Joseph (“Joe”) O’Bryan is an AVP at AT&T Public Sector Solutions responsible for IT services into the Department of Homeland Security including the USSS, CISA, FEMA and the USCG.
Prior to his current position, Joe led an AT&T Sales Center as well as a Program Management team managing worldwide satellite and terrestrial communications for one of AT&T’s largest Government Clients.
Before joining AT&T, Joe worked as an ex-patriot in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as Director of Operations for Priority Telecom (PT) for three years. PT is the business arm of United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) which in turn was the leading cable TV provider in The Netherlands. Joe led a team of Dutch and American program managers and engineers installing and maintaining advanced data services for Dutch multinational corporations.
Prior to Priority Telecom, Joe worked at in Cambridge, Massachusetts at a start-up Internet provider named Cignal Global Communications. Joe was recruited to Cignal to help design, test, and install an international ATM/IP Data network in approximately 10 months, consisting of twenty telecommunications Points of Presence in Europe and Asia.
Prior to Cignal, Joe worked at Global One (now owned by France Telecom), an international Joint Venture of France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and Sprint, based in Reston, Virginia, providing services to multinational corporations. He was initially selected to be the Executive Assistant to Global One’s CEO, and followed that with a variety of international assignments, principally in the Middle East and Africa.
From 1987 to 1995, Joe was an Infantry officer in the United States Army where he held a range of assignments, ranging from Company command in Mainz, Germany to teaching Economics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He is RANGER and AIRBORNE qualified.
Joe was educated at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs (MPA – Economics), the University of Southern California School of Engineering (MSEE) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering (BSEE).
