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When Wes Vivian became a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, he assumed he was the first to have been born in Newfoundland. This proved to be wrong he was the seventh! On the other hand, he learned he was the first to hold a Ph.D. in science or engineering. It was after leaving Congress that he joined the telecom industry, initially as president of a company that developed and manufactured one of the first two-way, multi-service, digital broadcast cable TV systems. He has since served on faculties of electrical and computer engineering as well as public policy at the University of Michigan, as a state regulator, and as an advisor and management consultant on the technical and business aspects of multimedia telecommunications networks and services to operators, investors and technology developers. At Kalba International, he has led cases dealing with broadband wireless, fiber communications, cellular mobile, government networks and procurement (FTS 2000), and cable and satellite television. In the last few years, he has been especially active in the WiMAX, pre-WiMAX and LMDS arena, heading a dozen consulting cases on technological and commercial viability. He has also served as Senior Technology Consultant to the Wireless Communications Association International and as Chair of its Technical Jury for papers presented at the annual WCAI Technical Conference in San Jose. His international consulting experience includes cases in Canada, France, Hong Kong, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and the United Kingdom. | 