Erica Perkins is a Business Development Manager at CommScope RUCKUS and was formerly the company’s lead program manager for CommScope’s “RUCKUS Funding Support Program,” which provided no-cost public funding consulting services to SLED agencies across the USA. Erica has dedicated the past 11 years to supporting the public sector vertical market at CommScope RUCKUS, including centralization of the company’s state government, local government, and education (SLED) procurement and compliance processes, development of the company’s K-12 E-Rate program, and has consulted state and local governments in bridging the digital divide through federal and local subsidy of community Wi-Fi.