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Program :: Dale Hatfield /Opening Ceremony Dale N. Hatfield: Professional Biography Dale N. Hatfield Dale N. Hatfield is currently an independent consultant and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Between December 2000 and April 2002, Hatfield served as Chair of the Department. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Hatfield was the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission and, immediately before that, he was Chief Technologist at the Agency. He retired from the Commission and government service in December 2000. 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 Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Acting 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 of Denver and, for many years, taught telecommunications policy on an adjunct basis at the University of Colorado a Boulder. While in Washington, DC, Hatfield taught telecommunications technology on an adjunct basis at Georgetown University. He has nearly four decades of experience in telecommunications policy and regulation, spectrum management and related areas. He has also taught and consulted in many other countries including those in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Asia. In 1973, Mr. Hatfield received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal for contributions to domestic communications satellite policy and, in 1999, he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. In 2000, he received the PCIA Foundation's Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication in government service and the Federal Communications Commission's Gold Medal Award for distinguished service. More recently, he received the Distinguished Engineer award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America. In February 2001, the Federal Trade Commission appointed Hatfield Monitor Trustee in the AOL/Time Warner merger. Currently, Mr. Hatfield is serving on the board of directors of Crown Castle International and KBDI TV-12 Public Television in Denver. Hatfield holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MS in Industrial Management from Purdue University. |