Adam grew up in Cheyenne, Oklahoma as one of 10 children. He started working with Dobson Communications right out of high school when he was 17 years of age. Throughout his 37 years with Dobson, he steadily advanced within the company and directly managed the complete design, development, and approval of the company’s network. Prior to joining Hilliary Communications, Adam worked as a contractor with Eddie and Dustin Hilliary. He liked the family-owned business atmosphere and home-grown success of the company.
Adam managed all technology engineering, design, operations, and maintenance of company-wide electronics. This involved 50+ dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM), ethernet nodes and 75-OC48/192 time division multiplexing (TDM), synchronous optical network (SONET), and nodes statewide network.
Over the course of his career, Adam has been named to Who’s Who, has authored numerous articles on technical issues, and has received numerous professional awards and honors.