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Portrait of Jennifer Cottrill

Honor Society® member

Jennifer Cottrill

Wireless Network Engineer at nTelos Wireless

  • East Carolina University Greenville
  • Digital Communication: Network Technology
  • Class of 2018
  • Staunton, Virginia

Member since April 2016

About

I am currently working to earn a Master's Degree from East Carolina University in the field of Network Technology: Digital Communications, Thesis track. Upon graduation I will have also completed the work necessary to receive the Computer Network Professional Certificate. My areas of interest are Self-Organizing Networks (SONs), specifically the self-healing functionality, big data analytics, cloud computing/networking, and Internet of Things (IoT).

Education

  • East Carolina University

    Digital Communication: Network Technology

    2015 – 2018

  • Shenandoah University

    music education

    2002 – 2006

Goals and interests

Career goal

Since May of 2016 I have been working at Shentel Communications, a Sprint affiliate, as a Network Engineer. I very much enjoy working the the field of telecommunications - it is a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment in which there is never ending opportunity to learn about and use up and coming technologies such as IoT, Cloud computing, etc. In the future, I plan for my career to be within mobile broadband communications working with these cutting edge technologies.

Graduate school interests

My areas of interest are Self-Organizing Networks (SONs), specifically the self-healing functionality, big data analytics, cloud computing/networking, and Internet of Things (IoT). The focus of my thesis is achieving automation of self-healing functionality as part of a SON in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) environment.

Outside the classroom

Music, softball, gaming, reading, coloring, sudoku, scrabble, yoga.

Experience

  • Wireless Network Engineer

    nTelos Wireless

    Apr 2010 – Apr 2016

  • Wireless Tech Support

    nTelos Wireless

    Mar 2008 – Apr 2010

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced