Job Function

The Accounts Receivable/ Accounts Payable Clerk will primarily be responsible for obtaining revenue and paying invoices by verifying and completing payable and receivable transactions.

Job Requirements & Responsibilities:

• Prepares work to be accomplished by gathering and sorting documents and related information.
• Pays invoices by verifying transaction information; scheduling and preparing disbursements; obtaining authorization of payment.
• Obtains revenue by verifying transaction information; computing charges and refunds; preparing and mailing invoices; identifying delinquent accounts and insufficient payments.
• Collects revenue by reminding delinquent accounts; notifying customers of insufficient payments.
• Prepares financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Maintains accounting ledgers by posting account transactions.
• Verifies accounts by reconciling statements and transactions.
• Resolves account discrepancies by investigating documentation; issuing stop payments, payments, or adjustments.
• Maintains financial security by following internal accounting controls.
• Maintains financial historical records by filing accounting documents.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

About Allied Telecom Group:

Allied Telecom Group (Allied) is a premier, facilities based telecom service provider headquartered in Washington DC. Since 1996 Allied has been powering the “who’s who” of DC including major universities, public school districts, government agencies, defense contractors and a number of the District’s largest and most prestigious law firms, non-profits and businesses. Allied’s expansion into east coast markets including, Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA are indicators of our strength, market insight, and high growth potential. Allied is a creative, dynamic and growing environment. Allied is an innovative technology company that understands success is about having the “right” technology and the “right” people.

Allied has a commitment to its Community, Employees and Employee’s families. We offer outstanding benefits — Health Insurance (low cost — full coverage), FSA’s, 401(k), PTO, Holiday Pay, Employee Assistance, Training and Give Back! Programs are just a few of the perks!

Allied is an equal employment opportunities (EEO) employer and evaluates applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Allied complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

“We are very excited to add Allied to our partner portfolio,” said Ben Humphreys, President of Comtel Communications. “Our arrangement helps us address the large capacity needs of our Enterprise customers. We found that Allied is the regional leader in the Metro Ethernet space with a great reputation in the market. We are impressed with their agent-friendly program, service delivery, and technical support staff. We feel that our customers are in great hands.”

“Comtel’s customers have very demanding bandwidth and coverage requirements. Through our robust network and ability to access any building in the market, we are confident that we can easily meet and exceed even the most challenging requirements,” added Oscar Williams, VP of Business Development for Allied Telecom. “We are a great fit to address Comtel’s Enterprise market demands for high capacity, highly reliable broadband and voice services. We’ve already been very successful with several customer implementations and we look forward to additional growth opportunities.”

About Comtel Communications

Comtel Communications is a Master Agent based in Richmond, VA with offices throughout Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Comtel Communications takes on a consultative; “one-stop” approach to providing telecommunications services to its clients. Comtel Communications is known as one of the founders of the Agent Alliance, an organization that blends the talents of similar channel leaders in order to provide the best options to customers. Strategic acquisitions have propelled Comtel Communications to national leadership in the communications and network consulting market. For more information, visit www.comtelcommunications.com.

About Allied Telecom

Allied Telecom is the region’s most highly regarded and respected network service providers. Allied serves the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Corridor as a single-source provider of Internet, Data Transport and Voice services. Allied supports businesses, non-profits and public sector organizations. For over 20 years, Allied Telecom has been distinguished by its exceptional, full service care that it provides to every client. For more information about Allied Telecom Group, please visit www.alliedtelecom.net.

Allied’s disaster prevention planning includes rigorous testing of its network equipment, fiber optic cables and power systems. According to Glen Carter, Allied’s Vice President of Engineering and Operations, “In such conditions, it is not only the infrastructure that can be impacted, but, also the support resources. If the Network Operations Center (NOC) is impacted, and support staff cannot report to the NOC, they can’t take calls or troubleshoot issues. We immediately enabled our Virtual Network Operations Center as a contingency to proactively address this concern. Additionally, we tested our core infrastructure to address possible vulnerabilities across our network. I am proud of the resiliency of our infrastructure and the precautionary measures taken by our personnel during these conditions.”

