Christian Stegh is the VP of Strategy at Enabling Technologies. In this role, he leads the partnerships and strategic decisions of the company, works with key customers on their UC roadmaps, and represents Enabling within the UC industry. For the prior five years at Enabling, Chris led the project management, implementation engineering, and customer support functions of the company. He's overseen over 700 deployments of Lync, OCS, and Exchange Unified Messaging, most of which included voice integration to a PBX directly to the PSTN. The results led Enabling to be named as Microsoft's Unified Communications Partner of the Year for 2009, 2010, and 2012.
Prior to joining Enabling, Chris had been Avaya's North American Practice Leader of the IP Telephony and Emerging Technologies practices. He also worked in IT at John Deere, where he managed projects and administered voice, data, and converged networks. Chris is a subject matter expert in UC, SIP, messaging, SOA, and VoIP Security, and likes to write and speak publicly on these topics.