ABOUT US
ABOUT IDS VENTURES CORPORATION

IDS Ventures Corporation was established in January of 1987 with the objective of providing value added services and general business equipment and material supply to small, mid and large sized business organizations and the government (Federal, State and Local). Our operations range from Telecommunications Implementations, Mobile Device Anti-Theft Systems, Automated Air Freshener Implementations, Systems Integration, Computer sales and maintenance, information technology implementation, networking LAN/WAN/MAN integration, voice and data over IP and phone systems integration to general supply of materials and component to various industries.

Currently, IDS Ventures Corporations has supply contracts with the General Services Commission of the State of Texas, which has resulted in purchase orders in excess of forty six point three million dollars ($46.300,000.00).  We have also secured an implementation contract agreement from NetVisa GSMSecured Nig. Ltd. to implement Nigeria's Central Equipment Identity Registry. We have allied and partnered with several, manufacturers and distributors such as Ingram Micro, Cisco Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Protel, MetaSwitch, Northern Light, PSI AG, Synchronica, Pevernio of Ireland and host of others. Our partnership with these industry giants means that you can trust our products and integrated solutions. These relationships enable us to fulfill our contractual obligation to our customers in a timely manner.


CAPABILITIES STATEMENT

EXPERIENCE & PAST PERFORMANCE
IDS VENTURES has been in the business of Telecommunications & Information Technology, computer sales, Mobile Device Security, LAN/WAN Integration, Networking Design, Telecom Integration & Software development since 1987 and as such has extensive experience in customer Hardware selection, solutions implementation, software development and Web site integration and Design, implementation and maintenance. Our employees have a combined experience of over twenty four (24) years in telecommunications implementations, Internet web site development, Networking and IT industries, Mobile Device Security. The companies we have worked for can attest to high quality of work and diligence in execution. In most of our contracts in these areas, we have performed flawlessly in designing sustainable, maintainable systems. Some of the companies we have done this kind of Integration work include but are not limited to the companies listed bellow:

COMPLETED PROJECT:
¨ Project Relatedness: This project is to design and implement Internet web based data entry system for EternalHCS Corporation. This system will be used by caregivers input qualifications of the clients chart using direct radio link to the server computer. This system is designed to be secure because it contains confidential patient profile. The host database is MySQL.
¨ Company: EternalHCS Corporation
¨ Address: 7457 Harwin #118
¨ City: Houston, TX 77036
¨ Phone: 713-783-8507
¨ Fax: 713-783-8514
¨ Contact: Fred Okuns
¨ Project is completed on time
¨ Dollar Amount of This Project is $880,000.00

COMPLETED PROJECT:
¨ Company: Humane Healthcare
¨ Address: 8449 W. Bellfort, Suit 245
¨ City/State/Zip: Houston, TX 77071
¨ Contact: Davis Okpamen
¨ Phone: 713-541-1311
¨ Fax: 713-541-2144
¨ Supply of sanitry aids by IDS Ventures Corporation:
¨ Web Site: www.humanehealth.com
¨ Project was completed on time on March 15, 2001
¨ Dollar Amount of This Project is $16,500.00

COMPLETED PROJECT:
¨ Jubilee Group Corporation
¨ 7007 Puerta Vista lane
¨ Houston, TX 77083
¨ Contact: Chris Ulasi
¨ Phone: 713-541-5599
¨ Fax: 713-610-9383
¨ Dollar Amount of This Project is $1,119,500.00

COMPLETED PROJECT:
¨ Mobitel Telecommunications Nig. Ltd.
¨ 7007 Garborone Road
¨ Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria
¨ Contact: Jen Hanson
¨ Phone: 01-541-4450
¨ Fax: 01-610-9934
¨ Dollar Amount of This Project is $21,619,500.00

ONGOING  PROJECT:
¨ NetVisa GSMSecured Nig. Ltd.
¨ 4 Pakalay Close off Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse, Abuja Nigeria
¨ Contact: Prince Uchendu
¨ Phone: 234-0803-330-2907
¨ Dollar Amount of This Project is $5,500,500.00

 

PRINCIPALS OF IDS VENTURES CORPORATION
IDS Ventures Corporation has a global reach in its ventures. Its principal officials have diverse ethinic & cultural backgrounds. This has served as a propriatory advantage to IDS Ventures Corporation. It has enabled us to establish business roots and gained trust in areas of the world that are usually unreceptive to non-indigenes.  We also have an operating office in London-United Kingdom and Johannesburg-South Africa. We have alliances with trusted businesses in several African countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Chad.

