William Fitzsimmons is the managing director of the global telecommunications practice at LECG. He holds a Ph.D. in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has eighteen years experience analyzing telecommunications issues. His industry experience prior to joining LECG in 1994 includes two years of modeling demand for private line services for AT&T in New Jersey and six years as a financial modeler for BellSouth in Atlanta. While at LECG, he has developed financial simulation models of competitive entry into local services; advised telecommunications companies on the construction of forward-looking cost models; assessed the impacts of changing policies and practices on telecommunications firms and the development of competition; and analyzed and estimated costs related to the use of the public rights-of-way by telecommunications firms. Dr. Fitzsimmons has testified in over thirty proceedings on cost models and economic policy issues. |