Mike Brander is currently the Managing Director for a team of presales engineers and emerging technology consultants.  His team consists of both a national field team as well as a center based team of technical professionals.  They are responsible for a variety of presales support functions from consultations for new and existing technologies to implementations of private networks or enterprise messaging gateways.  This team has a deep technical expertise on technologies and solutions available today as well as the evolution of them. Some of the areas of focus are around core network solutions, security, mobile unified communications and IoT PaaS solutions.  Mike has worked with Verizon and its predecessor companies for 27 years and has held numerous positions in his tenure. Previously, Mike has led teams supporting enterprise sales for both the wireless and wireline business units.  He has also led wireless data solutions teams as well.  In his years of experience he has served the finance, insurance, media, transportation, professional services and public safety sectors providing Mike with a broad knowledge base needed to solve complex business challenges.