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About Us
With the rise of SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud), your network infrastructure is critical to every phase of your business as never before. NETWORK ARCHITECHS provides the communications/website/app integration you need to put these SMAC forces to work, technically and creatively.
Technology
On the technical side, founder and principal Michael J. Lamb is an authority across the entire spectrum of core communication technologies that have made the Internet revolution possible. With BEE and MSEE degrees in digital communications and over thirty years of industry experience—extending far beyond the relatively limited scope of “certifications” for brands or products that come and go—his depth and breadth of expertise enables him to identify and coordinate all of the technical resources needed to make your communication technologies work together.
Digital Marketing
On the creative side, we have simultaneously kept pace with the digital marketing revolution as it mushroomed from desktop publishing to website design and now to apps and EPUBs. Working as a team with one of the largest interactive solution specialists in the country, we optimize your insfrastructure and marketing technologies to make your vision happen.
What is a professional communications engineer? And why does it matter?
by Michael J. Lamb, BEE, MSEE
Anyone can call themselves an engineer, and it seems these days almost everyone does. But if you want a true professional communications engineer—a bonafide expert prepared to diagnose your most complex system maladies and perform surgery where needed, not just apply a bandaid—look for the following qualifications:
Education:
- As a starting point, anyone wishing to formally register as any type of Professional Engineer must have at least a four-year degree in engineering from an accredited engineering program such as the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology (now the College of Science and Engineering) where I earned my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degrees over a 7-year span of full-time study, with further postgraduate studies at the University of Southern California School of Engineering.
- Why is a 4+ year engineering degree essential? Because that's when one learns the core principles necessary to solve complex new problems. Only by understanding the underlying mathematics, physics, and other fundamental disciplines can one stay ahead of advancing technologies.
- What about certifications? Yes, they are a step in the right direction; many technicians do not even have that much training. But certification rehashes how to solve yesterday’s problems—not the unpredictable, ever-evolving challenges of today and tomorrow.
Experience:
- Professional engineers have the in-depth background required to design, integrate, and optimize sophisticated systems as an interelated whole.
- Someone who has only a few weeks to a couple years of training must by necessity focus on specific brands and/or applications. They can become proficient at maintaining certain components, but cannot reap the full payback that far-reaching new technologies can offer you.
- Communications is a particularly demanding specialty since it cuts across multiple disciplines: computers (hardware, software, and networking), telephony, telecommunications, audio, electronics, power, and more. Nothing short of a professional engineering education and years of direct experience can prepare a person to properly engineer your communication systems.
NETWORK ARCHITECHS, founded 1990—Providing over 24 years of professional communications engineering solutions.