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                             Ken Camp - Principal 

ken@ipadventures.com                                                                          Ken's Networking Bio

Ken has worked for 25 years in the telecommunications industry in a variety of roles with AT&T, Lucent Technologies, TimeStep and others. He has worked in strategic management positions, network architecture planning and technical engineering, sales, marketing  and training roles. In addition to his work at IP Adventures, Ken maintains a position as a Consultant Member of Technical Staff with Hill Associates, providing both course development and delivery of presentations & training curriculum. Ken is also an active member of The Consultant Registry, a global consortium of 36 telecommunications and security specialists.

Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Workforce Education and Development from Southern Illinois University, and an assortment of networking technology certifications from Novell, Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent Technologies and other technical hardware and software vendors. He has undertaken extensive graduate studies in education, business, and information technologies.

Ken is an Adjunct Faculty Member of the Round Table Group (www.roundtablegroup.com), a think tank for academic experts. Round Table Group is a consulting firm of professors and business thought leaders who serve as consultants and expert witnesses. RTG is also a global village of knowledge seekers and knowledge providers who believe that the Internet can be harnessed to bring world-class global expertise to bear for challenging projects.

In addition to work with numerous businesses and service providers Ken is actively involved in rural telecommunications issues particularly areas related to deployment of broadband technologies in rural areas. He works with a variety of public and private sector groups and legislators around the world in these efforts. 

Ken writes and speaks about a wide range of strategic business initiatives and their evolution with the ongoing stream of advancements in telecommunications technologies. He has been a speaker at numerous sales, trade and technical events (N+I InterOp, RSA, NetSec, FirewallCON, FOCUS, TISC and others). Ken has worked as a business and strategic technology consultant with many companies, including AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Korean Airlines, Xerox, Hughes, Dreamworks,  Genuity, and the US Navy. 

Ken is the author of IP Telephony Demystified, a McGraw-Hill Professional series book (ISBN: 0071406700) and is currently writing Good Enough Security: Developing Your Digital Common Sense.

Ken also holds positions on the technical and advisory boards of several small, privately held companies. Ken also sits on the advisory board of several federal grant projects (US Department of Agriculture, Department of Labor, Department of Economic Development) related to telecommunications and economic development.

Business Specialties

  • Finding the Value Chain

  • Strategic Business Consulting - Deconstruction, Disintermediation, and Reinventing Business

  • Embracing Disruptive Technologies in the Networked Age

  • Human Performance Improvement -  Capitalizing on the Convergence Between Knowledge Management and E-learning

  • E-Commerce and E-Business Directions & Strategies

  • Enterprise Applications and Internet Integration

  • Trends in Telecommunications

  • Rural Telecommunications Issues and Strategies

Technical Specialties

  • Enterprise Voice and Data Networks

    • Design for Performance and Fault Tolerance

    • TCP/IP and Routing 

    • Wide, Metropolitan and Local Area Networks

  • Network Security and Virtual Private Networks

  • IP Telephony - Disruptive Technology in Progress

  • Quality of Service Techniques

  • xDSL, Frame Relay, ATM Access Technologies

  • WiFi (802.11b) Wireless Networking

  • SONET, Optical Networking and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

  • Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery


Professional Organizations

  • Association of Internet Professionals (AIP)


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