Specialties: Voice services, next-gen telco platforms, VoIP, session delivery networks (SDN), session border controllers (SBC), SIP, IMS, VoLTE, NFV, SaaS, cloud services & telecommunication infrastructure. * Leading Sales Engineering and Technical Program Management organizations * Managing strategic and/or critical accounts * Global experience (North America, CALA, JAPAC), including 5 years in Tokyo, Japan * Delivering presentations to the Tier-1 service providers and Fortune-100 enterprise customers * Platforms delivering 99.999% availability

Senior Director, Sales Consulting @ Oracle acquired Acme Packet, Inc on June 1st, 2013, From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Vice President, Sales Engineering - Japan @ Long term assignment in Tokyo, Japan supporting the Japanese account team. From March 2009 to May 2013 (4 years 3 months) Tokyo, JapanDirector, Worldwide Sales Engineering @ Acme Packet enables the delivery of trusted, first-class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and data services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSP—and multiple border points—service provider access and interconnect, and enterprise access and trunking. From April 2005 to March 2009 (4 years) Director, Voice Systems Engineering @ Lucent acquired Telica. From August 2004 to March 2005 (8 months) Director, Sales Engineering @ Responsible for all Sales Engineering (pre-sales) and Technical Program Management (post-sales) for the Plexus 9000 Softswitch product. From December 2000 to August 2004 (3 years 9 months) Sr Mgr, Technical Program Management @ Technical Program Mgmt for the Fusion 5000 Softswitch product. From March 2000 to December 2000 (10 months) Sr Network Engineer / Technical Acct Mgr: @ Projects: * Lucent Softswitch * Ascend Signaling Gateway * AT&T Technical Acct Mgr From January 1996 to March 2000 (4 years 3 months) Consulting Software Engineer @ Engineering Projects: * DACS IV - 2000 * DACS II * Centralized System Management (CSM) From May 1984 to January 1996 (11 years 9 months) Software Engineer @ Office automation software projects in a 'C' / UNIX environment. From December 1982 to May 1984 (1 year 6 months) NCO @ Air Force Data Services Center (AFDSC), Pentagon, Wash DC. 475th ABW, Yokota Air Base, Japan Office automation software projects in a 'C' / UNIX environment while at AFDSC. From July 1976 to May 1982 (5 years 11 months)

Terry Irish is skilled in: SIP, VoIP, Telecommunications, IP, Pre-sales, Wireless, Start-ups, Channel Partners, New Business Development, Go-to-market Strategy, Sales Engineering, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Routing, Product Development