Bill “PhoneBill” McClain

UponAI

As a Partner at Uponai.com, I will be responsible for a wide range of strategic and operational activities to drive the growth and success of the organization. Playing a key role in shaping the company's overall vision, strategy, and direction, collaborating closely with other partners and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Planning: Contribute to the development of the company's long-term strategy, taking into account market trends, customer insights, and competitive landscape. Help identify growth opportunities and potential risks, working closely with the executive team to formulate effective strategies and action plans.

2. Business Development: Foster and maintain strong relationships with key clients, partners, and industry leaders. Identify and pursue new business opportunities, strategic partnerships, and alliances to expand Uponai.com's market presence and drive revenue growth.

3. Operational Excellence: Oversee and improve the company's operational efficiency, including but not limited to finance, HR, marketing, and technology. Continuously evaluate and optimize internal processes and systems to drive cost-effectiveness, scalability, and overall organizational effectiveness.

4. Team Leadership: Provide inspirational leadership and mentorship to the team, encouraging a positive and collaborative work culture. Foster talent development, attracting top talent, and promoting a high-performance culture throughout the organization.

5. Financial Management: Ensure the financial health and sustainability of the company by monitoring financial performance, establishing sound financial controls, and driving profitability. Collaborate with the finance team to develop and execute financial strategies and goals aligned with the company's overall objectives.

6. Industry and Market Analysis: Stay abreast of industry trends, technological advancements, and competitive intelligence. Conduct extensive market research and analysis.

CEO Founding Partner

StratusDial, LLC

Does the idea of switching phone providers for your business sound like a permanent migraine? Here’s what’s worse:

Turning your customers away because you’re unable to provide a good phone customer experience because of lousy support from your business phone provider.

When you entrust ☎️PhoneBill (& the team at StratusDial) with your company’s new voice, here’s what you get:

✔️ Pre-installation audit to locate savings (sometimes $9000!) & lower your operating costs
✔️ Take care of allllllllll the prep, installation, routing, testing… everything done-for-you
✔️ Hold your hand through set-up & advise you on phone experience best practices
✔️ Latest phone features for maximum efficiency (hello, Office365 integration!)
✔️ Custom set-up the big providers won’t do (e.g. overhead paging system)
✔️ 60-day and 90-day check-ins to make sure you love your new system
✔️ Eager-to-help technical support, 24/7

As a smaller (but mightier!) provider, we can deliver the type of boutique service that the large competitors wish they could deliver. 😉

Ready to have your business phone system work for you (not against you) in bringing more clients to your business?

Message ☎️PhoneBill on LinkedIn. I’ll sort you out.

Founder President & CEO

Networking Solutions, Inc.

I take care of your business’s networking connectivity needs in a done-for-you fashion so you and your team can efficiently work from anywhere, anytime.

Here are some of the things we can do for you:

✔️ Set up your network infrastructure (servers, routers, firewalls, etc.)
✔️ Bring internet connectivity to your network
✔️ Install a unified VoIP phone system
✔️ Make sure your business is protected via cybersecurity
✔️ Seamlessly connect your internal resources (servers, storage, printers, scanners, etc.)

The Cloud Voice Alliance

The President of the Cloud Voice Alliance (CVA) is responsible for leading and managing the organization, which is focused on advancing the use and development of cloud-based voice technology. The role involves overseeing the day-to-day operations of the CVA, setting strategic goals and objectives, representing the organization at industry forums and events, and collaborating with members and partners to promote innovation and best practices. The President must have a deep understanding of the voice technology space and be able to navigate complex industry dynamics while championing the interests of the CVA members. The role requires excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills, as well as the ability to drive consensus among diverse stakeholders.

President

Technology Advisor Alliance

As a member of the Technology Advisor Alliance, I am creating further value for our customers through critical discussions with industry leaders. The TAA is a peer community for solving problems, sharing best practices, & supporting each other

Advisory Board Member

Took a break fix company and created a Networking Services division that became profitable in less than one year and is still thriving today.

This position also gave me the motivation to start my own company with the following quote from one of the business owners: "If you think it is so easy, you should do it yourself"

Senior Networking Engineer

CMS IT Services

Assistant VP Lan Applications

Hunton & Williams LLP

Technology Support Services

You can call Gates, Joel, Murray, or Clinton…but only this Bill has the answer 💪 UCaaS Provider - VoIP- ☎️

Pioneering the intersection of AI and business communications as a 3X founder. 

Currently revolutionizing voice technology through UponAI while leading innovative UCaaS and CCaaS solutions at StratusDial, backed by extensive experience at Networking Solutions.

At StratusDial, I've transformed business communications by:
• Implementing cost-saving solutions that reduce operating expenses by up to $9,000
• Developing seamless Office365 integrations and advanced VoIP systems
• Building a 24/7 technical support infrastructure that maintains 99.9% uptime
• Creating custom UCaaS/CCaaS solutions for diverse enterprise needs

Through UponAI, I'm pushing the boundaries of:
• AI-powered voice recognition and natural language processing
• Intelligent call routing and automated customer service solutions
• Machine learning algorithms for enhanced communication efficiency
• Voice-enabled business intelligence and analytics

My entrepreneurial journey spans:
🔹 Advanced Telecommunications
🔹 Enterprise Network Architecture
🔹 Cloud Communications
🔹 AI/ML Implementation
🔹 Business Process Automation

Proud to be recognized by industry leaders, including Eric Hernaez, Founder & President of SkySwitch, for maintaining exceptional service standards and driving continuous innovation in business communications.

