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Open Telephony Training Seminar - Organizers
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The Organizers
In order to provide you with a full breadth of experience, we have combined expertise from both the development side of FreePBX coupled with a highly successful volume reseller who focuses 100% on FreePBX/Asterisk and has hundreds of real world front line experiences to share with you.
Philippe Lindheimer is the Project Lead and primary Developer of FreePBX, one of the most widely deployed Asterisk based PBX applications with an estimated installed base of over 200,000 systems. Philippe’s interest in telecom began in the early 1990s when he worked at Hewlett Packard’s European Headquarters helping leading telephone companies re-architect their Business Support Systems. For more than two decades he has worked in the Engineering industry in a range of technical consulting roles with Fortune 500 Companies. He has been involved in creating and presenting numerous technical training events on a worldwide basis. Philippe recently spoke at Astricon where he presented a tutorial on FreePBX.
Ethan Schroeder is the lead technologist at Schmooze Communications and Teleconnex. He comes from a background of profitably developing commercial solutions with Open Source technologies. In addition to this extensive development experience, he has over 10 years of experience with Linux. Ethan began focusing on telecommunications as a senior manager in finance and project management for a large telecommunications company comprised of cellular, CLEC, ILEC, CATV, and long distance divisions. In addition to modeling traditional telephony, he analyzed the technical and financial feasibility of VoIP and IPTV projects. This breadth and depth of experience in telecommunications, programming, Linux system administration, and marketing, combine perfectly with expertise in the open source Asterisk PBX to bring a full range of business and technical skills to open telephony.
Tony Lewis is in charge of sales, marketing, reseller procurement and reseller relations at Schmooze Communications and Teleconnex. He comes from an entrepreneurial background successfully starting and running various companies and brings a wide background in aggressive sales and marketing. His true passion is competing with FreePBX/Asterisk based PBX’s in a Legacy World and he has developed a successful program to give integrators an edge when selling against the Big Brand Competition. Mr. Lewis also has a vast knowledge of FreePBX and Asterisk and what their capabilities for customization bring to the table; and how to use the openness of Asterisk to help close sales.