Voice, Data, and Internet Solution. Telecommunications/Internet/Web Services Provider. Fully Integrated Communication Provider.

Vice President of Sales: Candidates must have 7-10 years of successful sales experience with at least 4 years in a sales management role. Experience in Telecom or Data Services sales is preferred.
Regional Sales Representatives: Must have a proven sales background and be able to develop customers in a specific assigned territory. Openings are in: Charleston, Huntington, Beckley, Parkersburg, Clarksburg/Morgantown, and Wheeling.
Marketing Manager: Position is for a very creative communicator with experience in promotion, writing, and sales support.
Web Applications Developer and a Database Administrator: Skilled in ColdFusion with SQL server database experience a requirement. We have two positions available.
Network Engineers and Technicians: We have several openings for experienced Network Engineers and Computer/Network technicians with a minimum of 4 years experience in computers, networks and software, or a candidate that is Cisco certified.

Full job descriptions and information on these positions can be found at: jobs.citynet.net. You may send resumes to resume@citynet.net

Executive Training:

Over the past several days Citynet department heads have been attending in-depth training provided by California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U). The training is part of a business/education partnership between Citynet and Cal U. Cal U senior staff has been providing our department heads with excellent training on Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The university provides this training on a voluntary basis to all its staff and students and now to Citynet.

The training focuses on the seven habits with specific emphasis on how each person can utilize the training to improve their personal and professional effectiveness. Plans are for all Citynet employees to be trained on a voluntary basis. “The training will be of great benefit not only to our employees but also to our customers. We will use the skills learned and, in many instances, relearned to better communicate with our customers” said Frank Boscarillo, COO.

Bill Morgan, Director – Human Resources said “…this has been a wonderful partnership with Cal U. Citynet received world class training, and Cal U now has an endowed scholarship in Citynet’s name. The scholarship will be awarded to a student majoring in computer science, engineering, or a related field of study.”

New Area Code 681 is coming

In case you missed the announcement on January 29, 2008, and a subsequent ruling, the West Virginia Public Service Commission voted to add a new area code sometime in the coming year. In their decision the PSC ordered that the new area code “overlay” the entire state, meaning that after a certain date new subscribers to services requiring a telephone number will be issued a number beginning with the new area code. Those now using the existing, 60 plus years old – 304, will continue to retain their phone number. The North American Numbering Plan Administration has decided that the new area code for West Virginia will be 681.

Why, after all these years is a new area code necessary? Actually, this isn’t a new issue to Citynet. The state has rapidly been using up existing available numbers for quite some time. While there are only about 1.8 million people in West Virginia, we issue multiple numbers to many people in way of landline phones, fax machines, beeper/pagers, cell phones, new VoIP digital phones, etc.

In a recent article in The State Journal, WV Consumer Advocate, Billy Jack Craig was quoted “More than 7 million useable number combinations exist within a given area code”, Gregg said. The reason West Virginia, with just 1.8 million people, is running out of numbers is because the 304 area code is running out of new three-digit exchange numbers. The increase in cell phones and pagers has taken up most of the remaining exchanges, he said.”

Jim Martin, President/CEO of Citynet adds, “Citynet will be continually updating our customers of this change and will be implementing the new area code along with the rest of our state’s telecommunications providers. We will keep our customers informed so that the introduction of the new 681 Area Code will be as smooth as possible.

Our People

This month we are featuring two of our behind the scenes “go to” folks at Citynet. If you’ve visited our Bridgeport HQ, you’ve probably met our Administrative Assistant, Lisa Dorman. In Columbus, quietly working away at making certain our switching is in top notch form is Randy Showalter.

Randy Showalter, Switch Engineering and Operations, Retail Operations. Randy’s 21 year telecommunications career began while he was stationed in Hawaii with the US Navy. Since then, he has held management positions at companies supplying services to Indiana Bell and AT&T, and later with Litel, which became Qwest. He holds a number of professional certifications. At Citynet, Randy is responsible for maintaining switch integrity and ensuring that scaleable, reliable technologies are deployed to our voice customers. Randy is based in Columbus, OH.
randy.showalter@citynet.net

Lisa Dorman, Administrative Assistant. Lisa joined Citynet as a technician in our Technical Support Center and quickly moved into her new role of providing support to our team of Citynet executives. She is originally from Cumberland, MD and holds an AA degree in Mental Health Technology and a BS in Elementary/Middle School Education. A brief stint as a counselor was followed by teaching in schools in Maryland, Georgia, and California. She joined Citynet after working at TeleTech in Morgantown, WV. Lisa is based in Bridgeport, WV.
lisa.dorman@citynet.net

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