Join us on March 17 via Zoom to hear this month's leader: Jerry Smith, the new Los Alamos County Broadband Manager. This new position was created last year by the County to direct, plan and oversee the research, development, design, implementation, construction, operation, and maintenance of a community broadband system. 

Jerry holds an a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Baylor University and a Project Management Professional Certificate from Project Management Institute has well as numerous other IT certifications. He was the IT director of a school district in the Dallas/Ft Worth, TX area for fifteen years, and worked four years as IT director for the nonprofit startup Glorieta Outdoor Adventure Camps. Most recently he was in the Broadband Group at New Mexico’s Public School Facilities Authority, where he collaborated with the IT directors of public school districts and charter schools across the state, working with them to upgrade their computer networks and on major fiber optic upgrade projects related to internet improvements.

He and his wife, a high school librarian for the Albuquerque Public Schools, have two grown children. Smith has been charged with improving broadband options for homes and businesses in Los Alamos County. He will discuss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at a time when funding from the national and state have never been so generous.   Information on how to join will be provided at a date that is closer to the event.  Send an email to lwal [at] lwvlosalamos.org to express interest in joining, if Zoom information is not already provided.