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Tahir Hussain
 
Tahir

Tahir founded Fusion Solutions in 2002 to serve the specialized technical staffing and consulting needs of large telecom companies. Under his leadership the company has experienced unprecedented growth on a national level. Today Fusion Solutions employs 200 people, has a list of top global telecom companies as customers that have been with the company more than three years and is ranked as the 5th fastest growing company in America in the 2007 Inc. magazine Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies

Prior to founding Fusion Solutions, Tahir served in a number of technical and management positions with Ericsson. For eight years he focused on wireless products and led a number of new development projects. He also served as interim Chief Technology Officer of an internal new technology venture. Tahir was selected by Ericsson’s leadership for an award as an inventor of “wireless storage network”. He also holds 14 patents in wireless technologies, is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and he is a U.S. citizen.

 
Vic Velevis
 
Tahir


Vic leads all new business and market development initiatives. He has more than 20 years of experience leading sales organizations in technology and staffing companies. Vic brings a wealth of business development understanding, performance metrics and client service optimization to Fusion Solutions.

Prior to joining Fusion Solutions, Vic served at Director and Vice President levels at Hudson, a global technology staffing firm, where he led the North American telecom staffing business. Before Hudson, Vic was a Regional Vice President at SCB Computer Technology (now part of Ciber). Earlier in his career, Vic served in sales and regional management positions at a division of Schlumberger.

Vic is a graduate of Loyola College in Maryland where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting. He is a former officer with the US Army where he served as a tank platoon leader.

 
John Manukian
 
Tahir


John leads all recruiting initiates for Fusion Solutions, including strategic staffing initiatives, talent acquisition, delivery and quality process and team building. He has 21 years experience in the staffing and consulting services industry. John has an extensive background in developing recruiting processes and programs that optimize the qualification, deployment and productivity of personnel.

Prior to Fusion Solutions, John managed several national recruiting and outsourcing engagements with Fortune 500 companies that included: Fidelity Investments, IBM, Greyhound Van Lines, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and Ericsson.

John has led a number of large scale recruiting initiatives that required special expertise and had unique deployment requirements. These included recruiting 50 engineers in a short period of time for near-immediate deployment to the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. for a large scale fiber optic installation. In addition, he has managed the rapid recruitment of a large number of technical consultants for a leading U.S. railroad company to convert two million lines of code under some very tight deadlines.

John is a graduate of Fresno State University in California where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
 
Kelly Smoot
 
Tahir


Kelly serves as Strategic Account Manager for the telecom practice. She possesses more than 15 years experience in managing a wide range of technology projects and project management teams.

Prior to Fusion Solutions, she was a project manager with Ericsson for 10 years. She has led a number of telecom, engineering, software development and testing projects. Her experience included switch deployments, systems integration, and pre-paid subscriber programs.

Kelly earned a bachelors degree from Auburn University and a MBA from Troy University.
 
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