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As Vice President of Data Architecture And Business Process Engineering, Maria is responsible for the database design, development, and general management of our cutting edge systems. Maria is also responsible for the management of our development team in both the U.S. and Bucharest, Romania. Prior to joining Optelcon, Ms. Arteaga was one of the 5 original individuals who started Universal Access. Maria was largely responsible for the technical execution of the UAI business plan. Maria was the original data architect and developer for Universal Access', Patented and industry leading, multi-vendor quoting and provisioning systems; used by virtually every major U.S. and European Telecommunications company. In addition, Maria was integral in the design and development of the Universal Information Exchange (UIX). The UIX is currently the largest repository of network infrastructure in the world; detailing the fiber optic networks of over 50 carriers, in over 500,000 buildings. These systems enabled Universal Access to grow from the original 5 person team to a publicly traded company with a market capitalization in excess of 2.5B. Throughout her tenure at Universal Access, she performed a number of critical functions and stepped into a number of roles as the company grew. These roles included, operations, process engineering, knowledge management, developing cost and network auditing programs as well as creating the UIX and Provisioning systems. Maria lead the company initiative to acquire ISO 9001 compliance. As part of the ISO 9001 initiative she developed and managed a cross functional process definition and improvement effort. Ms. Arteaga also managed the processing of carrier infrastructure and cost information used for analysis and the development of proprietary pricing tools such as Quick Quote, a pricing and configuration tool customized to client specifications. Prior to Universal Access, Ms. Arteaga was responsible for system development, general accounting and the creation of automated billing systems for Arista Communications, the largest master agency for Teleport Communications Group (Now AT&T). Ms. Arteaga started her career at Telecomet, Inc, an international Voice and Data Network Design Integrator. Ms. Arteaga's roles included office administration, project management and engineering support, purchasing of all computer network, telephone and trading system equipment. While at Telecomet, Ms. Arteaga co-developed an automated Purchase Order system. | 