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Executive Introduction
In our business we teach clients that whoever chooses their internal or external
security personnel needs to clearly understand the security business, be willing to plan
with you, and understand all building and public safety concerns. The relationship with
your security contractor must be a partnership. Because you will have to relay on that
partnership during situations, which may cause legal strategies to be reviewed, testifying
in court or writing reports. This is a joint effort. If it is viewed in this manner, you will
have a win-win relationship. We win, the community customers win and our nation
wins.
PROFILE
Creative and reliable leadership experience in planning and executing all aspects of new
product launches, program implementation, training resources and successful program
implementation within corporate, academic and non-profit organizations. Hands-on
knowledge of strategic planning, multi-discipline team management, complex project
management, new business development and communication assets.
Demonstrated skills as top project leader, process advocate, change agent and career
pathway planner in diverse professional settings; domain knowledge of the entire
engagement life cycle, from initial concept and work scope definition to final
delivery on time and within budget.
Full development and execution of successful meetings and events that support and
deliver corporate re-branding initiatives, incentive strategies, employee morale
boosters, and corporate marketing efforts with a creative, visionary approach;
delivery of significant cost savings, greater return on investment, and higher market
awareness levels.
Expertise in the negotiation and execution of complex contracts and agreements with
top management, multi-industry clients, venue staff and key decision-makers.
Effective hiring, management, deployment, and development of top-notch talent at
staff and field levels; motivation of teams to achieve peak performance, execute
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Received the 2008 “Cambridge Who’s Who Award” for superb humanitarian work
through this organization; also recognized as the #1 program in Louisiana by the LA
Workforce Development entity.
Greatly increased program visibility through aggressive branding and hands-on
strategic planning.
Analyzed and streamlined operating processes to achieve more efficient workflow.
Hired as an expert business manager to turn this organization around and roll back
significant losses, meeting all initial goals within 1 week.
Coordinated part-time and volunteer staff in providing health & safety orientation for pre-
college students at meetings at multiple sites throughout the region. Deployed expertise
in special events planning, curriculum development, fundraising, budgetary oversight and
creation of a wide range of marketing materials. Balanced and tracked fiscal management
tasks at both field and office levels.
MILITARY
Specialist/E-4
Tasked with a wide range of duties involving ammunition handling, ordnance support
and logistical operations.
Activated and deployed to active duty in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War in 1990-
1991.
Honorable Discharge.
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
ACTIVITIES
* Board member of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce and the Homeland
Security Advisory Board of Herzing College.
* Member of the WI Collaboration Council of the City of Madison.
I see the Federal Government taking great strides to ensure our nations safety with
airline security. With all of the solutions introduced to the public, they all appear to still
have an ancillary tone attached.
In becoming an expert in the field of security for the last 15 years, I have gone
back to the basics to understand trends within the field and human behaviors that are
associated with these trends. For example: my administration employs security specialist
that we train in house. What we sell to our corporate and government customers is an
image. An image that is wrapped in a package that we the (Administrators) present, this
in addition to the services we offer. Actually what the customer buys is we - the
presenters. They buy in to the leadership of the organization and partner with their
vision, as it is most likely congruent with their own.
So the challenge that I or any other service industry business has, is hiring and
training employees to buy into the same sell the client does, understanding our
company’s philosophy, training and style. Our individual success is deemed on how well
we in the service industry accomplish this objective.
Our company has been fighting an uphill battle for over a decade. We have been
trying to educate government as well as corporations on the premises “You get what you
pay for”. Too many times we run into the potential client that wants the Cadillac package
but wants it at the Saturn price. Unless something happens that warrants an increase
spending for their security - then and only then will a change in their thinking occur?
Yet, these tend to be the same individuals that complain about having poor looking, low
skilled, low waged and poorly trained individuals contracted at their locations.
Many assume that an increased wage will produce a better worker or applicant.
