Our Team

Dale is responsible for the sales and management consulting services of Cartesian’s North American operations.

With over twenty one years of consulting experience supporting telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, financial, and insurance customers, Dale has developed expertise in corporate performance management, Sarbanes-Oxley, revenue assurance, financial management, systems integration, business process re-engineering, and project/program management.

Prior to joining Cartesian, Dale led projects at EDS where he focused on billing, sales, ordering, and financial functions. At EDS he worked with leading telecommunications and utility firms, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Philips Lighting, United Water and J. Crew, in engagements involving application development, SAP Basis Administration, application and web hosting, as well as the management of computing environments and LAN/WAN networks.

Since joining Cartesian, Dale has successfully implemented several multi-million dollar engagements and has engaged in the program management of diverse teams across multiple disciplines to ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Dale is a graduate of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Computer Science.

Ron is an SVP of Network and Operations. He leads the Sales Support & Delivery team at Cartesian. In this capacity, he serves as General Manager of the Cartesian OSS/BSS practice and is Cartesian’s senior Operations Executive.

Ron has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and possesses hands-on operational and management experience in nearly every discipline within the industry including, strategy, marketing, network planning, product/service design and implementation, customer premises equipment servicing strategy, billing and customer care.

Prior to Cartesian, Ron held executive and director-level positions at Lucent, Bell Labs, AT&T and CSG Systems, and was managing director for several international operations in Europe. During Ron’s tenure at Bell Labs, he gained significant experience in the specification, design, development, and deployment of OSS/BSS platforms. He was also managing director for several international operations in Europe. At AT&T, Ron served as AT&T’s Chief Architect for the Long Distance and Special/Services networks.

These experiences have led Ron to success at Cartesian where he has managed the development of the Cartesian MVNE platform, including the OSS/BSS architecture, partner interfaces and the control framework and dashboards; led an OSS/BSS integration for two leading competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs); and managed multiple revenue assurance engagements.

Ron received his PhD in Engineering, as well as an MSEE, from Columbia University. He also holds a BSEE from Drexel University.

Don works closely with clients to provide insight into organizational improvement and optimization of existing IT and functional activities.

He regularly leads projects for Cartesian involving industry requirement compliance, IT infrastructure assessment, and operating environments. Don is an expert in applying Cartesian’s proprietary methodology, QSA®, which assesses and benchmarks information technology systems against Industry Best Practices. This objective, third party audit enables our clients to demonstrate that they are meeting SLAs, contractual, and legal/regulatory obligations. With over 25 years of senior management and leadership experience with several Tier One communications providers, Don is well versed in Best Practice standards and guidelines that include CobiT, PMI-PMBOK, SEI-CMMI for Software Development, ITIL, and TQM.

Before joining Cartesian, Don was the Director of Sprint’s Virginia Billing Services. In this capacity, he was responsible for the integrity of Sprint’s Data Services and Federal Government FTS billing, including customer service acceptance, transaction processing, invoice verification, user requirements definition and user acceptance testing. Prior to his 15 year career at Sprint, Don worked at MCI managing several key revenue activities including A/R operations and systems management, traffic processing, billing management, and merger and acquisition operations integration.

At Cartesian, Don has built upon his previous successes by leading several major contractual compliance performance and systems audits as well as numerous external benchmark assessments of clients’ Billing, Project Management, SDLC, and IT Refreshment processes.

Don’s efforts have garnered several high profile awards including MCI’s Excellence in Service, Sprint’s President’s Club Award, the Sprint Chairman’s Quality Award and the Missouri Quality Award for performance excellence. Don graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a BS in Business Administration and is a member of the Virginia Chapter of ISACA for IT Governance.