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Kevin Mooney Joins the Fiber Optic Center Technical Team

Kevin Will Enhance Technical Team Customer Production Facility Support

New Bedford, MA, USA, May 2023 – Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leading distributor specializing in helping their customers make the best cable assemblies in the world, announces the addition of Kevin Mooney to its technical team. Mr. Mooney joins the FOC technical team with his extensive knowledge of the cable assembly warehouse and production facility.

Kevin graduated from Edinboro University with a Masters in Psychology, preparing him for a career working start to finish with each step and level of the cable assembly business.

Kevin’s career in fiber optics began in 1998, spending over 24 years with a Corning Gold cable assembly house, His roles have spanned from sales through distribution channels for 10+ years to management of procurement and materials purchasing. The past decade has been a combination of general and operations management and business development.

During his time in management roles, Kevin has been active with product line improvements and qualifications from the design and production steps. At FOC, he will offer his practical experience, troubleshooting tools, equipment and software on the production floor to offer customer support and process improvements.

CEO and President of FOC, Ben Waite, shared “FOC is a sourcing partner and distributor for everything optical, fiber and beyond but our core competency remains in consulting, selling and delivering every piece of equipment needed for the automated production of fiber optic cable assemblies. Kevin’s experience troubleshooting and managing that floor from the actual cable cutting and fiber stripping and epoxy dispensing to the polishing and testing is the perfect complement to our stellar technical for providing FOC customers with the most comprehensive consultation partner.“

Kevin resides just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and four children. A musician of over 30 years, he still finds time to play music, which is a helpful addition to Fiber Optic Center’s robust staff of musicians. Kevin begins his FOC Technical Support and Consulting with our training at the west coast lab, in preparation for the active role FOC takes in supporting customers with both onsite and phone support. The technical staff works closely with managers of high-volume, high quality cable assembly houses, particularly those with technically demanding customers and worldwide operations.

FOC continues to work within its fiber optic industry on advancements necessary for all options on the mission to provide everyone superior broadband. For more information on their mission, FOC can be contacted directly at FiberOpticCenter@focenter.com.

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About Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), is an international leader in distributing fiber optic components, equipment, materials, and supplies known for helping customers make the best cable assemblies in the world for over three decades. Material property consultation is provided by technical experts for lapping film, epoxy, adhesives, optical coatings, and optical plastics during application specific material selection. Technical process expertise is offered in several key technology areas. Specialized expertise includes cable assembly line mastery, fiber broadband field installation best practices, and technical advancements in telecom, datacom, data centers, and hyperscale. Optical cable specification development includes design and quality testing. FOC's impact reaches the network physical capabilities through fiber manufacturing process expertise from preform fabrication and shaping, fiber drawing, and coating requirements for double clad fibers used for high power fiber laser applications to solution doping, vapor phase doping, rare earth chelates and halide recipe consultation. Fiber Optic Center is the preferred choice for the world’s fiber professionals as the industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts who integrate their manufacturing knowledge and vast experience into customers' worldwide operations. @FiberOpticCntr

For further information contact:
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., 23 Centre Street, New Bedford, MA 02740-6322
Toll Free in US: 800-IS-FIBER or 800-473-4237 . Direct 508-992-6464. Email: sales@focenter.com or fiberopticcenter@focenter.com

For media contact:
Kathleen Skelton, Director of Strategic Marketing, C: 617-803-3014 . E: kskelton@focenter.com