Christin Ford is a Lead Applications Engineer at Superior Essex Communications. She holds a Registered Communication Distribution Designer (RCDD) designation from BICSI. She has 18 years of experience in the telecommunications industry specializing in product development including cable design and material selection for optical fiber, copper, and power cables; industry standards compliance testing for cable and components; and troubleshooting. She has 20 years of experience in project management. Christin provides customer field support and training for premises copper, optical fiber, fire alarm, security, DAS, and LEED supporting her company’s Enterprise product line. She is a participating committee member of TIA TR-42.