Created in 1995 to recognize and honor leading women technology professionals, the annual Women in Technology Award acknowledges the achievements of one woman who has demonstrated outstanding personal and professional growth and significantly contributed to the cable telecommunications industry. The Women in Technology Award is presented in partnership with the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and Communications Technology Magazine.

Susan Adams was named the winner of the 2011 Women in Technology Award.  Susan serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technical Operations for Comcast’s Northeast Division.  In this role, Susan leads the technical teams responsible for building and maintaining Comcast’s voice, video and data networks serving approximately 7.8 million customers across 14 states from Maine through Virginia. 

Susan has more than 15 years of experience in the cable industry, holding a variety of executive, management and technical operations positions with Comcast and its predecessor companies, including Continental Cablevision, MediaOne,  RoadRunner and AT&T Broadband.

Susan joined Continental Cablevision in January 1996 to launch the company’s high-speed Internet service in New England.  She led the technical team who designed, constructed and maintained the network and infrastructure for this new advanced project.  

In support of the Time Warner/MediaOne joint venture, Susan served as Director of Network Operations for MediaOne’s RoadRunner product, and created a national support system of network engineers.  She was later promoted to Vice President of Northeast Regional Operations, where she had end-to-end responsibility for launching new markets and delivering Road Runner to the New York, New Jersey and New England areas.

With the acquisition of MediaOne by AT&T Broadband, Susan managed the national technical team responsible for unwinding the RoadRunner product network from Time Warner Cable while continuing to support and launch new high-speed Internet services.

Susan served as Vice President of Internet Protocol Platforms for AT&T Broadband, where she led a team of network and systems engineers responsible for the design and construction of the provisioning systems that provide various services to AT&T Broadband customers.

A long-time member of Women in Cable, Susan is a graduate of the 2009 Betsy Magness Leadership Institute.  In 2008 she was named to CableFax’s “Most Powerful Women in Cable” list, and in 2010 was named one of the “Top Women in Cable” for that same publication.  She is an active member of WICT and SCTE. 

Susan earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern New Hampshire University and a master’s degree in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University, where she currently serves on the board of the Women’s Leadership Institute.  

Susan was born and raised in Lawrence, MA and currently lives in Methuen, MA with her husband, David.  

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