Joe Glynn

Joe Glynn through his Lefthand Communications Insight practice, advises Communications Service Providers and Network & OSS vendors, providing them with unique combination of technology, systems and business insight to guide them through the transition from PSTN and transport-based communication services to a converged application-based environment enabled by the Internet and the suite of IP-based technologies.

Previously he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Qwest Communications where he produced Qwest's VoIP Strategy, Design and Launch Plans for the VoIP Portfolio across Business, Consumer and Wholesale VoIP markets. In this role he was the primary product representative to the FCC for VoIP. His work defined Qwest's converged communication experience for business and consumers. In other roles at Qwest, he incubated early VoIP technologies and defined extensible systems using XML for VoIP and IP-based Services. He built Qwest's initial data product management group and brought to market the initial set of data products, including Internet Access, and wholesale dial platform, Messaging (email, IP-based FAX) suite, and Network-based VPN product line.

Before his departure from U S WEST in 1997 to join Qwest, he conceived, developed and deployed the first DSL products for Internet Access for U S WEST. This required refocusing Corporation from use of DSL-as-video transport to DSL-as-Internet Access. Additionally, he was responsible for the voice and data network architecture.

Prior to joining U S WEST, in several roles at Bell Laboratories and AT&T he deployed AT&T's Frame Relay Network and early Dial Access Network and was responsible for engineering of AT&T's X.25 Network. He began his career in software development for X.25 Packet Switch -ing switch, tools, and operations systems. He conceived and developed meta-language for code generation of coordinated provisioning systems for X.25 and PAD network.

Joe currently sits on advisory boards for Atreus Systems, Ubiquity Software and the Inter- disciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado. He lives and runs with his wife and four young children in Boulder, Colorado.