Bill Schrier is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the City of Seattle and director of the City’s Department of Information Technology (DoIT), reporting directly to Mayor Michael McGinn. Seattle has a population of about 600,000 residents and a City government of about 11,000 employees. DoIT has 195 full-time employees and a budget of $49 million. Approximately 450 employees work in information technology units throughout City government. As CTO, Schrier is responsible to set standards and policies governing the use of information technology in City government. As Director of DoIT, Schrier responsibilities include the city’s data center, computing services, information security, web site, municipal television station, community technology, electronic mail system, 800 MHz trunked public safety radio system, telephone network, and data communications network. The City of Seattle’s website www.seattle.gov, television station and technology projects have won a number of local and national awards, including “Best of the Web City Portal” in 2001 and 2006 and NATOA’s “Excellence in Government Programming” in 2007, 2008, and 2010 for the Seattle Channel. Schrier was named one of Government Technology’s 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in 2008 (www.govtech.com/gt/articles/268508), and a Computerworld Premier 100 Leader for 2010 (www.computerworld.com/spring/p100/detail/279). He’s been honored as a fellow of the Public Safety Foundation of America (2010) and the Public Technology Institute (2010). He writes a blog about the intersection of information technology and government, how they sometimes collide but often influence and change each other. It can be found at www.digitalcommunitiesblogs.com/CCIO/ . He tweets at www.twitter.com/billschrier Schrier is a retired officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 206-684-0633 Website: www.seattle.gov/doit

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The love of sound is Biamp‘s reason for being, and has been since our founding 35 years ago. We’ve grown to be an acknowledged international leader in professional installed audio electronics. Our staff still shares a passion for sound that resonates through every product and every decision the company makes.

You can sense our dedication to sound when you call for support and Biamp’s own technicians answer — in-house. You touch it when you use our intuitive software to configure new systems. You can hear our passion for great sound grow louder with every breakthrough design Biamp launches.

Most people have never seen Biamp products, but they’ve probably heard them work wonders — in airports, arenas, courtrooms, Houses of Worship, theaters, universities, corporations, and conference centers. Around the world, around the clock, Biamp equipment is delivering, managing and enhancing the sound.

For the love of sound, we never stop experimenting, tinkering and making the impossible actually practical. Because ultimately, when the lights dim and the speakers come on, it’s not about the system. It’s all about the sound.

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Over 90 years of manufacturing excellence

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