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Christopher Skarica, ARRIS VP of strategic accounts for Canada, has been named the 2012 Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year by the SCTE Canada. The award honors outstanding technical achievements and contributions made to the advancement of the cable telecommunications … Continue reading
The SIP Forum announced the recent election of Vijey Jenkal, director of product development engineering at Comcast, to the SIP Forum board of directors. Additionally, the Forum membership re-elected Chairman Richard Shockey and Dr. Alan Johnston, distinguished engineer in Avaya‘s … Continue reading
According to this post on former Insight Communications CEO Michael Willner’s blog, Willner and a number of other senior Insight managers are leaving the company now that its takeover by Time Warner Cable is complete. Willner wrote that no immediate … Continue reading
Julian Brodsky, director emeritus of Comcast, has accepted a seat on the board of directors of the SCTE Foundation for the 2011-’12 term. Brodsky will be actively involved in developing the Foundation and its mission of driving education related to … Continue reading
Rafael Fernandez has joined Clearfield as its Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) Regional Sales Manager. Fernandez, who resides in Miami, FL, joins the company with the dedicated responsibility of building the company’s presence in the region. Clearfield currently has pilot … Continue reading
Comcast has promoted Cathy Avgiris to executive vice president and general manager of the MSO’s data and communications group. A nearly 20-year veteran of Comcast, Avgiris will lead all aspects of the company’s Xfinity Internet and Xfinity Voice services, including … Continue reading
Sencore announced that its President and CEO John Suranyi has been named a strategic adviser to the company. In his new role, Suranyi will transfer his day-to-day responsibilities, but will remain active on the Sencore board of directors. Thomas Stingley … Continue reading
thePlatform, a white-label video publishing company, has promoted Michael Horwitz, formerly vice president of engineering, to senior vice president of engineering. Horwitz will add development operations to his existing responsibilities for the company’s core product development, testing and deployment, and … Continue reading
SeaChange International has announced the departure of company President Yvette Kanouff. Kanouff served in a variety of roles at SeaChange since joining the company in 1997, including chief strategy officer and then president. The company has decided not to replace … Continue reading
Comcast has named Amy Lynch as the area vice president for Comcast California’s Southwest Bay Area. Lynch will be responsible for a team of approximately 600 employees, and will oversee all aspects of Comcast’s operations for Silicon Valley and the … Continue reading
Cheetah Technologies‘ Senior Vice President Jeremy Bennington has joined the board of directors of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. ATIS is a standards development and technical planning organization committed to developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the … Continue reading
BendBroadband has appointed Wade Holmes as vice president of technology. In his new position, Holmes’ focus will be accelerating growth from BendBroadband’s technology portfolio and expanding business for the company’s recently opened data center, the Vault, an Uptime Institute Tier … Continue reading
