Steve McCarthy, Partner and COO
With over 16 years in the telecom industry, Steve McCarthy is a well respected strategist, operations executive and business development catalyst. Steve has a diverse telecommunications background including experience at small telecom outfits as well as having achieved a top 5 sales region for industry giant MCI. Steve has helped lead NEF to impressive year-over-growth in revenue and profitability, and has pioneered the effort to make fiber network maps and data such as lit buildings and data center locations commercially available with the launch of the FiberLocator.
As partner and Chief Operating Officer at NEF, Steve is responsible for the strategic growth and delivery of NEF's brokerage solutions as well as NEF's rapidly growing FiberLocator platform, the fiber optic maps application cataloging high capacity optical providers and data centers. Steve steers the development and data integrity of FiberLocator, and under his direction, FiberLocator has amassed mapping data for well over 200 network providers and currently maps in excess of 160,000 lit buildings and carrier PoPs as well as 1400+ data centers.
In all areas of leadership at NEF, Steve leverages his experience and relationships with partners and providers on the regional and national level to bring even greater strength and diversification to NEF's offerings. Along with his operations focus, Steve remains an integral part of the design and deployment of high cap network solutions for clients and a key subject matter expert in NEF's growing consulting practice.
Steve is a member of COMPTEL and is a frequent presenter and speaker on topics relating to fiber optics mapping and intelligence platforms. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont.
Contact Steve McCarthy at 617-597-6767 or by email at smccarthy@nefiber.com.
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