Unified Communications Panel Discussion

The February 10th meeting of the Capital Area Technology Association will feature of panel of experts in the Unified Communications field.

Unified Communications includes the collapsing of multiple technologies running on separate platforms and servers to fewer platforms and servers and perhaps eventually a single platform.

Technologies that are affected by Unified Communications include: E-Mail, Voice, Mobile Phone, Web Conferencing, Collaboration Software, Fax, Audio Conferencing, Phone, Messaging, and Laptops.

You are invited to hear how the UC trends may differ from manufacture to manufacturer and supplier to supplier.

Participants will include:

• Quentin Kramer from Carousel Industries representing Avaya Bio
  

  Quentin Kramer is the Director of Messaging & Applications for Carousel Industries, where he oversees Carousel’s Unified Communications division.

  Prior, Quentin served as Director of Operations for Enabling Technologies Corp, where he managed the general operations of an engineering team based throughout the United Stated and UK, performing various messaging-related projects for Avaya, Microsoft, and other manufacturers.

  Prior to joining Enabling, Quentin served as Director of Technology for Matrix Technologies, a Washington DC-based Avaya Businesspartner.  In addition, he has served in technical management roles with Baltimore-based business partners Delta Telephone and Cabling, Americom Telephone Systems, and WFG Communications.

• Jim Raymond from DynTek representing Microsoft
• Theodore Martin from NEC Bio
  

  Theodore Martin is Product Manager for Unified Communications at NEC and responsible for definition, requirements, and direction of the Unified Communications desktop client.  He has over 20 years in the telecommunications business which includes Product Management as well as Product Marketing for desktop video, and Product Marketing Manager for Unified Messaging at Nortel Networks.  He has a BS in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Engineering Management.

• Dan Phoenix from Cisco
• K. Keith Drew from Siemens Bio
  

  K. Keith Drew is a Unified Communications Consultant with Siemens Enterprise Communications. His current focus is implementing Unified Communications solutions; working closely with Siemens’ distributor network.

  Keith has served for more than fifteen years evaluating business processes and designing communications solutions which integrate the many areas of communications and the technologies which empower them.

  Keith was formerly the National Director of Sales Engineering for Inter-Tel Technologies, as well as one of the first 100 Master Certified Novell Instructors, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, a Unix Instructor, and many more. He led the project to create the first movable type for the deaf using computers in 1990. He has, since, designed and successfully implemented 100s of CTI/CEBP solutions to enhance business efficiencies and profitability.

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