The following was published in a press release sent by AVT.
Kimberton, PA, January 21, 2015: Applied Video Technology, Inc (AVT) has announced a restructuring of their technical services division to address the growing requirements and complexities of the latest AV room environments. Architectural trends such as open floor plans for corporate and university applications has increased the number of collaboration and meeting spaces, requiring new designs and implementation of shared Audio and Video communications.
“To thrive in this new environment, AV integrators must conquer several challenges presented by projects with larger numbers of rooms; different system designs, different programs, different user experiences in each room, greater demands on IT support staff, unique infrastructure in each room, and the challenge of managing all rooms,” explained Bruce MacLelland, AVT CEO. “Due to our rapid growth over the last several years, we learned to become better designers and project managers. It caused us to expand our AV engineering and control system programming capabilities and invest in training at all levels of our Technical Resources Group,” MacLelland added.
There are approximately 12.5 million meeting spaces worldwide and more are coming as small videoconferencing and huddle rooms become the accepted way for people to communicate and teach. AVT is committed to thrive in these new environments by offering simple-to-use, transparent, rapidly deployable, highly repeatable solutions with a consistent interface and experience across the entire enterprise.
To oversee this expanding business, AVT has hired Albert Estrada as Vice President of Technical Services. Estrada is rejoining AVT after spending the previous 8 years at Fox-TV and QVC. “Albert’s main focus before with AVT was to build and commission Avid post production environments. At Fox and QVC, he learned to manage large scale technical projects and the people associated with those projects.” commented MacLelland. “We are very fortunate to have Albert spearhead our commitment to be a world-class AV integration company.”
About AVT
AVT has been a leading Audio Video Systems Integrator in the Philadelphia area since 1996. We are proud to assist our customers in the design, installation, training and support of custom digital media AV solutions for video productions systems, networked AV systems, digital signage networks and video streaming and conferencing systems.
We are CTS certified and trained representatives for hundreds of AV manufacturers, striving to find the right technical mix of products and price points to ensure our customers receive the best overall value for their investment.
