Steve Mensing, Editor
♦ On November 20th we heard rumors from city employees that Michael Jury was resigning as the at-a-distance head the City of Salisbury’s troubled municipal fiber optic network. We knew he might become expendable because his contract doubled in 2013 during Doug Paris’s term as city manager. Jury’s contract was listed as a hefty $113,799 in 2013 and he appeared spread thin, running his own Altitude Communications broadband network with operations in Georgia and Northern Florida.
Yesterday at Salisbury’s city council meeting it was announced that Kent Winrich will be the head of Fibrant and the city’s infrastructure services full time (facilities maintenance and traffic operations). Mr. Winrich’s telecommunications background was with Hibernia Media where he was charged with running the European Network. It is said he has two decades of experience working in broadband. Winrich was on the job Monday after being hired before the holidays. Kent Winrich’s photo below:
Kent Winrich’s Linked-in background:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentwinrich
City of Salisbury Press Release:
It’s said that Jury will continue to do consulting for the city. During his time at Fibrant he stabilized the network and largely ended Fibrant’s chronic and very lengthy outages by bringing in much needed redundancy and doing Fibrant’s tech in-house instead of using outside contractors. Jury also implemented cost cutting measures to keep the badly listing ship afloat.
http://rowanfreepress.com/fibrant/
