Senior Vice President of Network Operations
Joe was appointed senior vice president of Network Operations in 2025. In this role, Joe leads the Field Services and Construction & Service Enablement teams, ensuring efficient service installations, timely resolutions, proactive preventative network maintenance, and outage restoration efforts for the company’s operations.
Joe also oversees the Centralized Procurement and Supply Chain team activities across the TDS enterprise, including TDS Telecom and Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Under his leadership, this team developed standardized strategies centered on strategic sourcing and procurement, contract negotiations, supply chain operational support services, inventory management, and logistics.
Joe first joined TDS Telecom’s parent company, Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., in 1997 as a member of the Internal Audit team, quickly advancing to become the program director of the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance group. In 2012, Joe joined TDS Telecom as director of Strategy and Financial Analysis. During his tenure, Joe successfully transformed billing, revenue assurance, financial analysis, and strategic planning disciplines. In 2018, Joe took on his previous role as VP of Supply Chain Services.
Joe holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and has an MBA from Edgewood University. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Joe serves on the Business Advisory Board for Edgewood University in Madison, Wisconsin.