John Lee is a visionary strategist, technologist, respected author, and subject matter expert in Business and Operational Support Systems (B/OSS). He has a spent over twenty five years within the telecommunications industry, most recently as VP, Strategy with Amdocs Consulting. Prior to his role in Strategy, Mr. Lee was charged with founding and leading global OSS consulting for Amdocs. He helped lead development of the corporate OSS penetration strategy that resulted in the $375M acquisition of Cramer Systems and also led concept, design, and requirements definition for an advanced NGOSS process orchestration tool that eventually became Amdocs B/OSS Manager, released in 2006. Within two years of his joining the company, Amdocs was named the top OSS company in the world by OSS Observer.
Prior to working with Amdocs, Mr. Lee held executive positions with a number of telecommunications companies including: GTE (now Verizon), CapRock Communications (acquired by McLeod), NetVoice Technologies, AT&T, and FieldDispatch.com (acquired by One Network Enterprises). Mr. Lee’s work with start-up companies directly contributed to the initial public offerings (IPOs) of CapRock Communications and Viryanet, in addition to the private equity sale of FieldDispatch.com. Mr. Lee is the founder of Lee TeleMedia, the creators of TeleMedia Strategy magazine and is available for strategic advisory. He may be reached at john.lee@leetelemedia.com.