In 1993 Jack Unger founded Wireless InfoNet (now Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.), a turnkey outdoor broadband wireless wide-area networking company. Since 1993, his company has served well over 2000 client companies, providing network design, installation, training, support, consulting and technical writing for the wireless industry. In 1995, he deployed one of the first wireless ISPs in the world, operating on 900 MHz from Los Altos Hills, California. Since 2001 Jack has personally trained over 2500 ISP personnel to design, deploy and support outdoor wireless networks. Cisco Press published his vendor-neutral industry handbook, Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks, in 2003.
Jack has presented wireless ISP training seminars at industry conventions and trade shows including ISPCON, Wi-Fi Planet, Broadband Wireless World and FISPA. He has made technical presentations at Interop, WISPCON, the 1st National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, the Muni Wireless Conference and the Southern California, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley Wireless Users Groups.
Prior to founding Wireless InfoNet, Jack spent twenty-one years working in the Silicon Valley telecommunications industry including 14 years with ROLM, IBM, Siemens, and NEC. At ROLM, Jack led the QA Systems Audit Group. At IBM and Siemens, as a Senior Associate Technical Writer, he authored over 100 PBX hardware and software technical manuals. At NEC, he served as a Telecommunications Analyst for NEC’s global networking group. Prior to that, he worked for seven years selling wireless equipment including television and radio station broadcast equipment.
Jack holds AA and BA degrees in Psychology, an AS degree in Electronics, and has completed coursework in the UC Berkeley Extension Telecommunications Engineering Program. He holds FCC Amateur Extra class and FCC Commercial Radiotelephone licenses as well as an FAA Private Pilot license. For 11 years, he served as a volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician for the Zayante Fire Protection District in Santa Cruz County, California. During four of those years, he served on the Board of Directors of the Fire District.
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