Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty opens Tiverton office
Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty announced the opening of a new office at 3848 Main Road, Four Corners, Tiverton. Joining forces with local agent Bridget Torrey and Water’s Edge Properties, the longstanding agency welcomes its newest members into their established real estate family. “We are excited to start this new venture with Bridget. The location in the heart of the East Bay area will be a great addition to our agency and will let us serve all of Tiverton and Little Compton, as well as into the southeastern Massachusetts coastal area, including Westport and Dartmouth,” Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty co-owner Paul Leys said in a statement.
Shannon Cameron, a Ritter Communications Systems maintenance technician who works in the company’s northeast Arkansas service areas, recently broke a world record while competing at the 2019 International Cable Games in New Orleans.
Cameron, a Newport native, broke the world record in Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer, resulting in him winning the first place gold medal for this competition. The previous record was 57.720 seconds and he completed it in 54.029 seconds. The OTDR game consists of using a fiber optic scope to determine if the connector is clean or dirty, cleaning the connector with a fiber cleaner and then answering a series of questions once done.
Cameron also won a gold medal after claiming first place in the fiber splicing event. He also came close to breaking this world record as well – completing the splice in 49.94 seconds, just 3.56 seconds behind the current world record, 46.38 seconds. In this competition, participants are asked to prepare a 250 micron piece of fiber, install an optical splice sleeve, and fusion-splice the two ends together. They are judged on safety, quality of the splice and time.
“I was thrilled to have won two gold medals on an international level – but setting a new world record time in the OTDR event was really an astonishing feeling," Cameron said in a statement. "When a person achieves something like this it makes them feel like they have an extraordinary skill that didn’t come naturally – but was achieved through personal determination and commitment. I’m glad I could represent Ritter Communications and the SCTE Razorback Chapter in a very positive way.”
Jim Roberts, senior VP & GM of Ritter Communications Hometown Services, was also thrilled with Cameron’s performance.
“We are extremely grateful to have such a hard-working and committed technician like Shannon on our team," Roberts said in a statement. "I speak for myself and the company when I say Shannon’s accomplishments, once again, showcase the world-class skills that our local, customer-serving field technicians have and we couldn’t be more proud of him.”
The 2019 International Cable Games is an event hosted by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) where communication companies come and compete in events that measure and demonstrate their technical skills and knowledge to determine the best of the best. The event was held Sept. 30 through Oct. 3 this year and is considered to be the premier cable telecom event in the Americas.