Jeff Ames recently retired as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and an original member of Switch Communications Group, LLC, the premier data center and Network Access Point (NAP) located in Las Vegas.
Jeff, currently holds the position of Technology Advisory Board Memberfor CNS, A Low Voltage Services, LLC companyand is a member of the board of directors for three non-profit organizations all are providing community services and technology advancement in the Las Vegas area. He also is on boards and advisory boards for three commercial companies' helping advance business and technical programs.
During the 90's in support of Lawrence Livermore Labs and the Nevada Test Site, using high speed Electro-optic systems for the Department of Energy Jeff was Field Administrator for the photonics research team. He was responsible for the experiment planning and part of the team providing data acquisition and diagnostics for specialized weapons testing. After leaving the government Jeff ran a program to expand a small emerging technology company in Nevada in conjunction with the Small Business Administration. Jeff participated in designing and integrating information systems for high-tech environments such as Motorola, DOE, DOT, US Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Forestry, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
In 1993 Jeff formed the first internet service provider (ISP) in Nevada, and established some of the first high-bandwidth services to many governmental and commercial organizations in the Southwest. Jeff sat on the first VAR advisory council for Netscape, helped several ISP's and web productions companies get started.
Jeff also wrote the City of North Las Vegas Fiber Infrastructure plan, was manager of the broadband R&D Lab and Methods and Procedures Program at a national CLEC, served Sierra Pacific Communications (SPC) as Director of Customer Engineering Services and New Business Development, and also worked with Cox Communications in the Business Services division.
