Senior Vice President, Global Network Software Development, Level 3 Communications

As Vice President of Global Network Software Development at Level 3 Communications, Travis oversees the development of solutions supporting network and service control automation to the operation, and to the customer. Travis also oversees SW Programmable Networking development and introductions, as the enabler for dynamic service enablement, as well as SW development of Network Applications (UCC,CDN,IP-Video, others). Prior to his current role, Travis spent 20+ years in Technology, Engineering, IT/Development, Operations, and Marketing leadership capacities. These roles have included Technology oversight of the first industry DSL broadband deployments with US West, industry first for integrated wireless/wireline services with US West Wireless, Technology and Product responsibilities at Electric Lightwave, overall Technology leadership responsibilities for Frontier Communications, and Technology and IT/OSS leadership responsibilities with former tw telecom.