Management Director

Keith Kidd

Emerging Technology Professional

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Summary

Energetic executive with hands-on, customer focused global management experience with 20+ years of growth

and advancement managing fast paced analysis, testing and delivery of emerging high tech products and

services in Telecommunications. Vast technical expertise as a Director leading teams covering Finance, IT

development, Computer and Network Operations and Emerging Technologies for the Telecommunications

Industry.

Experience

Director - Maintenance Engineering Support at Verizon

2012 - 2014 (2 years)

Lead the organization responsible for supporting the new Maintenance Engineering Organization. Managed a

professional team responsible for internal tool development, testing automation, Finance, NEBS/FOC/Energy

Efficiency, Vendor Management and Lab Support for the Test environments.

President at NTAF

2009 - 2014 (5 years)

Working with a dedicated team of industry professionals on Interoperability standards for network test

automation.

Director - Network Integration Labs & Tools at Verizon

2011 - 2012 (1 year)

Manage a truly brilliant team of professionals who are responsible for testing Verizon’s backbone network

technologies for worldwide deployment and the team who provides the automation tools and strategy for the

Labs. All Optical and ETHERNET solutions are tested in our Labs.

Director - Packet Systems Testing at Verizon

2010 - 2011 (1 year)

Manage a team of professional engineers with responsibility for testing Verizon's Layer 2/3 Networking

Solutions for Private IP, Public IP and FiOS networks.

Director - Enterprise CPE & Bus Tools at Verizon

2006 - 2010 (4 years)

Responsible for testing all customer premise equipment used by business customers including data, IP hybrid

and VoIP solutions. Also accountable for the Labs automation program.

Director - ISP Services and CPE Testing at Verizon

2003 - 2006 (3 years)

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Direct an organization responsible for testing ISP servies and customer premise equipment for

telecommunications services for Verizon OnLine.

Director at Verizon Online

1999 - 2003 (4 years)

Responsible for Testing and delivery of services for the Internet subsidiary; including client software and

Web and back end applications for the business.

Volunteer Experience

President at NTAF

2009 - 2014 (5 years)

This forum is engaged in creating standards for testing that improve the test industry's ability to deploy new

products and services faster.

Skills & Expertise

Telecommunications

VoIP

IP

Testing

Ethernet

Vendor Management

Networking

MPLS

Enterprise Software

System Deployment

Integration

Test Automation

Computer Network Operations

WAN

Switches

Routing

Strategy

Project Management

Product Management

CPE

Pre-sales

Wireless

Product Development

Gigabit Ethernet

Data Center

TCP/IP

Cloud Computing

LAN-WAN

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IT Operations

Management

Network Design

Mobile Devices

SaaS

Carrier Ethernet

Telephony

SIP

Fiber Optics

Broadband

Unified Communications

Solution Selling

Network Security

Optics

Network Engineering

Optical Fiber

Professional Services

Computer Operations

Strategic Partnerships

Cisco Technologies

Executive Management

Managed Services

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology

MS, Management, 1996 - 1999

Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Lambda

Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business

BS, Information Systems, 1987 - 1990

Interests

Golf, sailing, photography

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Keith Kidd

Emerging Technology Professional

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