Tag: Steve Butkovich

MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) has announced the recent appointment of Matt Narowski, vice president of operations, Security Central, and Rob Raisch, chief architect and team lead, monitoring integration, SimpliSafe, Inc., to the volunteer position of co-chairs for its Technology Committee. Narowski and Raisch succeed longtime Technology Committee Chairs Steve Butkovich, CPI Security, and Sascha Kylau, OneTel Security, both of whom are moving into new...

MCLEAN, Va., and YARMOUTH, Maine—The Monitoring Association (TMA) and Security Systems News (SSN) have announced that Fresno, Calif.-based Kimberlite Corp. is the winner of the inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Award. American Alarm and Communications, Inc., based out of Arlington, Mass., received Honorable Mention for the award. The DEI Leadership Award was presented to Kimberlite at TMA’s 2022 Annual Meeting in Marco Island, Fla., on Mon. Oct. 31. The...

Long time, no blog. I admit, I have been on the blogging sidelines for several weeks now while my new comrade, Managing Editor Ken Showers, has settled in and immediately given his thoughts on various relevant security industry topics under my old blogging banner, Monitoring Matters. As I’m now officially the editor of Security Systems News, my blogs will now fall under the title of On the Editor’s Desk, which you obviously know since you found me and are reading this right now. Now...

SALT LAKE CITY—The Monitoring Association held its inaugural Technology Summit here, March 19-21, covering technologies directly related to monitoring centers in today's industry.“The two gentlemen that made this happen were Sascha Kylau, [VP of central station solutions and services] from OneTel, and Steve Butkovich, the CTO of CPI. They are the co-chairs of our technology committee. They envisioned this and managed all of the content and speakers. We initiated the effort in January...

VIENNA, Va.—Registration is now open for The Monitoring Association's recently announced “TMA Technology Summit,” an inaugural event to be held March 19-21, 2018 in Salt Lake City. The event is coordinated by TMA's Technology Committee, which is co-chaired by Sascha Kylau, vice president of sales, Onetel Security and Steve Butkovich, CTO, CPI Security Systems. “We invite CTOs, CIOs, and IT directors of monitoring companies to participate in the first TMA Tech Summit to learn...