JEFF AMES
Chairman of the Board, CIF
Jeff is Chairman of the Board for the City Impact Foundation and volunteers as Director of Business Development and Technology while serving on several other non-profit organizations as well as consulting for emerging technology companies.
Retired as Chief Technical Officer of Switch Communications and is one of the original members of the premier data center and Network Access Point.
Jeff was Field Administrator for the pho-tonics research team, of Lawrence Liver more Labs and the Nevada Test Site using high-speed Electra-optic systems for the Department of Energy, he contributed to experiment planning with a team providing data acquisition and diagnostics for specialized weapons systems.
He worked in conjunction with the Small Business Administration supporting companies such as Motorola, DOE, DOT, US Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Forestry, and Lawrence Liver more Laboratory.
In 1993 he formed the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Nevada, helping establish some of the first high-bandwidth services to governmental and commercial organizations in the Southwest. He also served on the VAR advisory council for Netscape and assisted several ISP’s and web productions companies get started and grow.
Designed the City of North Las Vegas fiber plan, was manager of the broadband R&D Lab at a national CLEC, and helped build a statewide fiber network for the power company’s network services subsidiary.
Jeff is married and has lived in Las Vegas for over 30 years.
