LEADERSHIP TEAM
TeleworX takes pride in its intellectual capital - our employee strength. Our Practice Leads and Principals average over 20 years of industry experience, while our subject matter experts are some of the most talented people in their fields.
John Hartin - CEO
John Hartin has served as CEO of TeleworX, LLC since 2003 where he
has lead the company's efforts in technology strategy consulting and
the development of leading software products for network design,
automation and analytics.
John has held executive positions with telecom operators,
consultancies and software product firms for more than 20 years. He
was CEO of a Silicon Valley venture-backed broadband company (Wired
Business), a General Manager at Omnipoint (now T-Mobile), a founder/
CEO of a technology strategy and consulting firm (Atlantic Wireless
Group) and a Vice President at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) for
several years.
John continues to take an active role in strategic engagements at
TeleworX.
John holds a Bachelor of Science from Villanova University and an
MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
José Rodríguez - President
Jose Rodriguez, President, founded TeleworX in 1992. Since that
time, he worked closely with clients, engineering teams and software
development teams to solve technical problems in wireless networks
throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Jose has worked
in every aspect of wireless network planning, from the smallest to
most massive designs, often as an advocate for operators as they
work closely with vendors and applications providers. He is best
known for an ability to analyze and evaluate RF, OSS, infrastructure
and technical problems as wireless networks evolve.
He has spent 30 years building specialized software tools for
wireless engineering operations to better envision, optimize and
plan complex networks, saving operators millions of dollars in CAPEX
and OPEX. Today, he has a strong interest in helping clients discern
their critical path strategies using integrated artificial
intelligence, big data concepts, and cloud technologies. His clients
include executives and technology managers in large networks
worldwide.
José holds a master's degree in electronics engineering from
Polytechnical University of Barcelona, and post grad study with
Stanford University.
Ginés Fernández - Director
Gines is a Director at TeleworX where he leads Network Engineering
efforts across Europe and the Middle East. Since he joined TeleworX
in 2002, He has served in several leadership roles in the US and
Latin America. In addition, he leads Network Design/Management
product development for TeleworX worldwide. mapVISTA, a network
design and inventory tool, has achieved success with many service
providers in Europe and North America.
Gines has consulted and advised several CTOs of major Service
Provider and OEMs worldwide in technology strategy and roadmaps,
network design and planning worldwide. Prior to joining TeleworX,
Gines was instrumental in the radio design and rollout of the first
3G network in Spain.
Ginés holds a Masters degree in Telecommunications Engineering from
Polytechnic University in Valencia (Spain). Gines also studied at
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim
(Norway). He is an Associate Professor to the University of
Alicante.
Mario Gay - Software Lead
Mario is a TeleworX Software Team Leader with ample experience
designing and building our software applications. DevOps oriented,
Mario is always seeking to implement the best practices in product
quality, security, reliability and fast deployment of our solutions
portfolio.
In our software development engagements with customers around the
world, Mario is a valued advisor to define and architect the most
suitable solutions to each development challenge, providing
innovative solutions to boost our engineering activities .
Prior to assuming the software lead at TeleworX, Mario held
different consulting positions with Vodafone where he contributed to
multiple network quality initiatives.
Mario holds a Master degree in Telecommunications Engineering from
Polytechnic University in Valencia.
Joanna Robertson - Director of Human Resources
Joanna Robertson is the Director of Human Resources at TeleworX
where she leads recruitment, human resources and administration.
While at TeleworX, Joanna has extended the recruiting reach to
Latin-America and Europe. She has also implemented Employee
Development Programs, continued education and team building across
TeleworX regions.
Prior to joining TeleworX, she held a variety of positions including
executive recruiter for a nation-wide executive search firm and a
staff specialist for a HR consulting firms.
She began her career with Apex Systems where she was a top-producing
recruiter of high level talent for the nation's largest service
providers and equipment manufacturers.
Joanna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Auburn
University.
Ashwani Kumar - Director
Ashwani Kumar is an expert in Lab Design, Management and Testing and
has worked with many leading Silicon Valley companies in product
development with emphasis on software and systems testing of network
products and services.
He currently leads TeleworX efforts in Silicon Valley area and also
supports client activities in Asia. In addition, Ashwani oversees
TeleworX engagements with telecom infrastructure alliances with
OEMs, operators, web-scale companies and systems integrators where
he manages lab and testing initiatives for next generation products.
Over the past several years Ashwani has worked on behalf of several
leading US Tier 1 carriers and OEMs specializing in device testing
and RAN and Core Release Management. Ashwani began his career as an
RF Engineer where he specialized in the design and optimization of
2G and 3G networks for several Tier 1 US Carriers.
Ashwani holds a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from NYIT in
New York.
Emmanuel Duarte - Director
Emmanuel serves as Network Engineering Director at Teleworx, being
the primary engineering interface for Latin America markets and
contributing to TeleworX’s undertakings in North America, Europe and
Middle East. He has deep knowledge of access, transport and core
network technologies with an architectural and component view down
to the protocol level. His blend of research, telecom and software
expertise enables him to drive efforts towards 5G cloud native
networks.
Emmanuel has led several projects including network architecture
design & dimensioning, development of network planning models and
automated design tools, and the definition of engineering guidelines
and technical specifications for service providers and smart cities.
Prior to joining TeleworX, Emmanuel worked for several years at the
major operator in Mexico, where he was responsible of designing test
plans and technical specifications for the access and transport
network. He was also a contributor to the technology strategy for
Digital Transformation of the firm.
Emmanuel holds a Master degree in Telecommunications Engineering
from Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN (Cinvestav).
Emmanuel also studied at the Polytechnic University in Valencia. His
research work in Propagation and Mobile Networks has been published
in International Conferences and Journals.
