Infrax Systems Inc (IFXY)

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John Verghese - Product Development Director Infrax

Maybe we should focus a bit on the management here. We've all seen Paul's background.
Well it appears to me that John is pretty well hooked into the sector as well. Read on...

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-verghese/14/b95/733

http://www.infraxinc.com/about-us/management-team/

John Verghese

Telecommunications Professional

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Past

* VP of Planning and Engineering at Tower Cloud Inc
* Director of Sales Engineering at Progress
* Sr. Manager - Technology & Architecture at Progress Telecom

Education

* Bangalore University
* Florida Institute of Technology

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John Verghese’s Summary

Seasoned telecommunication expert with over 20 years of experience including 3+ outside of the US in building and operating local and wide area networks. Well rounded in all the functional areas of the telecom industry from planning, engineering and operations to sales and customer support. Efficiently manage large capital budgets ($100M+) per year, identify and implement cost cutting measures. Key individual in the planning and engineering of Progress Telecom’s fiber based core telecommunication system between Miami and New York which included over 9,000 fiber route miles, 30 metro networks and 240 POPs. Network technologies included 10 Gigabit DWDM, T-1 to OC-192 SONET, Digital Cross-connect Systems, Ethernet, Microwave, WiFi and 10 Gigabit IP Routers.

Currently working with a start up Smart Grid company based in the Tampa Bay area responsible for the development of products and services related to AMI.

John Verghese’s Specialties:

Planning and Engineering of Local and Wide Are Networks, Program Managing large complex projects, Network Acquisitions, Vendor Management, Contract Negotiation, Business Process Improvement, network management systems, IT, Optical and Wireless networks, M&A activities.
John Verghese’s Experience

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VP of Planning and Engineering
Tower Cloud Inc (See below)

(Telecommunications industry)

July 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 5 months)

Hired to be part of the senior leadership team to build the company from ground up and put the company on the map. Built a strong multi-skilled technical team, authored and implemented several internal processes and engineering standards. Met with executives, planners and local operational teams of the large wireless companies to design robust networks and implement cost effective solutions to meet their backhaul requirements.

Instrumental in effectively leasing software services for provisioning the network (as opposed to buying) and building a virtual Network Operating Center (NOC), saving the company over $1M in capital costs.

Key Accomplishments:

• Recruited and managed a team of 9 highly qualified Mapping Professionals, Optical, Microwave, IT and Systems Engineers.
• Selected fiber providers in each of the target markets – Atlanta, Phoenix, Orlando, S. Florida, Las Vegas and Tampa; designed fiber routes/rings, negotiated and signed multi-year contracts with 4 fiber providers to serve the initial 3 launch markets.
• Selected and approved two network architectures to meet the market based traffic demands.
• Prepared the company to meet the challenge of providing cost effective, robust Ethernet services to meet or exceed the service level agreements of the wireless provider’s 4G requirements. This resulted in Tower Cloud becoming certified by two large wireless companies to provide Ethernet Backhaul services.

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Director of Sales Engineering
Progress

(Telecommunications industry)

September 2002 — July 2006 (3 years 11 months)

Progress Telecom, now part of Level 3 Communications is one of the largest regional service providers with network extending from Miami to New York primarily providing private line and IP services to wireless and international companies.

Managed a team of sales engineers to provide complete technical support to the sales group including development of pre-sales engineering solutions and post sales network activation. Developed strategic network expansion plans to selected cable stations, data centers and major carrier hotels.

Department played a key role in driving broadband revenue growth of 15-20% per year while enhancing EBITDA and cash flow margins by providing customers creative network solutions combined with industry leading installation intervals and network reliability.

Key Achievements:

• Personally involved with all major customers in finalization of major sales. Significant focus on wireless service providers and international carriers. 12 net new wireless provider MSCs were added to the network.
• Developed Sales Engineering activity tracking program to assess productivity of sales engineers and identify potential network expansion opportunities.

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Sr. Manager - Technology & Architecture
Progress Telecom

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

April 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 6 months)

Managed directly and indirectly staff of 28 personnel (Managers, Planners, Collocation Specialists and Engineers) accountable for all the front-end processes of network deployment such as market selection, route planning, cost estimation, vendor selection and generating purchase order requisitions. Developed processes to evaluate vendors, generate RFPs complete technical analysis of bid responses. Made all technology selection decisions (with input from operations), qualified vendors for lab evaluation and communicated network and roll out plans across the company.

Designed, engineered and directed implementation of network expansion solution resulting in Progress Telecom winning the “Preferred Provider” status from Telefonica for US backhaul of all Latin American traffic on their $1.7 billion undersea cable system. Developed strong customer relationships as lead technical contact for Telefonica which became Progress Telecom’s largest international customer.

Key Achievements:

• Managed annual capital budget of $75M to $100M.
• Completed Y2K upgrades without the involvement of consultants realizing a $3M to $5M savings.
• Negotiated with selected vendors to establish Master Vendor Agreements (MVAs) for procurement of fiber and electronics (SONET, DACS, Routers and Microwave systems.)
• Built state-of-the-art product testing and network simulation laboratory.
• Developed and implemented engineering standards for installation and network documentation.

John Verghese’s Education

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Bangalore University

B.S , Electrical Engineering

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Florida Institute of Technology

M.S , Electrical Engineering



P.S. Get a look at the management at Tower Cloud, John's most recent position before Infrax.

http://www.towercloud.com/company.shtml

Tell me we don't have links to professionals in Level 3 (Previously Progress Telecom.)


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