Josh Broder

Senior Consultant

Present Position

Construction Change Partners, Senior Consultant
2010 – Present

Currently serving as a Senior Consultant for Construction Change Partners, and as the President of the Maine Fiber Company, Inc, which is building a 1,100 mile stimulus funded fiber optic network in Maine.

Work Experience

Construction Change Partners, General Manager
Maine Fiber Company, Inc, President
2009 – 2010

Served as the General Manager of Construction Change Partners, a construction IT consulting company headquartered in Portland, Maine with a national practice. Consulted for construction companies nationally, with a focus on outsourcing, infrastructure, and remote connectivity.

Tilson Technology Managemet, General Manager, Senior Consultant
2006 – 2009

Managed a multi-industry IT consulting company with a national and international practice in core system implementation, information security, and IT project management.

Signal Corps, US Army Captain, Executive Officer, Platoon Leader, Operations Officer
2002 – 2006

• 2005-2006 Served as Operations Officer in charge of the US communications network (the telecom provider/ISP) in Central Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan):
  • Directed the efforts 300 military, government civilian, and contract technicians
  • In charge of the satellite, microwave, and fiber optic communications network supporting US and NATO Combat Forces and other US Government agencies (CIA, FBI, USAID) at 36 remote airfields and forward operating bases
  • Engineered the communications support for US humanitarian response to the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and first UN monitored parliamentary elections in Afghanistan
  • Coordinated communications links between Central Asia and Germany, Italy, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United States
  • Awarded Bronze Star for Afghanistan tour
• 2004-2005 Platoon Leader (director) for 10 mobile data centers, with missions in support of US Forces and NATO in Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, and former Soviet Republics
  
  • Supervised 54 soldiers and was responsible for $25 million in equipment
    
  • Planned and executed a modernization, procurement, and implementation plan for 10 mobile data centers
    
• 2002-2003 Executive Officer (chief operating office) for a 163 soldier tactical communications unit
  
  • Responsible for overseeing a maintenance program for 63 wheeled vehicles, communications assemblages, and power generation systems
    
  • Planned and coordinated a successful round-trip of 30 soldiers and associated trucks, satellite systems, and data center equipment between Mannheim, Germany and Marden, Turkey during Operation Iraqi Freedom
    
  • Responsible for the base community dining facility in Germany with 500 American and German customers served daily
    
• 2001 Intern, US Joint Office of Spectrum Management, Washington, D.C
  
  • Worked on national telecommunications spectrum management policy
    
  • Led a project to rationalize the department's INMARSAT satellite user registration system

Education

Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, graduated 2001

• B.A. degree (Cum Laude) in History
• 1999 Spanish Language Summer Immersion Program (7 weeks)
• University of Vermont Military Science Program, Distinguished Military Graduate

Maine Development Foundation's Leadership Maine Omicron Class (2007-2008)

Signal Officer's Basic Course, Fort Gordon, GA (2002)

• 16-week digital communication and leadership school
  

Telecom Engineering Training

• 8-week 5th Signal Command Data University (Mannheim, Germany, 2003)
• 3-week REDCOM Laboratories Internet Gateway Exchange Engineering class (Victory, NY, 2004)
• 3-week Department of Defense Information Assurance, Computer Network Defense course, (Mannheim, Germany, 2003)