-: My name is Evonia Bennett.
I am a senior manager at Verizon Communications.
I am in Regulatory Compliance and what that department
handles is making sure that we are compliant
with the cities, state, and local governments,
as well as the Federal Government.
I manage a staff of three to five individuals,
it just depends on where we are
at any given point of the year.
What I do is I make sure that each of my managers
or analysts or specialists are doing what they need to do.
We also manage a database so I have to make sure
that the database is collecting the information properly.
Since my department is a part of our corporate techs
department, I have to make sure that we
are compliant with SAC's compliance.
We have to analyze what's going on in the marketplace
and we also get direction from the FCC
directly as to what we can collect.
I'm a part of a team that we do it on a quarterly basis
and we do various analyses to make sure that we are within
the realm that the Federal Government sets for us to do
and then I collect the data and put forth that fee
to be implemented into our billing systems
and then it ultimately gets sent out to our customers.
Any company, you have ebbs and flows of when you're
extremely busy like the third quarter into the fourth
quarter, you're trying to get end of year closed down,
you're trying to complete projects, you're trying to...
Like for the schools and libraries program that I mentioned,
they have set the end of October as to when you can
finish collecting and remitting for the previous
school year because it's not a traditional
calendar, it's like July to June.
October is the cutoff date so a lot of schools are trying
to get their data in at that particular point in time
so that they can collect the money that they need
and it has to run through our office
before it can be submitted.