In my experience, this is nothing further from the truth. Increasing a person’s wages only
makes a person that is already good in what they do or dedicated to their work feel
appreciated. Unless, you have a work environment that employs everyone that loves
their job, then the pay for the job is of no great issue to them. The monetary rewards
really do nothing for these other individuals. Monetary rewards for those whom are not
dedicated to their work, leaves you with a higher paid undedicated worker that is now
sticking around a little while longer because of the raise they just received. Many
workers stay with a job they do not like, are bored with or have no real dedication
Later in 1990, there was a spike in private security services. Crime was on an all
time high, dangerous drugs were being reintroduced, juvenile delinquency was at an all
time high, unemployment was high and this was the beginning of gangs moving from
adults to teens.
With the gangs, came teens carrying and concealing weapons or firearms,
loitering issues, AODA issues, fights and no respect for any authority. Throughout the
90's as these teens grew up and became adults, the lack of respect for authority stayed
with them. A behavior of disrespect to police officers by the community was present.
Typically followed by a blatant disregard to security officers from the community.
Today, this still is a challenge. Some security organizations have changed their
uniform to look less like law enforcement. In our company (APA), we also do not want
security abusing their authority because they are in a uniform that looks like law
enforcement. By altering the appearance of the uniform, our research showed this has
helped with the cooperation of police officers and the public tends to respond less
defensively. Until September 11, 2001 - overall the public and businesses generally felt
secure as a Nation. Many managers prior to Sept. 11th looked as security concerns as
nuisance or as an aside measure. This approach later showed how unprepared and
vulnerable we as a nation can be. If we are all striving for the same goal, we do not want
to have anything defeat us before we even get started. Many options have already been
presented to the public. Many have already failed.
One alternative security option presented to the public was making the current
airport luggage screeners federal employees. This plan over an aggressive course of 1.5
years was to have all airport security workers federal employees. Increasing their wages
and training in hopes to make them better, more effective or attentive in their roles. Thus
forcing many current screeners to compete for their existing positions.
The last group to apply will be the general public. Here you might find some
great individuals, prior military, etc. However not enough to fill all the vacancies. The
best thing about this group of applicants is they have no pre-learned bad habits associated
with this position. This by far will be your easiest group to work with and train. The
downside of this group is that you do not know where their dedication and commitments
are, as well as not being aware of this group of applicant’s work ethics or work habits.
Hiring the wrong person(s) from this group can lead to a disastrous situation.
The only thing in the security service industry we cannot control is the wills and hearts of
these human beings that work for us. We don’t know what makes a person strive or fail
in this field. We have determined we can teach some skills to give them a better chance
at being successful while working in this field. We believe if you always do what you
have always done, you will always get what you always got.
So how does one ensure they do not get what they always got? It appears the
government has placed a great deal of focus on changing the people or type of person(s)
working airport security. As it is typical human nature to blame people when things go
wrong, but I do believe you are only as successful as the process in place. If something
does not work, don’t look to change your people first, look at changing and evaluating
your process.
During our survey, managers told us in an emergency situation the only thing
their security could do is pick up a phone and call for help. The more they thought about
it, the more they came to realize, anyone could do this and they really felt they did not
need to pay for someone to do this for them. This calls for a great training program.
The roles that police play have an intimate connection with the idea of a free and
open society. They must always be shining examples of the judicious use of power. The
police have many powers, from the right to know more information about citizens than
the average person needs to know to the right to bully people around without any
backtalk when it's necessary. How wisely, or judiciously, they use these powers is the
primary determinant of how free and open a society is. Whether they know it or not, the
police are the guardians of human rights, but they must operate in a political environment
There are approximately 18,760 total police agencies in the U.S. with
approximately 940,275 employees and a combined annual budget of about $51 billion
(year 2000 data). There are approximately 60 different federal police agencies, and most
of them are in the departments of Justice or Treasury. There are 26 agencies called
Highway Patrol and 23 agencies called State Police (Hawaii doesn't have a state police
agency per se, but a Department of Public Safety). Thirty-five states have additional state
agencies with limited purpose or special investigative powers. There are 3,088 sheriffs
departments in the U.S. There are about 15,000 municipal police departments in the
U.S. No other nation in the world has ever had as many different types of police
departments as the U.S., a fact that means no two police agencies in America are
structured alike or function in the same way.
