Title: Senior Consultant
Employer: TechCaliber Consulting
Nickname/Alias: David What I'm Best Known For (in the Telecom World): Articles in various publications. Other Primary Areas of Expertise: Analysis of the carriers’ financial conditions, with a view toward their capabilities or lack thereof to make the investments that enterprise users need in particular technologies or geographies. Summary of Professional Background: 5 years with TechCaliber Consulting in industry analysis and client engagements
7 years with Network World as a reporter, editor and columnist
I actually began my telecom career with CCMI (Publisher of Voice Report) in 1990, so this podcast and the CCMI Telecom Negotiation Conference brings me full circle! Prediction on the Future of Telecom & Telecom Managers: Telecom managers need to be facilitators and organizers both up and down their own organization charts. In the complex world of IP voice and data, there’s a premium to being able to present to current and potential service providers your ideal network and what it has to accomplish in terms of applications, and at what kind of price. That means getting your own senior managers on board a plan, so that the service providers don’t wind up presenting you with options that move you to a next-generation network without actually saving you any money, or even wasting bandwidth. And because telecom managers’ own end-users have so many more preferences about their personal modes of telecommunications than in the past, there’s also a surveying and even marketing function associated with the telecom management job. Quite a strategic task in addition to the day-to-day work!. Weirdest Thing People Usually Don't Know about Me: I just don’t like chocolate! When I'm not talking or doing something in relation to telecom, I'm usually... Playing the piano Book and author I'm currently reading: Full Faith and Credit by L. William Seidman, about the banking and S&L problems of the 1980s CD currently or most recently in my car stereo: Mendelssohn Piano Concertos with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Field, Murray Perahia The stupidest thing I've ever seen anyone do or say in relation to a phone: That people would be delighted to use their PC keyboards as a substitute for the good old telephone interface. This was during the rage for “Computer-Telephone Integration” during the mid-1990s, an early, and much kludgier, version of “convergence” than we know today. Human behavioral preferences count! | 
