About the Reviewers

Ian Plain: Please see the entry in About the Authors.

Jared Smith is the Training Manager for Digium, Inc. As a long time Asterisk user, contributor, and evangelist, he has spent the last several years helping the Asterisk community. Jared is a dynamic and knowledgeable instructor with several years of experience in leading various Asterisk training classes.

He is also co-author of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, O'Reilly Media and regularly writes other Asterisk documentation as well.

Jared holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Utah State University and currently lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

Philippe Lindheimer is the project leader and primary developer of FreePBX and serves as the Open Source Community Director at Bandwidth.com, the corporate sponsor of the FreePBX project (the most widely deployed Asterisk-based PBX/GUI open-source application in the world). He cofounded and runs the Open Telephony Training Seminar providing FreePBX/Asterisk technical and marketing training to resellers and end users. Originally with Hewlett Packard, he has been in the engineering industry for over two decades, working on a range of technical consulting roles with many Fortune 500 Companies.

He has a BS (Hons) in EE/CS from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He now lives in the Seattle, WA area.