricing, operations and customer support functions. MBA, Columbia University.

• Former Vice President of Operations Assurance for Bell Atlantic. Managed procedural and quality matters throughout 13-state footprint; supervised internal review of all operations functions; improved plans, systems, flows and methods to positively impact customer service and company financial results.

• Product Realization - Planning, Design, Development and Manufacture. KOHL Consultant and Director of Engineering for CDMA mobile hand sets at Philips and Motorola. Former Lucent Technologies Department Head. MSEE, New York University.

• Wireless and Wireline Network Integration. Significant author of North American Wireless Coding and Protocol Standards. IEEE Fellow and former Bellcore director. MSEE, Vanderbilt University.

• Billing, Data Collections Systems, Fraud, Settlements, Tariffs, MIS. Former VP & CIO of Puerto Rico Telephone Company. MSEE, Columbia University; BSEE, University of Notre Dame.

• Electrical Protection, Corrosion, Grounding, Safety. MS and BS, Polytechnic Institute of New York/Brooklyn, IEEE Fellow.

• Broadband Network Architectures, Operations and Operations Support Systems. Former Assistant Vice President, Bellcore. MS New York University.

• Next Generation IDLC Systems Engineering, GR303 & GR2933. Former Distinguished Member of Staff at Bellcore. MS, Stevens Institute of Technology.

• Systems Engineer Access Architecture for Fiber in the Loop (FITL) and HFC systems. Former Lucent Technologies Technical Manager. PhD, Stevens Institute.

• Systems Engineering, Design, Development, Test and Project Management of Network Elements and Operations Support Systems. Former Executive Director, Bellcore for OSS software development and test. MSEE, New York University.

• Fixed Wireless, High-Speed Data Services and Loop Unbundling. Former Senior Member of technical staff, AT&T; Systems Engineer Bellcore BSEE, Fairleigh Dickinson University.

• Product Quality Evaluation and HW/SW Systems Test for Optical Network Products. Former Lucent Technologies Department Head. MS, New York University.

• Physical Design, Product Development and Realization, Design for Manufacture, and Manufacturing Operations Improvement. Former Technical Manager Lucent Technologies. MS, New York University.

• OSS interfaces, Project Management, Systems Selection, Vendor Management, Telecom Planning; participant in the Ordering & Billing Forum. Former Director, Bell Atlantic. MS, Telecommunications Management & Operations Research.

• Usability design and assessment of equipment and operations for ease of use, user acceptance, low cost, safety, efficiency of operations and human reliability. Former AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. PhD, Purdue University; MSEE, University of Maryland.

• Business, Intermediary Marketing, Corporate Planning, and Competitive analysis. Former Managing Director Marketing for intermediary markets, NYNEX. MBA Fairleigh Dickinson University.

• Outside Plant Construction and Engineering - specializing in Right of Way, Joint Use of Structures, and Electrical Protection. BS, Georgetown University.

• Officer-level (President, CEO, VP) P&L Manager, Cable Television Companies in the US, Asia and Latin America. Expertise in project development, marketing, product positioning and pricing, operations and customer support functions. MBA, Columbia University.

• Network Operations. Former Bell Atlantic Operations Manager; expertise in Switch Translations, E911, Billing Recovery, Statewide ACD, 800 Haulback, Permissive Dialing, FTS 2000, LEAS, BLV, CST, Intellipath, ISDN, Equal Access, Intellihub, Coin 1 + 800, Inmate Service, PAL/COCOTS, Switchway, SS7, and Curb DWI. BA Business Management/Economics, Empire State College

• Systems Engineer, Access Systems and Technologies. Fiber in the Loop, Hybrid Fiber Coax, and PCS SONET, CATV and Broadband services, TR-303. Former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore and AT&T Bell Laboratories. MS, Harvard University, Applied Physics; BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

• Human Factors and Systems Usability, Transport Systems, Optical Communications, Handsets, IVR Scripts and Internet. Former Manager AT&T. PhD, University of Maryland.

• Systems Engineering and Project Management, Transport Systems. Former Director Transmission Products at Lucent Technologies. BSEE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MSEE, New York University.

• Fiber Optics and Digital Cross Connect Systems Design and Development. Instrumental in the development of SONET standards and optical network restoration systems. Former Department Head, AT&T Bell Laboratories. PhD, Electrical Engineering, New York University; BSEE, the City College of New York.

• Video Telephony and Internet Technology and Products. Systems engineer for access and interoffice network transport systems. Former technical manager AT&T Laboratories. PhD, MSEE, BSEE, University of Virginia.

• Architectures and Economics of Broadband, Including HFC and FITL. Former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bellcore. PhD, Columbia University.

• Network Evolution Planning, Economic Analysis of Access Architectures, Including Broadband and ISDN. Former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Director at Bellcore. PhD, Cornell University.

• Operations Planning and Management, Provisioning and Maintenance. Former Director Operations, Bell Atlantic. MS, Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Please contact us at consulting@kohlgroup.com