About

Twenty years across telecom engineering, architecture, and sales.

I'm a Chief Technologist for MSO in HPE's telecom presales organization. I work with customer executives and engineering leaders to turn complex technology into decisions that can be funded, built, and operated.

John Pezzulli outdoors
John Pezzulli · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
20+years across telecom engineering, architecture, sales, and consulting
16M+subscribers served by a landline IMS platform designed and sold
13Msubscribers in a major real-time communications modernization
$100M+annual cable business scaled through technical-commercial strategy

Experience

Selected roles and work

Engineering first, then broader responsibility for architecture, customers, commercial execution, and teams.

2026—

Chief Technologist, MSO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

A Chief Technologist within HPE's telecom presales organization, helping customer executives and engineering leaders evaluate architecture, portfolio, and investment decisions across major U.S. MSO accounts.

2025—26

AI & Network Operations Consultant

Independent · Z1rrus One · NetoAI

Consulting work focused on agentic network operations, AI architecture, and the operating model around autonomous systems.

2025

Career sabbatical

Philadelphia

Took a deliberate break after four years at Dell before choosing the next chapter and beginning selected consulting work.

2021—25

Field CTO & Senior Network Account Executive

Dell Technologies

Led technical strategy and commercial execution for cable operators, helped scale the annual cable business beyond $100M, and co-authored the Intel-Dell verified vCMTS reference configuration on Red Hat OpenShift.

2019—21

Principal Consultant

Infosys

Led architecture and modernization work for real-time communications infrastructure serving 13 million subscribers.

2011—19

MSO Solution Sales Leadership

Huawei

Led U.S. and Latin American solution strategy across carrier voice, optical, IP, access, and CPE, including a landline IMS platform serving more than 16 million subscribers.

2005—11

Systems Engineering

Cedar Point Communications

Built and delivered carrier-grade VoIP systems for major cable operators, from boxes on the floor through production operation.

Leadership

Player-coach, with standards.

I lead through communication, trust, engagement, and direct feedback. Technical intensity is useful; toxic behavior is not. The goal is a team where people can challenge assumptions hard, stay accountable to one another, and keep the friction intellectual rather than personal.