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Tempest Technologies’ very own Director of Operations Andrew Birklid, CTS-D, shares his insights into Attracting Qualified AV Candidates in a new brochure published by AVIXA’s System Integration Council. Andrew provides industry members with the fundamentals for finding and hiring great team members in this helpful guide.   Lea... Read More

It is hard to believe it, but we are already approaching the end of another year! Before you get caught up in the rush of the Holiday Season, Tempest Technologies wants to remind you that we can help you successfully close out your year and get a jump on planning for the new year. We have openings left in the schedule for end of year technology wra... Read More

Almo ProAV and LG are hosting the next AVIXA Woman in AV Pacific Northwest event on Wednesday, October 17th at 5:30. The event will be held at McKinstry Seattle, 5005 3rd Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134. Our special guest for the evening will be LG’s Dan Wheeler. His presentation will focus on Direct View LED technology and by participating... Read More

Last year at the AWS Invent conference, Amazon announced that Alexa will soon be integrated into the workplace. According to techcrunch.com, “[Amazon’s] first challenge is getting large companies to invest in a huge quantity of Echo devices”. This may take some time as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quoted, “Most experts agre... Read More

It’s official - the AVIXA Women’s Council is now 10 chapters strong and growing! On the evening of January 25th, women from various organizations within the AV industry gathered at McKinstry in Seattle to kick off the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Council. Organized by Debbie Williamson, President of Tempest Technologies and Lauren Y... Read More

We are pleased to announce that we have entered into an exciting partnership with Logitech® as part of the Logitech Collaboration Program. This partnership will add Extron AV control capabilities to the Logitech SmartDock, allowing meeting attendees to use the full range of Skype for Business conferencing features, then effortlessly switch to r... Read More

Last December, Tempest Technologies reached out to the folks at Friends of Youth to ask how we might be able to help those in need during the holiday season. Ellie Ashby, Volunteer Coordinator at the organization, responded with information about their Giving Tree program. Friends of Youth is a program for at-risk individuals, young single mothe... Read More

Extron is pleased to introduce a new generation of room scheduling solutions. Our new TLS family of TouchLink Scheduling panels are designed to help ease integration and provide customers with powerful, dedicated panels for all their meeting space reservation needs. Right out of the box, TLS panels are ready to be customized with free Room Agent so... Read More

When T-Mobile approached Tempest Technologies to replace their mis-matched and aging systems the design goal became clear. Improve visibility, streamline usability, and give users the flexibility to see the content that is important to them. Our design group specified a 3x5 Planar Clarity Matrix video wall, fed by custom-built computers. This sy... Read More

It's been a long time in the making but we at Tempest Technologies are pleased to present to our customers a new look and feel on the web. Our emphasis of design for the new site was simple: let you see what we do with your own eyes, let you hear from our customers about what their experience has been partnering with us, and make it easy for ... Read More