Field Service Palm Springs 2025

April 22 - 24, 2025

JW Marriott Desert Springs, Palm Springs, CA

John Regan Jr.

Vice President, Technical Field Services – Southwest Region AT&T

Vice President of AT&T Technical Field Services-Southwest Region-John is responsible for leading a technical field services organization for customer service for a 5-state region focused on care of the AT&T network for consumer/business/wholesale telecommunications services for provisioning and maintenance. John is responsible for managing a workforce of 5,000.

John Regan began his career with Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1977 as a summer intern technician, has over 40 years of industry experience and has held numerous senior leadership positions in Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing. From 2009 to 2017, as Vice President, Technical Field Services-Business, John oversaw a national business field services organization for customer service responsible for business & wholesale services for provisioning, maintenance & professional services. Managed an organization of 5,000 comprised of a diversified organization of service technicians, Pro Services, and Customer Service Centers support. Services supported included business legacy services, IP, Ethernet, Public Safety 911, Managed Services, Network Sourcing, Unified Communications, VoIP, SDN, SDN/WAN, Wi Fi and Video Broadcast Services. Responsible for design and reengineering of processes to develop and deploy new operational models to transform traditional measurements and improve customer service and operational excellence.

From 2007 to 2009, John served as Vice President-Sales for the Western Region Government /Education segment responsible for delivering a full range of data, voice, networking, and mobility solutions to local & state government customers as well as K-12 to higher education customers.

From 2001-2007, John served in a variety of roles as Vice President of Business Marketing. He led teams responsible for the complete range of core marketing functions for customer marketing, emerging channels, customer experience and channel management for AT&T’s Enterprise, Government/Education & Healthcare segments, and Regional Business small business customer segments. Earlier in John’s career, he held several sales and sales leadership positions including Vice President-Global Markets responsible for sales and customer service for AT&T’s largest retail commercial and Federal Government customers.

A native of St. Louis Missouri, Regan completed his undergraduate studies in business administration at St. Edward's University, Austin Texas. He is active in volunteer community efforts and has held various positions including Board positions with St. Louis Ballet, Junior Achievement, Rotary, Economic Development Corporation, and American Heart Association. He is a graduate of Leadership Dallas and served as a member for the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Technology Board.

John lives in Plano, Texas with his wife of 35 years and has two children. John has been active in youth sports coaching boy’s youth basketball and baseball. Additionally, he previously coached competitive AAU basketball for young women. His interests include boating, fishing, and traveling.

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