System & Device Test Environments

Tim Dalton is a lead engineer on the wireless team at CableLabs, where he focuses on all things wireless, including home and business-class Wi-Fi. He has worked in 5G, antenna design and product development. He currently manages multi-million-dollar lab equipment, including the Rohde & Schwarz fully anechoic chamber while working at CableLabs for over ten years.

Prior to CableLabs, Dalton spent eleven years running his own IT consulting business, focusing on small and midsized businesses, and another fifteen in wired networking. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in business administration from Nicholls State University, where he was a four-year starting D1 soccer player. Dalton is a Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) as well as a member of multiple wireless organizations.

Debbie Fitzgerald is a Distinguished Technologist and Director of Sustainability on the Technology Policy team. In this role, she leads the technical efforts of the award-winning energy efficiency voluntary agreements for set-top boxes and small network equipment in the United States and Canada, chairs the CTA working group that develops the ANSI/CTA energy test methods, is part of the SCTE Energy 360 Strategy Team, leads the CableLabs Sustainability Steering Committee and supports other energy saving research at CableLabs. Debbie holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Debbie has been recognized as a WICT Rocky Mountain Woman in Technology, an Energy and Environmental Leader 100 Honoree, a Cablefax Most Powerful Woman and is a recipient of the CTA Technology Leadership Award.