From: BICSI, Inc.
8610 Hidden River Parkway 
Tampa, FL  33637
813-979-1991

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                     Contact: Janice Martin, 813-282-8767        

 TAMPA BICSI  EXECUTIVE AMONG "TOP TEN" SHAPERS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS CABLING INDUSTRY

TAMPA ­ Jay Warmke, executive director of Tampa-based BICSI, Inc., has been named one of the top ten executives who have shaped the telecommunications cabling industry.  The honor was bestowed by Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine in its fifth anniversary issue.   Cabling Installation & Maintenance is the leading technical information source for the premises and campus-wide wiring industry.
 
Warmke has served as executive director of BICSI, an international not-for-profit telecommunications association, since 1993. Under his leadership, BICSI membership has grown at the annual rate of  30 percent.  BICSI currently serves more than 15,000 members from 70 countries around the world.
 
In its profile of  Warmke, Cabling Installation & Maintenance states that he is one of the "ten prominent individuals who have carried the torch, preached the gospel, and applied the elbow grease necessary to protect the cabling end-user as well as the industry as a whole."
 
The other nine professionals tapped for the magazine's honor are all members of BICSI and have been instrumental in guiding the cabling industryıs explosive growth via their work in the association.  Their efforts have been essential to the evolution and development of industry standards, testing and certification for designers and installers, and for consumer protection.
 
The booming telecommunications premises-wiring industry, served by BICSI members, developed after the deregulation of the telephone industry more than a decade ago.  In essence, BICSI members are those who are "paving the information highway."  With the rapidly expanding demand for Internet and other telecommunications access, the demand on the cabling industry for better quality infrastructures ­ new and upgraded -- has jumped proportionately.  To meet this challenge, BICSI provides training and certification to cabling/wiring designers and installers, as well as technical "bibles" for many aspects of telecommunications cabling.
 
The next five years, according to BICSI's Warmke, will see even more unprecedented growth, particularly outside the US, where standards are just beginning to evolve.  The real test for BICSI and the entire cabling industry, he says, will be in the establishment of a global standard that will meet the needs of industry and consumers alike.