Ted Wallingford

Current

• Executive Technology Consultant at Best Technology Strategy LLC

Past

• Senior Networking Consultant at LCG Technologies Corp.
• former contractor at Visium Resources
• Manager of Information Technology at Independence Excavating Inc.

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Ted Wallingford’s Summary

As the founder of Best Technology Strategy LLC, Ted Wallingford is an executive consultant who provides expertise in the specialties of advanced networking projects and strategy, data communications and storage systems, the telecommunications business, and the core technologies underlying them.

Ted is an expert in the specialty of unified business communication, and has written two books about VoIP (voice over IP) for O'Reilly Media, the world's most recognized tech publisher.

Ted has been heavily involved in information technology since 1994, and has served a variety of hands-on and technology management roles in manufacturing, advertising, logistics, consulting service, and construction industries.

Best Technology Strategy LLC provides services to the networking industry in marketing, decision support, and testing. The firm also offers thought leadership and technical guidance to businesses seeking better utilization of networked systems, and business requirements and solution design services for innovative service ventures considering expansion into the telecommunications business. Ted is has also been a technical author for Macworld Magazine, O’Reilly Network, and Weblogs Inc. He resides in Ohio.

- Guest on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program, to discuss Voice over IP technology and its impact on consumer habits and the telecom industry at large.
- Speaker at VON Enterprise Atlanta 2006.
- Speaker at MuniWireless Boston 2007.
- Personally selected by Jeff Pulver, the publisher of VON Magazine, as one of the top telecom blog writers of 2005.
- Awarded technology consultant of the month by LCG Technologies in February of 2006.
- Published VoIP Hacks, second book about Voice over IP, in January of 2006.
- Interviewed by Computer Outlook in December of 2005 about the subject of IP telephony.
- Featured in a story about VoIP telephone services in the Chronicle-Telegram newspaper in April of 2006.

Ted Wallingford’s Specialties:

Telecommunications, Networking, Voice over IP (VoIP), Information Technology, Information Systems, Communications, Journalism, System Architecture, Technology Auditing, Information Security

Additional Information

Ted Wallingford’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Ted Wallingford’s Groups:

IETF Associate Member, VoIP Think Tank Panelist, Cleveland B2B Connect Associate, O'reilly Media

•    The Life Science Executive Exchange
•    Linked Cleveland

Ted Wallingford’s Honors:

LCG Technologies Consultant of the Month, Feb 2006; Named by Jeff Pulver as one of the top VoIP bloggers of 2005; My book "Switching to VoIP" has received five-star ratings at Amazon.com and elsewhere.

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