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First Name:
Douglas
Last Name:
Zone
Country:
Ireland
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What global region are you based in? For example Eastern Europe, North America:
Global
Do you work for a :
Telecom Industry Vendor
Current Employer :
MetraTech Corp. - Why Compromise? - www.MetraTech.com
What is your current job title?:
CTO
Areas of professional interest: history/education eg. BSS/OSS,Femtocells...:
As Chief Technology Officer, Doug is responsible for the MetraTech company’s technical direction and strategy.

Doug has played a major role in developing, designing and implementing major enterprise solutions for telecommunications companies since 1992.

Beginning with one of the first product-based billing solutions in Europe with British Telecom in 1993, Doug has contributed to BSS projects in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia and Asia.

He has worked for Kenan Systems, Lucent, MaxBill, CSG Systems and Comverse Technologies. Doug is an MIT graduate with a Master of Science with a specialization in Optimization and Finance.

He began his career as a financial statistician at the International Monetary Fund and optimization programmer/analyst at United Parcel Service. He currently lives in the UK, but has worked and has ties in Ireland, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Boston.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasdzone
What would you like to get out of Telcoprofessionals.com?:
Professional Q&A Environment, Ability to connect with like minded professionals , Experimenting in the Web 2.0 world
Which of the following areas are you most interested in?:
OSS/BSS
Do you belong to,participate in activities, of any of the following industry organisations?:
TM Forum, GSMA, ITU
Blog
Blog Entries (21)
Misinterpreting the Economics of...
Posted: 22 hour(s) ago
Category: Enterprise Software
  I have just spent a week of seemingly relentless insomnia in Singapore. I am looking forward to passing out in BA Economy class â...
Convergence and Strategy
Posted: 4 week(s) ago
Category: Enterprise Software
I hate the word convergence. My hope is that eventually marketing people will do so as well. It says too much in too many different situations and...
MasterCard versus Telecoms ... ...
Posted: 2 month(s) ago
Category: Charging
Some important leaders in Telecommunications have been heard to say that their real business is managing customers. Forget voice, network, value added ...
Billing - the Misfit
Posted: 3 month(s) ago
Category: Enterprise Software
Billing is the misfit in the enterprise software family. CRM and ERP – besides being three letter acronyms - are well accepted software categories.&#...
All mixed up: SOA and SaaS plus ...
Posted: 4 month(s) ago
Category: Enterprise Architecture
I have discussed SOA a lot over the years – I am obviously a proponent. From my previous blogs - I do believe an effort must be made to make SAAS and...
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