Archive for the 'Will Work For Love' Category

Will Work for Love: Ian Maison, Signagelive, U.K.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Today, we introduce Ian Maison, customer services manager, Signagelive, Saffron Walden, Essex, U.K. where he is responsible for managing the pre-sales and support teams to ensure the highest level of customer experience. Describe your personal work space. My work space is located in the the U.K. Signagelive office, which is a converted barn situated near [...]

Will Work For Love: AnnMarie Cross, Watchfire Signs, Danville, Illinois

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month we welcome AnnMarie Cross, Human Resources Manager for Watchfire Signs in Danville, Illinois. Her focus is recruiting, but she also often handles employee relations and policy issues. And, yes, she admits to being verbose. Describe your personal workspace. As a human resources manager, it’s important I’m accessible to our employees and candidates alike, [...]

Will Work For Love: Madalyn Roker, London 2012 Olympic Games

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Madalyn Roker is Client Services Director, EMEA, for Ayuda Media Systems and this summer she has taken the ‘Will Work for Love‘ mantra to heart by volunteering at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Ayuda have been really supportive in giving her 50% of the time off as additional holiday; here she shares her experiences as [...]

Will Work For Love: Shannon Vander Giessen, Planar Systems, Portland, Oregon

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month, we introduce Shannon Vander Giessen, business development/digital signage for Planar Systems, Portland Oregon. She works with customers, third-party partners, and vendors to drive Planar’s signage products business. Describe your personal work space. Coordinated chaos: there’s media players, literature, magazines I’ll eventually read, a well-used hot water kettle to keep me planted, and a [...]

Will Work For Love: Brenda Keys, Exponation, Georgia

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month, we introduce Brenda Keyes, director of meetings at Exponation LLC, Roswell, Georgia, U.S., who handles all logistics for the conference program at Digital Signage Expo, and other expositions and the industry forums. Included in this would be all special events, receptions, banquets, and food functions at the expos. She also manages the timeline [...]

Brenda Keys, Exponation, Director Of Meetings

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Next up in our monthly Will Work For Love feature is Brenda Keys. Brenda is Director of Meetings at Exponation – organisers of DSE and a few other things as you all know!!

Will Work For Love: Tom Milner, Service & Support Ltd., Kettering, UK

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Tom Milner is managing director and owner of Service & Support Ltd, Kettering, Northamptonshire. UK, which provides installation and maintenance services to the AV/IT industries that cover the whole of the UK & Ireland, and into EMEA when requested. The company also works with partners around the world to provide the same services globally. Describe [...]

Will Work For Love: Ron Willie, NEC Display Solutions, Chicago

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Ron Willie, sales and marketing analyst at NEC Display Solutions, Chicago, spends most of his time processing sales data and providing pricing to NEC Display’s channel partners. Describe your personal work space. I work in an 8’ x 8’ cube with an L-shaped desk. Currently, I have a 30″ and a 21″ monitor sitting on [...]

Will Work For Love: Stéphane Bastien, Telecine, Montreal

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Stéphane Bastien is technical director at Telecine, Montreal. He manages the digital signage division. Describe your personal work space. One main desk plus two other work spaces. I have two 24” LCD screens on my desk. My work spaces have six 21” LCD screens plus lots of additional LCD screens to program and display our [...]

Will Work For Love: Kelvin Han, IAdea, Taipei, Taiwan

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Kelvin Han is the partners relations manager at IAdea Corporation in Taipei, Taiwan. He is responsible for helping IAdea’s software partners to quickly adapt their legacy software and services to run on IAdea’s SMIL-based hardware platform. Describe your personal work space. I sit next to the reception area so it’s good spot to learn everyone’s [...]