Satish Shah

Satish Shah, MS-MBA, is a expert global speaker, author, trainer and consultant for Unified Communications. Satish is a 12-year veteran of Microsoft Corporation -most recently as a Sr. Technology Architect in the UC team. He is a sought after speaker by Microsoft and partners for training and have delivered over 100+ training and speaking events in 2008-2009. He has trained MS employees, partners and customers in US, Asia, Europe and South America. Satish has been a recognized leader and speaker in the information technology industry for the last 30+ years.

Satish is Director of Business Development -West Region for Enabling Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Partner and 2009 Unified Communications Partner of the Year focused primarily on unified communications solutions, services and training.

My most memorable day was when I met Bill Gates on July 26, 1996 in Montreal, Canada at a MS employee meeting. The picture was taken on that day before the awards dinner. I met Bill again a number of times during my MS days but that first meeting is my most memorable.

Excerpt from Foreword for the book by Eric Swift, GM of Unified Communications, Microsoft Corporation

"The technology exists today. The authors of Unified Communications for Dummies have paved the path for your journey in this book. I have worked with Satish as a colleague and seen him present these topics with both clarity of vision and practicality of real world experience; he makes the business case to the C-level executives and provides IT professionals with the depth of how it really gets done using his vast knowledge and expertise in Unified Communications. Now as the author, he has captured the essence of Unified Communications so that both the novice and experienced executive and communications professional can understand and apply the principles in a simple step by step process. He paints the vision of where you can take your organization and shows the pragmatic steps to take, identifying the pitfalls to avoid along the way. Selling a vision is easy, delivering it requires the real world experience contained in these pages. I am sure you will find the guidance herein enlightening and educational as I did. Best of luck in your own organization's unified communications journey!"