Eric Bayer is the Sales Director at Hitachi Energy. Eric joined the company in 2017 after over 20 years in the technology industry working with utility-focused design and engineering tools from Intergraph and Autodesk. Recognized in the GIS, civil, and utility industries as a technologist, Eric excels in supporting projects including drone assessments, outage management, substation design, distribution design and cloud-based applications for fleet and project management. Now, with the proliferation of smart devices Eric has turned his focus to wireless communications infrastructure as an enabling technology for a smarter grid.