Andy Zmolek

Andy's experience with unified communications, security and mobility over the past decade has driven his current focus on mobile identity and dual-persona mobility solutions for smartphones and tablets, including enterprise mobile UC. At LG Andy was responsible for technology and business development of enterprise mobility solutions with best-of-breed partners.

During his 9 years at Avaya, Andy drove product development and engineering commitments to standardized security and identity functionality across unified communications product lines, represented Avaya at the IETF and W3C, and became an early advocate for SIP and XMPP-based, presence-driven communications architectures. To date, he has received six patents for related UC security and presence technology.

Andy's career started in the defense industry, building real-time simulation networks for missile and satellite systems at Raytheon, mainly with the Tomahawk program. He spent his dot-com years directing networking IT at an enterprise application integration startup acquired by Sybase (now part of SAP). Andy holds a degree in Mathematics from Brigham Young University and currently lives in San Diego.

1. Product Management
2. New Business Development
3. Mobile Virtualization
4. Android
5. Unified Communications
6. Digital Identity
7. Product Development
8. Windows Phone
9. Enterprise Mobility
10. Mobile Networks
11. Cloud Computing
12. Secure Communications
13. Mobile Device Management
14. Identity Federation
15. PKI
16. Mobile Devices
17. LTE
18. Speaking Engagements
19. Dual-Persona Mobility Solutions
20. Standards Development
21. SIP
22. XMPP
23. Press and Analyst Relations

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• Practical VoIP Security

  • Syngress
  • June 10, 2006
  Authors: Andy Zmolek, Thomas Porter, Ph.D, Jan Kanclirz, Antonio Rosela, Michael Cross, Larry Chaffin, Brian Baskin, Choon Shim

  Andy authored Chapter 15 - Regulatory Compliance
  and re-wrote Chapter 4 - PSTN Architecture
  
  This book was written for the thousands of IT professionals-from CIOs to circuit-switched telecom engineers-who are now responsible for deploying and maintaining secure VoIP networks. It explains the security impact on your VoIP network of PSTN, SIP, H.323, firewalls, NAT, encryption, and the regulatory environment. Coverage includes evaluation, design, integration, and management of VoIP networking components, including IP telephones, gateways, gatekeepers, registration servers, media servers, and proxy servers.

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Spanish

  (Professional working proficiency)

• Presence tracking and name space interconnection techniques

  • United States Patent 7,536,437
  • Issued May 19, 2009
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek

  The present invention is directed to a presence and availability system including: (a) an input (e.g., an interface) operable to receive an agent report from a context sensing agent in a host entity associated with a person, the agent report comprising presence information and the person having an address in an associated name space; (b) a tracking agent 154 operable to tag at least some of the presence information with at least one classification tag; and (c) a policy agent 158 operable to determine presence information to be provided to a requestor based on the at least one classification tag.

• Messaging advise in presence-aware networks [1]

  • United States Patent 7,474,741
  • Issued January 6, 2009
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek, Gordon Brunson

  A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.

• Multi-tier security event correlation and mitigation

  • United States Patent Application 12/234,248
  • Filed September 19, 2008
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek, Rod Livingood, Amit Agarwal, Dave Ahrens, Mahalingam Mani, Navjot Singh

  The present invention is directed to the use of a multi-tiered security architecture that includes vendor-operated global security services and policy servers able to exchange security events and mitigation measures.

• Messaging advise in presence-aware networks [2]

  • United States Patent 7,936,865
  • Issued May 3, 2011
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek, Gordon Brunson

  A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.

• Messaging advise in presence-aware networks [3]

  • United States Patent 8,014,497
  • Issued September 6, 2011
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek, Grordon Brunson

  A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.

• Messaging advise in presence-aware networks [4]

  • United States Patent 8050388
  • Issued November 1, 2001
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek, Gordon Brunsen

  A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.

• Messaging advise in presence-aware networks [5]

  • United States Patent 8064574
  • Issued November 22, 2011
  Inventors: Andy Zmolek

  A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.