Pete Distler has been engaged in technology deployments and business development for the telecom industry with AT&T and Sprint since 1984. Functional experience includes Bell Labs R&D assignments, advanced university research sponsorship (Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT), venture advisory boards, strategic technology alliance partnerships (Cisco, Lucent, Alcatel, Nortel, HP), M&A due diligence and enterprise investment management. Recent projects include large scale deployment of optical networks, VoIP softswitch systems, high speed wireless mobile data and advanced computing infrastructure planning. He is currently the senior enterprise architect for Sprint.