Featured Expert
Robert McFarlane - Interport division president, Shen, Milsom & Wilke Inc.
Robert McFarlane has spent more than 30 years in communications consulting, with experience in every segment of the industry including, cable design, fiber optics, data communications, telephony, financial trading systems, data centers, satellite earth stations, video and multimedia, and acoustics. As a pioneer in the field of building cabling design, Bob authored papers that set forth fundamental principles for the industry that are still followed today. He was also instrumental in the development of video teleconferencing, giving nationwide seminars on room and system design before writing the foundation paper, published in Architectural Record, that set the standards for this field. He is often interviewed by the trade press and has been asked to speak at countless seminars on building infrastructure for electronic communications, evolving technologies and the highly demanding requirements of trading floor and data center design, on which he is a leading expert.
Robert served for 12 years as president of Interport Financial Inc., a firm specializing in designs for financial trading floors and critical data centers. Interport was acquired by the international technology consulting firm of Shen, Milsom & Wilke Inc. in 1999, and Bob continues as president of the Interport Division which carries on these mission-critical projects. Prior to joining Interport, Bob spent 15 years as a principal of The Wilke Organization, where he was director of Middle East operations and headed the office in Tehran before creating and running the telecommunications consulting practice for that firm in the United States. In this capacity he developed wide-ranging services in telecommunications design that included the trading floor and data center disciplines, in which he continues to specialize.
Bob is a graduate of Colorado State University where he majored in engineering and physics. He has served as research engineer in the Department of Hearing and Speech Science and lectured in acoustics and bio-instrumentation for seven years at the graduate level. He subsequently served Northern Illinois University as director of engineering for the Division of Communications Services and was manager of engineering for the nationwide Blue Cross/Blue Shield computer network before developing a wide range of consulting fields. He is on the adjunct faculty of New York University and is widely sought as a speaker at seminars on data center and trading floor design.
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