Jeff, Manager of Telecommunications, has been with Tampa Electric for 28 years in a number of technology roles. For most of his career he was in the IT Infrastructure side of the business.  Since 2017 he has been managing the Telecom Broadband engineering team.  This covers TEC’s fiber optic network and microwave communications.  He is now leading the PLTE implementation for Tampa Electric that will cover portions of four counties. To date, TEC has completed 10 RAN site installations with an anticipated 25-34 in total.  TEC has two georedundant cores in operation and are being managed remotely by the OEM.