Clayton M. Lockhart Profile


General Information


Name:	Clayton M. Lockhart
Company:	AT&T
Title:	Sr VP Local Service & Access Management
Profile:	Clayton Lockhart has been with AT&T for twenty-two years. He began his career at Bell Laboratories after receiving a Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin and a B. S. in Physics from Harvard University. After being promoted to Vice President, Architecture and Strategic Operations Planning in AT&T Labs in 2002, he assumed the role as Vice President for Global Network Planning and Development. Clayton was leading the team responsible for delivering global voice, packet and transport services for AT&T Business and Consumer. In July 2004, Clayton recently assumed responsibility as AT&T's Vice President, Local Services and Access Management, responsible for the unit cost and quality of the access services leased from local suppliers and utilized by both the Business and Consumer units. The scope of his new responsibilities includes management of access providers and their performance, network optimization planning, as well as regulatory initiatives. Clayton has also worked in the areas of voice and data network design, adaptive network simulation, distribution restoration protocols and network design, service development for Internet-related services and the Government market, ISDN and IP equipment interoperability testing, and network reliability planning. Clayton has published papers and given talks in the areas of survivable and robust network design methods, the impact of earthquakes on network call blocking, performance analysis through the use of simulation and difference equation techniques, and distributed restoration protocols and algorithms as applied to Sonet networks. He has also published papers on sonar beamforming, time operators and unstable systems in statistical mechanics, quantum measurement theory, and gravitation. His Ph. D. thesis is in the area of ergodic theory and time-ordering principles in chaotic quantum and classical systems. In between soccer and football weekends with the kids, Clayton enjoys playing the banjo, mandolin and piano.