When TruMedia co-owners Amanda Wildman and her husband Ponch shifted their focus from satellite dish installation to custom AV integration, it took them a solid year of training and education to get prepared. They believed that for their Ada, MI, company to succeed, they had a lot to learn from CEDIA training classes and product research. Through that experience, Amanda says, she gained a greater respect for the importance of CEDIA education, which may have planted a seed about getting involved as a volunteer in the future.
Now, she and Ponch are well respected custom integrators in their market and throughout the industry, and Amanda is now in the second year of her two-year term on the CEDIA Board. She even played a key role in helping roll out the organization’s Cabling and Infrastructure Testing Certification that launched earlier this year.
Here’s what else we learned from our conversation with TruMedia co-owner Amanda Wildman, which you can listen to,