Tag: PSA Security Convention

I caught the last two days of the PSA Security Convention which took place on Florida's panhandle in Destin, Fla., this week. About 30 of North America's top security integrators attended this annual event. On Monday morning PSA sponsored an educational session about time management. I know, it sounds dry, but it wasn't. The moderator, Paul Boucherle, asked attendees if they knew the dollar amount for hour's time for the following positions: a tech on the road; a salesperson; service guys? The answer,...

DESTIN, Fla.—Talking with Security Systems News at the PSA Security Convention here this week, David Pettit, president of systems integrator Southwest Surveillance, described the comeback his company experienced in the past five years.“We were on our strategic plan. Then when the economy took a nose dive, we went into survival mode. Now we're back on the strategic plan again,” he said.Southwest Surveillance, based in Las Vegas, derives 99 percent of its revenues from the gaming...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Shanix Technologies, a Cranston, R.I.-based systems integrator, received an award at the PSA Security Convention, held here Oct. 21-25, for having the highest increase in sales of all PSA Security members in the Northeast region in 2010.“That was the result of a combination of things, winning large jobs and an increase in business overall,” Kekin Shah, president of Shanix Technology, told Security Systems News.Shanix had a record year despite the fact that...