About Speaker

Fred Beckhusen, aka Ferd Frederix, has been involved in virtual worlds since 2006 and is the owner and CEO of Micro Technology Services, Inc., a 31 year old Texas computer design and manufacturing firm which is a major provider of Duress and Emergency Notification systems to thousands of business and schools and hospitals including the VA system. His professional background is in semiconductor manufacturing, Unix, Linux, and Windows system design, and many microcomputer and microprocessors dating back to the early 1970s.