The federal agencies are specialized, having specific mandates to enforce certain
types of federal laws (there are only about 200 federal crimes). They are also starting to
station their agents overseas, in efforts to deal with the growing problem of transnational
crime. The top five largest agencies (in terms of sworn officers) are the INS
(Immigration and Naturalization Service), BOP (Bureau of Prisons), FBI (Federal Bureau
of Investigation), Customs, and the Secret Service. No federal police agencies have
peacekeeping or order maintenance duties typical of local law enforcement. No federal
police agency, not even the FBI, is considered a "national" police force. The following
table contains some selected examples of how federal agencies function:
INS: Monitor and control the flow of immigrants by patrolling borders and
territories; apprehend, charge, and deport aliens who have entered the country
illegally and violated naturalization laws. The southern border with Mexico is a
violent place, and the "soft" border with Canada raises national security concerns.
Since 9/11, the INS plans to add 1,000 new Border Patrol agents a year until 2008.
FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration is poised to become the nation's largest
federal police agency with plans to hire between 15,000 and 20,000 Air Marshals as
quickly as possible. This would make them as large as or larger than the INS, which
along with the U.S. Marshals and Customs, is helping provide necessary security and
profiling on aircraft.
FBI: Leadership in investigations over terrorism, espionage, organized crime, white
collar crime, and selected federal drug offenses; assist state and local agencies thru
training, information databases, fingerprinting, DNA, and laboratory services;
operate legal attaché offices in 57 different countries.
DEA: Enforce national drug laws and assist other federal and foreign agencies in
combating illegal drug manufacture and trade on an international level; also enforce
the Controlled Substances Act, which includes prescription drugs; operate a network
of regional laboratories to test and categorize drugs; provide state and local agencies
with access to those labs; register physicians who can prescribe drugs.
The state agencies were created for four reasons: (1) to assist local law
enforcement; (2) to investigate cross-county crime; (3) to provide a law enforcement
presence in areas that have no local or county presence; (4) to break strikes and control
labor movements. For many years, the state police were the personal tool of governors,
but evolved into general all-purpose law enforcement. Some of the earliest state agencies
were the Texas Rangers, which from 1835-1874 was just a mercenary army, and the
Pennsylvania Constabulary, formed in 1905 and recognized as the first modern state
police force. By 1925, each state formed either a state police force (centralized all-
purpose policing) or a highway patrol department (with separate bureaus of investigation,
identification, crime labs, alcohol and drug control, and driver’s license examination).
All state agencies administer computer systems that link up with federal computer
systems, and most concentrate on criminal violations that occur on state property,
including roads and highways.
The county agencies are usually run by an elected sheriff, and consist of sworn
deputies, civilians, and special deputies (part-timers or private security personnel are
sworn in for crowd control or special purposes). They perform a wide variety of
functions, including the investigation of crime, traffic enforcement, civil process paper
service, courtroom security, and confinement and transport of prisoners. Some county
jails house hundreds and thousands of prisoners.
For example, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department employs over 3,500
employees in its custodial division alone. The elected nature of the sheriff's office has
both advantages and disadvantages. Sheriffs generally have a freer hand in running their
agencies than police chiefs, but partisan politics sometimes intrudes - as doe’s political
patronage. Seventeen states have done away with or are doing away with the election of
sheriffs. County agencies often lack jurisdiction over cities and towns, their authority
being relegated to unincorporated areas or small towns that have no police forces of their
own.
The municipal agencies are a category that would include specialized groups such
as campus police; capitol police and transit police are an example of "local" law
enforcement. The U.S. is a nation of small, local police forces. Every incorporated
municipality in the U.S. has the authority to create its own police force. Small
communities hire only one officer, others about five officers, and the national average
size is 10 full-time officers. Some communities with no police force of their own make
contracts with private security or a sheriff's office. In stark contrast are large agencies
like the New York City Police Department with over 40,000 employees. Municipal
agencies are the workhorses of U.S. law enforcement, and have broad authority to
apprehend suspects, maintain order, and provide community services. Duties range from
investigating homicides, burglaries, and thefts to intervening in domestic disputes to
P -- Protect life and property (via patrol, crime scene control, recovery of stolen goods)
E -- Enforce the law (via warnings, tickets, complaints, and seizures)
P -- Prevent crime (by giving advice, directed patrol, or through DARE programs)
P -- Preserve the peace (visibility, disband disorderly groups, neighborhood intervention)
A -- Arrest violators (apprehend suspects, conduct raids, stings, and other crackdowns)
S -- Serve the public (give directions, first aid, and emergency services)
Everything listed above, is exactly what today’s professional security organizations are
training for or are already providing services that meet or exceed the capabilities of some
law enforcement agencies.
