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Shane Portfolio

Chief Technology Officer
Congruex

Shane Portfolio is CTO of Congruex, an international design, engineering, and construction firm. In this role he and his team are responsible for the health and reliability of Congruex’s technology road map, culture, and organizational systems and processes. Shane leads the organization that provides fiber installation that helps clients deliver internet speeds for our increasingly connected customers. Shane is also responsible for Change Management, Deployment and Capacity Planning, and the company-wide OneCongruex Initiative which is working to achieve sameness across the entire organization as it relates to processes, tools, functions, roles and responsibilities.

Previously, Shane served as Senior Vice President of Technical Operations and Engineering for the Comcast West Division, with responsibility for engineering, technical operations and advanced services for approximately 8.6 million customers. Shane oversees the Division’s fiber network and IP-based infrastructure and is instrumental in overseeing testing and deployment of new technologies and resources to assist the Division’s technical operations and engineering teams in delivering a reliable network and customer experience, with innovative new products and services.

Prior to joining the West Division team, Shane was Vice President, Engineering for the California Region, where he was responsible for the oversight, guidance, direction and vision for all Technical Engineering aspects throughout the Comcast California footprint.

Shane served as the Vice President of Engineering and XOC in Comcast’s Central Division before moving to California. Prior to that, Shane was the Sr. Director of Network Operations for Comcast’s National Engineering organization. He has also served as Comcast’s Director of IP Operations. Shane began his career in cable as a Comcast Account Executive in 1997 answering technical phone calls.

Shane holds a bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University and has completed master’s degrees in organizational leadership from Regis University and telecommunications from Denver University, MBA from Notre Dame, as well as audited master’s courses in engineering at Stanford University. He has also completed his PhD in Organizational Leadership. 

He is on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters Colorado, Metropolitan State University Denver, and the National Technical Diversity Council. Shane also serves as a Technical Advisor for Cisco, Juniper, Teleste, Technetix, Ciena, Nokia and CommScope, and serves as an executive consultant at Georgia Tech University.

Shane is a 14-year veteran of the U.S. Army where he was a former Platoon Sergeant and Leadership Instructor. 

 

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