Date: September 20, 2001

Presenter: Donald E. Jacobson, Ph.D., S.C.C.D.

Affiliation: Axiom Integration, Inc.

The guest speaker for the meeting was Donald E. Jacobson, Ph.D., S.C.C.D. A former science and technology educator, Dr. Jacobson moved in to computer and network support services in 1990. He received a doctorate in I.T. in 1994 and worked in various capacities in both higher education and private industry. He is a certified Communications Distribution Designer with affiliations in BICSI and the Siemon Corporation. For the last year he has worked as V.P. – I.T. for Axiom Integration, Inc. Previously, he was V.P.-Information Services at Thompson Teledata in Omaha, Director of Campus Networking at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, and M.I.S. Director at H.P.Smith Enterprises in Omaha. Dr. Jacobson hold fellowships in the National Science Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation of Princeton University and was named a Tandy Technology Corporation Scholar in 1991.

Axiom Integration, Inc. - www.axiomintegration.com offers next-generation data centers and colocation facilities that have been effectively and uniquely engineered to meet the needs of businesses, today and tomorrow. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Axiom offers affordable, scalable solutions designed to meet the needs of organizations requiring totally secure mass storage, customized Internet services and completely reliable network connectivity. Axiom emphasizes a very narrow business focus on providing the engineering and environmentals associated with being a world class technical facilities provider. Axiom is provisioned by 5 logical suppliers over 2 separate physical connections totaling OC96 capability (4.8 GBPS or the equivalent of 3200 T1’s). Very simply, we are the physical structure and the “pipe-to-the-world” that a business uses to mirror or replace it’s I.T. space.

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