Deric Williams

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Biography

Mr. Deric Williams served as an Executive at Panther Group. He has 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Even before he'd received his undergraduate degree he was placed in management and leadership positions within UWEST (now known as QWEST). His leadership roles have included strategic planning, compensation planning, training development and delivery, customer relationship management, leadership of a technical service organization, product management and product marketing. In his current product marketing leadership position at a large telecom provider he's integrating a technology/service nearing the end of its lifecycle into a new hybrid product that is based off of the future network protocol and delivery methodology. Additionally, Mr. Williams worked with Sprint for six years completing their executive development program - the Staff Associates Program. During that time his roles included strategic planning, ATM product management, Group Manager of a service delivery and assurance call center, and Group Manager of training development and delivery. He also has previous experience working with Home Depot in the Store Leadership Program, for Georgia Space Grant Consortium as a project manager and as the leader of the Product Marketing organization at ChanneLogics.