Over the past decade, we have evolved a unique model where we are able to quickly assemble dynamic teams of anywhere from just a couple to over a half-dozen, elite, world-class experts to solve the most intractable, vexing, and complex of client problems, and efficiently deliver solutions to clients in a seamless manner, bringing to bear the collective experience and wisdom of our entire team to client problems (which we believe is unique in our industry).

In the past, our teams have included consultants from Canada, Italy, Australia, India, USA, Germany, and Austria, among others. The active industry relationships of this network of experts, and the productive relationships forged over a decade+ of leadership in the industry by Metanoia, Inc.'s Principal Technologist & Founder, Dr. Vishal Sharma, permit us to assemble teams of a class and make-up, largely unparalleled in the industry -- ranging from theoreticians, academics, analysts, & product management leaders to protocol experts, software design architects, and system visionaries, to hardware specialists, and network design & engineering architects.

This one-of-a-kind make-up leads to the creation of, what some have aptly called, dream teams. The reason being that it would be extremely hard (if not near impossible) to identify, access, invite, assemble, coordinate, manage, and then bear to work, such outstanding team's (that are custom-selected for the problem at hand) on a client's problem any other way.

Additionally, Metanoia, Inc. has also developed relationships with other leading and trusted industry partners, with a wide skill set and varied strengths. These partners work with clients, under the Metanoia, Inc. umbrella (or independently, depending on the specifics of the assignment), to bring other valuable skills to the table, such as program or project management, lab. trials, testing of systems or networks, custom communication sub-system or software development, and the like.

Vishal Sharma earned the B. Tech. (EE) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the M.S. (Signals & Systems), M.S. (Computer Engineering) and the Ph.D. (ECE) degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively.

Dr. Sharma has over 20+ years of diverse research, academic, industry, and consulting experience in networking and telecom technologies, having worked in system architecture, protocol design, system analysis and optimization, software prototyping, and network planning and algorithms for both wireline and wireless networks and systems.

Dr. Sharma has 8 patents issued, and 3 patents pending in the areas of MPLS recovery, high-speed switch architectures and scheduling, optical routing, and the IP control of SONET/SDH networks. He is active in standards bodies, such as the IETF and OIF, with over 10 RFC's published, and was a key contributor to the generalized MPLS standards.

He is a Senior Member (2001) of the IEEE, a Fellow (2005) of the IETE, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) at the Broadband Forum, and is a frequent panelist, chair, invited speaker, and educator in the US and abroad (Europe, Australia, South-Asia, and Asia-Pac), having delivered over 120+ invited talks, seminars, tutorials, keynotes, and workshops. He is on the Scientific Committee's of the World Telecommunications Conference, V6 World, MPLS World Congress (Paris), Wi-MAX Summit (Paris), FutureCon (New York), iPOP (Japan), and several academic conferences, such as IEEE's ICC, Globecom, and LAN/MAN Workshop. He has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley (Extension) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (Extension), and has also lead research and taught at the prestigous Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB).

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