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Clayton Branch

Florence,MS

Summary

Technology and telecommunications leader possessing 12 years of leadership experience and abilities in all areas of network operations for outside plant, distribution fiber deployment, wireless network operations, broadband network deployment, and network development. Strong leadership in program management and a proven history of leading and growing diverse high-performance teams.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

DIRECTOR OUTSIDE PLANT DEPLOYMENT & NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

C SPIRE
Ridgeland, Mississippi
01.2019 - Current
  • Lead all underground fiber engineering, construction, splicing, and turnup of distribution and metro fiber assets for Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee markets
  • Manage over ninety construction projects simultaneously across multiple city and county jurisdictions
  • Manage and oversee all quality and damage related instances through a damage management system
  • Consistently deploy over 100,000 feet of fiber assets per week

DIRECTOR NETWORK OPERATIONS & APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

C SPIRE
Ridgeland, Mississippi
01.2017 - 12.2018
  • Managed all Network Operations including the 24/7 Network Operations Center, Change Management, Outage Management, and long-term network enhancement operations
  • Network Management included all Wireless network components, Broadband network components, VoIP core components, and GPON residential network components
  • Led all network application development deployments for tools and automation

SENIOR MANAGER NETWORK OPERATIONS

C SPIRE
Ridgeland, Mississippi
10.2007 - 01.2017
  • Managed all Network Operations including the 24/7 Network Operations Center, Change Management, Outage Management, and long-term network enhancement operations
  • Network Management included all Wireless network components, Broadband network components, VoIP core components, and GPON residential network components

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - MANAGEMENT IN LEADERSHIP

BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
12.2021

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Team building
  • Process Efficiencies
  • Broadband MPLS/GPON
  • Underground Fiber Deployment
  • Network Operations

Accomplishments

  • C Spire Employee of the Year - 2017

Timeline

DIRECTOR OUTSIDE PLANT DEPLOYMENT & NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

C SPIRE
01.2019 - Current

DIRECTOR NETWORK OPERATIONS & APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

C SPIRE
01.2017 - 12.2018

SENIOR MANAGER NETWORK OPERATIONS

C SPIRE
10.2007 - 01.2017

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - MANAGEMENT IN LEADERSHIP

BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY

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