Clif Holliday

Strategic Planning, Technology Assessment
and
Broadband Network
Specialist

Mr. Holliday spent the most recent years of his career in the development of techniques for technology and strategic planning and to defining appropriate organizations for technology management. Until retirement (1993) he was in charge of advanced technology planning for GTE. Technology planning involved the establishment of network architecture directions and the coordination of standards, research and development activities in support of those directions. In that position (which he pioneered at GTE) he was deeply involved in all phases of telecom network planning. As such he was the instigator of significant commitments to planning for AIN and to its development and implementation. He was also heavily involved as an originator of major broadband network trials at Cerritos, California, and the DARPA sponsored, Gigabit Vistanet trial in North Carolina. He has been involved in leadership roles in various types of technology planning for the last twenty years including plant extensions for a local telco, the establishment planning and control aspects of the then largest energy conversion program in the country, planning for operations support systems and activities, broadband delivery, network intelligence, planning organization structures, and R & D planning.

In the last few years Mr. Holliday has been providing consulting assistance to various companies entering the telecom business (or expanding their positions) and to institutions with a need to rationalize their approaches to telecom/computer planning. He is widely published and often quoted in interviews. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree.

Mr. Holliday is a Professional Engineer registered in multiple states including Texas.