Management
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Scott Akrie
Chief Executive Officer
Scott has worked on advanced wireless networks around the world. As Managing Partner, Scott brings a well-rounded telecommunications operation and strategic planning background to NetLogix. After beginning his career at Pacific Bell in Central Office Engineering, later moving into Tandem Operations, Scott worked in an executive development program at Bellcore before moved into Strategic Technology planning and working as a Senior Manager at Telesis Technology Laboratories. Scott held various senior management positions in Network Engineering and Operations and was involved as a lead negotiator in network infrastructure agreements worth more than $10 billion during his service with AirTouch Communications, SprintPCS, and Repeater PrimeCo (which became Verizon Wireless). Subsequently, Scott became the first Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Clearwire. Prior to founding NetLogix, Scott served as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of SkyRiver Communications.
Scott holds a BSEE degree from San Francisco State University and has completed coursework for his MS in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado.
Ken Bell
Vice-President, Network Operations
Ken is responsible for the day-to-day operations of NetLogix's client networks. Beginning his career at Pacific Bell with 24 years of service, Ken has participated in numerous technical roles and has contributed to the development of Pacific Bell's National Network Management infrastructure. Ken went on to Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, where he managed the Pacific Bell support relationship.
Ken became involved at AirTouch, where he helped deploy and manage Germany's first cellular (GSM) network. He returned to the United States to work as NOC Director for PrimeCo (which became Verizon Wireless), then went on to help shape NOC Operations for SprintPCS, and later, Connex GSM (Romania's cellular GSM provider). Before co-founding NetLogix, Ken transitioned to the technology vendor side at Cisco Systems, where he helped develop their MGCP/VoIP product line and Gluon Networks (which became Zhone Technologies).
Jason Dillon
Vice-President, Systems Engineering
Jason brings over eighteen years of data center design experience in Fortune 50 companies to his role in executive management, implementation, and network operations for the NetLogix team. Starting in the early 1990s with Enterprise data centers and then world renowned international internet data centers, Jason built a track record of success with Jinro-Coors and iAsia in Asia's Pacific Rim, helping to design and manage mission critical facilities, a large multicultural team, and a $620 million commissioning budget early in his career. The next few years of Jason's career involved work with Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, where he served as the lead on several large government data center builds in the secret services arena. For Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, Jason directed and oversaw architecture and construction of 21 government data centers covering over 1.2 million square feet of highly secure critical data centers, maintaining an overall technical responsibility for 99.999% uptime of extensive, distributed data server farms and N+2 mechanical electrical plants. After briefly directing the internet data center operations team for TBD Networks, a highly successful dynamic Silicon Valley startup, Jason began work with Sprint E|Solutions - Internet Data Centers.
With Sprint, Jason's management responsibilities became larger and more complex. Again responsible for 99.999% uptime, Jason managed and operated ten Tier 1 Internet Data Centers that served 4,000 major accounts, including massive eCommerce companies and secure government institutions. Due to numerous money saving and management achievements and innovations, Jason was awarded the Annual Sprint Values Excellence Award as Employee of the Year and subsequently began work at the Sprint Research and Development Center while leading laboratory integrations testing development for the 3G/4G Wireless community. Within Sprint's Research and Development Center, Jason helped redesign the entrance and exit criteria for new technology deployments into the live network, which ultimately brought the network failure rate from .82% down to .002% in just one year. Currently, Jason is enthusiastic to be on board with NetLogix, a company that takes full advantage of his experience with critical facilities and data center engineering design.
Eric Daversa
Vice-President, Business Development
Eric brings a successful background in both the manufacturing and service provider industries to NetLogix. Eric joined the NetLogix team after having worked for SkyRiver Communications, one of the largest Wireless ISPs in the United States, where he lead the sales organization from inception to profitability in just two years. Prior to SkyRiver, Eric worked as National Accounts Manager, Channel Sales for InternetConnect (an MPLS-based VPN solutions provider that was later acquired by Covad Communications). Before entering the telecommunications world, Eric worked at Belkin Components, where was responsible for working directly with Wal-Mart, Circuit City, IBM, and other well known consumer electronics vendors.
Matt Helms
Vice-President, Broadband Engineering
With a wide range of experience covering every aspect of broadband engineering, implementation, and management, Matt directs the NetLogix broadband engineering division. Matt's career began in the early 1990s with IT development at Microsoft before he moved to network administration and site management at Texas Instruments, where he engineered and configured servers, real time tracking systems, and large scale customer support structures. In his position as Director of Technical Operations at Com Solutions and Systems, Matt also designed and managed private and public TCP/IP schemes, Cisco IOS for security and intrusion detection, BCUs, corporate headquarter operations centers, and engineered and configured internet, intranet, email, DNS, and application server functionalities.
From 2004 to the present, in addition to working for NetLogix, Matt has worked with Interra Broadband, Southeastern Communication Service, and Kite Networks. With these organizations, Matt has designed, deployed and managed numerous 802.11 networks for municipalities and corporations, including large scale metro WiFi networks with hundreds of mesh access points. Matt works on all phases of wireless build out and management projects, from site assessments, to vendor selection and resource training, all the way to network management, security, and quality assurance testing. Matt's unique capacity at engineering reliable, flexible networks has satisfied hundreds of clients and made him an invaluable part of the NetLogix team.