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From this webcast manufacturers will learn:
Stephanie Neil is a Senior Editor at Managing Automation magazine. She joined the publication in 2000, covering factory floor automation technology trends and case studies. Since then her cover story and special report coverage has expanded to include all aspects of the manufacturing enterprise in order to provide information on sensor-to-boardroom applications and business processes. Prior to joining MA, Neil spent 11 years at eWeek (formerly PC Week), a weekly IT journal, where she was Managing Editor of the Features department.
Sandeep Saxena works at Sprint as a Principal Consultant selling wireless solutions to Manufacturing Industry.
Prior to joining Sprint, Sandeep served in a variety of sales management positions selling to the Financial Industry. He also developed a voicemail platform “The Message Center” for a Regional Bell Operating Company. He holds a Master’s degree, in Management, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He is a master practitioner of NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Sandeep works closely with the Leadership team at CPC Job Connections Group, a non-profit organization helping Bay Area professionals during the job transition. He also is a motivational speaker and trainer to other executive networking groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ric Hall has 33 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, with an emphasis on satellite and wireless technologies. His experience in wireless technologies began with military systems in the U.S. Navy and continued with Satellite Business Systems in the early '80s. Hall joined EDS in 1984 and worked on VSAT systems development in the late '80s and product line management in the early '90s. He has worked as a Product Services Marketing Manager and Business Planning Consultant and after supporting EDS' A.T. Kearney for ICO Global due diligence for Systems Integration in 1998,Hall spent the next two years in Technology Management organization developing EDS' wireless and mobility technology strategy. He is currently a Systems Architect in the Network Architecture, Global Network Engineering organization, where his responsibilities include wireless consulting, strategy and architecture, capability and service development. Hall was selected as a Distinguished SE at the beginning of EDS’ Distinguished Engineering program in 2005. He is the Lead Architect for the global development of Wireless LAN services for Client EDS and Portfolio Services. The author of a weekly news brief on wireless and mobility developments, Hall is the owner of several patents and whitepapers, and is developing services through proof of concepts in order to improve EDS' development and delivery of wireless services.
Mr. Lou Martinage is Director of Product Marketing at MobileAccess, a global provider of enterprise wireless solutions, in-building wireless solutions. MobileAccess’ innovative Universal Wireless infrastructure provides pervasive indoor coverage for a full range of wireless services and applications.
Martinage joined MobileAccess in 2004 and has more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications. He has held senior product marketing positions with industry leaders such as Cisco, Sprint and Lucent as well as with successful start-up companies, such as Chromatis and Torrent Networks. Martinage earned his degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Eric is senior manager over strategic, enterprise accounts within Sprint's Converged Network Solutions group.
Eric has over ten years experience in the telecommunications industry, starting with Nextel in 1998. Among other accomplishments, Eric delivered interoperability to St. Louis area public safety agencies through Land Mobile Radio (LMR) integration and Nextel Direct Connect (push-to-talk) augmentation of primary radio services. He has worked extensively with manufacturers and other enterprises in consolidating disparate communication systems by deploying premise-based wireless networks, augmenting and/or replacing mission critical radio communications and integrating PBX services in their plants.
Eric has a BSBA and MBA from St. Louis University.