Van MacateeEatonton, Georgia, United States
Bio
WHAT WE DO: We assist telecom and technology service providers in achieving scalable operational excellence by leveraging our deep functional expertise and proven methods. Our clients enjoy higher degrees of customer engagement, reduced operating costs, and market agility.

WE WORK WITH: Over the years, we have had the pleasure of collaborating with the largest Telecomm, MSOs, MNOs, Service Providers, Systems Integrators, and associated OEMs in the world. Our clients deliver services to the largest enterprise businesses around the globe. For success, the delivery must be pitch-perfect. That is what we help our clients achieve.

WHY IT WORKS: The common thread across all varieties of service providers is PROCESS. The business will always function better as the process achieves excellence. We are successful in accelerating our client's momentum by accelerating its critical strategic process. We do that with deep experience, critical thinking, and world-class tools.

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT: We are experts in operational management. With four decades of deep functional experience and accomplishments, there is not much we haven't seen. There are many, many ways to do process engineering wrong and only one way to do it right. Our tool chest of methods makes it nearly impossible for inefficiency and waste to hide.

HOW IT WORKS: Our approach is called Operations Science, which is a fact-based and refined collection of methods and tools, including the best of Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Balanced Scorecards, Business Process Improvement, and Business Intelligence. Combined, they serve to remove friction from your processes, bring them under control, and provide clear and concise priorities for ongoing improvement. Operations Science creates a culture of continuous improvement. In short, it is a system for achieving operations excellence.
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Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Blue Stream Fiber
Sep 2020 - Current
Founder
Evermore Group
Mar 2003 - Current
Evermore Consulting Group assists telecom and technology service providers in achieving scalable operational excellence by leveraging our deep functional expertise and proven methods. Our clients enjoy higher degrees of customer engagement, reduced operating costs, and market agility.
Founder
Xspand
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Xspand provides enterprises with a clear path for using next gen, indoor private wireless networks as the core of their digital transformation strategies. Everything about wireless is about to change and as a result, entire industries from healthcare to logistics, industrial, retail and more are poised to see the unimaginable become real. Xspand offers a comprehensive group of services to from assessment and strategic planning through deployment and ongoing operations that enable businesses to harness and shape these new technologies in order to do extraordinary things. We adapt the new private indoor wireless technologies, such as CBRS, advanced WiFi, IoT, MulteFire, and private LTE networks to your individual situation. Furthermore, we provide guaranteed service improvement to ensure that your wireless private network will always deliver on its promise. Core to our company is strong process control in every phase that includes analytics and continuous improvement, targeted to our customers’ real world, real time issues. Xspand is also on the forefront of utilizing spatial data (e.g. GIS) to provide a whole new level of applications and benefit.
COO
Stratto LLC
2016 - Oct 2017
Cisco catalyzed project to develop the Cellular as a Service (CaaS) Small Cell indoor wireless business.
COO, Content Delivery Network Services
Highwinds
Mar 2010 - Jun 2012
Lead teams responsible for Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Telecom Expense Optimization, CND and Network Operations and Customer Care.
Senior Consultant
canoe ventures
2009 - 2010
Designed and conducted the Operational Readiness test for the firms technology and business launch.
Board of Directors
Tele-Management Forum
2002 - 2003
GVP
Level 3 Communications
Mar 1998 - May 2004
Oversaw the design, deployment and operations of the Level 3 global fiber optic, IP and Soft Switch Operations teams. Functional disciplines included Field Operations, NOC, Customer Care, Provisioning and IT. Lead teams of Operational Professionals in North America, Europe and Asia totaling over 5000 people.
VP Technical Operations
TCI Cable
Sep 1996 - Mar 1998
Lead team chartered with designing and deploying the companies initial forays into 2-way cable plant, Telephony and High Speed Internet Services.
various
Sprint
1981 - 1996
Participated on the design, deployment and operations of the worlds first all fiber optic long distance back bone network. Managed various functions including Customer Care (SMC), NOC (fiber and voice switching), Executive Briefing Center and Business Market Group Account support.
Education
Wharton School of Business
Finance and Financial Management Services
Georgia Military College-Milledgeville Campus
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
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