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Increase Construction Safety With Digital Transformation
A key component to enhancing worker safety is putting technologies in place that will deliver real-time access to data from the field so proactive steps can be taken before an accident occurs.
By A. Vincent Vasquez
August 14, 2019
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by A. Vincent Vasquez
Vince Vasquez has more than 30 years of experience in enterprise sales, marketing and engineering. Working with 20 industry leaders, he is the co-author of Precision Construction, which teaches the fundamentals of IoT with a focus on the construction industry. He is also the co-founder and CEO of PrecisionStory, which brings Precision Storytelling—a new and innovative approach to enterprise storytelling—to market. Vince has an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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