Mr. Baldwin spent his recent years teaching wireless and electronics at South Central College located in North Mankato, Minnesota. He has been the college staff designate to the Institute for Wireless Education , where he was responsible for delivering wireless communications industry training programs throughout the United States as well as in Europe and South America.  He has taught at the college level for over 27 years and has more than 10 years of wireless communications industry experience and was awarded the 2006 Global Wireless Educational Consortium (GWEC) instructor of the year for two year colleges.

Mr. Baldwin completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Education from the University of Minnesota, and  graduate work at Minnesota State University Mankato in education and engineering, with teaching credentials in Minnesota and California. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He holds a FCC General Radiotelephone license, an Amateur Radio Operators
License and is a certification administrator for CET and FCC exams with the ETA, Electronic Technicians Association-International, and ISCET.  He is a senior CET.

He is a national board member and chair of the communications division for the ETA, where he is also a charter member. He served in the USAF as a Radio Communications Specialist, working on VLF, HF SSB for SAC, and UHF air-to-ground multiplexed voice and data systems for the AWACS looking glass flying command center. He was employed at E. F. Johnson Co., Waseca, MN as a technical support supervisor in field engineering, and as a technical instructor on mobile telephone systems.

John has written many articles on wireless education and telecommunications which have been featured in several trade association newsletters and magazines.  He has been involved in writing an introductory text on wireless communications for a major publisher.  In his role as lead instructor, he was primarily responsible for the development of the Wireless Communications AAS degree program at South Central College, where he also taught courses on wireless base station operations, including MSC backhaul, T1 DSX-1 cross connect interface, SS7 networks using IS-41 protocols.   During the past recent years he has developed courses for training on cellular CDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, 3G, Mobile IP and 802.11 wireless networks and broadband systems using materials from the Global Wireless Educational Consortium modules.

David Carroll
Curriculum Design & Development Director
Nida Corporation

Performance Assessment – Making Sure Your Technicians “Can Do”

David Carroll is the Curriculum Design & Development Director at Nida Corporation.  Dave’s innovative performance tests have challenged SkillsUSA national-level Electronics Technology competitors for the past 5 years.  Dave is currently working with ETA-I on the development of basic and comprehensive performance-based certification tests.

John Dings
Instructor
Pittsburgh Technical Institute

Certified Service Manager (CSM) Training

After serving eight years in the U.S. Army, specializing in air defense artillery, Mr. Dings devoted the next decade to managing a consumer electronics sales/service/rental business. Eager to share his love of electronics with young people, Dings began substitute teaching at various Western Pennsylvania vocational-technical schools, until he joined Pittsburgh Technical Institute (PTI) as a full-time electronics instructor in 1997. He has been involved in PTI’s Electronics Technicians Association student chapter for the past seven years, taking over the position of ETA Student Chapter Coordinator in 2003. Dings is also an ETA-certified administrator, a Customer Service Specialist (CSS), Certified Electronics Technician (CET) and Certified IPC Trainer for J-STD-001 IPC soldering certification.

Dings earned an Associate Degree from Excelsior College and his Bachelor’s Degree from Point Park University. He is currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Technical Education at California University of PA.

Kevin Gulliver
President
Nida Corporation

Performance Assessment – Making Sure Your Technicians “Can Do”

P. Kevin Gulliver is the President of Nida Corporation of Melbourne, Florida.  He has been developing and managing technical training programs for over 16 years in both the military and commercial sectors.  Kevin has presented at training conferences around the world; including training and education conferences in Europe, Australia, China, and the Middle East.

Don Huston
Technical Trainer
Bird Technologies Group, BTG

Line and Antenna Sweeping

Don Huston currently works for the Bird Technologies Group, BTG, as the Technical Trainer with the Global Educational Services and as Project Manager for the Site MOptimization Services divisions of the company.  He has also worked in Application Engineering while at Bird, but was asked to take the lead role in training in 2004.  Prior to his employment at Bird, Huston served in nearly every engineering position and capacity in television stations in NE Ohio.  He started at WKBN-TV in Youngstown, Ohio working in studio and engineering functions, and from there moved to WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio working at the then NBC Owned and Operated station in all engineering positions through Assistant Chief Engineer.  WJW-TV, also in Cleveland, served as his last stop in television for a total of 22 years of broadcast experience.  Don holds degrees from Kent State University in Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering and uses his background and education while at Bird to serve broadcasters, cell site technicians, land mobile radio engineers and all others in the communications industry in learning their trade, honing their skills or expanding their possibilities.  As Technical Trainer with Bird, Huston has assisted in developing training for companies such as Motorola and in working with the ETA as part of the Review Board for proposed certifications.

