Carrie Higbie
Global Director Data Center Solutions and Services, The Siemon Company
Carrie Higbie has been involved in the computing and networking industries for over 25 years. Carrie currently works with The Siemon Company as the Global Director for Data Center Solutions in support of end-user and electronics communities. She participates in and with the IEEE, TIA and various consortiums for standards acceptance. She has extensive background in all aspects of networking and application development as a consultant, project manager, and Fortune 500 executive and has taught at a collegiate level. She speaks at industry events and contributes numerous articles and whitepapers globally. Carrie has won the “Communication News” Editor’s Choice Award for the last two years.
Carrie is an expert in TechTarget’s Searchnetworking, SearchEnterpriseVoice, SearchVoIP and SearchDataCenters forums and is on the board of advisors. She contributes articles to these forums as well as SearchMobile, SearchSecurity, SearchWireless and SearchCIO covering various topics. Topics include technology planning, business continuity, budgeting, personnel management, certifications and security to name a few. She has been placed in the top 5 technical tips on TechTarget for the last 2 years in multiple forums. Carrie also writes for Network Performance, ZeroDownTime, and various other publications. She participates in the several technology councils, and expert panels.
She is the fmr. President of the BladeSystems Alliance, now is on the Board of Directors. She participates in the Ethernet Alliance, PMI, Share and various other industry panels with a focus on education, Green initiatives and technology. She is an RCDD/NTS and has had numerous certifications in the industry. She has one telecommunications patent and one patent pending.
Carrie works with end users, consultants and designers providing assistance with data center designs, network designs, technology planning and network audits. Her speaking engagements on these subjects include Networld +Interop, Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Decisions, Networking Decisions, SecureIT, AFCOM, 7x24Exchange, Emerging Technology Forums around the globe and several webcasts on these subjects. Her data center design assistance has been utilized in the Financial, Government, Healthcare, Education and Industrial/Manufacturing sectors with assistance towards compliance related tasks.
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