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About the Company

CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States. The company provides broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses across the country. It also offers advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink™ Prism™ TV and DIRECTV brands. In addition, the company provides data, voice and managed services to business, government and wholesale customers in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers. CenturyLink is recognized as a leader in the network services market by key technology industry analyst firms. CenturyLink`s customers range from Fortune 500 companies in some of the country`s largest cities to families living in rural America. Headquartered in Monroe, La., CenturyLink is an S&P 500 company and is included among the Fortune 500 list of America`s largest corporations.

About the Person

Bill joined CenturyLink in 1985, when he accepted a position in Software Development with CenturyTel (CenturyTel and EMBARQ merged in 2009 to become CenturyLink). Bill was instrumental in creating CenturyTel’s top-rated website, incorporating a site-wide self-service focus and taking the company to first place among industry peers. Faced with aggressively growing needs from an expanding customer base and changing technology, Bill established CenturyLink’s ISP offering, and was able to take it from start to operational stability within three years. With his tenure at CenturyLink spanning 24 years, Bill is responsible for overseeing all systems-related migrations and has had substantial involvement in numerous acquisitions that have transformed a small rural telephone company into a Fortune 500 Company. Bill has a degree in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University.