 

                                                                                                President/CEO
Williams Westbrooks
Has a Bachelors of Science degree in computer engineering design, from University of Houston and MBA – Telecom from University of Dallas, worked with SBC southwestern bell Telephone Company of Texas in areas of carrier systems and Dsl. Ranging from DS1, DS3, SONET, Frame Relay, Fractional T1, ATM, ADSL and a host of other networking implementations. Mr. Westbrooks has received 14 advanced certificates in myriad areas of analog and digital telecommunication provisioning, testing and maintenance from SBC’s Advanced Education Center in Las Colinas, Dallas, Texas. Williams Westbrooks, although a United States citizen has lived and worked in Nigeria, South Africa and Saudi Arabia. He is very familiar with the requirements of the most local markets around the world and their unique political atmosphere. Willaims Westbrooks has been very instrumental in engineering and implementing wire line, wireless and paging systems worth over one hundred and fifteen million US dollars ($150,000,000.00), for three African based Independent telecommunications providers. Mr. Westbrooks has recently secured an exclusive agreement with Zion Telecom Nigeria Limited, to provide limited administration, technical support and total telecommunications system integration to position Zion Telecom as a viable competitor in the currently Nigeria’s deregulated telecom industry.

 

 

Vice president/ED - Phillip Crowe
is Executive Sales Directo, Emerging Markets. He was appointed to the position in June 2006. Before being named Executive Dirctor, Mr. Crowe served as chief operating officer and was responsible for all wireless and wireline operations of AT&A. He was named COO for SBC Communications Inc. in April 2004 and continued as COO after the acquisitions of AT&T Corp. in November 2005.. Prior to becoming COO, Mr. Crowe held a variety of high-level finance and marketing positions with Excell Communications, AT&T or its subsidiaries since 1996, including chief financial officer. He first joined AT&T through its subsidiary, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, in 1982. He has been a director of AT&T since June 2005. Mr. Stephenson is a director of Emerson Electric Co.

 

Assistant Vice President/ Nigerian operations
Alan Wilson
Has a Masters of Science degree in civil engineering and currently resides in Viena Austria. He has administered several installation projects for telecommunications microwave antenna installations for the main telecom company in Austria, Telekom Austria. He also studied Architecture at the University of Houston and Town Planning at the Miami Dade University. He has a knack for selecting highly technical and competed workers in the telecommunications industry. That is why IDS Ventures Corporation is trusted in Austria's telecommunications management and provisioning.

 

Network project Director
Cornell Phillips
Has a Bachelors degree from the University of Houston. Has worked with BMC software as a systems analyst and later with Compaq computers as network integrator. Since he joined IDS Ventures Corporation in 1996, he has helped trained our work force in Pretoria on some of the new telecommunications systems we are implementing in South Africa., such as the Airspan’s AS4000 Wireless Fixed Access system.

 

Operations Director – United Kingdom
Cara Griffiths
(Primary Focus: Wireless Local Loop – Telecom, E-Commerce & Software) General Manager, General Electric Computer Services; Marketing Manager, General Electric Information Services; Marketing Manager, General Electric Medical Systems; BA, Michigan State University; MBA, Harvard University. "What I sought in IDS Ventures Corporation was the opportunity to work on getting businesses off the ground, not just optimizing them. My 15 years’ experience in finance, marketing, and general management at General Electric has turned out to be a great background for venture capital ‘company building.’ The most satisfying work for me comes after we invest. I strive for a special relationship with CEOs - characterized by easy, frequent communication about issues ranging from team building to customer opportunities to strategy."

Network Project Director

Eric Brandon

 is responsible for the technical direction and development of Meraki. Eric was most recently a Ph.D. student in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at MIT, where he co-led the research project that later became Meraki. Eric holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an S.M. degree in Computer Science from MIT.

 

 

Vice President/ Nigerian operations

Katrina Cavello

Has a Masters of Science degree in IT operations and currently. She has administered several installation projects for telecommunications microwave antenna installations for the main telecom company in Nigeria, NITEL. She also studied Architecture at the University of Houston and Town planning at the Miami Dade University. She has a knack for selecting highly technical and competent workers in the telecommunications industry. That is why IDS Ventures Corporation is trusted in Nigeria telecommunications management and provisioning.

 

 


TECHNICAL UNDERSTANDING
The projects, for which IDS ventures undertakes (IDSV eSolution) and thus is presenting this capability statement, represents the core business area of IDS Ventures Corporation and as such has been our main stay for more than eleven years. IDS ventures have done numerous projects in the area of Telecom integration and management for start up service providers in USA and other western countries as well as developing nations such as Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana.

Telecommunications Ventures:
IDS ventures have established substantial footprint in the promotional and implementation of wireless telecommunication in the African Continent. Our completed and scheduled projects in Nigeria demonstrate our capabilities in delivering complete support for independent telecom providers, especially in developing nations compounded by their unique circumstances. We know the environment, the people, the culture and the politics of these developing countries as well as the developed nations, within this unique dichotomy lays our strength & success.