Jeff LeSueur is an electronics instructor at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio.  He teaches both a pre-engineering class and a traditional career education class.  Jeff holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (Cleveland State University) and a Master’s of Education (John Carroll University).

He believes that teachers must use materials that engage the students.  Lessons should be directly applicable to the real world and skills should be developed that are useful in life and employable.  This must be done while still finding and inventing lessons that are interesting to students.  Many materials should be used: project kits, videos, programming, field trips, student centered activities as well as traditional lab experiments and theory.  Lessons should be evaluated for success regularly and updated frequently.  This philosophy led Jeff to the design of the Awesome Cube and other innovative lessons.

Prior to teaching, Jeff worked in the telecommunications industry as a systems engineer, sales engineer, and consultant for several companies including Fujitsu, and General DataComm

The Light Brigade, Inc.

Fiber Optics Training Course

Bill Scapin leads the North America Service Organization in support of Motorola’s Government and Public Safety customers. He has been with Motorola for more than eighteen years, and during this time has positively impacted Motorola’s Service Delivery through championing Technical Certifications and redefining Service Partner relationships. In his previous positions at Motorola, Bill has held leadership roles within the Project Management & Service Operations in both the US and Canada, as well as led large scale project implementations within the US. Bill is an affiliate of the Enterprise Wireless Association (EWA) and also leads the Motorola Service Partner Council for North America.

Beverly Turek

Marketing to Women & Minorities in the Technology Field

Market & Manage Your Brand

Beverly Turek holds seven different certifications in the technology field.  She is the owner and operator of three growing businesses located in Bryan and College Station, Texas, home of the Fightin’ Texas Aggies. 

Turek’s Computer DR is a small but growing computer company.  This business specializes in custom-built computers, repairs or parts for your every computer need. There is a FUN side to the business that has branded the atmosphere.  The FUN begins with Dublin Dr. Pepper.  Dublin Dr. Pepper and accessories are sold from this location for those Dr. Pepper Lovers. 

Twice Around Sales is a family friendly on line auction house.  You sell your treasures so that others may enjoy them as much as you did. Twice Around Sales website is user and makes your experience a valued one.  

Computer Training Access is the home of “Show the Man in the Box Who’s Boss,” This is an intimate setting where anyone can come and learn about computers from beginner’s level to advance level to the A+ and Networking certification classes. Beverly believes education is extremely important, therefore the training program was developed to help others continue to advance and succeed in the technology field.

Beverly is also active in the American Business Women’s Association (ABWA) and Leading Women Express Network (LWEN). She currently serves as the VP of Web Development for Leading Women Express Network which assists in the development of the website.

Beverly is a mentor to all those seeking knowledge about computers and the field of technology.  She is also active with the Downtown Bryan Economic Development Association; she’s donated time and effort with Hospice Brazos Valley, Habitat for Humanity, March of Dimes, Bryan High School and A&M Consolidated High School by mentoring kids each summer in the technology field.

Jay Warmke
Blue Rock Station

You Will Be Green!
The Future of Technology in a World that is Running Out of Everything.

Jay Warmke followed a rather typical career path. Having graduated with honors with a degree in Journalism from Ohio University – he decided he now knew enough about journalism to never want to be one. So he went into the comic book business.

For about 5 years he sold comic books. Lots of comics. Jay became general manager of the largest comic book distribution company in the world, selling more than $50 million of the silly things each year. So he then quit and went into telecommunications and decided to get his MBA.

In 1991 Jay was named executive director of BICSI, then a relatively small telecommunications association. By 2001 the association had grown from about 1,000 members to over 25,000 – with a budget of $15 million – offices around the globe and a staff of over 100. In 2000 Jay was named one of the 10 Most Influential People in the Telecommunications Industry by Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine. So of course, Jay quit that job and moved to Europe.

He spent two years near Paris learning bad French, then moved with his family to England where he spent a year mucking out stables in exchange for riding and jumping lessons. Having mastered the art of falling off a horse – Jay returned to Ohio to begin Blue Rock Station – a sustainable living center.