Winbeam Engineering Team

Rich Alloway - Chief Technical Officer

Rich spent most of his childhood in Grove City, PA and attended California University of Pennsylvania where he majored in Computer Science and minored in Electrical Engineering. While at college, Rich obtained two FCC licenses... one for Non-Commercial Radio Emmisions and one for Amateur Radio. After college, Rich worked for Black Box as a Connectivity Group Specialist. Rich is also an original employee hired into the dialup service which has transformed since 1996 into Winbeam's Corporate Center. Rich's specialties include Unix/Linux operating systems, RF (Radio Frequency) engineering and network design, implemention and troubleshooting. Rich presently holds FCC licenses granting all-mode privileges from 1.8MHz to over 300GHz as well as FCC VE (Volunteer Examiner) credentials.

Eric Beaver - Blair County Operations Manager

Eric Beaver is Winbeam’s Blair County Operations Manager. A native of Altoona, Eric received his B.S. in mechanical engineering, with a focus in computer aided design, development and control, from Penn State University in 2002. Eric is experienced in a broad range of engineering disciplines, which he developed both in the classroom and as a cooperative engineer with a Fortune 500 company where he was a key participant in the development of groundbreaking research and operational protocol. Eric has experience in networking, computer programming, and computer control. Eric is responsible for all operations of Winbeam’s Blair County broadband network, installation of new customer services and supporting Winbeam’s existing customer base.

Ken Hansen - Network System Administrator

Ken was born and raised in Jamestown, NY and attended Jamestown Community College where he majored in Computer Science. After college, Ken worked at WCA Hospital in the MIS department where he maintained the day to day operations of their network (both Mainframe and PC using Novell). After WCA Hospital, Ken moved out to work at Comnet of Wapakoneta Ohio, which did support for Ohio's largest Internet provider, Bright.net. Ken rose to Assistant Supervisor of the Call Center and Software Developer for their customized Internet software. After Ken left Comnet in 1998, he worked for Stargate Industries in Pittsburgh PA in tech support and in 1999 Ken took a daylight tech support job in Greensburg which again Ken attained Technical Support Supervisor and then in 2001 became part of Network Operations in which Ken excelled with design and implementation of Cisco routers and IP management. Ken is responsible for the network hardware and IP resources for the company as well as assisting the Chief Technical Officer with design and implimentation of wireless services and overall network design.