Michael Sherwood
Michael Sherwood
Director of Technical Operations, Americas, Milestone SystemsMichael Sherwood is the Director of Technical Operations for the Americas at Milestone Systems. Prior to this, Sherwood held the post of Director of Professional Services within the company. In his role, he manages and looks into pre-sales solution engineers and the technical services engineers along with partner training. He is also responsible for the post-sales technical support and strategic alliances team. Mike’s ability to logically apply technology toward solving complex business problems jumpstarted his career at Milestone in 2009. He has progressed from Solutions Engineer to currently manage all aspects of the Americas technical team including Technical Support, Pre-sales Engineering, Professional Services, Training Delivery and Alliances. As an amateur brewer and avid outdoorsman, Mike happily relocated from Wichita, KS, to Portland, OR, in 2014 to further his leadership development at Milestone’s US headquarters. Mike studied at Wichita State University before starting at a regional IT integrator where he spent 8 years in various sales, engineering and management capacities prior to joining Milestone Systems.
Round table contributions
The new year presents new opportunities for the physical security marketplace. In many ways, 2018 will undoubtedly see further development of trends we saw in 2017. In fact, some of the trends determi...
In recent years, information technology (IT) departments at end user companies have often been seen as adversaries of traditional security departments – or, at least, as a thorn in their side. O...
It seems there are more “bad things” happening than ever before. We hear news every day of workplace shootings and terrorist attacks, of smash-and-grab thefts and child abductions. Beyond...
Industry standards make it possible for systems and technologies to connect and work together. Standards enable today’s integrated systems. But does adherence to standards stifle innovation? Doe...
Products are the building blocks of systems and solutions. How those products are combined, and where the integration happens, is a variable in the physical security market. Before the advent of open...
Video systems today offer more capabilities than ever. Consequently, the systems can be used in new ways. For a variety of reasons, however, many customers don’t take full advantage of the capab...
Companies in fast-moving industries tend to want half or more of their revenue to come from products released in the last three or so years. The logical extension of that philosophy is the demise of p...
Measuring return on investment (ROI) has long presented a challenge to the security marketplace. Investment in security is often viewed as a necessary cost whose benefits cannot be measured. For examp...
Big data is a buzzword, and data – presumably of all sizes – is a driving force in the physical security market. As systems become more sophisticated and expand their capabilities, the res...
News mentions
Milestone Systems, the global provider of open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), will present one of the 85 education sessions scheduled for this year’s ISC West trade show...
MIPS 2017’s theme ‘Together We Make the World See the Future’ reflected a newly clarified company purpose Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video...
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