Perry Gann is an Information Technology professional with over 30 years of experience. He has extensive wide-ranging experience in information technology, telecommunications, hardware and software development and support, quality management, infrastructure, and operations.

Prior to becoming a consultant Mr. Gann was the Director, Information Technology and CIO at PSINet, Inc the global Internet service provider where he was responsible for a staff implementing and managing all back office applications, infrastructure, and operations. The applications included all financials, customer care, billing systems, fixed assets, inventory, and provisioning systems. In this role he worked with PSINet's Latin American, European, and Asia pacific units on IT infrastructure for customer care and financial systems. He also managed projects to automate the auditing of Telco circuit costs and invoices as well as EDI payments.

In 1993 he became Director, Information Systems at Alcatel Data Networks, a French/American joint venture designing and developing Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching products for sale to global telecom operators. Among his responsibilities at Alcatel was the planning and implementation of integrated financial and manufacturing systems as well as other initiatives to move forward what was essentially a startup business with no infrastructure in place. He was key in building a new network infrastructure to support the business and established a corporate intranet/extranet to support internal sales teams and distributors. Mr. Gann served as member of the Alcatel worldwide IT governance committee that was chartered by the chairman of Alcatel to establish "best practices" standards and procedures for the corporation. He also was a member of the Alcatel Data Networks team that secured an ISO 9000 quality certification. In addition to IT infrastructure, Mr. Gann managed the software and hardware product development infrastructure and associated laboratory facilities supporting an organization of over 250 software and hardware engineers.

At Sprint International and GTE Telenet, Mr. Gann held senior-level positions involving the hardware and software development and support of data communications products supporting X.25, X75, Frame Relay and Network Management. These products were used for delivering public services on GTE's and later Sprint's public data networks. They were also sold to large corporations and Telco operators as private networks. As Director of Private Network Operations He directed the teams involved in project management, planning, installation, acceptance and support of private data networks. Clients included Citicorp, Bell South, Nairobi Kenya Police, British Telecom, and Norwegian Telecom. This list ultimately grew to include over 300 networks worldwide. Subsequently, as Director, Product Support he put together a product support organization tasked with technical support of all product hardware and software, system quality assurance, and documentation. During this time Mr. Gann was a representative on the GTE Quality Management Council that was tasked with establishing a quality methodology for use across all units. He was also selected to participate in the task force planning for the merger between parts of GTE and US Telecom that ultimately became Sprint.

In 1974 he became a member of the startup team of Telenet Communications Corporation that developed and deployed the first public packet-based network known as Telenet. His role on the team was developing software for switching and routing as well as operating system and applications for the network management system. Later Mr. Gann held management positions in network operations, project management, and product development.

Mr. Gann attended the University of Baltimore where he majored in Information Systems and the GTE Advanced Management Course

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