Daniel Gluch holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree of the Univiersity of Applied Sciences in Friedberg, germany - as well as a certificate of apprenticeship as a Communications Electronics Professional from Deutsche Telekom. He has experience in the telecommunication industry since 1987. Because of his history in research and development departments as well as in Sales- and Services of leading vendors like Cisco, Telenorma/Bosch Telecom/Tenovis/Avaya, Ascom, he has kept good relationship and contacts to these companies. Especially in Early Adaptor Programs, Proof of Concepts and Pilot projects these relationships can be a huge value add. In his engagement for Cisco he finally was the Technical Lead of the Global Technology Advisory Group within Cisco and in this role he acted as the global interface of the global Sales Force and the product managment / development of the business unites for core call control, Telepresence Applications and endpoints. Daniel Gluch has been Chief Architect for Cisco in the Central European Collaboration Experience Team and responsible for many global Enterprise projects with more than 100 000 endpoints / users.Project experience from global Enterprise projects (extract):- Media-Saturn (Media-Markt / Saturn electronic retail stores): Lead-Architect for IP-Telephony/UC and Telepresence (120 000 endpoints/Users) in Europe.- Bayer (global chemistry and pharmacy company):Lead-Architect for IPT/UC (150 000 Phones/Users globally).- Daimler Lead-Architect for First Global High-Level-Concept, Design and first Implementation of Daimler US- Deutsche Bahn (german railway company):Lead-Architect for Deutsche Bahn´s IPT/UC platform for 120 000 endpoints/users.- SAP Lead Architect, Solution Engineering and POC Lead- Volkswagen / VW Lead Architect and technical project lead during RFP bid phase.- BASFLead Architect and technical project lead for the Collaboration Architecture Transformation (120 000 Users/endpoints - 2011-2019)