Ginger McClendon

Ginger McClendon is AURA’s Senior Vice President (SVP) of Software and Infrastructure, responsible for product development, spectrum management, core network and IP services, as well as systems and quality engineering. A seasoned strategist in wireless networking and ecosystem development, she manages AURA’s people, process, technology framework to deliver business outcomes focusing on quality, reliability, and time-to-market.

Her tenure includes her advisory role at Contino, providing premium consulting services to Fortune 500 clients in the technical and financial services sectors. She drove delivery of site reliability engineering (SRE) and development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) for cloud, as well as data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning capabilities. She specialized in transformation to future-state initiatives, yielding positive return on investment metrics and meeting critical revenue and efficiency objectives.

Ginger also served as Vice President of Engineering for Somos, developing new products and services while leading an expansive transformation effort of legacy infrastructure, applications, and policy – establishing Agile methodology and processes resulting in significant cost reduction and time-to-market improvement.

Her previous wireless industry experience includes several senior roles in technology innovation and architecture, strategy, planning, and development. She is recognized for introducing novel approaches to voice and multimedia, business intelligence/analytics, and transport and backhaul services for next-generation enterprise-wide network management.

Ginger holds a master’s degree in technology management from George Mason University and undergraduate degrees in business management and psychology. She also holds a variety of patents in wireless networking and IP transport.