Speakers

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Speakers

Darek Wieczorek
Principal Consultant
Tait Communications

Darek Wieczorek has been involved in radio communications for over 30 years now.

His experience spans from hands-on maintenance work through system engineering, coverage engineering, project management, product management, consulting and many additional aspects of Land Mobile Radio. He has M.Sc.E.E. in Radio Communications and an MBA.

Nick Pennance
Network Compliance Director
Tait Communications

Nick Pennance is the director of network compliance engineering at Tait Radio Communications. Nick has worked as a lead design engineer for Tait Radio Communications before moving to his current role.

He is now responsible for testing Tait radios for compliance and certification on statewide networks in the United States.

Bill Fillman
Principal Consultant
Tait Communications

Bill has extensive experience working with U.S. Public Safety agencies all across America, having led the Solutions Engineering and Deployment efforts of Tait for the past several years.

David Jenks
Product Business Manager
Tait Communications

David Jenks has been with Tait for 11 years and is currently the Product Business Manager. In his time at Tait, David has held a variety of global product mangement roles including P25 terminals, as well as all systems and repeaters. David has previously worked for the New Zealand Fire Service as a Telecommunications Engineering Officer for 11 years and originally entered the radio industry as a radio technician in the New Zealand Forest Service.

Apart from technical qualifications, he holds an MBA from Southern Cross University in Australia has been a radio amateur for 38 years.