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Dr. Ronald O. Brown, Professional Engineer
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Dr. Ronald O. Brown is a highly versatile consultant with over 40 years of networking and telecommunications experience and over 20 years experience as an independent consultant. He has a thorough understanding of technology, its benefits in profitable business processes, and a proven ability to bring change to an organization. He has demonstrated his ability to develop innovative and successful business and technical solutions, including several world firsts.
Dr. Brown has a broad range of business and technical skills. His demonstrated expertise includes:
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Intellectual property expert |
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Superior oral and written communications skills |
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Process and operations management for carriers, vendors, and end users |
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Project development and management for carriers, vendors, and end users |
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Strategic business planning and development for carriers, vendors, and end users |
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Voice, data, and video technology planning, operations, and implementation for carriers, vendors and end users |
His world firsts clearly demonstrate his innovative strategic technical and management skills. These include:
Conceived, designed, and directed the implementation of the first competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) for Westinghouse. The WESDIN network was the first all digital fully synchronized network in the world, the first to switch 56 kbps between workstations and first structured cabling system. It offered copper, microwave, fiber, and satellite transmission, and had a centralized network management system. He also directed the preparation of the operational practices and procedures for the WESDIN system, the plan by which WESDIN became a profitable national carrier.
Conceived, designed, and implemented for the Massachusetts Port Authority the first multi-location distributed corporate information system. The system networked all Massport information workers' desktop systems and mainframe applications.
Conceived, developed the curriculum, recruited staff, and directed Northeastern University's telecommunications and networking continuing education program. This was the largest of its kind in the world. He also was the first to teach network management, network planning, and office information systems at an American university.
He was Chief Operating Officer of LOCATUM , a public safety startup that provides public safety first-responders with building floor plans and other critical information before they arrive on a crisis scene. His accomplishments at LOCATUM include developing the business plan, preparing a patent application, designing the system, and directing its implementation.
Some of the positions he held are:
National Director of Network Consulting at Coopers & Lybrand
Senior Telecommunications Systems Engineer and Technical Director at GTE
Member of the Scientific Staff of Bell-Northern Research
Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories.
Member of the Board of Directors of Cooperative Communications
Member of the Board of Directors of the Maine Telecommunications Users Group
Member of the IEEE
He has successfully completed over 125 projects for more than 75 clients. These clients have been IXC, LEC, and CLEC carriers and cable television companies; end users; and manufacturers; as well as law firms where he has worked as a technical and business expert.
Dr. Brown has given expert witness testimony. He is widely published and quoted in the press having over 150 citations. He wrote the book, The Wireless Office. His biography is in Who's Who and elsewhere. He was recently elected to the Francis Crowe Society as a distinguished alumnus of the University of Maine.
Dr. Brown specializes in:
Business Planning, Development, and Operations
Technology Planning
Program Management
System Reliability
Radio and Wireless Systems
Network Systems Design and Implementation