As a recognized expert in broadband analytics, mapping, and wireless engineering, Shawn oversees the data analytics and wireless siting teams of CTC Technology & Energy. He leverages his extensive knowledge and experience in advanced data analytics techniques, statistical modeling, graph theory, machine learning, and predictive analytics to develop tools and models. He leads the design and implementation of data-centric broadband strategies for state and local clients nationwide.

Drawing on more than two decades of experience in telecommunications and broadband planning, Shawn develops automated, data-driven solutions to support complex client projects and designs innovative networks and technology strategies.

Shawn leads the CTC teams that have developed analytical models and tools to enable the subgrantee selection processes for state clients’ Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Programs. These tools automate fiber and fixed wireless network designs, estimate costs, and predict funding requests for the statewide competitive grant processes. The models are helping state broadband offices evaluate applications in terms of cost, technology types, and numbers of unserved locations to be connected.

Under Shawn’s leadership, CTC’s data analytics team develops sophisticated analysis and tools to support our clients in complex decision-making. For example, Shawn led teams that developed a custom tool that enables more accurate estimation of fiber construction costs by using artificial intelligence to automate the detection of existing infrastructure; another application developed by Shawn’s team enables CTC’s outside plant (OSP) engineers to efficiently estimate make-ready costs for aerial fiber construction routes by streamlining data collection and analysis.

Shawn’s team also builds applications that enable clients to execute innovative public-facing programs. For example, to enable state broadband office clients to meet the requirements of the BEAD and Digital Equity Act programs, Shawn led the development of tools and client-facing dashboards to enable and manage statewide stakeholder outreach processes; the tools were used by state broadband offices to enable and track hundreds of public, industry, and local and tribal government sessions as part of the states’ BEAD planning processes.

As the Covid pandemic forced schools to close nationwide, Shawn and his team quickly developed the cloud-based database and other information systems necessary for the state of Alabama to launch and administer its $100 million statewide ABC for Students initiative, which provided free internet access to more than 200,000 students in low-income households.