About Me
In summer, I like sailing lasers on the Ottawa River. Catching the waves from speed boats can give you a real lift; fighting them can be a challenge; and ignoring them can be disastrous. Over three and a half decades in the industry, I’ve seen many technology waves — some big, some small, and some over-rated, but always interesting.
Big or small, each wave is accompanied by technology and business challenges and opportunities… unless the technology takes you where you want to go as a business, it has little value.
I am an anomaly in Nortel: I’ve been there since grad school (though I wasn’t there when it was a start-up 110 years ago), mostly in data and mostly in enterprise. On all three counts, it sometime felt that I was swimming against the tide, though recently the tide has really changed for Nortel (we had> 30% growth in enterprise in 1Q07, a lot of this from data).
I love this industry — it's not about making bombs but about helping people communicate. That’s why I take every opportunity to evangelize convergence in all its forms, and why I’ve been writing a column for TMC publications, most recently Internet Telephony, for a decade.
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