The U.S. Department of Labor has long classified private security as one of the
fastest growing industries in the country. The first private agency was started in 1860 as
the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and today includes over 4,000 separate
agencies, the big ones being Pinkerton, Burns, Wackenhut, Guardsmark, Wells Fargo,
Allied and APA, and a number of more bodyguard-oriented firms with names such as
APA, Globe, Trojan, and American Protective Services. The big firms are involved in
everything from department store loss prevention to shopping mall, hospital, and nuclear
security. There is a growing proliferation of bodyguard firms. In addition, there are
about 40,000 private detectives and investigators in the U.S., and a growing number of
bounty hunter firms.
The greatest good for the greatest number – How do we get there?
America’s first line of defense in any terrorist attack is the “first responder”
community-local police, firefighters, emergency medical teams and private security
professionals. Properly trained and equipped first responders have the greatest potential
to save lives and limit casualties after a terrorist attack. Currently, our capabilities for
responding to a terrorist attack vary widely across the country. Many areas have little or
The President’s 2003 Budget proposes to spend $3.5 billion on enhancing the
homeland security response capabilities of America’s first responders-a greater than 10-
fold increase in Federal resources. This initiative will accomplish the following
objectives:
Provide States and localities with the flexibility they require to ensure that the
funds are used to address the needs of their local communities.
Encourage mutual aid across the Nation so that the entire local, State, Federal, and
volunteer network can operate together effectively.
Establish a process for evaluation the effort to build response capabilities, in order
to validate that effort and direct future resources.
Planning: The program will support State and local governments in developing
comprehensive plans to prepare for the respond to a terrorist attack.
Equipment: The program will allow State and local first responder agencies to
purchase a wide range of equipment needed to respond effectively to a terrorist
attack, including personal protective equipment, chemical and biological detection
systems, and interoperable communications gear.
Training: The First Responder Initiative will also provide resources to train
firefighters, police officers, security personnel and emergency medical technicians
to respond and operate in a chemical or biological environment.
Strengthening all first responder communities will make our nation safer. Nearly four
million private and public first responders regularly put their lives at risk to save lives of
others and make our communities safer.
The benefits of building up our first responder capabilities are immediate and
widespread-making US safer from terrorist attacks while also bolstering our everyday
response capabilities.
The transportation or energy sectors, which they have regarded as key to U.S.
economic health.
Facilities or gatherings that would be recognized worldwide as symbols of
American power or security. (For example, U.S. military facilities and U.S.
Embassies, monuments and U.S. Icons).
If we truly wish to secure the public while traveling, we must first know whom
we are securing and exactly what from? Listed below is some travel information we can
use as a base. This information was gathered from the CIA World Fact Book 2001.
Domestic U.S. travel in the U.S. has increased 8 percent from 1994 to 2001, slightly
lower than the 9 percent increase in the total U.S. population during the same period.
There have been any attempts already to create this balance the most recent
attempt tested is the naked machine. In Orlando, FL a 3-D holographic imaging machine
called the naked machine allows passengers traveling to pass through this device. This
machine does reveal plastics and ceramics that might be hidden on the body. Passengers
are given a voluntary choice to go through this first to expedite the checkpoint process, if
they choose to go through this machine; they are actually viewed being naked. Some
look at this as a privacy violation, but people generally felt safer with the naked machine.
Studies have shown, there is a psychological need to feel safe, then actually being same.
Most people fear the risks they can't control.
Another example is looking at London England they have 2.5 million cameras
scattered in London. These cameras are mounted all over the city. The average person is
captured a 300 times a day moving about the city. Taking pictures or images of a face
and stored in into a blob database, for face recognition security. This type of security is
comparable to those working at a fixed post.
Taking this concept to a step further, the United States government is now
attempting to categorize people so they can that they capture and store specific data on
specific groups of people. This is nothing more than the profiling of American citizens,
or the profiling of the people within America. As my opinion, this attempt will get us
into trouble and most likely in a number of lawsuits against the government, which in
turn will cause Americans to pay for it later through taxes.
Once again history repeats itself, this time an element with a new twist. The
developmental placed security forces seem to follow no predictable pattern of the past
except the industry developments were traditionally in response to public pressure for
action. The slow development of public law-enforcement agencies, both state and
federal, combined with the steady escalation of crime in an increasingly urban
industrialized societies, created security needs that that by what might be called the first
professional private security responses in the second half of 19th-century.
There's always an intimate link between cultural and social change crime, just as
there is between crime and security measures adopted to combat threat. All the social
and economic causes are cited for the rising crime in this era. Among them is the erosion
of family and religious restraints, the trend toward permissiveness, the decline in feelings
of worker loyalty toward the company, and a general decline in morality accompanied by
the position of young workers entering the workforce that there's no such thing as right
wrong but rather only feels good or what do I get.
In addition to the cultural and social changes being very significant is the
realization that crime in our society prevents the criminal justice system by itself to
adequately control or prevent crime. Citizen fear of crime and the awareness that the
criminal justice resources alone cannot effectively control crime has led to the growing
use of the individual and corporate protective measures, including private security
services and neighborhood based crime prevention.
The private security industry is now on America's blueprint for public safety. It
no longer can be looked at as an irrelevant force. It must be professionalized in all areas -
as it has great importance to law-enforcement as well as the communities they serve. The
private security industry makes significant contributions to crime control and corporate
maintenance. The private security industry must develop opportunities for improved
cooperation and coordination with the regular working relationships between security and
law-enforcement agencies.
The police spend a lot of time handling mundane incidents and poring over a great
deal of paperwork. Actual crime fighting is a rare activity, and there's plenty of
unsupervised time, which allows for discretionary decision-making. The irony is that the
lowest paid employees, with the least amount of authority, do most of the work and make
the most important day-to-day decisions. This is typically the same in the security
industry. There is a good deal of debate over how to make police or security more
effective, how they should use their discretionary spare time, and what responsibilities
should be given priority. As an organization, police agencies have been unreceptive to
many efforts at reform. Since Sept. 11th 2001 and now clearly understanding the first
responders are, police and security must now look at ways to collectively reform and
standardize processes so they can work together.
For example, many people believe that the military chain of command structure is
dysfunctional for police work because it inspires fear, impedes communication, and
inhibits good community relations. Attempts to change the military structure have met
with great resistance. Another area of reform involves experimenting with the source of
executive authority in the police chief position, removing political interference from
mayors, managers, and city councils. So far, nothing has been found that works at
eliminating the last vestiges of politics from policing. There is also the issue of
educational qualifications. Most experts would say that the variety of skills expected of
police should require a graduate degree, yet employees with an average high school
degree and “some” college characterizes the field. Better educated, and more women and
minority officers would go a long way in accomplishing the police mission.
This behavior almost handed down to the security industry has caused everyone’s
focus and emphasis to change. Thus losing site of our primary mission to protect first.
We must now recognize the inevitable fact that the private protection service
industry has a legitimate role in crime prevention and property protection. It has not been
lost on the private security industry that recent government reorientation, which includes
finding alternative ways such as privatization to deliver government services, is an
opportunity for expansion. In addition to such usual functions as property protection and
property crime prevention, private security companies are now offering quasi-police
services in both low-income housing projects and affluent neighborhoods, acting as
municipal law enforcement officers, and carrying out complex white-collar crime
investigations. The result is that they where formerly or are largely confined to property
matters, they are now assuming responsibilities that put them into situations where they
have some control over the public.
This new role challenges the common view of private security, blurs the
distinction between private security and public police and raises questions about the
desirability of private security assuming functions normally performed by public police
officers. Thus the expanding role of private security is viewed as something of a threat to
the status and authority of the public police. The evolution of governance and policing
make it certain that the roles of both public police and private security will change.
Neither is likely to disappear. What is now important is how, in changing circumstances,
the two different approaches can be used to the maximum advantage of society without
impeding the evolution of either.
Today, it has gained favor for general identification and fraud prevention.
Fingerprinting, as a form of personal identification, is a refined methodology that is
proven in practice and accepted in courts of law. AFIS itself has been around for more
than 25 years. Recently, a more advanced form of AFIS uses a process called plain-
impression live scanning.
With our plan we emphasize the importance of sound perimeter and travel
security, thorough a variety of access control procedures or clearances. The plan would
start out as a pilot program for 1 year working with business travelers only. Here the
traveler would (for a small administrative fee) be entered into our national system.
Applicant information will update in real time nationally. There are 170,000 business
travelers per year. We would pilot's program targeting those business travelers for a year
asking them if they would be willing to be a part of our experiment.
Upon arriving at the ticket counter, the traveler would take their “Identifly” card
and swipe it to activate the system, place his/her hand and upon handprint/fingerprint
scanner that is equipped with a gel pad, the prints will be read in the standard type ten
record within the FBI ANSI/NIST format. A picture or photo that was previously taken
digitally in color and stored on the database will appear on a screen with the fingerprints.
Our plan is to partner with a local airline industry to support and promote this plan.
The advantage that one gains by using our system would be eliminating business
professionals to have to go through unnecessary hassles of security checkpoints and/or
eliminating the time burdens of coming to an airport two or three hours in advance
wasting valuable business time. The “Identifly” system would allow the traveler to arrive
to the airport approximately 20 to 30 minutes before departure, swiped their card, place
their hand on the gel-pad fingerprint reader, which would pull up their prints and photo,
and 100% positively identify the traveler.
After identifying the security level of the traveler and showing them as a trusted
US citizen, thus allowing Mr. /Ms. Corp. Exec. cleared for travel. The traveler would be
allowed to go through the security metal detection center and other security checkpoints
without hassle. However, travel across the ocean, cruises or any travel outside of the US,
will require higher levels of security clearances.
Another area this program can be beneficial, is with cargo security within our
ports. Cargo security has been growing security problems since 1970, the Senate select
committee on small business estimated that almost $1.5 million was attributed to cargo
theft. The shipment of goods is vital to the economy and ultimately to the survival this
The security concerns for the safe handling of these goods belong to many
different groups: port police, state and local police, customs officials as well as other
federal authorities. With our proposed plan of being able to 100% positively identify the
airline, trucking, rail, luxury liner and cargo industry personnel, we should drastically
eliminate potential terrorist action/tampering and dramatically reduce dishonest employee
action.
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Airport Examples
ATL Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport Qty Cost Each Totals
Despite many efforts to professionalize the field of private security, there still are
many that feel there are major obstacles that need to be overcome. The most persistent
arguments are the ones that have to deal with training and education of contract security
guards. In the past, (proprietary guards) guards hired directly by company used to be
better trained and received better pay than of their contract counterparts.
As I no longer support this opinion, it is my belief that today more and more
private security personnel are spending time to upgrade their resources, training and
technology to compete and in some cases with services offered, allowing security to
compete at the same level of law-enforcement. There are now today security forces that
provide services to the community that surpassed the capabilities with individualized or
personalized attention/service of their law-enforcement counterparts. However there are
not many of these organizations available nationally or globally.
If the broader definition of policing is used, then private policing is indeed in the
process of transformation. It is practiced by a wide variety of private, public and non-
governmental institutions that employ or contract agents to act on their behalf. Use of
private sector personnel to monitor infra-red traffic cameras, or to disseminate traffic
control information, mechanisms an organization puts into place to protect employee
health and safety, the collection of debts, electronic monitoring or camera surveillance of
all kinds, watching premises, public sites, or insurance claims forms, and even levying a
fine on an overdue library book can be regarded as policing. In this sense the distinctions
between the private and the public domain or between civil/criminal - administrative
matters disappear and public police become very much a minority among the plethora of
other private and non-governmental bodies.
Obtaining the background checks for the “Identifly” projects can be done in only
two different ways. The first being that the FFA directly obtain this information from the
FBI and supply it to us for input into our secure identification system. BBC would
reimburse the FFA via invoices generated for cost of information obtained.
BBC, llc would partner with a variety of different airline carriers for the
“Identifly” identification project. This partnership would allow the airline and BBC to
co-exist at the same check-in point. The airline would promote the use of the “Identifly”
system as both a more secure way of scanning passengers and also as a time saver during
the check-in phase. This system could practically eliminate the waiting and delays of
anywhere from 2 to 5 hours time frames that are now being experienced at check-in.
This secure identification system will be a mainstay for carriers from this point on. To
initiate this project and encompass the vast majority of travelers as quick as possible we
will be compensating the airlines 10% of our initial sign on fee for every new passenger
enlisted within the first year. This amount will be paid on a timely manner directly to the
airline carrier.
Intelligence is critical to our success across all areas of combating terrorism components.
Recommendations
Additional Benefits:
Marketing Analysis
With the safety of the American people on everyone’s mind our thought is to
initially target the transportation industry with this Secure Identification Program. Since
the travel industry stretches coast-to-coast and border-to-border we would be able to
encompass the greatest amount of people who would be at a potential risk.
When analyzing the transportation industry we would include in this sector all
modes of travel such as air, water, rail, and land. Our plan on introducing this program
would be through a variety of different venues and processes.
Marketing Strategies:
Decide on target cities
Obtain listing of all companies associated with targeted location
Provide marketing disc to company
Obtain support of unions¹ associated with targets
Follow-up conversations and discussions
Site visit for demo or to close contract
The medical field would be another sector of business world that mandates
positive identification of an individual both for health reasons and to avoid fraud within
the system. We would promote the “Identifly” technology to hospitals, clinics, and
Another area that we would target would be the education arena. There are
multiple foreign students in our school systems. We would market this to
schools/universities so they would have the ability to track student attendance. This
would be presented to administrators and school boards in selected cities as an issue
where they could lessen their liability.
The final piece of our target market would be to the government. The U.S.
government probably has the greatest need to be able to track people’s movement. With
the vast entities, department, and multiple locations that are combined within this
establishment a positive identification system is a necessity. Our presentation to the
Homeland Security Administration will be a hands on demonstration and discussion on
the unlimited uses now and in the future that this system has in regards to positive
identification, time savings, and a secure technical system.
Terrorists are like a virus; the only way to control them is to contain them. Once
they are contained within, you control the movement by isolating their spread. The
United States can't do anything about controlling the terrorist’s cells in the United States
today, but what can do is contain or control their movement. It's pretty unlikely that any
terrorists in this country will be willing sign up for our system. But eventually, all
There are anywhere from a few members to 700 terrorist groups around the world,
totaling about 3000 members. 10 percent of those extremist groups are in the United
States. In the last few years, terrorist organizations have shifted their targets from
government to business. Despite this vulnerability, the cost of the additional security
measures must always be justified because businesses are profit oriented. The creative
use of private security, human resources, and technology may be the one viable option
left to control crime or terrorist crime within our communities
The “Identifly” system being as portable as it is, can be put in all airports,
trucking companies, cruise ships, ports, U.S. Customs, etc. uses of misinformation must
be maintained privately what can be shared if necessary. Government cannot have
involvement in the process because it will give the appearance of “Big Brother”. To
maintain the integrity of the program and the database, limited levels of access control
will be applied. Multiple levels of encryption code will be applied to secure the
environment. A triple level of redundancy in a minimal of three locations will minimize
any downtime or loss of data.
If a traveler loses their Identifly identification, loses their flight tickets, loses their
credit cards, or loses their personal identification, we will be able to offer help at our
airport centers where a person can obtain a re-issue identification for travel and
deactivate the old card free of charge. All a person has to do is go through the same
process mentioned above by placing their hand on the scanner to positively identify the
individual, and then a new identification card can be printed in seconds. This same
process should also be utilized for employees who work within the travel industry,
transportation-shipping industry.
Our government has acquired and maintained a superior reputation within the
public safety and transportation industry for providing quality service within our country.
This achievement has established our nation as the leader and has placed us in a strong
global competitive position to initiate upcoming changes within the public safety and
transportation industry across the planet.