Cable,
satellite, telecoms & web-based businesses.
Founder and
Principal at PDS Consulting. Formerly VP Corporate Strategy at OrderTrust,
a provider of B2B order management services for online and catalog e-commerce merchants, and
Principal in Cable & Telecommunications at
Arthur D. Little, Inc. Client engagements in the United States, Europe,
Latin America and Asia-Pacific involving market assessments, industry
expert litigation support, and industry analyses, for operators of cable
and telecommunications services, equipment suppliers, bankers, attorneys
and governments. Ph.D. in Communications Research from Stanford
University, BA from University of British Columbia.
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Telecommunications,
wireless, cable and consumer electronics technology.
Former
Vice President & Director in Arthur D. Little’s communications technology
practice, where his consulting assignments included development of North American
specifications for cable modems. Member
of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, past conference chairman of IEEE
International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Chairman of IEEE Consumer
Electronics Standards Committee, recipient of IEEE Centennial Award, Member of
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and Society of Cable
Television Engineers (SCTE).
Wireless
and satellite systems technology.
Former
Director of consulting engagements at Arthur D. Little involving broadband satellite services,
terrestrial fixed wireless systems, and mobile satellite systems. Served in senior technical and business
management positions with International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., Chase
Manhattan Bank, NA, Advanced Techcom LLC, Digital Support Systems Inc., and New
York Telephone Company. MBA and electrical engineering
degrees. Holds FCC license, and is active member of IEEE Communications Society.
Process
improvements -- Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain.
Todd
Burger
collaborates with
PDS
Consulting on engagements involving process improvements in operations,
logistics, and supply chain management. He served as Executive VP of
Operations at Mac-Gray Corporation, a $300M NYSE company, where he managed
a 550-person field team under budget, while meeting or exceeding key
customer service performance criteria. Among his achievements at
Mac-Gray, Mr. Burger introduced a Google-like internal knowledge
management tool to accelerate information sharing by field technicians and
their managers across the company; within a month of deployment, 60% of
field techs were using this tool on a voluntary basis, on their own time,
in order to do their jobs better and faster. He also redesigned and
doubled a national technical training program (training delivery, training
tools, and testing) based on tighter integration with lead suppliers to
improve skills and service results. Prior to joining Mac-Gray,
Mr. Burger was Founder and CEO of Chameleon Network where he developed the Pocket Vault, a portable, biometrically-secured
electronic wallet that replaces conventional wallets. This application and
technology platform was awarded three US patents (six more pending)
for its base technologies, including novel security architecture and
virtual mag-stripe, switchable RFiD and active bar-code emulation
capabilities. At
CNI
, Mr. Burger raised $1.25 million, recruited key employees, led the patent
application process, including direct meetings with USPTO examiners, and
developed relationships and agreements with VISA International, Brookstone,
Best Buy, and the Massachusetts Bankers Association. Earlier, he was
a Director at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and worked at the Burlington
Northern, Inc. (now BSNF) and at Peat Marwick (now KPMG). He has a
BS,
Accounting
, State University of New York at
Albany, and is a CPA, State of Connecticut.
Telecommunications
technologies and engineering.
Extensive experience in public telecommunications and cable
television. Consulting engagements on technology and business issues for local and long-distance fixed-wire, cellular, PCS, cable
and local broadband operators, in North and South America, Europe and
Australasia. Performed due
diligence reviews for financial institutions concerning telecommunications
platform characteristics, technology evolution and risks, system
dimensioning, implementation plans, quality, reliability and operations
plans, and post-investment implementation. Helped wireless
operators prepare comparative license
submissions and prepare for spectrum auctions. Managed
a program at Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs) on integrating PCS
technology into cable television infrastructure; he managed capital
budgeting and network planning at a major competitive long-distance
carrier; and he redesigned the technical planning organization at
another carrier. Previous positions at Arthur D. Little, Unitel
Communications, Bell Canada, Canadian Pacific Telecommunications and
Canadian Motorola. Electronics. Bachelor of Engineering from
McGill University, and MBA from University of Ottawa.
Data networking
expert.
