As one of Jabber, Inc.’s first Senior Engineers, Director of Telecom Engineering, and currently Jabber’s Director of Sales Engineering, Albert Gallego has worked on the core of presence since 2000. In that time, Albert has helped some of the most important and sophisticated global organizations frame and build their presence and real-time messaging strategies by mapping and extending their vision into technical reality. Many of the most important, innovative, and interesting extensions to the Power of Presence, beyond instant messaging, are deployments to which Albert has made significant contributions.