Allen Bernard

With millions of people now working from home due to COVID-19, IT workers are getting increasingly stressed out as work piles up and they too find themselves adjusting to a new way of life far removed from friends and colleagues.
Early on, as companies worked feverishly to set up and provision thousands (or tens of thousands) of home offices, many IT shops put in long hours to get it done. Now that the initial rush has passed and companies are settling into the new normal of virtual meetings ...

When it comes to turning business challenges into opportunities, small business owners are quick, nimble, and creative. With state governments around the country shuttering all non-essential businesses to combat COVID-19 still in full swing, this is truer than ever.
But, unlike years past, where such an unprecedented closure would have put many small businesses out of business permanently, today they’re turning to mobility and connectivity in large numbers to keep their doors open—if only vir...

Case study I did for T-Mobile's Forbes BrandVoice channel:

When the state of Washington ordered all non-essential businesses to close their doors in mid-March because of the novel Coronavirus, Mark Canlis knew he was facing a challenge unlike any he or his family's business had seen in its 70 years of operation.
As the co-owner of Canlis Restaurant, one of Seattle's premier fine dining destinations and a local landmark, it fell to Mark to figure out how to keep the company's 100+ employees employed in the face of what could be an unprecedented, month...

Forbes BrandVoice blog post I ghost wrote for T-Mobile's CIO.

As I write this, 2020 is already shaping up to be a very interesting and challenging year. Of course, right now we are all responding to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on health and the day-to-day lives of people all across the world. It would make sense to assume that CIOs have little time to focus on much else as their priority is to help employees feel supported and to continue serving customers who are reliant on their products and services every day, and in some cases, w...

Ghosted blog post I wrote for T-Mobile:

With governors shuttering public schools across the country in an attempt to stave off the worst impacts of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), a massive experiment in online learning is taking place right now.
Naturally, this is a very unsettling time for students, educators, and their parents as school administrators work to set up distance learning programs by moving classrooms fully online. For many school districts in underprivileged and rural areas, this will be particularly challenging. ...

This is one of many articles I've written for T-Mobile's blog and BrandVoice page on Forbes.

When it comes to helping people with disabilities thrive, Easterseals has few peers. The 100-year-old organization pioneered the idea that everyone has potential, even when much of society treated disability as a family "secret" to be hidden away and ignored.

By empowering those with disabilities to engage with their communities, the organization’s work and social programs help change the way the world defines and views disability. They challenge perceptions daily, breaking down stereotypes t...

Read a review of my GDPR ebook (which you can find a link to below) and its implications for business that go well beyond IT.

Blog post about the power of telematics to improve fleet management.

Case study I did for T-Mobile about its cellular-as-a-benefit program.

Smart buildings blog I did for T-Mobile.

This is a case study I did for T-Mobile about using telemetry in fleet management.

This link will take you the articles I do for TechRepublic.com. I'd list them individually but there's a lot of them!

This is a long list of articles I've done for TechTarget over the years covering everything from satellites to middleware.

I wrote this ebook for AutoDesk

5 Key Benefits of BIM for Plant Design
For many years, the architecture, engineering, and construction industries have relied on building information modeling, or BIM, to design and engineer buildings and infrastructure projects. Because of its benefits, BIM adoption is growing rapidly for p...