EXECUTIVE PROFILEJody R. Call, Chief Technology Officer
Jody R. Call oversees the organization’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 8-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 specializing 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 ten dogs.
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