Matthew Wingert

Mr. Wingert is an experienced telecommunications leader with a comprehensive background in project management and FTTx design, FTTx construction, and gathering FTTx GIS as-built data. He completed a telecommunications course at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College (Rice Lake, WI) in 2001. He also completed the CompTIA certification for Professional Network+ from Southwest WI Technical College in 2003. During his 20-year telecommunications experience, he had ISP & OSP technical roles, OSP engineering positions, and OSP management of engineering and construction teams. He has designed and managed several FTTx projects with different topologies and design methods consisting of active ethernet, GPON, and RFoG resulting in millions of capital investments each year.

From 1999 to 2016, Mr. Wingert held several technical and management positions at TDS Telecom headquartered in Madison WI. TDS Telecom delivers high-speed internet, TV entertainment, and phone services to nearly 900 rural, suburban, and metropolitan communities across the U.S. With more than 1.2 million connections.