William S Greene, nicknamed ‘Wedge Greene’, has thirty years of experience spanning IT & Telecom. Wedge is an executive IT architect providing strategic and operation leadership for achieving innovation. As a well regarded industry analyst, Wedge provides monthly articles for Pipeline Publications and LTC’s Inside-Out.
Wedge currently consults in telecom strategy, product design, distributed systems design and systems integration; OSS/BSS design, selection, & deployment; NOC and Contact Center design, deployment and operations; as well as due diligence for strategic mergers. He serves as an executive consultant on many technical Advisory Boards and is an advisor to Venture Capitalists & Investment Banks. Today, he is promoting new telecom services, virtualization, SOA, survivability, and business service grids. He continues to lead advances in telecom support systems, currently as a thought leader in the emerging domain of Autonomic Communications.
Wedge is the initiator of the TeleManagement Forum’s (TMF) program of New Generation Operations Support Systems (NGOSS) and Fine Grain NGOSS. He sat on the TMF board of directors from 1999-2002 and served as a Board Advisor for many years. He authored several patents which are foundations for trans-enterprise SOA. Over a dozen pending patents cover aspects of globally distributed computer systems, Operation Support Systems (OSS), rapid response work teams, survivable application networks, global shared service architecture, distributed hosting, mobile agents for RFID tag tracking, and security gateways.
Mr. Greene has been centrally involved in the earliest introductions of major communications technologies, networks, support system innovations, and software architecture advances. He participated in standards, design, deployments, and operations in the rollouts of all modern data network technologies culminating in NGN. He participated in creating the infrastructure that commercialized the Internet.
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