Introduction

In this post I will explain in further detail as to what I do with my interconnect, and touch a little bit on myself personally.

Part 1 - Personal

I was born in 1984 in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Burlington. My father has been in some sort of technology or another my whole life, and that is what eventually sprung my interest. I travelled around with my father at a young age watching him in his various positions taking in as much as I could, later finding myself taking as many technelogical classes through out high school as I could. As I got older and my parents divorced, and my father remarried, my step-mothers father owns a local electronics shop in town so I also tried to spend as much time as I could trying to learn from him and his technicians as I could. Unfortunately I have not yet had the chance to go to a post secondary school, I did however fall into a very well paying job in sales with medical supplies. Here I truely learned the skill of selling, and working with people, and this is where I decided that sales is what I wanted to excel in as long as it had to do with technology somehow. Unfortunately I left this company for several reasons, and found myself bouncing around various sales positions for the next couple years. Last year I luckely located my current position, and haven't been happier since. I am now with an interconnect in Waterdown, Ontario, named Instatel Communications.

Part 2 - Business

With Instatel I am classified as a consultant and Account Manager. Here I spend my days mainly educating local businesses on up to date telephone and networking solutions, and work with my current clients with whatever they may need. Instatel specializes in Panasonic, Toshiba, and Nortel phone equipment, and due to the length of the list, I will touch base on our data products in a later post. Although most people in the average public look at the phone sitting on their desk, and think nothing of the technology behind it, believing it is no different then the phones they have at home, in all reality this isn't true. The truth is I spend most of my days, nights, and any other time I have constantly trying to keep up to date myself on all the new released technology, and learning learning learning. Cables, phones, phone systems, and every other piece of the puzzle is changing monthly, the regulations are changing monthly, and that is why working with an interconnect and a personal consultant is so essential, the average person doesn't have the time to invest in learning all this on their own.

Part 3 - Goals of this blog

A quick note of the intentions of this blog. I hope that people will be able to read this blog, and potentially educate themselves as to their current equipment, other equipment, and new equipment coming to the market in the future. I plan on doing a few small post introducing the equipment I work with on a regular bases, and later begin to talk about the daily situations I am in, in hoping that you can relate to these stories. Lastly I am hoping that enough people will be interested in what I am writing about to be able to interact, comment, and ask questions and this can then become an easy, free tool for you to come to and get the answers you need that you would otherwise have to pay for.



Thank you for your interest in this blog, and I intend on posting daily from this point on, and I hope you enjoy.

Sincerely,

Justin Hawes