Ray May

Ray May is the CTO at Parker Group, Inc. and is known for passionately taking systems engineering to new and exciting levels, and continuously improving workflows for Command & Control environments. Over his 40+ years’ experience in IT/AV systems engineering, Ray has personally & professionally driven the convergence of IT and AV for Command & Control, and enterprise environments.

Throughout his career, Ray has sought to enhance user’s situational awareness experiences & workflows in operations centers, command & control spaces, & labs across the globe.

Ray espouses to improve Command & Control environments and the user experience through engineering & implementing AV over IP technologies and architectures.  He continuously evangelizes the “less big iron” approach to AV management & control with network-based, node-based, and software-based approaches and solutions.

Ray is a speaker at industry shows, events, education seminars & panels, and regularly talks about the power of AV over IP, especially in Command & Control Use Cases.

Ray is also regularly published in Pro AV journals and magazines.