The Telecom Act of 1996 and its impact on the telecommunications industry: A unique perspective from Information Technology
Dr. W. Armin Kittel
Migration Integration Planning and Architecture
GTE, Dallas, TX
Friday, November 14th, 2:00-3:00 PM, ENS 302
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a central component of the current deregulation of the Telecommunications Industry. The talk will outline the provisions of the Telecom Act and highlight the impact to the Telecom Industry and the general public. The presentation will give a unique inside view of GTE's Information Technology Organization and the challenges it faces.
Dr. W. Armin Kittel has been with GTE Information Technology in Dallas,
Texas since December 1996. He is a member of the Architecture and Planning
Division responsible for end-to-end enterprise architecture of operations
support systems across all GTE business units. He is currently the technical
lead of the Local Number Portability Project addressing systems changes for
compliance with FCC mandates under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
In his previous assignment he was with GTE Laboratories in Waltham,
Massachusetts. There, he was working on the Telephone Operations
Network Integrated Control System (TONICS) used to manage GTE's
Telephone Switching Network.
His particular duties and interests include large-scale distributed
information processing systems, integrated network management for
information networks, knowledge-based approaches to information technology,
and digital signal processing applications in telecommunications.
He is a recipient of the highest technical award in GTE, the Leslie H.
Warner Technical Achievement Award in 1995 and 1997, and the GTE-IT Best
Award of 1997.
Mr. Kittel received his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
in 1992 from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and
his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from the Technical University
of Braunschweig, Germany. He has been with GTE since 1992. He is a Member
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
A list of digital signal processing seminars is available at from the ECE department Web pages under "Seminars". The Web address for the digital signal processing seminars is http://anchovy.ece.utexas.edu/seminars