Ellen is vice president and research director of Forrester's Telecom & Networks team. Her primary areas of research include the mobile enterprise and next-generation telecom business models and systems. She maintains research interests in WLAN, mesh, wireless technologies, wireless email, IMS, and SDPs. Ellen also researches how companies are adopting the X Internet - the extension of the Internet to physical items.

Ellen is a frequent speaker regarding telecommunications, mobile enterprise, and X Internet topics. She often speaks at events, is quoted in business and trade publications like The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.

Prior to joining Forrester in 2005, Ellen spent four years at ArcStream, a boutique mobile and wireless consulting firm to the Fortune 500. Prior to that, Ellen worked in Deloitte's telecom practice. Her projects included architecting large-scale systems for local service provisioning and billing for North American carriers, preparing UMTS bids for the Italian wireless marketplace, and also assisting new business entrants into the UK Web hosting market. Prior to Deloitte, Ellen spent 10 years working for the federal government in the DOD as an electrical engineer. She worked in wired and wireless communication at the Naval Research Laboratory and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation).

Ellen holds a B.S. in physics from Rochester Institute of Technology and an M.S. in electrical engineering from George Mason University.

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