After a challenging but rewarding three year stint in product management at Dialogic, I am now independent again early in 2018. Four years back, I ran my consulting business for a year and gained some additional training before re-joining Dialogic. In this post, I’ll talk about some new and different approaches I took in my…
In my last post, I talked about the book written by historian and professor Jonathan Coopersmith entitled Faxed – The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. I left off as fax entered the late Eighties and became wildly popular. As Coopersmith recounts, this confounded the experts, who were expecting electronic messaging, videotext or a…
In 1993, I visited the city of San Antonio to participate in a speaking engagement on fax at a conference on electronic commerce. While there, I had dinner with a professor from the University of Texas A & M named Jonathan Coopersmith. We had an engaging conversation about facsimile technology and he told me that…
One of the major challenges of a career change is to manage all of the details. Whether you are looking for a new full time position or would prefer consulting assignments, you’ll need to have a clear direction and an execution strategy. Some of the tasks are to identify prospective companies and potential roles, make networking contacts…
Last fall, I blogged about a pending standard for securing facsimile communications over IP networks here and I spoke about this progress at the SIPNOC conference. Since that time, the standard, known as RFC 7345 has been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The availability of a standard is very good news. There’s a common…
I’ll be speaking next week at the SIPNOC conference in Herndon, Virginia. SIPNOC is sponsored by the SIP Forum and covers a wide variety of topics related to SIP — the Session Initiation Protocol — with a particular focus on the needs of service providers. It runs from June 9 – 12. WebRTC continues to…
This is the second post in a two part review of the discipline called Lean Six Sigma. The first part of the discussion can be found here. When I was in college at RPI, I segued from the core Engineering curriculum into a degree called Management Engineering. This degree had elements of Industrial Engineering, but…
I just finished a two week course and now possess a certification known as the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. I’d been running into a few people with Lean Six Sigma backgrounds while networking in the last several months, but didn’t really understand what it was all about until I took this course. I now…
In January, I was fortunate enough to attend two events which both focused on the concept of product / market fit. Marc Andreessen, of NetScape fame and now a venture capitalist, coined the term. But the story doesn’t really begin there. There is a movement known as “Lean Startup,” whose chief advocate is an entrepreneur…
The recent controversy regarding NSA tracking of phone conversations has elevated concerns about security and privacy for business communications. Enterprises generally want to keep their communications private. Use of techniques such as private networks, firewalls and secured tunnels can help to protect internal communication from eavesdroppers, but there are also many exchanges which entail communication…