Joe began his career in the telecommunications industry at an early age, teaching himself coding language to become the lead test and commissioning engineer for Sprint sites in New York City. He displayed this same curiosity and passion for telecom operations throughout his career, starting with working his way through the ranks at Level 3 Communications. As the Director of Operations, he was responsible for over 800 route miles of fiber network throughout New York City, Long Island and Connecticut, including 12 manned data center locations, over 200 POP sites and the Transatlantic Submarine Cable System that connects Bellport, Long Island to Bude, England. Since then, Joe has continued to expand his knowledge of telecommunications by holding director-and-above positions at various companies in the fields of data/IP engineering and architecture, circuit provisioning, deployment, the network operations center (NOC), facilities operations and colocation engineering.

Jumping to the MSO/cable industry, Joe managed both fiber and coax construction throughout Manhattan for Time Warner Cable/Charter Spectrum as well as the survey department across all five New York City boroughs. One of his proudest accomplishments has been heading Time Warner Cable’s first fiber to the home (FTTH) strategy in the New York City market from an engineering and deployment perspective. This included designing the FTTH architecture for deployment in the city’s second tallest skyscraper. Most recently Joe ran a Local25/Local3 IBEW construction company which specialized in low voltage, wireless and fiber optic construction. There he was responsible for building Verizon Wireless’ largest indoor DAS project to date, at the newly constructed UBS Arena on Long Island. Joe enjoys spending time with his three children, cooking and working on his pro touring ‘69 Camaro.