Alaric has 15 years experience in the IT industry. He is a consultant at Dimension Data in unified communications with a focus Microsoft and Cisco technologies. His certifications and qualifications include an MCSE 2000/20003, Exchange 2000/2003 Design, Cisco Unified Messaging Specialist and Design, an International IT diploma and a certificate in Business Management.

Alaric joined Dimension Data in 1999 and was recently responsible for migrating all of Dimension Data’s email systems around the world to a single system. He has been involved in a number of unified communications projects and proofs-of-concept for clients in South Africa that involved the integration of Microsoft LCS, Cisco CallManager, Cisco Presence Server and Cisco MeetingPlace. He is also experienced in Microsoft Active Directory design and installation.

Alaric has authored papers on Cisco Unity Micro Designs and Cisco Presence Designs Integrating with Microsoft LCS.