Paul Zielie

Paul Zielie, CTS-D, CTS-I has over 30 years of experience designing and integrating IT, telecommunications and audiovisual (AV) solutions. I believe that technology is in service to organizational goals and work flow, and not an end in itself and use that as a guiding principal in my design efforts." Over the course of his career he has had most of the roles in the AV/IT spectrum including customer/end user, IT owner, integrator, designer, managed service provider, distributor, pre-sale specifier, and manufacturer. Because of this experience in every facet of the AV/IT lifecycle, he brings an almost unique perspective in the consequences of how product and project features are implemented. A side focus of his career has been creating and presenting technical education. He is a strong advocate of fundamental, theory based technical content rather than a product-based curriculum, allowing the student to adapt to inevitable changes in technology and a providing path to progressive growth. He was the InfoComm 2015 Educator of the year.