As many are aware, this last week my life was turned upside-down from an electrical house fire that destroyed my home, the three cars, and nearly every one of our possessions. Thankfully we are all safe, but now begins the long journey of getting back to normal. The outpouring of support for me and my... Read More
Joe Way, PhD, CTS
This month’s Tech Manger Spotlight (Presented by Sennheiser) guest, Frank Alaimo, Senior Audio Video Systems Specialist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joins the show to discuss my team’s recent visit out to UNLV. We talk about their user-first configuration of Crestron Fusion and touch panels and the new Dolby Atmos theater (and how... Read More
By now, we should all know the importance of locking down our AV systems. What is IEEE 802.1X and why is it important to think about on an enterprise network? Bill O’Donnell, AV Network Design Engineer at William Paterson University, and James King, Audio Visual Specialist at Stockton University, return to the show to discuss... Read More
Our Most Valuable Resource Joe Way, PhD, CTS 2020 can be defined as the year of innovation; or in layman’s terms… the year of “installing a bunch of stuff.” Many institutions saw the purse strings loosen and the money start to flow. In attempting to answer the pandemic call, we began the mad... Read More
The holiday wish list came early for Sean Kalaras, Senior Client Technology Analyst, and Jared Mukai, Manager of AV Technologies & Special Projects, at Pepperdine University, as they upgraded 166 classrooms with EduFLEX, a hybrid classroom technology solution featuring Panasonic AW-HE38H PTZ Cameras in response to COVID and the need for hybrid learning. As noted... Read More
Congratulations to the USC Learning Environments team for winning the 2020 #AVAwards for End-User Service Team of the Year, presented by AV Magazine! I welcome boots-on-the-ground Support Analysts, Adaline Tatum, Marco Winfrey, Lorenzo Bernardi, and Keith Jordan to discuss how they achieve operational excellence. We also discuss Digital Transformation, developing the team, how they approach... Read More
