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A TRUSTED AND RELIABLE Telecommunications and IT Consulting Company

Who We Are

TELigence Partners is an independent sales and consulting agency with more than 150 years of combined experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries.

Based in Vermont and serving businesses throughout the greater across the country, including New England, New Jersey, and New York, Our team members played key roles in the launch of several northeast regional CLECS as well as major wireless carrier networks. We are veterans of such industry leaders as Verizon, MCI, Level 3, Sprint/Nextel, One Communications, Cable & Wireless, CTC Communications, and Lightship Telecom.

TELigence formed as an independent consulting firm in 2006 and is now serving northeastern businesses with telecommunications and information technology consulting, network design, solution procurement, billing audit, resolution services, and more.

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Our Team

Our staff has extensive telecommunications and information technology experience. Collectively, we’ve worked in these industries for more than 150 years. Our team members are veterans of such industry leaders as Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, MCI, Level 3, One Communications, Cable & Wireless, CTC Communications, Lightship Telecom, and more…

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John King

Founding Partner

John brings his extensive experience as an entrepreneur, a top-1% telecommunications sales professional, and a former senior marketing manager and product developer at Rossignol to his role as Founding Partner of TELigence Partners. John has over 21 years’ experience working in the telecommunications industry, during which time he has become regarded as a top sales professional, technical consultant, and customer support expert. It was his interest in the telecommunications industry and exceeding clients’ expectations through superior customer service that led John to found TELigence Partners in 2006.

John‘s entrepreneurial nature and experience in product development, sales, and marketing match well with his people skills and ability to understand client needs and shape them into logical solutions, creating one of the principal reasons for TELigence Partners’ success and why 90% of our new business is referred to us by existing clients.

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Bob Davison

Consulting Partner

Bob has been working in telecommunications since 1998. He has held senior sales and sales director positions with CTC Communications, Lightship Telecom, and Nextel/Sprint. Bob oversaw the sales launch of Sprint’s Wireless network in Vermont and was instrumental in the build-out of their network and customer base. In addition to his direct carrier work, Bob has worked as a sales agent for Verizon, Fairpoint, Earthlink, Comcast, Level 3, Cogent, and many other carriers. Prior to telecommunications, Bob was a certified financial planner for American Express, so your bottom line is always on his mind! Bob has been an effective agent/consultant to many enterprise-level businesses in northern New England including Fletcher Allen Health Care, McDonald's, Randolph National Bank, and many others.

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Lynne Witter

Consulting Partner

Lynne’s career in telecommunications began in 1986, representing local resellers to business organizations in the Boston area. Later, as a successful salesperson for Sprint, ATT, and many startup telecom companies, her consistently high sales contributions led to leadership roles at Cable & Wireless and USN Communications. In her current position at TELigence Partners, she collaborates with all sizes of businesses to propose solutions that increase revenues, enhance productivity, and assist organizations in gaining a competitive edge. Her focus is on the client and solving their immediate challenges while preparing the foundation for future requirements and industry developments.

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Dan Brisson

Director of Network Design & Engineering

Possessing a mix of experience in over 21 years of data networking in diverse vertical markets, Dan has designed, configured, and supported both small and large wired and wireless networks in enterprise, healthcare, and higher education. He specializes in Cisco networking with advanced knowledge in routing, switching, wireless, and security. He has managed networks with over 1000 devices and built network management systems from the ground up that provide to-the-minute logging and alerting capabilities. Dan is skilled in data security compliance requirements for PCI and HIPAA and has logged many hours performing wireless site surveys and installations in healthcare, higher education, and outdoor venues. Dan is self-motivated and thrives on finding the right solution for any size networking project.

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Derrick Calkins

Director of Information Technology Services

Derrick graduated from Champlain College in 2004 with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Networking and Support. He began his career working at the help desk level followed by work in network consulting, including service with Mach-One Computers, Symquest, Exterus Technology for Business and Hosted Business Server. Most recently, he founded an IT consulting firm, Calkins Networks LLC. Derrick is fully Microsoft Certified and has been working in the industry for over a decade. He is dedicated to providing the top level of customer service and support to his clients.

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Ben Weber

Senior Network Architect/Engineer

Ben brings over 23 years of experience as a systems & network architect/engineer. Ben earned Cisco’s CCNP certification in 2003 and also has a depth of experience in Fortinet, Adtran, Palo Alto, Juniper, Brocade, Dell, HP and others. His past experience includes work for DoD vendors where he has built secure networks for government defense research installations, banks & other financial institutions as well has hospitals and Enterprise level organizations with high security concerns.

Oliver Lenel

Network Security Analyst

What We Do

TELigence Partners is a full-service, independent sales and consulting agency, providing voice, data, cloud, IT, and advisory services to discerning businesses headquartered throughout the northeastern United States. Our team members have more than 150 years of combined experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries.

For a list of many of the services we provide, please see our Services section.

Our goal is to exceed our clients’ expectations by taking the worry out of the telecommunications and IT solutions process and saving them money.

OUR CLIENTS & OUR STORY

TELigence Partners is an independent sales and consulting agency, providing voice, data, cloud, IT, and advisory services to discerning businesses headquartered throughout the United States. Our team members have more than 150 years of combined experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries.

TELigence Partners’ clients range from small New England entrepreneurship to large Enterprise organizations with locations throughout the US and Europe.

The one thing all TELigence’s clients have in common is a desire to simplify their telecommunications and IT services design, deployment and procurement process and spend their money wisely.

In fact, many of the services we provide are absolutely free of charge (we are paid through the more than 100 telecommunications and information technology service providers we represent.   Service cost to our clients is the same whether they go through us or through the carrier directly.   The difference? By using TELigence Partners, you’ll have access to our 150 years of industry knowledge and our ability to select the carriers with the best prices, solutions, from our network of over 100+ service providers, all of whom we’ve carefully researched and vetted over the years to make sure they meet our standards in product, service and delivery.

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