Northland Communications has welcomed three new employees to the company’s growing team and has promoted two internally to new roles within the business. MIKE LYNCH has joined Northland Communications as director of network engineering, bringing more than 25 years of experience and industry knowledge to his new role. Lynch leads the network engineering and central office teams through proactively maintaining a reliable and secure network infrastructure, ongoing expansion, and capacity management. Additionally, Lynch and his team play a crucial role in Northland’s product development process to best leverage the company’s overall capabilities. Northland’s people + talent department has grown by two.

KAILA CHAMPOUX has joined as the recruitment + retention coordinator and NATALIE LATCHFORD has come aboard as the training coordinator. Champoux is responsible for networking with potential candidates to promote the Northland brand and guiding potential employees through the recruitment and onboarding process to work toward building diverse and qualified teams to support Northland. Latchford oversees the creation of high performing teams at Northland through the delivery of training that advances the skillsets and capabilities of all teams throughout the company, with a focus on efficiency, effectiveness, and knowledge retention.

DAVE D’AGOSTINO has been promoted to Northland’s leadership team as manager of software engineering after 24 years with the company. D’Agostino is responsible for leading the Northland software department in a proactive manner that leverages the many unique differentiators Northland provides its customers with. He manages the entire software-development process and oversees the design of all applications.

NICOLE TORRILLO recently joined the product line management team as UCaaS (unified communications as a service) product manager. Torrillo has been with Northland for more than 11 years and is now in charge of leading the coordination of the company’s UCaaS product offering to ensure customer needs are being exceeded.