Stop Wasting Their Time! 5 Ways to Ease Customer Frustration

Art Schoeller's 35 years of experience spans the computer, communications, and software industries. Art was an early member of the call center product management team at AT&T, helping them establish their early market share gains that led to Avaya being a leader today. He is best known in the contact center industry for his accomplishments with CTI by helping establish standards and solutions to grow the market in its early stages while at AT&T/Lucent. He led the team that partnered with Novell to establish the CSTA standard. This standard continues to this day to be the default CTI interface for contact center and telephony integration applications.
 
In addition, Art has had vice president and director level roles in product management and marketing for conferencing, collaboration, and unified messaging products while at AT&T/Lucent and Dictaphone. In the four years he worked at Microsoft, he led the development of a unified communications and collaboration solution with Accenture that drove $500M in software and services sales, and 1 million seats of cloud computing. Art also filled leadership roles in analyzing these markets while holding director level positions at Gartner Group, Yankee Group, and now Forrester Research. In these roles, he did industry leading research on the transition to VoIP, multichannel contact centers, and speech recognition technology.

Art has a dual B.S. degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Brown University.

Brendan has over 25 years’ experience in customer services across many industry sectors as a client, customer or consultant. Experienced in the selection, deployment and day-to-day use of customer experience management technology, he is skilled at understanding the users’ business drivers and the needs of their customers. Today, Brendan uses this experience to write and speaks on a broad range of customer experience management topics.