Warren Mickens is a member of the FirstNet Authority Board and former vice president of wholesale operations at Centurylink/Qwest. Throughout his career, he has held several executive leadership roles, including at AT&T Midwest and later at Nokia/Alcatel where he ran engineering and operations for Telecom New Zealand. Warren began his career as an engineer at Cummins Engine Company, where he later served as the director of worldwide government business. Warren earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Indiana’s Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.