Reed Harrison Email & Phone Number

Maryland & New Jersey

Consulting clients have included Accenture, GioMare, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the National Security Agency (NSA), several global telecom service providers, a foreign country’s ministry of defense, & a global aerospace company. He is an external Advisor to Bain & Company, an Alliance Partner with McCreight Partners, & serves as an advisor for the University of Maryland Smith School of Business's MBA program and Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Harrison served on several Boards (AG Communications Systems, AT&T Latin America, and the AT&T Foundation), in several advisory roles (Accenture's Network Advisory Council, the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering's Board of Visitors, the NSA Advisory Council), and as a Mentor in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) entrepreneur program.

Annapolis Junction, Md

Works with National Intelligence Agency Customers, Partners, & Oracle, teams to solve intelligence mission challenges with innovative, strategically-focused technology & operations transformation programs.

Senior executive & senior intelligence officer.

Washington, Dc

Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI), a then 5 year-old, start-up, is one of the world's largest & fastest growing internet service providers, serving enterprise customers & web-centric content / application providers in Europe & North America. Delivered multiple business successes. We grew revenue 100% & the customer base by 400%. EBITDA & cash flow turned positive & margins expanded. Traffic doubled each year until 13% of the world’s internet traffic was carried by Cogent. Initiated a customer experience improvement program resulting in Customers rating Cogent’s quality best among 20 of the world’s top global & regional service providers. Integrated 4 of the company’s major acquisitions, doubling the company’s customer base. Each was completed in less than 120 days; acquired cost structures were reduced by more than 40%.Teamed with the CEO & CFO in two equity offerings, raising $160M.

New Jersey

As chief network officer, responsible for all planning, engineering, & operations for AT&T's global network. As CIO, responsible for information technology, systems development, & the Y2K readiness program. Responsible for planning, managing, & reducing a $10B expense budget & the company's $3B capital program.As the “virtual CEO” of AT&T's CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) business, we gained buy-in to ... and succeeded with ... a program to accelerate revenue growth & improve profitability to best-in-class benchmarks.We built-out of AT&T's global IP network & initiated and delivered a program to improve its reliability by a factor of 5, levels thought unattainable Radically lowered costs & improved efficiency while enhancing the reliability & resiliency, quality, & security of the AT&T Network & its IT infrastructure & systems. Personally led the team that re-built the network & restored service in New York City after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the largest disaster recovery effort in AT&T's history.

Formed & led a business unit focused on AT&T’s largest external customer, with annual revenues in excess of $1B, globally. As President, managed all aspects of the unit, including P&L. Personally negotiated multi-year contract worth $2B.

Business, P&L, & technical leader for network management software business with annual revenues in excess of $200M. Functionally responsible for product planning & management, Bell Labs R&D, & after-sale customer support. Facing a primary competitor which was owned by our primary customers, we reversed a 5-year history of declining market share & poor profitability by focusing on a best-in-class customer experience. We developed and launched a series of new products and product line extensions which earned numerous quality & technical innovation awards. Drove new product development cycle time to best-in-class.

Positions of increasing responsibility spanning engineering, operations, marketing, & strategic planning. One of about a half-dozen people who were the primary architects & project managers for all operational dimensions of the Bell System Divestiture, at the the time, the largest corporate restructuring in history.

Advanced Managment Program, Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE

Ms, Management