Name: Joanne "Nonie" Toledo
Age: 40
Position: Regional vice president, Sprint Hawaii
First job: Sales clerk at Ben Franklin store in Kailua
Favorite pastime: Time with daughter

Connecting Sprint's
telecom services

Joanne Toledo is developing the infrastructure to support Sprint Hawaii's "one-stop-shopping" with local phone, Internet, paging and wireless services.

By putting all billings on one invoice, consumers can leverage discounts, she said. The program begins early next year.

"Sprint is positioning itself to be the vendor of choice for all of the telecommunications needs," Toledo said.

She had been Sprint Hawaii's regional director of sales and marketing. Toledo joined Sprint Hawaii, formerly known as Long Distance/USA-Sprint, in 1993. Before returning to Hawaii, she worked for Sprint Corp. in San Francisco as national account manager for the west. She also worked for computer company Array Technologies and Xerox Corp. in San Francisco.

She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Hawaii.

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By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin