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Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Operations lead for the Northern California region from April 2021 to September 2024. Created a positive team environment by organizing a shared resource strategy, recruiting highly qualified individuals and tracking relevant key performance indicators to share with the team. Recorded year over year growth and improved statistics to develop a solid core team for future growth and success.

Created a low voltage division within a large electrical contractor providing fire alarm, security, access control, CCTV and other low voltage systems for Rex Moore Electrical and other contractors, owners and end users in California and Nevada.Qualifying Manager for the company's California State Contractors License and California Alarm Company Operator License.Provide consulting services and application assistance to many California state agencies where complex integrated systems are required to be highly secured systems.Advocate for non-proprietary, open architecture systems.Highly experienced with IP CCTV, Security and Access Control systems.Constantly provide valuable feedback to partnered manufacturers on customer trends, their future needs and everyday use of their systems.Partner with manufacturers for beta sites and development of their future products.Sold the company to new owners on December 31, 2016. Retained employment until March 2021.

Reinstated employment with Greater Alarm Company to expand the company's footprint throughout California.Executive Management Team member.Assisted the owners in the doubling of the company's revenue within five short years. Recruited highly qualified individuals to lead their branches to grow the business in Southern California and San Jose, California.Created a standardized estimating program to assist with much needed improvements in the former methods of estimating projects. Instituted job costing methods in Northern California to get real time information for the management of the projects.Instrumental in negotiating with Edwards Systems Technology and RS2 Technologies to bring new fire alarm and access control products to Greater Alarm Company.Awarded the "Biggest Impact to the Organization" Award in 2000.Awarded the "President's Award" in 2004Assisted executive management in the promotion, packaging and sale of the company in October 2004.

Worldwide Product Development Manager for the company.Executive Management Team member.Defined and specified new product development on C&K's line of CCTV cameras, security control panels and specialized motion sensors. Worked closely with the Marketing Communication Department for effective worldwide roll out of the products to C&K's International offices. Coordinated release with the company's Country Managers.Created a massive product development and marketing matrix to provide a much needed direction for the development of existing and future devices for the company.Member of a Spread Spectrum wireless committee to bring frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless products to the mainstream security industry. Worked with UL and NFPA to "open doors" to understand the reliability of spread spectrum wireless devices for the fire alarm industry.Assisted executive management in writing many of the product summary documents used for the promotion and sale of the company in September 1999.

Buena Park, Ca, Us

Maintained relationships with OEM customers to assist in the growth of the smoke detector sales volume. Created new relationships with many manufacturers in the security manufacturing market segment, such as C&K Systems, Digital Monitoring Products and Silent Knight. Worked closely with Hochiki engineers to represent and promote the Hochiki communication protocol to potential customers of the detector product line.Instrumental in the negotiations between Hochiki and Silent Knight to bring the Hochiki product line to the Silent Knight organization.Worked closely with executive management to plan and coordinate an effective marketing strategy with Industry Magazines and lay the groundwork for future expositions and conferences.Attended multiple customer dealer meetings to present the Hochiki product line to their customer base through public speaking presentations, Q&A break out sessions and real world applications of the Hochiki product in difficult installation applications.Represented the company for technical application issues for high security situations, such as the CIA Quantico, VA site, NASA and other sensitive locations of our OEM customers.Executive Management Team member.Awarded the "President's Award" in 1995.

Worked as an installing technician, service technician, field supervisor, scheduling coordinator and operations manager.Assisted executive management with the rapid growth of a highly successful security alarm company located in Southern California. Instrumental in the creation of the fire alarm division of the company.Installed and serviced many, many systems for high security facilities and executive & celebrity's homes.Received multiple employee and project awards during my tenure.

Family Owned Security Alarm Company. Worked for my father's business who started the company in 1969 and eventually sold it in 1983. Installed systems in small commercial and residential homes throughout Mid Michigan.