Bio 
Shari Plantz-Masters, a lead faculty in the School for Professional Studies Graduate Computer Information Technology program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado has been in the Telecommunications field specializing in Network Technologies fo rover twenty years. She began her career as a network analyst for Marine Midland Bank (now HSBC) of Hong Kong and New York. From there she joined the Research and Development Labs of U S WEST where she was the Director of a number of different development and engineering teams who were responsible for the technical development of a number of network based products offerings including Voice Messaging, Business and Consumer Internet Service Provider, ATM, Frame Relay, and other Network based products.
She held a number of positions with U S WEST before Qwest Communications acquired it in 2000. Ms. Plantz-Masters held Director positions in Product Development and Marketing developing Business Video Network Applications including Video Conferencing and Switched Video services. Ms. Plantz-Masters also held the position of Vice President of Network Planning with the responsibilities for the U S WEST Public Network. Before leaving U S WEST to provide Management and Technical Consulting Services to large and small companies, she directed the Broadband Engineering and Application Development team responsible for the VDSL based broadcast service with both Television and Data applications.
Currently, Ms. Plantz-Masters is pursuing her doctoral studies and is focused on Information Policy.
Ms. Plantz-Masters studies Karate with her family, and she earned her first degree Black Belt and is currently pursuing advancement.
Education
BA in Economics and Political Science, University of Colorado
MS in Telecommunications, University of Colorado.