Congratulations to our SIPfoundry 2012 Steering Committee members for being nominated by their peers and colleagues within the SIPfoundry user community. On behalf of the Steering Committee we encourage you to get involved in the planning for next year's event and share your ideas and suggestions on how together we can make it a successful conference for all. Please feel free to contact the Steering Committee members directly or you can send a request to info@sipfoundry.org for more details.
Todd Hodgen founded Misiu Systems LLC in 2002. Originally started as a product development firm, Mr. Hodgen holds patents for three wireless products developed by Misiu Systems. In recent years, the company has been reshaped to take advantage of his career spanning 35 year in the telecommunications services industry. He has previously held positions and gained experience in most aspects of the industry, including installation, service and support, sales, engineering, product development, project management, management as well as twice owning successful companies that deployed telecommunications products and services. In Sales and Engineering, Mr. Hodgen had responsibility for selling and engineering voice and data products to enterprise accounts, and vertical sales to Government, Healthcare, Wireless and EDU. His ability to think "outside the box" has benefitted his customers with cost effective, yet first class advanced communications systems to improve employee productivity and the customers bottom line. Currently, as President of Misiu Systems LLC, he is actively participating in the development and sales of networking and communications strategies to SMB, GOV and EDU with the use of open source voice and data platforms for the company's customers. Utilizing years of experience, he enjoys working on integration of disparate network products into advanced unified messaging delivery systems. Originally from Reno, Nevada, he is a 1977 graduate of Wyoming Technical College. He and his wife Margaret have been married for 14 years. He is the proud father of three grown sons. Contact: t.hodgen@misiusystems.com / www.MisiuSystems.com
Recruited by a national carrier from his position at a multi-state financial services firm concentrating in IBM mainframe and communications, Tony worked as a data specialist for one of the largest US facilities based carriers (LDDS, now MCI). After deciding to focus on microcomputing technology, he worked for a Virginia based consulting and services firm, which he helped to grow before they were purchased by a national firm. After establishing and selling a regional CLEC in Virginia, Tony has focused on data services. His growing consulting practice, myITdepartment, helps commercial businesses, including CLEC's and multiregional firms, to properly identify emerging technologies such as VoIP and SaaS so they can more easily adapt to changing business trends. These emerging trends include cloud-controlled security appliances and network switching platforms. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Lisa and their three daughters, and enjoys saltwater fishing, especially on the Northern Neck of the Chesapeake Bay with friends and family as often as he can. myITdepartment has assisted firms on 5 continents with installing and maintaining sipXecs and has been active within sipfoundry since the "Pingtel" era. Contact tgraziano@myitdepartment.net / www.myitdepartment.net
Kyle Haefner grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. In 2002 he completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and promptly joined the Peace Corp and started volunteering as an IT advisor for the Ministry of Education in Kingston, Jamaica. Upon returning home in 2004 he started a computer science program and received his master's degree in 2009, focusing his thesis research on applying a trust model to the SIP protocol designed to prevent Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT). For the last seven years he has been working on open source telephony projects at Colorado State University. When not working, Kyle enjoys everything the Fort Collins area has to offer;hiking, biking, snow boarding and spending time with his two sons. Contact: kyle.haefner@colostate.edu / www.colostate.edu
Matt White is a Senior Partner with Summit Technology. A veteran in Enterprise IT industry, he has held key technical consulting roles with various MNCs in the past 16 years. Prior to joining Summit, he was with a global solutions partner, serving as Senior Global Solutions Architect. With his wide background, Matt is able to draw upon his experiences from software development, systems integration to ICT infrastructure management to provide an out-of-the box holistic view of the latest trends in ICT infrastructure virtualization and VOIP. Contact: mwhite@thesummit-grp.com/ www.thesummit-grp.com
