NComm's Leadership Team

Bill Matern is president and founder of NComm, Inc., a telecom source code development and engineering consulting firm. The company has been supporting established and startup telecom equipment manufacturers since 1996. In addition to NComm duties, Bill also supports the telecommunications industry as the T1.231 Revision Ad-Hoc Group Chair in the T1M1 technical sub-committee of the Committee T1.

Previously, he was an engineering manager at Summa Four, Inc. where he designed and oversaw development of several telecom projects for Summa's open programmable switch including a 4-span T1/E1 card. While at AT&T Bell Labs, he was technical project lead on the design and development of the AT&T's first DS3 protection switch and DS3/DS1 transmission quality monitors. He also architected and was part of the development team for a system for transporting 28 DS1s via a terrestrial microwave system. From his work with Newton Communications, a company he founded in 1990, he holds patents on the design of a PBX and software for a PBX.

Bill holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University. Bill resides in Kingston, NH with his wife and two sons.

William T. Matern

President and Founder

Jeff Jones is the Director of Software Engineering at NComm, Inc. Jeff is responsible for the design and development of NComm's family of flagship software products known as the TMS, or Trunk Management Software. The software provides for the configuration and control of T1, E1, T3, E3, SONET, and SDH communication systems.He has been with NComm since early 1998.

Previous to NComm, as a 6-year military veteran who specialized in high-tech weapons systems, Jeff was a software engineering consultant to various military and commercial companies. His projects span the gamut from radar jamming and missile guidance systems to 2-way set top boxes and video-on-demand systems for the cable industry. Eventually, Jeff landed at AT&T Bell Labs for 9 years as a lead software engineer on various AT&T protection switching and performance monitoring products, including AT&T's FASTAR system. During his first 2 years at AT&T, Jeff was on the same development team as Bill Matern, NComm's president.

Jeff holds a BS degree in Computer Science and resides in Merrimack, NH with his wife and four sons.

Jeffrey R. Jones

Director, Software Engineering