| Dale N. Hatfield is the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at
the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to assuming his current position, Hatfield
was Chief Technologist at the agency. Before joining the Commission in December 1997, he
was Chief Executive Officer of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado based
multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm. Before founding the consulting firm
in 1982, Hatfield was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and
Information and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration. Before moving to NTIA, Hatfield was Chief of the Office of Plans and
Policy at the FCC. Hatfield was the founding
director of the Telecommunications Division at the University College at the University
Denver and, for many years, taught telecommunications policy at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. Currently he is teaching a graduate course in telecommunications technology at
Georgetown University. Hatfield holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Institute
of Technology and an MS in Industrial Management from Purdue University.
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