Speaker: Mr. Fred Anochie, Cox Communications  

Speaker’s Title: Executive Director, Engineering

Seminar Title: From Engineering to Business Leader: An ECE Grad’s Journey               

Abstract of Talk:  What happens when you look forward to a career in engineering, but yearn to be involved in bringing your designs and products to market? What happens when you are excited about a career in engineering, but want to organize, manage, and lead teams? You feel too confined by doing solely design and development work and want to one day influence engineering and business strategy. Now that you are an engineer, you can become a business leader as well! This seminar aims to cover an ECE grad’s journey with these questions and struggles and to describe what it looks like to be at the intersection of business, product development, and engineering strategy.

Biographical Sketch of the Speaker:
Fred Anochie has been with Cox Communications for the past 12 years where he has held several leadership positions across Network Engineering, Operations, and Application Development. He is currently responsible for program delivery and deployment of Advanced Access technologies (FTTH, DOCSIS 3.1, Remote PHY, Full Duplex) across the entire enterprise. The combined programs represent a significant strategic investment over the next 5-10 years that will accomplish a generational network transformation and help future-proof the company’s broadband service offerings. 

Fred has over 20 years of professional experience in Telecommunications, Consulting, and IT. He has a demonstrated track record of successfully implementing complex large-scale, multi-year technology programs. 

He is a proud ECE graduate of Georgia Tech and readily credits the school with providing him the foundation to be successful in his early technical career and giving him a competitive advantage in his chosen field.