Allied continues to make significant investments into its network infrastructure and personnel to maintain its promise of uptime and reliability. Allied recently upgraded its regional core fiber ring to support 400+ Gbps of data transmission, integrated several new cloud/data centers onto the new ring, and added additional engineers to provide enhanced customer support at its NOC.

Allied Telecom is the region’s most highly regarded and respected network service provider. Allied serves the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Corridor as a single-source provider of Internet, Data Transport and Voice services. Allied supports businesses, non-profits and public sector organizations. For over 20 years, Allied Telecom has been distinguished by its exceptional, full service care that it provides to every client.
For more information about Allied Telecom Group, please visit: www.alliedtelecom.net.

Mr. Dawson is an accomplished IT Professional with over 13 years of experience in digital and VoIP communications. With a strong background in small/medium business and enterprise telecom, network/systems design, engineering, consulting, management and support, he also brings to Allied a wealth of technical knowledge and a history of improving efficiency and reducing expenses.

Holding several technical certifications, Mr. Dawson’s experience also includes major operating systems, applications, programming/scripting languages and hardware.

“Our customers will benefit greatly from Robert’s hands-on experience with technology and the knowledge base he has amassed from a broad base of organizations in a variety of sectors,” noted Chris Peabody, Allied’s COO.

Mr. Dawson is joining Allied from Mindshift Technologies in Fairfax, Virginia, after serving as the core engineer, subject matter expert, and senior level escalation point for hosted and onsite VoIP offerings.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record of building effective departments by instilling solid process and procedures and has a commitment to building customer loyalty. Idea qualifications include:

• Four year degree in an Information Technology related field or equivalent experience.
• Certifications such as:
  • BICSI cabling and standards certifications (RCDD, ITS Installer, etc).
  • Cisco (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, etc)
  • VoIP Certifications
  • ITIL
  • PMP
• Expert knowledge of:
  • Cisco Hardware and Software
  • Fiber Optic and copper cabling systems and specifications
  • Fiber Optic and copper cabling test tools
  • Network and Data Center rack and equipment enclosures
  • Network and Server power systems (UPS — AC/DC Power)
  • Windows Server 2008, Windows XP and 7, Linux
  • Microsoft Office Suite + Visio
  • Inventory Management S/W
  • Data Center Design and Modeling S/W such as CAD.
• 7+ years of experience creating highly accountable operations and field service teams in an ISP or telecommunications carrier environment, including experience:
  • Deploying network and server power systems (UPS, DC Power)
  • Deploying customer network termination equipment, including routers, switches, and other ancillary network hardware.
  • Deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, including desktop VoIP phones and SIP trunking
  • Deploying Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) voice services including PRI and analog trunks
  • Managing and maintaining server and network infrastructure associated with internal and support systems
• 10+ years of experience with building, maintaining and deploying large scale, carrier grade networks, built on DWDM and Cisco networking technologies, including experience:
  • Deploying and maintaining fiber optic and copper cable infrastructure.
  • Deploying and maintaining central office co-location infrastructure.

Job Requirements & Responsibilities:

Operations and Field Services — Daily supervision and direction of the Field Service Technicians and Allied equipment inventory management.

• Ensure adequacy of training for all operational employees in their department.
• Management of the Allied hardware/software inventory including tracking re-order points and burn rates, equipment purchase sourcing, and pipeline projections.
• Collaborate with Operations and Engineering peers and Sr. Management on all operational activities.
• Review and prioritize the installation and maintenance calendar’s to ensure maximum efficiency of resources.
• Review, monitor and improve existing processes and interaction with customers in order to maximize efficiencies and productivity.

Network Infrastructure — Responsible individual for all Allied POP and Data Center physical plant and facilities. Maintains deployment methodologies, pre-requisites and installation checklists for network infrastructure. Coordinates ongoing maintenance and improvement activities for POP and Data Center infrastructure.

• Responsible for the infrastructure deployments and maintenance in all Allied POP and data center locations.
• Manage the deployment and maintenance of Allied owned or leased outside and inside plant infrastructure.
• Onsite coordination and site assessments for fiber optic facilities deployments.
• Primary liaison with property owners for Allied fiber optic infrastructure placement, deployments, and maintenance.
• Partner/liaison with Allied senior management team on all strategic initiatives.

