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Snavely King Majoros
O’Connor & Bedell, Inc.
Senior Consultant (1971
to Present)
Since joining Snavely, King & Associates in
1971, Mr. Gildea has directed or participated in approximately 475
consulting assignments requiring economic or engineering analyses of
business problems. Most of this work has involved matters being litigated
before regulatory commissions and courts. His work has encompassed a wide
variety of industries, with concentration on the telecommunications,
electric and natural gas, and broadcast fields.
Mr. Gildea has testified as an expert
witness in about seventy cases before the Federal Communications
Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the General Services
Administration Board of Contract Appeals, and the regulatory commissions
in twenty states. His testimony has concerned income and expenses, rate
of return, rate design, costing methodology, market forecasts, and
ratemaking principles employed by regulated firms.
Mr. Gildea has recently served as the
project manager on two major studies to assist the Federal Government’s
telecommunications procurement. He directed analyses of local tariffed
services and rates as part of the 40-state Federal Aggregated Systems
Procurement (ASP) program and analyses of the prices of services under
Federal Government’s FTS2000 long-distance telecommunications system.
Mr. Gildea has worked extensively with
counsel in several major antitrust cases which were settled before trial.
He has also participated in cases involving protests of awards made by the
Federal Government in major competitive procurements.
Independent Consultant,
Washington, DC (1969-1971)
Mr. Gildea was a consultant in economic
development and communications economics. During part of this period, he
was employed by the Economic and Development Administration of the U.S.
Department of Commerce to evaluate the economic impact of a variety of
federal loan, public works and technical assistance programs in the United
States.
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Peat, Marwick, Livingston &
Co.,
Washington, DC, New York, and Cambridge, MA (1962-1969)
Mr. Gildea entered
the consulting field in 1962, when he joined Management Systems
Corporation, a consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After this
firm was acquired by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Mr. Gildea moved to
progressively more responsible positions in the New York and Washington
offices.
After 1966, Mr. Gildea was responsible for
the operations research consulting activity in the southeastern region.
As a Manager with the firm, he had technical and cost responsibility for
more than 100 consulting assignments for industrial firms, commercial
institutions, and government agencies.
Sylvania Electric Products,
Waltham, MA
Research Engineer (1958-1962)
Mr. Gildea was a research engineer in
defense systems analysis. He participated in projects involving
mathematical analysis of the "signatures" of radar reflections from
targets to determine their physical characteristics, as well as the design
of digital radar and communications systems.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S.
in
Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.
in Electrical Engineering
At M.I.T., Mr. Gildea worked on the student
cooperative program for Philco Corporation in Philadelphia, Pa. on
assignments involving solid state physics research, development of color
television and transistor production assembly processes. His graduate
thesis, which was at that time original research on the electrical
properties of single crystals, was published by the Office of Naval
Research.
Professional Affiliations
and Publications
Mr.
Gildea is a member of the Operations Research Society of America. He has
published articles in various technical journals on engineering and market
research topics.
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