Michael Lamar

In his role as Business Development Manager, Barry Navarre is responsible for generating, evaluating, negotiating, and fostering strategic relationships and bi-lateral contract agreements in the delivery of telecommunications and information-based services for Southern Telecom.

Navarre brings a wealth of telecom management experience to the Southern Telecom team. Before joining Southern Telecom, Navarre managed strategic carrier relationships with national and regional carriers, CLECs, ILECs, ISPs and third party integrators. He is experienced in evaluating customer communications needs and developing custom fiber-optic solutions for them. Navarre also has consulted on fiber-optic WAN, VoIP, Internet access, metro Ethernet, video conferencing and data storage solutions. His telecom experience broad, ranging from field testing of network trunks to technical sales support to development of transport networks and network migrations.

Navarre holds an MBA from The University of Alabama and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Southern Mississippi. He also served in the U.S. Airforce. He resides in Chelsea, Alabama with his wife Angie, son Jackson, and daughter Brooklyn.