John A. Craft

Current

• Managing Director and Senior Consultant at Virginia Highland Partners

Past

• Principal at John A. Craft Business Solutions
• Manager at SITA / Equant
• Manager at BellSouth

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Education

• Auburn University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

John A. Craft’s Summary

Extensive International experience in Telecommunications and Information Technology, including Service Deployment, Regulatory, and M&A Due Diligence. Regularly manage multi-million dollar projects on schedule and within budget. Served as the Chairman of the City of Atlanta's Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee.

Active in his community, serving as a Director of numerous non-profit institutions and working with elected officials.

John A. Craft’s Specialties:

Service Deployment
Project Management
Contract Negotiation / Management

John A. Craft’s Experience

• Managing Director and Senior Consultant

  Virginia Highland Partners

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Serves businesses in the telecoms, retail, and hospitality sectors. Service Deployment, equipment selection, Intellectual Property services, custom software, web services.

• Principal

  John A. Craft Business Solutions

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 1998 — December 2007 (9 years 6 months)

  Serves businesses in the telecoms, retail, and hospitality sectors. Service Deployment, equipment selection, Intellectual Property services, custom software, web services.

• Manager

  SITA / Equant

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1993 — June 1998 (4 years 11 months)

  Technical Manager responsible for design and implementation of SITA and Equant's Global Voice Services.

• Manager

  BellSouth

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 1988 — July 1993 (5 years 5 months)

  Engineer responsible for forecasting and optimizing local, intraLATA, and interLATA telecoms networks.

John A. Craft’s Education

• Auburn University

  1984 — 1987

Additional Information

John A. Craft’s Websites:

• My Company

John A. Craft’s Groups:

Chairman, City of Atlanta Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee, 2004-2005.
Registered Professional Engineer, 1994.
President, Historic Transport Preservation, Inc., 2006-2007.
Director / Vice President, Virginia-Highland Civic Association, 2001-2006.
Vice-Chairman, City of Atlanta Neighborhood Planning Unit F, 2001-2003.

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