CTCA - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Instructor Bios
• President - CTCA.Info
• TIA Convergence Technology Professional

McCoy has over 30 years of intense technical telecommunications experience, including both packet-switched and circuit-switched networks. Dr. McCoy has also been on both sides of the table - serving as both a Vendor's representative for several large equipment manufacturers and as a Customer's representative for a large enterprise. After a tour in the US Navy McCoy went to the University of Alabama, graduating with a BS in Industrial Engineering and subsequently also earning a MS in Operations Research. After working in the aerospace industry McCoy became an Assistant Professor of Engineering and continued work toward a PhD in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, conferred by the University of Connecticut. In addition McCoy worked as a Member Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ for almost a decade. Following that he became an Executive Director of Networks at a very large private institution. Telecommunications technical training followed, with McCoy entering the professional training industry. In this capacity McCoy delivered literally hundreds of training seminars, many overseas. In addition McCoy developed technical seminars and maintained them to the most recent technological advances. Most recently McCoy was a Network Architect for a major telecommunications vendor, designing telecommunications networks for common carrier telephone companies.

Keding has over 20 years of experience in data-networking/data-communications, consulting, network planning, network engineering, network technical-support, and professional education. His communications career started in Manitoba as he was selected to review the computer systems of a local college. This opportunity grew into the implementation of a new full scale network system including database programming for accounting and student services and training of staff and students. From there his interests grew to include a wide variety of LAN, WAN and Internet systems.

Greenfield has over 30 years of experience in the IT field with a career focus on large financial corporations on the area of wireless technology. Greenfield's IT career started in the U.S. Navy as a Data Processing Technician stationed onboard the USS Mars, located in Sasebo Japan. During his military duty Greenfield worked on various military IT projects, one which honored him with the Navy Commendation Award. When his military time was over, Greenfield obtained his Associate of Science degree from Davenport University and then his Bachelor of Science from Aquinas College. While attending college, he took first place in Michigan and fifth place in the U.S. in a nation wide IT competition. Mike began his civilian work as a Cobol and Delphi developer, then an Analyst and eventually managing over 50 critical Novell networks. He has been a Unix Administrator and a Sybase Database Administrator for over 10 years. In 2003, shortly after Canopy' introduction, Greenfield started a Wireless Internet Service Provider Corporation based entirely on the Motorola Canopy product line.

Job Titles:

• Consultant

Mike's love of computers began in the late 70's with his family's purchase of a TRS-80 with 48KB expansion board. This passion for technology followed him all the way to Austin, TX, and as a graduate of the University of Texas he rode the dot-com era in many different startups as both the IT Admin and Website Creator. Motorola purchased one of these companies, which began a new tack into the wireless world, where he transitioned to Product Manager and Trainer. Experience Mike's tenure at Motorola began in 2005 as part of the WiBB group's software division which included indoor and outdoor predictive technology. He was the Product Manager for the outdoor planning tool, BroadbandPlanner, as well as Wireless Manager. Mike also assisted in field testing new Mesh and PMP hardware products. Course and consulting subjects include: Local and Wide Area Networking, RF Propagation (indoor and outdoor), Mesh Wi-Fi, SNMP Management Education Graduate of the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. Bachelor of Science, Communications, University of Texas. Pragmatic Marketing Seminars: Practical Product Management and Requirements that Work

Job Titles:

• Chief Technology Officer
• Co - Founder

As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Heskett currently oversees the planning, development, installation and maintenance of the ZIRKEL Wireless network. Over the last 12 years, Sean helped to grow the company from an initial idea, one antenna site and a single customer to a network of thousands of customers served by 20 antenna sites located throughout Northwest Colorado. Heskett's technical knowledge is key to building, maintaining and supporting ZIRKEL Wireless' high-speed wireless network.