Mr. Holliday’s recent work experience has been focused on the development and publication of major marketing and technical reports in the telecommunications network area. These reports (over 50) have been published by Information Gatekeepers, Inc. of Boston, and have been highly successful. In this work Mr. Holliday was one of the earliest analysts to identify the importance and applications of many network elements that underpin today’s fiber communications systems. These include the ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer,) the DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex) and Terabit Routers. His latest works continue that trend, identifying the impacts of developing technologies on the communications network. He has also been a prolific writer with three (non-technical) books, numerous articles and monthly and quarterly newsletters to his credit.

He has served as a consultant in selected circumstances, founding the consultancy, B & C Consulting Services. In this role he has designed major fiber networks (e.g., for an entire European country, a multi-campus network for a very large school district, an industrial network for an Asian company, and a network for an entire state) and has been able to assist companies in making design direction and management decisions. These consulting activities have served customers on three continents.

Life in the corporate world began for Mr. Holliday with a 31 year career with GTE. At GTE he was involved in virtually every branch of engineering and planning, and rose to the position of Vice President of Advanced Technology Planning in the Business Development Department. While in that position, he oversaw the GTE Telops Special Projects Budget ($500,000,000 annually;) worked with GTE executive management and Human Resources to develop the technology organization for the company for the 21st Century; was responsible for developing the forerunner architecture to the Verizon FiOS plan; and supervised the GTE Telops interface with GTE Laboratories (90% or the Labs’ budget.)

While at GTE he participated in an executive loan program wherein he worked for one year (on executive loan from GTE by a special arrangement between the Governor of Kentucky and the President of GTE) for the Secretary of Energy of Kentucky, as (simultaneously) Director of Demonstration Projects (involving projects worth over $1 B.), Director of Energy Studies, and Director of Interface with the Coal Research Laboratory.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND and MEMBERSHIPS

BS EE and MBA (with a Marketing emphasis), University of Kentucky –1963, 1968 Professional Engineer, Kentucky, Texas

Member – IEEE (Life), SPIE (Society of Optical Engineers) , National and Texas National and State Societies of Professional Engineers, and many others.

Invited member of Mensa.

Member of the Society of Kentucky Colonels (Awarded for work with the Kentucky Department of Energy.)