• Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado Boulder,

  • Computer Science Department (2020 - current)

  • Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy Program (2019)

  • Interdisciplinary Telecom Program (2012 - 2018)

• Faculty Director, Interdisciplinary Telecom Program (ITP), University of Colorado Boulder (2014 - 2018)

From 2014-2018, ITP was successful program consisting of 100 - 200 master’s and Ph.D. graduate students, 6 full-time and 10 adjunct faculty, as well as 4 administrative staff. He led a major curriculum redesign creating four new education tracks focused on Network Engineering, Network Security, Wireless Networking, and Telecom Policy and Strategy, along with new Telecom Lab, Security Lab and Wireless Lab facilities to support hands-on courses in each track.

• Senior Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at CU Law School (2012 - 2016, 2019 - 2021)

• Associate Faculty Director, Interdisciplinary Telecom Program, University of Colorado Boulder (2012 – 2014)

Dr. Reed is a subject matter expert on broadband and telecommunications networks available for consulting opportunities as board member, senior advisor role, technical or research report author, compliance officer, expert witness, or strategic planning advisor on broadband technologies and business models. Dr. Reed provides litigation, technology, and business strategy consulting services for firms and government agencies in information technology sector. A sample of Consulting Experiences include:

• • Senior Advisor, Relocation Payment Clearinghouse (RPC) that was selected by the Federal Communications Commission to establish and operate the C-Band RPC, which performs key functions in FCC relocation plan to clear spectrum used by Satellite Service Operators for 5G (2020 – present).

  • Member of the Regional Digital Divide Task Force of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) advising on strategies to develop and deploy regional broadband infrastructure to close the digital divide in order to achieve long-term community benefits (2021 - present)

  • e-Conomics, subject matter expert on DOCSIS costs and cable network technology for team conducting independent assessment of regulatory proposal of wholesale broadband tariffs for cable networks (2019).

  • EUCI, lead instructor for educational symposium on “Broadband Deployment Essentials for Electric Cooperatives and Municipal Utilities”, Colorado (2019-2020).

  • Workshop Educator, “Broadband 101”, MountainConnect Broadband Development Conference, Colorado, (2015-present).

  • FTI Consulting, subject matter expert on cable network technology, economics, and policy for major litigation case brought by a state Attorney General on broadband service speeds (2017-2018).

  • Authored technical report entitled “Technical Analysis of the FCC NPRM on Navigation Devices”, Reply Comments of Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal Media LLC, In the Matter of Expanding Consumers’ Video Navigation Choices, MB Docket No. 16-42, May 23, 2016.

  • Subject matter expert on cable network technology, economics, and policy for major litigation case on capacity of local access networks to carry video services (2015).

  • TEM Consulting, member of LTE-DTV interference project for FCC filing “Field Study and Technical Analysis of the Potential for Interference from LTE UE Operating in the 700 MHz A Block to Reception of DTV Channel 51, WPWR-TV”, (2015).

• Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (2004 – 2012)

• Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (2000 – 2004)

• Vice President, Strategic Assessment Department, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (1994 – 2000)

Served as an executive leader of key cable industry R&D initiatives covering a wide range of activities and technologies. Led industry forums on strategies for cable operators to develop strategies for business services, bandwidth management, wireless, backbone networks, and business-to-business commerce. Specific project management responsibilities included:

• • DOCSIS and other Advanced Network Technologies: Executing industry development plans for next generation broadband access network technologies for DOCSIS and DOCSIS over EPON.

  • tru2way and Enhanced Television: Continued development of key application platforms for the Cable industry to deliver interactive video applications in open software environments.

  • Digital Video: strategic assessment of business implications posed by the emergence and capabilities of Internet video technologies and consumer devices.

  • Business Services: Program to develop common technologies for cable entry into business service markets such as Ethernet Data, PBX Trunking of Voice, and SIP interconnection.

  • Public Key Infrastructure: Established security initiative that has issued over 100-million software security certificates in cable devices worldwide.

  • VoIP Peering: Created an industry registry of cable telephone numbers to assist establishment on on-net calls based on IETF standards.

  • PacketCable: Led fast-track development project (1996-1998) to deliver VoIP over cable networks

  • Go2Broadband: Led software project in 1999 – 2003 building an online sales lead generator for U.S. cable companies that forwarded millions of sales leads every year.

Successfully established and led the Strategic Assessment Department to incubate new projects and conduct strategic assessments on topics including:

• • Technology, Economics and Deployment Strategies over Cable Systems of Digital Video Platforms, High-Speed Data Services, Internet Video, Switched Broadcast Video, and Wireless

  • Competitive Assessments of New Technologies Deployed by Telephone Companies, Wireless Service Providers, and Broadband Application Providers

  • Trends in Broadband Consumption and Bandwidth Management

  • Engineering-Economic Assessments of Two-Way Cable Networks, Home Networking Technologies and Caching (Network versus Local DVRs)

Moderated and managed “Innovation Showcase” at CableLabs conferences highlighting over 100 new innovations developed for the cable industry through the time period of 2007-2012.

• Telecommunications Policy Analyst, Office of Plans and Policy, Federal Communications Commission, (1991 - 1994)

Researched emerging telecom policy issues, technical and economic review of policy items, and wrote sections of policy items.

• Research identified economic benefits of Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) networks relative to other optical network architectures in residential areas.

• Member of senior team that designed Personal Communications Services (PCS) spectrum band plan, technical standards, and auction format.