Joseph M. Heinzen

President

Business Development, Engineering and Professional Services Joe Heinzen, president, founded e-Convergence Solutions in March, 2003. He has held executive management positions at Comstor, Inc, DEC, Data General, Unisys and Verizon. His responsibilities at Comstor included the creation of professional service products for the channel and management of the organization's integration and engineering groups. At Verizon he was responsible for the completion of large-scale outsourcing program solutions and proposals. He has also managed Verizon’s consulting and professional services division. His career record includes commercial and federal government market expertise and an extensive background in software engineering and project management. Mr. Heinzen’s current responsibilities include selecting security, presence and convergence partners and developing value-added professional service products and support programs, as well as overseeing e-Convergence Solutions’s national pre- and post-sales activities. Mr. Heinzen studied computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Ruth Sorrells

Vice President of Sales

Operations Management, Sales and Service Delivery.  Ruth Sorrells has over a decade of experience managing P&Ls and growing business.  Her eleven-plus years in the staffing sector included corporate national account service delivery and field service delivery to major accounts as head of the Northern Virginia area.  Subsequently, she worked at an executive level in corporate governance at a major non-profit organization. She spent five years in the business process outsourcing industry with direct accountability for operations and service delivery as well as sales.  Throughout her career, her client list spanned industries, including pharmaceutical, legal, insurance, media/technology and others.

She received her BA from Haverford College and her executive MBA in September 2006 at The College of William & Mary Mason School of Business.

Laura French

Vice President of Media Relations

Laura French comes to e-Convergence Solutions from the broadcast industry. She is an award winning journalist with more than 15 years experience in television news. Her career has brought her all over the country playing multiple roles in newsrooms from USA TODAY to local affiliates. Laura spent the majority of her career as the Managing Editor and Primary Anchor for NBC WVIR-HD-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work has been recognized numerous times, most recently, by the Associated Press. Ms. French is a graduate of Virginia Tech.