Randy Dusenberry never imagined himself developing a double-decade career servicing the internet of all things — but he quickly clicked with the blend of hands-on, outdoor problem solving and working directly with people. “I feel like broadband found me,” he said.
Currently a regional training manager at MasTec, Dusenberry sat down with Broadband Nation while he was training a group of aerial lineman at Miami Dade College in Florida. “I enjoy being outside," he told us in the outdoor training facility. "I enjoy working with other people, not really a desk person. I just love everything about it.”
An industry veteran of nearly 20 years, Dusenberry has been intimately involved in the evolution of internet technology — and its impact on peoples’ lives.
When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, he was among the first responding teams, working tirelessly to restore communications in Biloxi, Mississippi. Amidst the chaos, he found many residents valued their network connection — the ability to communicate with family and friends — as much as basic household utilities. "It seemed that people cared more about their internet than they did about their power,” he noted.
Dusenberry takes honest pride in what he does and what it brings to the communities he works in, and he tries to instill that understanding in the techs he works with. He describes it as ‘the why’ — the actual reason for coming into work outside of a paycheck.
“We encourage all of our students to write their why on the inside brim of their hard hat," said Dusenberry. "So when they feel like being complacent, they can look inside that hard hat and remember why they’re doing this.”
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