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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 […]

Will Work For Love: Letta Nagel, Saddle Ranch Digital

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Letta Nagel is the chief content officer at Saddle Ranch Digital in Beverly Hills, California, with responsibility for leading the creative talents within the company, sparking ideas for original content and helping to bring ideas to life. Describe your personal work space. I’m fortunate to work in great offices in Beverly Hills. My personal workspace […]

Will Work For Love: Calum Walker, Amigo Digital, London

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Calum Walker is senior designer, Amigo Digital, London. UK Describe your personal work space.The Amigo offices are fairly small and they are in an old bookbinders building in Highbury, North London. I would describe my personal space as ‘organised clutter’ with numerous tacky holiday souvenirs bought for me by co-workers spread around. My personal favourite […]

Sticky: Will Work For Love – Scott Eastman, Nanonation Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Scott Eastman is creative director for Nanonation in Lincoln, Nebraaska. Describe your personal work space. I keep my workspace fairly sparse to avoid letting my environment leak into client’s designs, but by no means does that mean my space is tidy. Bi-monthly purges keep my desk free of the mountains of sketches and notes that […]