J.R. Simmons is a Principal Consultant at Ross & Baruzzini, a technology-based engineering firm headquartered in St. Louis. His responsibilities include managing resources within the western part of the US and Canada.
J.R. has over 35-years’ experience as an independent consultant providing telecommunications planning, design, analysis, and implementation management skills. His current projects tend to focus on strategic planning and business case analysis, but also include workflow/call-flow analysis, data networking design, systems analysis, IP telephony, and contact centers. In addition, his experience includes work on complex unified communications systems, low voltage infrastructure and wiring, fiber optic cabling and electronics, and both local and wide area networks.
J.R. is recognized as an industry expert and has provided expert testimony in several legal cases. He taught advanced telecommunications courses for a Community College Certificate program and continues to teach via independent seminars. He has published several whitepapers and frequently gives speeches on a wide variety of telecommunications management and technology subjects. Many of his recent speaking engagements have focused on hosted/cloud communications and Microsoft Teams®. Like many of the BCStrategies team, J.R. is an annual presenter at Enterprise Connect.
J.R. was elected to the board of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants in 2011 and to the Executive Board of the STC in 2012, since rebranded as the Society of Communications Technology Consultants International (SCTC). In October of 2016 he completed a two-year term as the President of the SCTC.
J.R. owned his own consulting firm for 25 years before Ross & Baruzzini acquired COMgroup, Inc. in 2019. As part of the nationally recognized firm, he now has access to a large group of technology experts.