Internal IT Support and Infrastructure – Management of Allied’s internal LAN/WAN equipment, IT infrastructure and resources.

• Lead existing cross functional team to develop, deploy and maintain the internal support systems and infrastructure.

including email, CRM, CSR, network monitoring, ticketing, DNS, and other support applications.

• Manage and maintain the server and network infrastructure associated with Allied internal and support systems.
• Familiarity with network and telecommunications monitoring and support tools.

Compensation:

Competitive Salary and Excellent Benefit Package

Apply Online or send your resume to: careers@alliedtelecom.net

About Allied Telecom Group:

Allied Telecom Group (Allied) is a premier, facilities based telecom service provider headquartered in Washington DC. Since 1996 Allied has been powering the “who’s who” of DC including major universities, public school districts, government agencies, defense contractors and a number of the District’s largest and most prestigious law firms, non-profits and businesses. Allied’s expansion into east coast markets including, Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA are indicators of our strength, market insight, and high growth potential. Allied is a creative, dynamic and growing environment. Allied is an innovative technology company that understands success is about having the “right” technology and the “right” people.

Allied has a commitment to its Community, Employees and Employee’s families. We offer outstanding benefits — Health Insurance (low cost — full coverage), FSA’s, 401(k), PTO, Holiday Pay, Employee Assistance, Training and Give Back! Programs are just a few of the perks!

Allied is an equal employment opportunities (EEO) employer and evaluates applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Allied complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Allied Telecom, the DC-based operator of one of the region’s fastest broadband networks, recently built the new 110-mile fiber ring to enhance its existing network infrastructure and connect to regional cloud computing centers at rates of over 400 Gbps. Latisys turned to Allied to ensure mission critical services could be provisioned to its customers over a secure, robust, flexible and scalable network infrastructure.
“Allied is uniquely positioned as a trusted partner to deliver unmatched scalability and multi-site redundancy to our enterprise customers,” said Oscar Williams, Regional VP of Business Development, Allied Telecom. “Pairing our high speed connectivity with Latisys’ infrastructure brings a compelling response to the growing cloud demand in our market.”

Latisys’ 140,200 square-foot Ashburn, Virginia data center campus &emdash; recently outfitted with an additional 14 megawatts of power and 26,000 square feet of new, available raised floor space &emdash; is a now key component of Allied Telecom’s fully redundant ring of interconnected data centers.

“Allied Telecom shares our commitment to delivering an outstanding customer experience, and this new relationship will further establish Allied as one of the region’s fastest, most expansive, and reliable broadband networks,” said David Haskell, Washington, DC Regional Sales Director for Latisys.

Contact us to find out how Allied Telecom’s products and services can improve your organization.

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• Ken WilliamsFounder and CEOClick for Bio
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Ken Williams

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Mr. Williams is responsible for the overall strategic, technical, operational and financial success of Allied Telecom. His primary responsibilities involve strategic planning, the enhancement of internal and customer-facing technology systems and networks, and ensuring that the operational and financial resources at Allied are running in an efficient and effective manner.

Mr. William’s vision led Allied to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the Washington, DC region to deploy cutting-edge technology that delivers fiber-optic quality broadband Ethernet LAN services over existing copper wires. Under his leadership, Allied also expanded its services to include next-generation DWDM fiber-optic broadband services and business-class hosted VOIP telephone service.

Mr. Williams completed his studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University in 1983 and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA degree at the University of Maryland.

Chris Peabody

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Peabody is responsible for the overall financial and operational success of Allied Telecom, including the delivery of corporate strategy and continuity of exceptional internal and external customer relationships. He directly manages the sales, marketing, operations, human capital, engineering and customer care teams.

Mr. Peabody has been in the network and telecommunications industry for over twenty-seven years, all of it in the Washington, DC area. His early career includes 15 years with Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in a series of operational, sales engineering and technology sales roles. Then he spent six years at Georgetown University where he was their first Director of Network and Communication Services. More recently, he was a Deputy CTO with the DC Government, and Chief of Network and Communication Services with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) where he was responsible for building the next-generation voice, data and wireless network infrastructure and all associated programs and services.

