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3 Tips for Delivering the Integrated Systems Your Customers Want
Commercial Integrator, July 29, 2016

K.C. Schwarz, CEO of USAV, offers some valuable advice as to how system integrators can make the transition from offering traditional integration services to delivering fully functional electronic systems that solve customer problems across traditional system boundaries. Read More>>

13 Standout Projects of 2016
Commercial Integrator, July 6, 2016

The goal of the fifth annual Commercial Integrator Integration Awards contest is to highlight impressive projects with the hope that our coverage will inspire new ideas and carry lessons for other integration firms. USAV Integrator Videosonic was recognized as the Best Retail Project of 2016. Read More>>

AQAV Names Level 3 Audiovisual Education Partner
AV Network, June 14, 2016

The Association for Quality in Audio Visual Technology (AQAV) will be naming Level 3 Audiovisual as an approved training center for AV9000 CQT classes on the West coast of the U.S. “It has been my ambition to bring basic quality management principles to the audiovisual technology industry, as other industries have done, primarily for the benefit of the consumer, and therefore for the benefit of all who manage, procure, manufacture, design, install, program, and service that industry,” said Mario Maltese, executive director for AQAV. Read More>>

Unified AV Systems Expands Senior Management
AV Network, June 14, 2016

As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Unified AV Systems has made two strategic management team changes. Tom Taylor has taken on the newly created role of senior vice president—Greenville branch manager. Amy Truitt has taken on the role of Vice President—PMO. Read More>>

Road to InfoComm: Q&A Travis Deatherage
AV Network, June 2, 2016

My top priority at InfoComm this year is to understand what products and service our best manufacturing partners are developing and releasing that will allow us to deliver on our promise of simple, reliable, and high performing solutions for our clients. Read More>>

Meet Katie Chism, the Woman Behind the BLC
Commercial Integrator, May 5, 2016

Katie Chism started working for NSCA as director of education and tradeshows about six weeks before the first Business and Leadership Conference (BLC; back then called the Fall Leadership Conference), which has developed into a must-attend gathering of industry leaders in its 18 years. She was thrust into fast-paced planning mode, since those six weeks included two weeks of vacation by her boss. Read More>>

Media Vision’s CEO Makes In-person Delivery for First Assistive Listening Order
Media Vision Website, April 26, 2016

Delivering the first order of a new product line to a customer is a milestone for any company. For Media Vision’s CEO, Fardad Zabetian, there was no doubt it had to be a personal delivery. A few weeks after the commercial release of their new assistive listening system, the lucky first customer was known: Plymouth Congregational Church in Coconut Grove, Miami. Read More>>

Interactive Solutions Prepares to Celebrate 20 Years
The Daily News, February 16, 2016

Anniversaries can be perfunctory milestones in the life of a business, mile markers along the road to longevity that represent a cause for reflection on the past and future. There’s a simple reason why for Jay Myers, preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his videoconference technology company Interactive Solutions, the milestone he’ll be celebrating is more momentous than that. Read More>>

David Salley Overcomes Age, Race Obstacles to Build Successful AV Integrator
Commercial Integrator, January 18, 2016

David Salley didn’t start his company in a predominantly white industry for any reason other than the chance to become part of what he calls an “interesting” and “exciting” endeavor. He wasn’t looking to be a trailblazer or break any barriers. In fact for most of the first 18 years of DasNet, Salley turned down just about every opportunity to do interviews or speak in public about the work the company was doing and projects they had won. Read More>>

John Greene, VP Sales & Marketing, Advanced AV
AV Network, December 23, 2015

All those Saturday morning cartoons were secretly indoctrinating an impulse to be surrounded by video displays. For a kid coming of age at the time color television was capturing the imagination of Americans, there was something subliminal transmitted to John Greene from Advanced AV: a destiny in the audiovisual business. Read More>>