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D. Scott Bradshaw

Pensacola,Florida

Summary

Innovative and customer driven leader who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success. Strong work force development, technical and business qualifications with an impressive track record in strategic planning, budget management, business unit development, project/product management and system strategies. Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization’s critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenue, and improving customer service offerings through continuous development of personnel mentoring and operational tactics.

Overview

45
45
years of professional experience

Work History

President/Chief Operating Officer

Unitel LLC
01.2025 - Current
  • Identify and evaluate assets, capital deployment and client opportunities, prioritizing high-return initiatives using state of the art technology and efficient, cost saving operational techniques to position the company for sustained growth in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

Vice President Operations

ITG Communications
01.2019 - 01.2025
  • Managing 3 Directors and 18 Managers over five states in Engineering, Walkout, Disaster Response and Construction to include business development and budget forecast and management for over 15 clients

Director, Field Operations

Cox Communications
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Led 6 managers, 22 supervisors and over 350 assigned technicians across the Florida/Georgia markets with oversight of field installation and services, drop bury construction, vendor management and plant maintenance
  • Southeast

Regional Director, Outside Plant Operations

Cox Communications
01.2011 - 01.2018
  • Steward of performance leadership with 6 managers and 188 personnel assigned to approximately 20,000 miles of Hybrid Fiber Coaxial and fiber plant for outside plant maintenance and construction in the Southeast Region
  • Southeast

Network Maintenance Manager

Cox Communications
01.2008 - 01.2010
  • Responsibilities include 4000 Hybrid Fiber Coaxial plant miles, 870 centralized power supplies, 618 fiber nodes, FCC network proofs, construction, outages, restoration providing 24x7/265 day coverage to residential and commercial customers
  • Omaha NE

Network Assurance Manager

Cox Communications
01.2002 - 01.2008
  • Responsible for the critical day-to-day operation of the Network Assurance Department, which included the Network System Operation Center (NOC), Maintenance Dispatch, Business Continuity, Locate Coordination, Damage Investigation, Telephone Operations, Quality Assurance and Network Analysis
  • Omaha NE

RETIRED

US Air Force
01.1982 - 01.2002
  • Pentagon, Washington DC

Education

BS - Management of Information Systems

National Louis University
12-2000

AA - Information Resources

Community College of the Air Force
05-1993

Skills

  • Leadership team building
  • Organizational leadership
  • Strategic planning
  • Operational excellence

Accomplishments

  • Directed the standardization of construction service processes across the Southeast region which included the development of a centralized Construction Support Services team, enhanced training for estimates by field teams which increased estimate accuracy from 11% to 1% to final cost
  • Advocated for and awarded the deployment of Fiber to the Home/Premise (FTTH) and small cell carrier deployment within the Southeast Region two years earlier than projected which enhanced performance and increases in those commercial and residential areas of opportunity for sales
  • Pursued and landed several major FTTH projects across multiple carriers across the nation and ensured the distribution of teams to include engineering, construction and fulfillment, for successful implementation of project to timelines
  • Spearheaded the design of a new Field Safety Council with enhanced field observations, stringent adherence to safety processes and post incident reviews which reduced reportable accidents by 70% in the first year
  • As the Disaster Recovery Operations Chief for Southeast Region, streamlined and optimized the preparation and recovery matrix to ensure expeditious and safe recovery on multiple disasters twice winning awards for those efforts
  • Successful led over 260 two-man disaster recovery teams during three hurricanes in 2024 across five states maximizing logistic and material management to ensure the safe and efficient return of plant services for four different national carriers
  • Redesigned network maintenance performance matrix and personnel utilization increasing productivity by 14%, reduced time to repair by 27% and cost by 17% and increased employee satisfaction score by 11% over previous years
  • Created Network Analysis team designed to utilize new technologies and business process enhancements to preventatively build ticketing and routing procedures to prioritize trending issues prior to customer degradation which was selected for deployment enterprise wide

Affiliations

2007 - Present Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE) member

2013 - 2015 President of Louisiana Chapter of SCTE

Timeline

President/Chief Operating Officer

Unitel LLC
01.2025 - Current

Vice President Operations

ITG Communications
01.2019 - 01.2025

Director, Field Operations

Cox Communications
01.2018 - 01.2019

Regional Director, Outside Plant Operations

Cox Communications
01.2011 - 01.2018

Network Maintenance Manager

Cox Communications
01.2008 - 01.2010

Network Assurance Manager

Cox Communications
01.2002 - 01.2008

RETIRED

US Air Force
01.1982 - 01.2002

AA - Information Resources

Community College of the Air Force

BS - Management of Information Systems

National Louis University
D. Scott Bradshaw