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Campbell Palmer is the Vice President of Technology Solutions Support for Lumen Public Sector. With 26 years of industry experience, Mr. Palmer leads Public Sector’s solutions engineers, architects, and associates supporting Federal, State & Local, and education channels. He is responsible for the technical development and delivery support of complex Lumen services through standard open market opportunities, the GSA EIS contract, and various statewide contracts to deliver service to Lumen customers.

Mr. Palmer has extensive experience in network engineering, design, managed networking, and security solutions. He leads Public Sector’s solutions engineering, architecture, and managed services organizations, overseeing both the design and operational support of customer networks. His managed services team is responsible for customer device management, advanced technical support including offering recommendations for operational modifications to improve stability and performance, proactive notification of network and security events, and the integration of enhanced security capabilities across all Public Sector customers. Together, his teams partner closely with one another and Lumen customers to deliver tailored, resilient, and secure solutions that leverage Lumen’s core network services and innovative network platforms.

Mr. Palmer has held various leadership roles within Lumen’s public sector organization since 2008. His primary focus as a leader is to continually bolster the engineering organization’s technical skillset and proficiency, while incorporating best-of-breed industry technologies into Lumen’s portfolio. Mr. Palmer and his team were responsible for the technical solutions for awards under the EIS contract, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration, Department of Interior, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, and multiple DoD contracts, including Indo-Pacific Transport Services.

Prior to joining Lumen, Mr. Palmer was a network engineer at Verizon, spending 8 years working with medium and large enterprise and government customers within Verizon to assist with the development of reporting and network monitoring systems for dedicated network operations centers as well as sales engineering.

Mr. Palmer is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College with a Bachelor of Science degree and is currently enrolled at UVA’s Darden School of Business, MBA class of 2026. He is married to Emma Palmer, has three children, is an avid pickleball player and golfer, and lives in Falls Church, VA and loves to spend time skiing, boating, and hiking at Deep Creek Lake, MD.

Mike Witzman is an experienced technology sales executive serving Cisco’s US Public Sector customers. His team of 400 managers and solutions engineers help Federal government, state/local governments, and educational institutions apply technology to better achieve their missions of protecting, serving, and educating our communities.

With more than 30 years of technology and leadership experience, Mike brings a genuine love of technology innovation, active engagement with customer and partner executives, and a passion for the solutions engineering organization. He is a technologist at heart and energizes his teams around networking and cybersecurity technology transitions. He coaches, mentors and sponsors current and aspiring leaders and is an active diversity ally.
Mike has experience in Cisco’s Enterprise, Commercial, and Public Sector markets. He started as a Systems Engineer, where he achieved Cisco’s highest technical certification – CCIE #6907 in Routing and Switching (Emeritus).
Prior to Cisco, Mike served from 1994-1998 in the U.S. Air Force, where he was a Communications Officer at the Air Force Communications Agency (AFCA). He interfaced regularly with DISA and tested commercial network management solutions deployed to the Base Network Control Centers at more than 100 global Air Force bases. He was also an early member of AFCA’s Scope Net, providing network optimization planning and critical incident support to Major Commands and individual bases.
Mike earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Finance MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.