EXTON, PA – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has promoted three members of its organizational team as part of an effort to meet the growing needs of its members, cable system operators, programmers and vendors.
Derek DiGiacomo, Steve Harris and Tom Russell all have been promoted to the newly created positions of senior director and will assume additional responsibility for industry outreach and program creation.
As senior director, information systems and energy management programs, DiGiacomo will assume responsibility for SCTE’s Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI); Harris, as senior director, advanced network technologies, will have increased business development and content creation responsibility with the SCTE Professional Development (SCTE Pd) program; and Russell, as senior director, standards, takes on an increased role in the creation of new standards activity in the U.S. and internationally.
At the same time, industry veterans Steve Hughey and George Wright have been retained as subject matter consultants in the areas of equipment standards, energy management and network operations and engineering, respectively.
“The emergence of new cable services and our evolving partnerships with NCTA and CableLabs are creating new opportunities for current staff, as well as for outside experts in specific, critical areas,” said SCTE president and CEO Mark Dzuban, in the announcement. “By identifying and grooming SCTE team members like Derek DiGiacomo, Steve Harris, Tom Russell and others for added roles, we can accelerate our ability to make material change at every level of cable engineering and operations.”
