Dr. Mercer has been a telecommunications consultant since 1985, as the Principal of BroadView Telecommunications (2000-present), as Vice President and President of Hatfield Associates, Inc., and HAI Consulting, Inc. (1987-2000), and as Senior Executive, BDM Corporation (1985-1987). During 1973-85 he directed technical programs at Bell Labs, AT&T, and Bellcore on network architectures, standards, operations planning, and systems engineering for ISDN and other data services. Dr. Mercer provides strategic planning and analysis related to public and private telecommunications infrastructures, dealing with technologies, network architectures, and services. The work is currently focused on local exchange and long-distance competition for voice and broadband data networks. He has been extensively involved in a multi-year analysis of optimum architectures and associated costs for local and wide-area networks provided by incumbent telephone companies in the United States. He has also conducted an extensive analysis of the network architecture and design for the nationwide private network of a major trade organization and planned data communications networks for defense agencies.

Dr. Mercer was the consulting engineer on a Telecom/Telematique team hired in 2001 to evaluate and rank five equipment vendor proposals for a national Next Generation network in Brazil, a combination of fiber optic backbone and wireless last mile. The proposals, from Cisco, Siemens, Nortel, Ericsson and Alcatel were sophisticated, incorporated state of the art technology and were to be scaleable for future growth depending on a number of economic and regulatory criteria. The model report included a comparative matrix that integrated both a technological, economic and regulatory criteria to arrive at optimal solutions. The report was so authoritative that the equipment vendors requested copies to serve as a guideline for future evaluations.

Dr. Mercer also participated with T/TI on a USTDA telecom projects in Uzbekistan, El Salvador, and Poland and telecom educational programs in Eastern Europe. He served as an adjunct faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the University of Colorado, in which he taught graduate-level telecommunications courses, chaired Master's thesis committees in the ITP, and developed a post-graduate seminar on business, regulatory policy, and technology aspects of telecommunications for executives. He has previously developed and taught courses on telecommunications infrastructure directions, multi-protocol networking, TCP/IP, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), network management, and telecommunications standards, and has presented numerous public seminars on a variety of telecommunications topics. He has reports on Open Network Architecture, Local Loop Unbundling and Interconnection helped establish telecommunications policy.

Dr. Mercer has a B.S. Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) and Ph.D., Physics from Johns Hopkins University.

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