Carol Ansley is Senior Lead Architect at Cox Communications. Carol holds BEE (1989) and MEE (1995) degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as a J.D. from Georgia State University (2014). She is a member of the Georgia Bar and is a registered patent attorney. She has served in a variety of technical leadership positions, including Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Senior Manager and Platform Quality Control Manager. She currently supports Cox regulatory and policy activities in a variety of areas. She also supports wireless standards activities. She has received over 40 US patents in various areas of communications and CATV-related technology. She regularly contributes telecommunication industry technical papers on a variety of topics related to wireless home networking. She is a voting member of IEEE SA 802.11 and chairs a technical working group working on privacy improvements for Wi-Fi.