Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Eugene McCord is a founding stockholder of the Company and serves as our Chief
Information Officer and Vice President. He has over 20 years of experience
as
a corporate operations
manager in the telecommunications industry and is considered an expert in telecommunications
billing and operating support systems.
Mr. McCord served as a partner and Managing Director of entrénet. Through entrénet's role as management consultant, Mr. McCord spearheaded the design and implementation of a convergent billing and operating support system for DTG. Mr. McCord worked closely with DTG on numerous projects, and was central in the integration of numerous systems that automated and stream-lined the billing and operative support for the company. Additionally, Mr. McCord assisted DTG in developing procedures that emphasized work flow management, one step information gathering and automation of repetitive functions.
Prior to joining entrénet, Mr. McCord served as Vice President-Global Billing and Information Services for NetSource Communications (formerly MTC Telemanagement) from November 1993 to January 1997. There he supervised over 80 employees and was responsible for managing all aspects of the company's billing operations including domestic and international billing, customer service, order administration and provisioning, MIS, corporate facilities and mailroom functions.
From March 1989 to April 1993, Mr. McCord served as the MIS Manager for DialNet, and was responsible for the design and administration of the company's long distance billing system. From April 1993 to October 1993, Mr. McCord served as a Data Processing Installation Manager for EDS as WorldCom converted the DialNet system to the EDS system after the merger of DialNet and WorldCom.
From 1985 through March 1998, Mr. McCord held several management positions for small ILECs including Office Manager and Assistant Controller for Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation in Princeton, MO., from March 1988 to May 1989; Office Manager and Accountant for Midstate Telephone Company in Kimball, SD, from May 1985 to March 1988; and Senior Billing Analyst for N.E. Missouri Rural Telephone Co-op in Green City, MO. from February 1985 to May 1985.
From September 1983 to February 1985, Mr. McCord served as a Cost Separations Analyst for Martin & Associates, one of the leading small ILEC engineering and consulting firms in the United States.
With over 22 years of communications experience, Mr. McCord has been responsible for establishing and interpreting many of the rules and regulations that govern the providing of local phone, cable television, and Internet services. His expertise is highly sought after in establishing billing and operative support, and developing "real world" solutions to theoretical problems. Mr. McCord holds an Associates degree in Accounting. |
