EXECUTIVE PROFILEJody R. Call, Chief Technology Officer
Jody R. Call oversees the organisation’s operations while aligning
its strategic vision with the customers’ growing and ever-evolving
technological needs. Bleeding edge deployments, calculated risks,
and industry disruptions in rural communications are a normal
day’s work in this role, which requires a growth mindset and the
willingness to adapt and change direction with short notice. Call
was hired in 2006 as a systems engineer to manage
the company’s IPTV roll out. Later that year, he took on the task
to design, engineer, and deploy the network topology for the eight-
year, $44+ million, fiber-to-the-home project effectively migrating
all of Wilkes Communications’ 9,000+ legacy copper / DSL
subscribers to an all-active, Gigabit, fiber network; one of the first
companies in the United States to do so. During his combined 23+
year career he has simultaneously taught several years at the
collegiate and post-secondary level specialising in course
concentrations including: networking, cyber security, hardware
and software systems concepts, network operating systems, and
general IT concepts. Call holds an A.A.S in Electronics
Engineering, a B.S. in Human Services, and a M.A. Ed. in
Instructional Technology: Information Systems. He has
completed post-graduate work in wireless technologies
and network engineering and has held or currently holds
industry-relevant certifications from Cisco, ITILv3,
Apple, Dell, and CompTIA. Call resides in
his hometown of Wilkesboro in rural North
Carolina, with his wife, daughter, son,
five cats, and 10 dogs.
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