[gnhlug-jobs] VP/CTO-level buddy looking.

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Hey, all.  W-a-y back in the '90's, in Manchester, at a company called 
Summa Four, I met a buddy of mine, Paul Miller -- perhaps the best 
hardware engineer I've known.  We got acquired by Cisco, and he left to 
become the principal hardware architect for Cedar Point Communicaitons, 
out of Derry -- his back-end switch ran something like half the VoIP for 
Comcast customers.  That company got acquired, and he worked his way up 
the ranks, eventually becoming CTO of GENBAND, Inc., where he hired me 
on.  And I was very pleasantly surprised to see that not only was he 
excellent at hardware, but that his people, executive, and customer 
skills were all top-notch.

Using his vision, he re-directed the entire company away from the legacy 
chassis model to cloud-based applications, which was precisely what the 
market wanted.  He wound up making the company attractive, and it 
eventually merged with Sonus Networks, out of Westford.  Alas, in the 
immortal words of Highlander, "There can be only one."  In this case, 
"one CTO team."  So, "because politics," the entire GENBAND CTO team got 
the axe.  Paul immediately went to work trying to find jobs for those 
who'd been under him, feeling personally responsible for our suddenly 
becoming unemployed.  Alas, his sense of responsibility has not served 
him well -- he, himself, is now having trouble finding local work, in no 
small part because positions at the level he's angling for don't just 
crop up, especially when you're trying not to relocate.

He has not asked me to send this, but I figured it might be worth a 
shot: Paul is incredibly good at planning, presenting, working with 
engineers and customers, and has excellent -- even exceptional -- 
understanding of the technologies involved.  [E.g., he set up an entire 
OpenStack cloud on his Mac, using VirtualBox, to be able to prototype 
ideas.]  It was my undiluted pleasure to work with him, and if you 
either have or know someone who has a senior-level 
architecture/CTO-esque position opening up, I can't recommend him 
strongly enough.

If you're still reading, feel free to check out his resume (and, yes, he 
put this together himself): http://clicktrack.one/resume.html