Distinguished Engineer · Verizon · Satellite & Terrestrial Networks
Satellite belongs in
your network.
Joining it is
the hard part.
You have a terrestrial network and a real requirement. You know satellite belongs somewhere in the picture — but not how to join the two so it actually works, performs, and scales.
It’s the problem I’ve spent my career on.
Why this is rare
Very few people have built the join.
Network engineers know terrestrial. Satellite people know space. Almost no one has married the two at production scale, across every orbit class — GEO, MEO, and LEO — and been there for each shift the industry made along the way.
That join is where I’ve spent 35 years.
Where I can help
The questions that decide whether satellite works.
I lead satellite network architecture at Verizon, and I’m always glad to talk with people working through the same questions.
Architecture
How should satellite attach to the network? Routing, traffic priority, failover, and where the handoff lives.
Technology selection
GEO, MEO, or LEO? Which operators and service models actually fit the requirement?
Risk
What breaks first: capacity, latency, weather, vendor concentration, or the commercial terms?
Honest fit
Does satellite belong here at all, or is terrestrial the better answer?
Track record
I’ve built it, at scale.
Distinguished Engineer, Verizon
Satellite networking since 1990, through IDB, WorldCom, MCI, and Verizon.
Sites on a GEO network
Designed and built a large corporation’s national enterprise satellite broadband network, scaling it to tens of thousands of sites nationwide.
Reseller framework
Negotiated the framework that made a large corporation a commercial Starlink reseller.
First fully mobile MEO solution
Worked directly with SES to deploy MEO as a mobile solution — a large corporation was the first to build one.
LEO disaster-recovery circuits
Scaling satellite backhaul from a few to thousands of circuits — the standard for every major U.S. disaster response since 2020.
Granted U.S. patents →
BGP route limiting, satellite QoS, VSAT bandwidth allocation, path redundancy, and resource pre-allocation.
The full story is in the professional narrative.
Start a conversation
Working out where satellite fits in your network?
I’m glad to compare notes, and I’m open to speaking invitations. Tell me what you’re working on.