SubCom, an international leader in the subsea fiber optic cable industry, employs more than 50 UNH graduates at its Newington location, including several – like James Toth ’89 – who have enjoyed a professional journey as circuitous as some of the intricate cable networks SubCom has assembled on the ocean floor.
Toth graduated from UNH with a degree in business administration and geography before embarking on a long career as a software engineer in the financial sector. About a year ago, though, he traded in the equations and Oracle Databases to join SubCom.
To program lasers.
“I worked most of my career in the financial services industry – if you told me I’d be here programming lasers, I’d have told you that you were crazy,” Toth says. “But it’s been a wonderful change.”
Indeed, SubCom...
SubCom, an international leader in the subsea fiber optic cable industry, employs more than 50 UNH graduates at its Newington location, including several – like James Toth ’89 – who have enjoyed a professional journey as circuitous as some of the intricate cable networks SubCom has assembled on the ocean floor.
Toth graduated from UNH with a degree in business administration and geography before embarking on a long career as a software engineer in the financial sector. About a year ago, though, he traded in the equations and Oracle Databases to join SubCom.
To program lasers.
“I worked most of my career in the financial services industry – if you told me I’d be here programming lasers, I’d have told you that you were crazy,” Toth says. “But it’s been a wonderful change.”
Indeed, SubCom...