Title:  Senior Director, Product Marketing
Employer:  Sprint Nextel
Nickname/Alias:  BT or Tish

What I'm Best Known For (in the Telecom World):

Leading Sprint’s business products and services group including IP/MPLS, VoIP and wireless products

Other Primary Areas of Expertise:

Service delivery platforms, fixed mobile convergence, wireless devices and GPS/location-based services

Summary of Professional Background:

Thirteen years of telecom experience across Marketing, Product and Engineering functions. Led Sprint’s Data Product Management for four years and have spent the last two years as Director of Business Marketing. Also ran several engineering and technology groups at Sprint. Before joining Sprint, I was in consulting.

Prediction on the Future of Telecom & Telecom Managers:

The future is in mobility. Prepare for it.

When I'm not talking or doing something in relation to telecom, I'm usually...

When I’m not traveling on business, I’m traveling with my family or for other reasons.  It’s hard to find me at home in Kansas City.

Book and author I'm currently reading:

Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman

CD currently or most recently in my car stereo:

Z by My Morning Jacket

The stupidest thing I've ever seen anyone do or say in relation to a phone:

Not sure this qualifies as stupid, maybe strange. On a flight last week I sat next to a woman who put on lipstick using the screen of her Treo as make-up mirror.