FREE WEBINAR:
Communications Enablement: Integrating real time communications into your business processes


Thursday, September 24, 2009, 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT
Communications enabling your business processes offers hard ROI returns by significantly reducing human latency in “getting work done”. By building communications into the fabric of business processes and applications, companies can achieve in-year returns on investment by creating people-driven and process-driven communications that radically enhance productivity. Come and learn how Nortel’s Agile Communication Environment is delivering these results in real customer situations – without the need to rip and replace and across multivendor environments.

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Tara Mahoney
Solutions Leader, Communications Enabled Business Solutions, Nortel

Tara began her career at Nortel. She held a variety of roles in strategy, commercial marketing, new product introduction, and product/solution management. Highlights included involvement in the first carrier VoIP deployment, and beginning her passion with software and solutions through the creation of the Carrier Hosted Solutions team.

Leaving Nortel in 2005 she joined Nimcat Networks, a start-up in Ottawa, as Director of Product Management. Nimcat was bought by Avaya and after launching the first peer to peer solution at Avaya, Tara moved into managing the Small and Mid-Market Applications Portfolio at Avaya.

She returned to Nortel to take part in the movement to the Software and Services business through communications enablement. Tara is now Vice President CEBS (Communications Enabled Business Solutions) Portfolio Management. She lives in Ottawa with her husband and son.


 

John Bednarek
Leader, Alliances & Business Development Communications Enabled
Business Solutions, Nortel


John Bednarek is responsible for Nortel global alliances and business development strategy driving its Communications-Enablement Strategy across Nortel’s enterprise businesses.

Mr. Bednarek is a seasoned business professional with over 20 years of product marketing, business development/alliances and sales experience in the networking and software industry - delivering, marketing and selling products and services ranging from embedded systems to total system solutions for targeted markets. John has worked with leading industry companies such as Gandalf, Mitel, Nortel, Motorola and Freescale Semiconductors. He also worked with several start-ups including Solana Networks, Avoca Semiconductors and C-Port Network Processors (acquired by Motorola in 2001).

John earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with honors, from Carleton University.


 

Marisa Torrieri
Editor, TMCnet

Washington, D.C., native Marisa Torrieri got her start as a telecommunications journalist nine years ago as editor of Wireless Data News, a b-to-b publication based out of Rockville, Maryland. While there, she served as the daily show reporter for CTIA, PCIA and other industry conferences. One of her favorite interviews was with CDMA pioneer Andrew Viterbi, upon his retirement at QUALCOMM. She comes to TMC after a four years of freelance writing and editing for a number of high-tech publications, including RFID News, Laptop magazine and RFID Update.

Marisa possesses a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from The University of Maryland, in College Park.


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