Mr. Peabody holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Furman University and numerous certifications in networking and telecommunications.

Debra A. Shaw

Controller

Ms. Shaw is responsible for the strategic and financial management of Allied Telecom. She directly manages the accounting and finance operations of Allied.

Prior to joining Allied, Ms. Shaw was the principle of her own finance and accounting consulting firm. A Certified Public Accountant since 1986, Ms. Shaw has more than 23 years of finance and accounting experience, including eight years of service in the Big 3 and National Public accounting arenas. Ms. Shaw has spent more than nine years working with a variety of technology and telecommunications companies in Silicon Valley.

Ms. Shaw is experienced in handling FCC 499 Regulatory filings, VOIP tax administration, FUSF contributions and E-rate Program compliance and administration.

Ms. Shaw holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting, and a Minor in Information Systems from San Diego State University.

Walter C. Ames

Chief Network Architect and Chief Security Officer

Mr. Ames is responsible for the overall success of all engineering initiatives at Allied Telecom. He is responsible for ensuring that Allied’s core infrastructure and engineered products are developed, implemented and maintained with excellence.

Mr. Ames has been in the network and telecommunications industry for more than twenty years. He spent six years in the United States Army working in the Cryptologic/Cryptographic communications division. While serving at the Pentagon, he was responsible for integrating cryptographic technologies with emerging TCP/IP based networks. In the private sector, Mr. Ames worked for High-Tech International in a Project Management/Sr. Engineering role. In this position he developed a secure web-based application process in support of Federal Grant Payments, and designed and implemented the data networking security model to support the grants management process, which passed, without exception, the annual SAS-70 audit.

Mr. Ames holds a BS/EE with a minor in Computer Science, as well as various specific certificates in applied cryptography, security and other data networking disciplines.

Melanie Jameson

Director of Customer Relations

Mrs. Jameson is responsible for the overall success of Sales Operations and Customer Relations at Allied Telecom. Her primary responsibilities involve management of the daily sales operations team and customer relations, ensuring that all of Allied’s internal and external customer relationships are handled with excellence.

Mrs. Jameson has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than ten years. She spent four years with Birch Telecom, building the Texas market and developing the company’s sales operations policies and procedures. Her background also includes key positions at Cavalier Telephone where she served as the Business Care Manager for the Richmond Call Center where she was responsible for the inbound and outbound call center, all account retention efforts, data entry of all business orders, and all sales support activities.

Mrs. Jameson has completed several business communication courses and is a certified Salesforce Administrator.

Geri Sullivan

Regional VP of Sales

Ms. Sullivan is responsible for revenue growth in the Washington, DC region and ensuring that Allied’s customers always have an unparalleled service experience. She directly manages the Direct Sales and Customer Account teams.

Having led the engineering team in the development of Allied’s voice service offering, Ms. Sullivan also holds the position as the Product Line Manager (PLM) and works closely with the entire organization to ensure that Allied’s voice service is reliable, robust and secure.

Ms. Sullivan has over 22 years in the telecommunications industry, working in a variety of technical, sales and leadership roles. She began her career with Lexcom, and has held key roles with PageNet, Net2000, Docutech and Pingtone. Ms. Sullivan has received a variety of technology certifications throughout her career in the areas of IP Networking, IP Telephony, Nortel and Avaya PBX systems engineering, Carrier Ethernet, VPN and MPLS certifications.

Jeff Marcon

Director of Network Infrastructure

Mr. Marcon manages and directs the design and construction of communications facilities and build-outs associated with the Allied Telecom network.

Prior to joining Allied, he was the principle of his own consulting firm where he provided technical, procurement and project management advice for large-scale TCP/IP based networks, local exchange and VOIP network rollouts, and wire-line and non-wire line next generation deployments. Mr. Marcon retired from Verizon’s wholesale division where he was a senior technology consultant to tier-one carriers in the US. Prior to Verizon, Mr. Marcon was Director of Business Development for Ascend Communications/Lucent where he advised, developed, and deployed ISP and Competitive Local Exchange Carrier networks across the US and Canada.

Mr. Marcon holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Maryland College Park, and a Master’s of Science in Telecommunications Operations and Management from The George Washington University.