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COMPANY BACKGROUND

Extensive Experience in Large-Scale Networking

Midwest Fiber is a Milwaukee-based, woman-owned business that has a strong record of growth. Its core competency resides in designing, building and maintaining large-scale fiber optic and wireless data networks for prominent businesses and public entities.

Midwest Fiber and its affiliate, CableCom LLC, employ approximately 70 people who provide cost-effective, alternative technology highways for private businesses and public users. The companies have designed, built and maintained networks for Fortune 500 businesses in the Milwaukee area, including:

  • A 48-mile fiber optic ring network in a combination of aerial and underground plant, built in less than nine months—a quick turnaround despite numerous hurdles of working through private property, government identified wetlands, state Department of Natural Resources restricted areas and with several railroad companies.

  • A fully redundant, entirely underground network connecting a company’s two facilities in two different municipalities, with maximum separation between the two paths for risk management. The project was also completed in nine months, and when the building was turned over to the client, the fiber optic connectivity tested well above industry standards.

Midwest Fiber’s three principal owners bring more than 30 years of combined
experience in network communications.

  • Donna Raffaelli has nearly 10 years of experience specifically in the network communications and construction industry, as well as ten years of senior-level operations management in the financial services industry. Raffaelli’s role with Midwest Fiber includes strategic planning and oversight on large-scale projects to ensure cost-effective and successful outcomes.

  • Kelly McCook uses her 12-plus years of experience in business management to select, mentor and manage team members as well as oversee all of Midwest Fiber’s back-office processes to ensure project integrity.

  • Nik lvancevic provides design engineering leadership on projects while serving as the primary point of communication between customers and Midwest Fiber’s project teams. Ivancevic has 15 years of professional experience in the network communications industry.