In nearly two decades with CTC Technology & Energy, Ziggy has helped resolve the complex strategic questions raised by innovative broadband projects in light of evolving federal, state, and local grant programs, market forces, governance requirements, and public-private partnership opportunities. He specializes in applying data analysis and best practices to project planning and governance challenges, and walking clients through the relative benefits of strategic options.

Ziggy lends his expertise in program design and data analysis to support multiple states in administering funding under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity Act (DE) programs to reach complementary goals of universal broadband access and digital equity.

He has helped states design grant programs to meet their objectives for universal service with BEAD funding, including developing subgrantee selection processes and requirements and formulas for scoring applications. He also helped multiple states assess needs and develop metrics for their Digital Equity Plans by designing statistically valid statewide surveys and leading the survey data analysis.

Subsequently, he has supported each state in designing a programmatic strategy to subaward Digital Equity Capacity Grant funding and establish metrics for reporting to monitor progress toward the objectives in Digital Equity Plans.

Ziggy has also led broadband planning, strategy, and feasibility studies and advised on public-private partnership arrangements for local governments across the country. He has worked on several projects with the nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to bring affordable broadband to local communities and build local capacity for sustaining broadband initiatives, including the development of a handbook of best practices for delivering broadband in public housing.

Ziggy has also played key roles in dozens of large-scale broadband projects. He managed multiple federal-grant-funded interoperability projects that interconnect jurisdictional communications networks, including serving as the lead manager for all phases of deployment of NCRnet, the interoperable public safety communications network in the National Capital Region around Washington, D.C. He also oversaw the preparation of successful environmental assessments for major public sector fiber networks such as the One Maryland Broadband Network (OMBN) and the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) network.