Kenneth Jackson

Current

• Vice President, Technical Account Management at Camiant

Past

• Director, Network Solutions Architects at Motorola
• Manager, Systems Engineering at Winphoria Networks
• Senior Applications Engineering Consultant at Sprint PCS

• Wireless Test Engineering Consultant at AT&T Wireless Services
• Software Development and Test at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Naperville)

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Education

• DePaul University
• DeVry University

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Industry

Telecommunications

Kenneth Jackson’s Summary

Kenneth Jackson has been at the forefront of a fast-changing telephone technology marketplace since he began his career with AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in 1987. Since 1995, Mr. Jackson has worked in the mobile telephony sector, conducting early research and development work in the all-IP network evolution, and focusing on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and fixed-mobile network technologies. At Camiant, he is instrumental in forging wireless network solutions that render new possibilities in converged wireless networks.

Kenneth Jackson, director of wireless solutions for Camiant, is responsible for fostering converged-network wireless platforms that support the migration of broadband providers to wireless communications services.

Mr. Jackson has close to 20 years of experience in advanced telephone and wireless networking systems, with more than half of his career dedicated to research and technology development roles in wireless communications. Before joining Camiant, he managed and performed systems engineering and sales engineering roles focused on the Push-to-Talk over Cellular standard, IMS and seamless mobility softswitch-based solutions with Winphoria Networks/Motorola. There, he also directed global IMS and fixed-mobile integration solutions on behalf of Motorola’s regional business and account teams.

Mr. Jackson began his career in 1987 with AT&T Bell Laboratories, working with class 5 switching systems, ISDN introduction and early Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches. Since 1995, he has held various research and development positions with Motorola, AT&T Wireless and Sprint PCS, including early work in the CDMA 3rd Generation Partnership Program all-IP network evolution. He has extensive experience working with session-initiation protocol-based Voice over IP.

Mr. Jackson earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from DePaul University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Kenneth Jackson’s Specialties:

Technical product management, technical account management, technical contract negotiations, RFP creation and response, product documentation creation, product test plan creation, execution and reporting, product / equipment installation, certification and acceptance testing, recruiting, hiring and technical training including training course development and instruction

Kenneth Jackson’s Experience

• Vice President, Technical Account Management

  Camiant

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Business Development and Pre-Sales Technical Support for Camiant Policy Server / PDF / PCRF products focusing on Cellular Wireless (CDMA / GSM) and WiMAX network operators deploying IMS and pre-IMS broadband data networks. Technical presentations at CTO and VP level, technical account management, RFP response, Project and Program Management for commercial deployments, training and documentation creation and review.

• Director, Network Solutions Architects

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  As Director of the Network Solutions Architect team at Motorola I personally recruited, hired and trained a staff of 40 business development / pre-sales technical support engineers in all major regions of the world. The NSA team was responsible for technical support of Motorola Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) CSCF and Seamless Mobility components and the Motorola Softswitch MSC products for CDMA and GSM networks. I presented on Seamless Mobility at the IMS forum in Singapore and other speaking engagements. I gave executive level presentations globally at the CTO and VP level of Tier 1 cellular operators.

• Manager, Systems Engineering

  Winphoria Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2001 — March 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  As Manager of Systems and Applications Engineering at Winphoria I performed and led a team of engineers supporting the Winphoria IMS, PoC / PTT and MSC SoftSwitch products for key accounts in North America and abroad. The role involved pre and post sales technical sales support, RFP and technical management, test plan creation and execution, commercial installation and acceptance testing and post commercial launch technical account management.

• Senior Applications Engineering Consultant

  Sprint PCS

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1999 — February 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  Principal engineer for Next Generation Network system requirements, lab prototype evaluation and trial vendor management working to prototype Wireless Intelligent Network (IS-771) service creation and switch software feature integration for WIN services, PBX integration with wireless networks using Computer Telephony Interface (CTI) and service node interactions.
  
  Lab prototyping and vendor management for advanced WIN / AIN designs and proof of concept network trial implementations, systems requirements design and network architecture development for wireless pre-paid service, wireless office and wireless PBX integration applications, voice activated dialing applications, PSTN integration applications, E911 phase 2, location services, PIM Sync applications and other WIN / AIN based services. Contributor or primary author of four patents pending (ISUP pre-paid, Wireless Office, NGN Services, and Wireless Centrex).

• Wireless Test Engineering Consultant

  AT&T Wireless Services

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1995 — January 1999 (3 years 5 months)

  Lead project engineer developing test specification and test plan documents for Ericsson MSC software and hardware integration. Planned and scheduled test resources including test tools and feature test teams for major Ericsson software releases allowing significant integration testing within defined timelines and budget.
  
  Performed network node integration, acceptance, and regression testing of all ATTWS deployed network components (MSC/HLR/SMSC/Voice Mail) including reduction in test interval and cost using automated MGTS script development for SS7 tests and regression test suites. MGTS course instructor, installations and software upgrades.

• Software Development and Test

  AT&T Bell Laboratories (Naperville)

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 1987 — September 1995 (8 years 7 months)

  Numerous Software Development and Testing positions associated with the Bell Labs GCNS2000 ATM Switch and 5ESS Switch platforms.

Kenneth Jackson’s Education

• DePaul University

  MSCS , Telecommunications , 1989 — 1992

  Telecommunications Industry focus within the Computer Science Department

• DeVry University

  BSEET , Electronics , 1983 — 1986