Title:  Principal
Employer:  BottaBoom Consulting LLC

Featured In:
End the Cramming Nightmare, 6/3/09

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

Telecommunication billing audits for large businesses, and telecom fraud investigations.

Other Primary Areas of Expertise:

Telecom taxes, contract analysis, investigations, public speaking, social media.

Summary of Professional Background:

Graduate of George Mason University, B.S. Criminal Justice
Telecom Manager for Pentagon Federal Credit Union, 13 years
Regional Branch support Manager, Norstan Communications (now Blackbox Inc.), 7 years
Principal and founder, BottaBoom.com, 10 years

Prediction on the Future of Telecom & Telecom Managers:

There will still be a need for communications specialists and high-tech billing experts well into the future. At some point, IT managers will no longer be in the procurement business as its becoming much too specialized.

Weirdest Thing People Usually Don't Know about Me:

Former CPR instructor (10 years) and worked as a security officer at a hospital.

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

Playing on my senior softball league team. 

Book and author I'm currently reading:

I have four going:
Social Media Marketing, hour a day, by Dave Evans (no relation)
Twitter Power, How to Dominate Your Market one tweet at a time, by Joel Comm
The Real Deal, by Sandy Weil
The Innocent Man, by John Grisham

CD currently or most recently in my car stereo:

Eric Burden and The Animals, Greatest Hits

Blogs I follow regularly:

Twitter, Business Wee Business Exchange, Inc. Magazine

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

1. "I have no idea why the fax machine is dialing Europe, all I do is dial 011 then the number."
2. "I don’t know why the police keep responding to the bank with guns drawn, I swear I am dialing 9-411 for info, not 911, from my phone!"