Title:  Senior Consultant
Employer:  Burton Group

Featured In:
Disaster Proofing 2006, 7/20/06
VoIP Fraud Sets Off New Alarms, 7/6/2006

Nickname/Alias:  I'm not telling. 

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

Performance management and application optimization

Other Primary Areas of Expertise:

Network Management Processes and Approaches
Network Design and Architecture for Converged Networks
Operational Excellence

Summary of Professional Background:

Seventeen years in IT focused on networked solutions and connectivity.  Deep experience in carrier, enterprise, educational, and government solutions with a focus on application performance management and network optimization.

Prediction on the Future of Telecom & Telecom Managers:

While we’ve seen IP Telephony become widely accepted, we’ve really only scratched the surface of what it can and will do.  The future promises greater integration of collaborative tools and traditional applications to provide enterprises and organizations significant integration of the communications and “back-end” applications to improve communications and productivity.

Weirdest Thing People Usually Don't Know about Me:

I enjoy a wide range of board games that most people don’t even know exist. 

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

Spending time with my wife, kids, and friends.

Book and author I'm currently reading:

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

CD currently or most recently in my car stereo:

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

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

Watching a friend let his young child play with his new $500 smart phone with predictable destruction.