Credentials

The most qualified AV person you can get in a room - and my fee doesn’t care what you buy.

CTS-certified, Q-SYS programming certified, and I built, ran, and sold an AV integration company over 13 years - hundreds of video conferencing rooms, every one designed on the same three priorities, in order: reliability, ease of use, features.

AVIXACTSCertified Technology Specialist
ProgrammingQ-SYSAudio DSP platform, certified
ControlCrestronInstalled dozens of systems
AudioShure MXABeamforming mic arrays, certified
AudioDanteNetworked audio, certified
Video / IPNDIVideo over IP, certified
NetworkNetgear AVAV network engineering, certified
LightingLutron RadioRA 3Lighting control, certified
Resolved remotely, in under 5 minutes - more than 90% >90% OF ISSUES

of issues on rooms I designed and monitored were resolved remotely, in under 5 minutes, with no truck roll. That’s 13 years of design history - reliability is designed in, not bolted on. It’s also why a remote inspection works.Monitoring record across hundreds of rooms I designed - history, not a service promise.

// I speak IT natively

Linux, containers, virtualization, VLANs, multicast. When we talk about putting AV on your network, I’m not the vendor who asks you to open all the ports.

I’m the one who tells you which ones to close.
Amos Kittelson at a digital whiteboard, teaching the reliability pyramid and microphone placement theory
“Everyone needs an Amos!”— my wife, who is right
Who you’re getting

Amos Kittelson.

I spent 13 years building hundreds of AV systems, then sold my integration firm. We made system decisions through one question: will this earn enough user trust that people can travel less, stress less, and spend more time with the people they love? Today I mentor technology professionals in that same judgment, and give organizations independent AV advice - no hardware sales.

I do my best work when a technical problem feels tangled. I look at the whole system, ask the question that changes how the problem is understood, and build a practical path a capable person can carry forward. Surfacing the overlooked angle - with curiosity, and with the assumptions out on the table - is the part I genuinely enjoy. It's also exactly what the mentorship and the advisory work are made of.

That’s the point. This is high-trust work with nothing to move off a truck: I get to be the person whose only job is to be right, and still be home for dinner. The companies whose rooms I built got the edge; their people got their evenings back. Same thing I’m protecting now.

Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Inspections and advisory delivered remotely nationwide; on-site by arrangement.

— Amos
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One meeting. One verdict, in writing. If you don’t need me after that, I’ll be the one who says so.

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