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PETER I. COLLINS Nine North Lincoln Street Batavia, IL 60510 • 630.761.2978 • pcollins60510@yahoo.com
Peter I. Collins is the Information Technologies Manager for the City of Geneva, Illinois and President of the Illinois Municipal Broadband Communications Association. He resides in Batavia, Illinois with his wife Annie (Chairman, Fiber For Our Future) and their sons. He currently oversees all networking services provided via Geneva's internal (data & phone) and municipal fiber optic networks, and advises Geneva's staff & elected officials regarding telecommunications policy. He has been involved in the Information Technology field for over 18 years, has written for the NATOA Journal of Municipal Telecommunications Policy, and has been a speaker at the Broadband Properties Summit 2004, Supercomm 2005, MuniWireless 2006 Atlanta, the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks 2006, the APPA Community Broadband Conference (St. Louis) in October 2006, the Illinois Municipal League Conference 2007 in Chicago, MuniWireless07 in Chicago, and the NATOA 2008 Annual Conference in Atlanta. He is a vocal proponent of the rights of municipalities to set their own telecommunications destinies.
PROFESSIONAL:
Illinois Municipal Broadband Communications Association ( http://www.imbca.org ) - President
City of Geneva, IL ( http://www.geneva.il.us ) 22 South First Street, Geneva, Illinois 60134
Information Technologies Manager
March 1999 to Present
Oversight and day-to-day management of all electronic aspects of Geneva’s Municipal Fiber Optic Network linking all City buildings, all City electric and water substations, and all Geneva School District locations.
Oversight and day-to-day management of Geneva’s Cisco IP Phone system.
Oversight and day-to-day management of Geneva’s internal data networks including responsibility for all hardware/software support for all server, desktop, and laptop systems for all city departments and elected officials.
Manage Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Division.
Serve as Geneva’s expert and provide legislative updates to City staff and elected officials with regard to the status of current telecommunications issues and laws in the cable television, telephone, & internet arena.
Oversee Geneva’s local access television programming and operations.
Collins Engineers, Inc., Chicago, Illinois Network Administrator July 1989 – March 1999
Oversight and day-to-day management of internal data networks including responsibility for all hardware/software support for all server, desktop, and laptop systems for five offices across the United States.
Education
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1987
Fenwick High School, Oak Park, IL 1986
Personal
Presently studying for Second Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Youth soccer coach – Tri-Cities Soccer Association.
Organize local car cruise nights for Batavia Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees).
References References are available on request.
APPEARANCES & PRESENTATIONS
MuniWireless07 Chicago
From the APPA St. Louis Conf. - http://www.appanet.org/events/index.cfm?itemnumber=17714
International Summit for Community Wireless Networks - http://www.cuwin.net/2006summit/2006participants
SuperComm 2005 - http://www.iec.org/events/2005/supercomm/conference/tf2.html
COMMONS (Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems) Workshop December, 2006 - http://www.caida.org/workshops/commons/0612/final_report.xml
Broadband Properties Conference - http://www.broadbandproperties.com/bbpshow2004/sessions.htm
Press & Mentions - http://tinyurl.com/5rh9ap & http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/75205 , & here -http://www.geneva.il.us/att/Lightspeed.htm & here - http://www.motherjones.com/news/dispatch/2005/05/municipal_broadband.html & here - http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/u-verse.ars & here - http://www.freepress.net/news/21862 (or here - http://www.imbca.org/letters/ilhb1500.htm)& here - http://tinyurl.com/6jvzzo
