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Voice Expert tekVizion Announces Data Networking Exec as New CEO
Leland Phillips Sr. Joins Firm to Help Foster Coalitions in VoIP
Multi-vendor Era
RICHARDSON, TX (March 1, 2005) – tekVizion™
PVS, Inc., the new standard for systems integration, today said
it has named Leland Phillips, Sr. as its new chief executive officer.
With this hire, tekVizion is taking critical steps to position
itself as an industry leader for many years to come.
Leland Phillips, Jr., one of the firm’s founders and prior
CEO, becomes EVP of corporate development where he will focus
on the development of strategic partnerships with leading telecommunications
vendors and service providers.
As CEO, Phillips’ focus is on setting tekVizion’s
strategic direction and aligning the company’s business
with the critical challenges facing the telecommunications industry.
“The industry is faced with simultaneous challenges associated
with growing their revenues through enhanced service offerings,”
Phillips noted. “To remain competitive, service providers
must juggle the complexities of evolving their infrastructure
to embrace VoIP technologies while simultaneously maintaining
the quality of service that their customers have come to expect.
The flexibility and new services enabled by the many new vendor
offerings often comes at a cost of end-to-end feature interoperability
issues. tekVizion's focus is to solve these underlying problems
to allow vendors and service providers to focus on their core
product and services offerings.”
Phillips’ background is in data networking. “Just
as voice and data technologies are converging, so is the talent,”
said Terri Griffin, tekVizion president. “The cross-pollination
of talent from these historically separate industries is further
evidence that convergence is a reality.”
Prior to joining tekVizion, Phillips spearheaded Lumigent Technologies,
Inc.’s sales and customer support strategy as a founding
member of the management team that has established itself as a
leader in data auditing technology. During his 10-year tenure
with 3Com Corp, he held various senior sales and marketing management
positions within the enterprise network systems business. The
remainder of his 20 years of IT-related experience include advanced
systems design of large-scale software and security projects for
the U.S. Air Force, NASA and MITRE Corp. Phillips earned a bachelor’s
degree with a dual major in computer science and mathematics from
the University of Oklahoma, and completed graduate-level studies
in computer science and system redundancy at the University of
Houston and UCLA.
About tekVizion PVS, Inc.
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com) is setting the new standard for
systems integration in the telecommunications industry. tekVizion
Labs™ is the first interoperability certification lab of
its kind, and tekVizion’s suite of FastForward>>SM
services helps service providers achieve a smooth transition to
packet-voice networks, speeding delivery of integrated services.
tekVizion leverages its real-world, multi-vendor integration and
test experience and proven processes to provide leading vendors,
carriers, and enhanced service providers with solutions that meld
legacy and next-generation resources. tekVizion’s headquarters,
along with a state-of-the-art test lab and Executive Briefing
Center, is located in the Telecom Corridor® in Richardson,
Texas.
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tekVizion and tekVizion Labs are trademarks and
FastForward is a service mark of tekVizion PVS, Inc. Telecom Corridor
is a registered trademark of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce.
All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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