John Williams is a telecommunications engineer with a complementary background in business planning and in regulatory and public policy analysis. He provides litigation support and expert witness services and advised carriers and foreign governments on industry issues.
     Before joining our firm, he served as assistant to an FCC commissioner where he specialized in domestic and international common carrier policy. Before this, he focused on similar issues at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
     Prior to government service, he was with Bell Laboratories where his work centered on new telecommunications services and long-range network planning. In his most significant contribution to the area of new services, he was responsible for the initial work on voice storage systems. Before joining Bell Laboratories, he was with RCA Laboratories where he conducted basic research on computer system architecture.
     He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Virginia, a Masters from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration of Carnegie-Mellon University and a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He holds several patents and has published a number of papers in the areas of telecommunications and computers.