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 -
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.
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