Specialties:
#AIVoice #UCaaS #CCaaS #CloudCommunications #NetworkingSolutions #VoIP #BusinessIntelligence #EnterpriseNetworking #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation

Looking to connect with:
• Business leaders seeking communication solutions
• Technology innovators in AI and voice tech
• Enterprise clients exploring digital transformation
• Fellow entrepreneurs in the tech space

Let's discuss how AI-powered voice solutions can transform your business communications. Open to partnerships, collaborations, and innovative ventures.


Founder -

Networking Solutions 29 years
StratusDial 13 years
UponAi 2 years

3X Founder - 0X Exits

Bill (PhoneBill) McClain

Darren Jansz, - Founder of Yabbit, Voice, Video, Unified Comm's

Live Communications Pty Ltd T/as UPTI

Managing Director

UPTI is an agile communications company with the intention of connecting managed services to customers in a fashion not done by large carriers. Agility and flexibility to have Voice, Video, Data, VPN, Internet and Managed services in a streamlined product - all with redundancy.
YABBIT is a new CLOUD Telephony Partner model. UPTI Partners have access to marketing this hosted Unified Communication platform.
Partner channel opportunity available and encouraged.  Too often does the customer have to fit within the large carriers "rules" Time to take care of your needs and have us adapt to your requirements. This is where we stand out.

With the YABBIT Cloud platform UPTI has a partner program that puts the partners of Australia back in contention in tomorrows business model. By partners for partners.

Convergecom

Managing Director of Convergecom Pty Ltd and Shareholder since 2021. Darren has done thousands of deployments of Telecommunications, Contact Centers and communication integrations since the late 80s.

YABBIT UCaaS

YABBIT is the Hosted Cloud IP Phone System with full UC, Contact Center, Multi-site solution hosted in Australia. Its supported by the most skilled engineers available on High avail 99.999 platforms. Private SIP trunks can be ported directly into it so savings are huge compared to Big Telco. We play nice with others and work closely with your IT supporters. 
Connect with me so get a recommendation that will make your business Grow.

Chief Concierge

IPVS Pty Ltd

CLOUD UC Expert ✔ YABBIT ✔ Google apps integration ✔ Contact center design ✔ Video Conf design ✔ Comms Expert ✔ Hosted UC ✔ IP Office Live ✔ Telstra All4Biz ✔ SIP trunk connection ✔ Partner Gold Expert Accreditation

Responsible for Business Growth, brand recognition, sales direction and the integrity of the business. Responsible for achieving SME dealer of the year and AVAYA "SME EXPERT" Gold Mid-market UC and CC Accreditation and status. Public speaking and new design consultancy for corperate on IT and communications.
Collaborating in Voice - Video - Virtual Communications designs.
Salesforce - Google apps - Office 365 integration 

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Director

Available for It consulting specialising in IP telephony. Specialist in AVAYA, Samsung and other IP systems. Video Conferencing with Lifesize HD Video Conferencing.

Consulting on Telco Equipment and technology solutions. - Voice - Video - Virtual.

I solve the issues with companies Communications challenges. Technology type, what works and what doesnt. All recommendations have supporting data to confirm the solution will work. SIP carraige recomendations, WAN and IPVPN recommendations and what equipment to use all with redundant solutions for voice and data.

Solutions Expert in IP Telephony, VoIP and Video Conferencing.

Sholl Communications

Market Telephony solutions to business and Government to create a cost effective VoIP equation to solve company communication problems. We utilise Application rich usuable IP phone systems and give great service and support. Our customers fly our flag for us.

Company Representative

Sholl Comunications (Aust) Pty Ltd

Primary sales and marketing consultant with expertise on AVAYA IP Office and Samsung Officeserv PBX systems

Consultant sales and marketing

ITT Communications

Sales consultant

JanszComm

Sales Manager

total communications

owner

Inchcape office Products

I was responsible to bring in new business in Telecommunications and print systems. I was the only Telephone system salesperson to make "the budget club" whilst i worked at Inchcape . This was normally unachievable by the telephone sales area.

Sales Telephone division

With over three decades of leadership in the telecommunications industry, I am the Managing Director at UPTI, an agile communications company that connects managed services to customers in a fashion not done by large carriers. I have an EMBA Associate degree from QUT and multiple certifications and honors from Avaya and YABBIT, demonstrating my expertise and excellence in unified communications as a service (UCaaS), Contact centre as a service (CCaaS) customer relationship management (CRM), and new business development.

My mission is to empower businesses to own their future and change their stars by providing them with a complete communication and collaboration experience that is mobile-first, geographically redundant, and cost-effective. That is why I created YABBIT, a hosted cloud IP phone system with full UC, contact center, and multi-site solution. YABBIT is also a partner program that enables dealers to grow their equity, improve their customer relationships, and take control of their destiny. I am passionate about helping businesses succeed and thrive in a changing landscape.

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Bill (PhoneBill) McClain

Darren Jansz, - Innovator with Yabbit UCaaS / Convergecom

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