Web Site Design & Maintenance Services:
IDS ventures have established Internet presence for many small businesses and large corporations including government entities. Some of our customers include McHenry Mechanical Inc. and GoldHCS Corporation. We take pride in the quality of the work we have done for these corporations and others. We can implement any Internet presence development requirement because our technical staff has tackled several difficult projects in the past, such as using artificial intelligence over the Internet; to develop a system that intelligently selects a healthcare plan for its users based on their unique user profile. We have developed Internet electronic commerce for the Houston Independent School District. We have integrated the WEB with touch screen technology to provide solutions for Internet café applications and touch screen Internet Kiosks. Ted Chukelu, our Information Technologies project coordinator holds a BS degree in computer engineering and computer science and have over eight years experience in web development and Information Technologies. IDS ventures - IT sections have been committed to the latest technologies in the web design we use DHTML, CGI, JAVA, HTML 4 and ODBC to solve our clients' e-commerce problems. Our web pages can be augmented with sound and video to get the message across. We provide redundant servers for the web site and use bandwidth on demand fractional T1 links to connect the server to the Internet. When IDS ventures complete its installation of a web site for a client that marks the end of the beginning of our relationship with that client. We provide maintenance services to our clients; a service that remains unsurpassed in the industry.

How do we help our clients in their web site development?
¨ The client indicates a need for the web site or if we discover a need for a web site for the client, we will consult with the client to discuss the need. At the consultation, the basic need scope will be defined and described to include implementation timeline and start of service date.
¨ Our experienced design staff will go to work on the project, collecting all the needed information and documentation that will be needed for the design of the web site content.
¨ The client is presented with a preliminary design, if approved by the client; the phase two of the project implementation begins.
¨ The web site will be designed per specifications and meeting the deadline for start of service. We are very confident in our delivery quality and time that will are willing to pay the client an agreed amount of money for any day the project is late in delivery or completion. Only few companies can make this offer.
¨ After the web design project is completed and delivered to the customer. We keep in contact with the client as to their assessment of the site.
¨ We offer maintenance services to the client, if client signs up for our maintenance, we will assign a satisfaction staff to that client, who will serve as the single point of contact for the customer. This is designed to provide quality and customized service maintenance to the customer.

IDS ventures provide services both on site and remotely, we have the resources to mobilize our staff to work anywhere they are needed. We also have experience in internationally located project sites. We provide web site solutions for our clients when they want it, where they want and most importantly, how they want it. IDS ventures treat small project with the same diligence it accords larger projects because we think in term of people and services, not just projects! The experience and dexterity of our staff, which includes two graphic designers, four computer scientists, two computer engineers and several audio and visual technicians, can measure the quality of our web design products. Who are well equipped to collect the information content of the web pages that will reside on the web sites we develop.


QUALITY CONTROL
IDS ventures rate quality control to be one of the main objectives when implementing any project. When a project is initiated, a QCG is formed for that project. The quality control group for the project includes the project coordinator, a service technician and two or more related branch technicians as determined by the size of the project. At every phase of the project, the QCG will document and file a quality report of the project and how well the project is meeting its start of service deadline. Since IDS ventures perform 100% of its telecommunications installation, integration and training with in-house staff, we do not implement a quality control for subcontractors. If the need arises such that IDS ventures would resort to the subcontractor services, then a quality control policy will be implemented as needed.

At IDS ventures, our leadership philosophy is rooted in teamwork. Every staff and service technician at IDS ventures must belong to a project group. We do this to ensure that no project is totally controlled by one individual to prevent such a project from halting when that individual becomes unavailable for any reason. Our leadership by example approach has made our company a quality yardstick with which other companies in our industry are measured.

As part of our quality assurance policies, we always keep in contact with our clients as the project progresses and informs the client when important milestones on the project have been attained. After the project is completed, we still keep in contact with the customer to insure that the products meet their satisfaction and expectations.

For all installations & Maintenance, IDS ventures is committed to providing the best service assurance guarantee in the industry. If our solution does not meet your specifications and expectations you will be compensated and the client does not have to pay. We have several costs saving procedures in place to provide our clients quality solutions at very competitive prices. Our staff attends seminars of industry leaders on telecommunication, HTML and Web Site development to update their skills. The development & implementation conflict resolution unit oversees the resolution of any conflict arising from a project in relation to any of our clients. Our dynamic staff base and our potential labor and professional recruiting resources make it easy for IDS ventures to handle several projects for several clients at different locations all at the same time. Our organization has an Internet based electronic management interface to coordinate all the ongoing projects and communicate with project managers and other associates.

New Expansion Projects:
IDS has ventured into UK, Egypt and Nigeria in the areas of total ISP, ITSP and telephony provision. We currently operate a couple of large Internet café outfits in Lagos Nigeria.

We are projecting a continuous expansion of the cyber café business to major cities of Nigeria. We currently seek a strategic partner for our telephony and Mobile Device Security ventures in Nigeria and other African countries.