Fifteen years connecting people to the technology they use every day. Now running ODD LLC as the engineering partner for the people who build the network.
15 years of fiber, fixed wireless, and broadband infrastructure deployment across U.S. markets. Most recent: Rise Internet, February 2023 – April 2026, OSP / FTTx Engineering & Program Lead.
Prior: Global Technology Associates (DIA, Metro-E, GPON for enterprise and government clients); CHC Consulting (Google Fiber CAS-P deployment, Carlsbad CA); TEKsystems; TrueNet Communications; FTI Belman; Time Warner Cable.
Education: AAS Drafting & Design, ITT Technical Institute (2010). Organizational Leadership / Project Management coursework, Arizona State University.
The engagements below were performed by ODD LLC owner LaVerne Canady in W-2 / consulting roles prior to forming ODD LLC. They establish key personnel capacity for ODD LLC engagements.
OSP / FTTx Engineering & Program Lead across Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Joined as Project Lead with a team of 2–3 staff engineers from program kickoff (Feb 2023) through year-end 2024. Following a company-wide reduction in force in May 2025 (250 layoffs), became the company's sole FTTH engineer through April 2026. Supported delivery of 300,000+ homes passed across multi-region programs — roughly 60% Texas, 40% multi-state. Broadband grant engineering spanned Illinois, Colorado, and Texas; the highest-dollar awards — supporting $160M+ in approved funding across 3 of 5 Texas counties — were Texas-based.
OSP Engineer, Carlsbad CA, on-site. Led design team executing Compact Active Site (CAS-P) fiber systems supporting FTTx residential and commercial deployments. Greenfield and subdivision fiber design, pole-data verification, fiber-pair assignment at splice enclosures, design-submittal QA from regional backbone interconnect down to customer-placed network equipment.