Jay Hanke, CTO

Previously, Mr. Hanke was with Alltel/Midwest Wireless since 2000. In that year, Mr. Hanke joined Midwest Wireless of Mankato, Minnesota as a Wireless Data Engineer and was appointed Wireless Data Manager in 2004.

Mr. Hanke was responsible for leading his technical team in designing, deploying and managing the full range of data offerings for Midwest Wireless. Mr. Hanke led the deployment of the full range of CDMA data services including Circuit Switch Data (CSD) and Short Message Service (SMS) for TDMA and CDMA, CDMA 1xRTT packet data network, CDMA EVDO Rel 0/A packet data network, AAA, PDSN-HA/FA and IP services. Mr. Hanke was the technical lead on the wholesale BREW platform and CDMA CRX 1xRTT/EVDO data roaming implementations. While at Alltel, Mr. Hanke lead the technical team charged with the content filtering and bandwidth optimization projects for the company.

From inception, Mr. Hanke was the technical lead in the deployment of the clearWave fixed-wireless network. The network serving over 12,000 customers is one of the largest fixed wireless deployments in the United States. His group also deployed a VoIP service over the clearWave network and enabled QoS throughout the RF network utilizing a SIP Proxy, Session Border Controller and Media Gateway.

Mr. Hanke grew up in Blue Earth, Minnesota and graduated from Blue Earth High School. He went on to receive a Computer Information Science Degree from Minnesota State University-Mankato in 1998.

Mr. Hanke holds a CCIE in Routing and Switching from Cisco and a JNCIA from Juniper Networks.