Alaska Communications Hires Vice President of Finance
Alaska Communications hired accountant Kelley Harper as Vice President of Finance and Controller. In this position, Harper oversees all accounting functions for Alaska Communications. She has extensive budgeting and strategic planning skills along with teambuilding and leadership skills, thanks to twenty-five years of finance and accounting experience in a multitude of industries. Harper recently served on the boards for Camp Fire Alaska and the finance committee for Alaska Public Media.
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In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.