Brian C. Boyer, President & CEO
Brian Boyer became DataComm’s President and CEO in March 2008, and has been with DataComm since 1989. In his tenure, Brian has served in a variety of capacities including Senior Accounts and Project Manager for many of our existing clients. Brian helped DataComm position itself as a leader in providing the “Power of One” Network Solutions and Managed Services to our Financial customer base with the introduction of many of our managed network and security services, and by helping with our vision to extend our product and service offerings to other verticals markets throughout Florida and nationwide. In his role, Brian maintains DataComm’s focus on the always-evolving needs of the marketplace, forecasting new and emerging technologies and responding to our clientele with innovative and compliance driven solutions. In his role as Senior Accounts and Project Manager, Brian had part in the design, implementation and support of more than 400 network systems covering thousands of our client locations throughout the United States and Caribbean markets. Brian’s prior experience included being an on-air Radio Personality in the North Carolina Market. Brian attended Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida and the University of North Carolina. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and maintains many manufacturer’s products sales certifications. Brian’s leadership has helped name DataComm one of Tampa Bay’s Fastest Growing companies. In his downtime, he enjoys being outdoors, fishing, and spending time with his children and grandchildren.
Travis E. Norris, Vice President & CFO
Travis Norris, a graduate of the University of South Florida, joined DataComm in 2001 and has consistently advanced within the corporation. Now serving as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for DataComm, Travis looks to utilize his long tenure combined with new ideas to continue DataComm’s growth. Travis has brought a freshness to DataComm – incorporating a new look to the marketing, both web and print. He is always looking for better ways for DataComm to conduct business and has put those ideas to good use, creating custom applications that have helped streamline both accounting and technical functions. The “do-it” attitude has also allowed Travis to display his ability to adapt to many job roles. Travis is Sales Certified in Cisco, Citrix, ShoreTel, and WatchGuard.
Douglas P. Sliman, Director of Operations
Douglas Sliman, Director of Operations, is responsible for overall service delivery uniformity and product consistency across all DataComm business lines. Douglas has over 20 years of experience in technical services management and support operations. Prior to joining DataComm, responsibilities included managing banking technology service operations for a major financial technology service provider including datacenter conversions and technology rollouts to over 300 financial institutions. Douglas managed the global implementation, product operations and technology services launch in over 44 countries for one of the world’s leading Telco providers. Managed the Hospitality service Vertical for a leading global IT solutions company delivering managed technical services to over 700 Hotels, incident response centers and the migration of multiple service centers into a globally, centrally sourced Helpdesk and Network Operation Command center within Bangalore, India. Douglas’ strengths lie in his ability to simplify complex designs, identify solutions, build teams and create processes that develop complete IT solutions. Douglas is an Engineering graduate of the University of Central Florida.
Lee Williams, Customer Service Manager
Lee has been with DataComm Networks since May of 1988. Lee has served DataComm in many capacities from building cables assemblies, to order processing, sales and project management. His current position as Customer Service Manager puts him in front of every customer – everyday. Lee supports the sales and marketing team in a variety of roles. His attention to detail means that our customers don’t have to worry about remembering when their maintenance contracts are up for renewal. Need a question answered quickly… Lee is our “go to” resource. Lee and his family live in Land O’ Lakes, where Lee is heavily involved in his church. In his downtime Lee enjoys Golf, and Sports and is a big Tampa Bay Rays and Buccaneers supporter.
Andrew P. Hamilton, Strategic Account Manager
Andrew Hamilton joined DataComm Network in 2010 after 22 years of working for three financial industry vendors. Andrew spent two years in the US Army and attended the University of Maryland (European Division) and Seminole Community College. He started his career with a major core application vendor, in Orlando, Florida, in the operations department and then moved to inside sales and then outside sales. Andrew managed relationships with IBM and NCR and participated in the convention services area. He then went to work for a data processing company based in Birmingham, Alabama, selling data processing services and ancillary services to financial institutions. The company was acquired by a company based in Atlanta, Georgia, who added additional ancillary products and services such as ATM/EFT. At that time, he moved into account management and inside sales. After being involved with the core banking arena for 17 years, he moved into managed security services working for a Connecticut based company. He is very excited to have joined DataComm with their 24 years of relationship building experience and high level of commitment to the customers long term benefit. He makes his home in Central Florida and is married with two children.
Don Steele, Senior Accounts Manager
Don is a highly experienced sales & marketing professional who came to DataComm 21 years ago and has been an integral part of DataComm’s growth from a Cable Assembly company to the full service Systems Integration powerhouse of today. He came to DataComm from Telecredit (now a Fidelity Information Services Div.) where he was VP responsible for National Expansion culminating in setting a company sales record of 10,000 new accounts in a single month. Don holds a business degree from the University of Southern California.
Bob Felker, Cable Installations Project Manager
Bob has been involved with telecom for over 30 years (with DataComm for 15) and is responsible for the project management of DataComm’s nationwide cable installation projects, including compliance with state and local building codes as well as safety standards. Bob’s analytical, interpersonal and organizational skills in managing our service commitments to Albertson’s Stores earned DataComm the highest marks of excellence resulting in their turning to us exclusively for Cable installations in the State of Florida.
Ramelle Meitzler, Technical Services Coordinator
Ramelle Meitzler joined DataComm Networks in 2008. As the Technical Services Coordinator, she is responsible for providing customer project coordination and support services to our entire engineering staff. She maintains key DataComm project deliverables such as technical documentation, staff assignments, incident recording and response management services for all aspects of our service delivery organization. Ramelle comes to DataComm with over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Starting in the Credit Union industry in her hometown of Baton Rouge LA, she moved to Commercial and Retail banking with several major financial groups. Most recently, she worked for a major financial services provider as a Senior Technical Writer establishing corporate standards for customer support documentation, training, procedural and policy manuals. Ramelle managed staff coordination for data center conversions, technology migrations, product presentations, research/development and testing of new software releases for financial service applications. Ramelle is an expert organizer and brings to DataComm, her extensive skills in LAN/WAN Technology project coordination, organization and her commitment in delivering exceptional customer service.
Miguel Rosado, Purchasing & Production Supervisor
DataComm was founded over 27 years ago discovering a niche market in custom computer cables for large mainframes and Miguel was hired that year as DataComm’s first Production Supervisor. His skill in quality control, design and database inventory management, set the tone for all new managers as DataComm opened new departments as the company grew into its present size.