As co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at an optical
networking start-up company that was acquired by Lucent Technologies, he
worked on business planning, series A funding, recruiting, product
definition, architecture, and engineering management of a multi-service
metro access multiplexer. He served as Chief Technology Officer at a
Gigabit wireless networking start-up company and as Vice President of
Engineering at Cereva Networks where he managed software, hardware, SQA,
and training for the development of a massively scalable storage
networking system. At Cascade Communications, he managed a professional
services network design group and later an MPLS software development
department for the Cascade Frame Relay and ATM switches. While at Arthur
D. Little, Inc., he helped clients deal with data networking issues. He
was an Assistant Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems
Engineering at Boston University, and holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering
and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania
and a B.S.E.E. and B.A. in History from Tufts University.
Network
procurement and management.
Senior
electrical engineer with lab, network design, and operational experience.
The latter includes managing a converged voice/data IP network for
a small/medium sized business (SMB), and engineering leadership roles at
several mobile wireless providers. His
SMB network management has involved troubleshooting network performance
issues and specifying upgrades to Cisco routers and other elements in the
SMB’s MPLS-VPN. He re-designed portions of the network and worked
with vendors to implement network configurations to optimize traffic flow.
On the wireless side, Mr. Kaczmarek recently led procurement of
$150M in wireless radio system infrastructure for a mobile wireless
operator, from initial evaluation of network options to soliciting vendor
proposals to review of technical sections of vendors’ proposals.
He also led equipment performance testing for in-home networks for
a large telco’s Labs organization, considering such options as IEEE
802.11n, UWB (ultra wideband), and MoCA (Multimedia over Coax).
Mr. Kaczmarek has held responsible positions at PA Consulting,
Vodafone Czech Republic, Arthur D. Little., Inc., Tellabs, and Rogers
Wireless. His Bachelor of
Engineering (Electrical) is from McGill
University
and he also has studied at the Sorbonne and
University
of
Toronto. His professional memberships
include the Institute
of
Electronics
and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), Audio Engineers Society (
AES
) and Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (APEO).
Asset
valuation and financial analysis
Experienced in valuation of business assets in
telecommunications and other industries. Financial analysis and business
planning expertise, with senior consulting experience at Ernst & Young and
Arthur D. Little, Inc. He specializes in business and venture planning;
financial analysis and modeling; and business, security, and asset valuations.
His assignments typically involve new business entry; changes in client
ownership, control, or financial structure; financing transactions; litigation;
or tax issues.
Procurement
cost savings.
Assists
clients in the US
and
Europe
to reduce costs and improve business performance through evaluation and
re-design of their non-strategic and strategic purchasing.
Recent client engagements have resulted in cost savings for a large
multi-specialty physicians’ practice in the Greater Boston, an electric
and gas utility holding company, and a regional electric and gas utility.
In addition to his work with clients, he publishes and speaks on
topics of sourcing, process improvement, and integrated logistics.
He was recently a partner and member of the board at Carlisle &
Company, a consulting firm specializing in supply chain management.
Before that, he was a Senior Manager in the Supply Chain Practice
at Arthur D. Little. He received a
BA degree in Mathematics from Bowdoin
College, Magna Cum Laude, and a Masters Of Science Degree in Management from the
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT.
He is President of the Council of Supply Chain Management
Professionals’ New England Roundtable.
Competitive
telecommunications markets.
Collaborates
with PDS Consulting on projects involving competitive telecommunications
issues and spectrum transactions. Advises companies on technical,
regulatory and business issues related to the telecommunications and
Internet industries, especially in areas where they overlap. He assists
service providers in network design, business modeling, planning, and
technical architecture, and provides focused market needs analysis to
equipment vendors. He has
frequently been an expert witness in intercarrier compensation and network
interconnection cases. He has worked with enterprise networks on matters
such as backbone network design, voice systems planning, and traffic
engineering. The author of numerous articles and the books The Great Telecom Meltdown and ISDN
In Perspective, he has served on standards committees in areas such as
ATM networks and Frame Relay, and has taught courses for
Northeastern
University
and
National
Technological
University.
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