System Design

Jim Myers

Physical Security System Design, Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Disaster

Recovery Planner, CEM, CDRP, COR

Location

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Industry

Management Consulting

.

Jim Myers

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Jim Myers's Overview

Current

Disaster Action Team Member at American Red Cross, McKinney, TX Branch

Stuctured Wiring and Electrical Wiring Specialist at Habitat for Humanity, Collin County,

TX

Consultant at Anything Computer

Past

Security System Designer at Wai Wize LLC

Sales Engineer at Magellan Integration (Intelesec LLC)

Colonel, US Army Reserve at US Army

HIPAA Systems Analyst/Programmer (ColdFusion) at Mass Group Marketing

Department Manager (Electrical) at Home Depot Inc.

Senior Network Validation Engineer (SONET) at Fujitsu Networking Systems

Corporate Security Engineer at Texas Instruments Inc. and Raytheon Systems Company

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planner at SAIC

Project Engineer (NICET Certified Fire Protection) at Lockheed Martin

Manager, Systems Support Expressway Corporate Site at Texas Instruments

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Education

Ohio University

Ohio University

Recommendations

5 people have recommended Jim

Connections

500+ connections

Jim Myers' Summary

- PSIM / SIM integration with ERP, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

- DHS Active Shooter Response Planning

- Key Personnel Protection

- OSHA Compliant Visitor Tracking

- Presidential Volunteer Award 2012

- National Humanitarian Award

- Governor's Award, Oklahoma City Bombing

- International Building Code, NFPA code and ADA Law

- Physical Security Architectural Design and Best Practices

- Construction specification writing (Sections 27, 28)

- Protection Systems Integration (Energy Management, Employee Parking, etc)

- Integration with SAP & PeopleSoft ERP databases

- NFPA Fire and National Electrical Code Standards

- Life Safety NFPA 101

- US Army Officer, Honorable Discharged

- DoD Security Regulations, NISPOM

- DHS and Stafford Act guidelines policy and procedures

- FEMA guidelines, policies, and best practices

- RFID based access control to meet NRC and FAA specs

- Hospital security design

- Mass notification NFPA 72-2010

- Prisoner Inmate RFID tracking

- Newborn Infant RFID tracking

- Diversion Detection

- School Lockdown policies and compliance

- FBI Facility Clearing practices

- School Lockdown Clearing best practices

- FEMA Certified Emergency Manager

- FEMA Trained Anti-Terrorism Trainer

- Mobile cell phone systems design, customer training

- Emergency Communications Provisioning, Fail Over

- Disaster Recovery planning, training, table top exercises

- Integrated Access Control, Alarm, CCTV

- Texas DPS License#: 445570 (Sales Engineer)

- Oklahoma License#: 010347 (Manager)

- International security systems design

- RFID employee identification and tracking

- Projects include Austin International Airport, New Parkland Hospital, Texas Instruments

South Building Safe Zone, Corporate split of alarm and access control for the Raytheon

purchase of TI Defense Systems, dozens of DoD Classified Alarm and Access Control NISPOM

and UL Compliant. DoD TS / SI security clearance

Email: *********@*****.***

Specialties

- Telecommunications Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

- IT Management, WAN/LAN Monitoring

- Customer Service / trouble call analysis (Statistical CRM)

- ISO-9002 Certification

- Anti-Terrorism Training

- Lean manufacturing (6 Sigma through Statistical Process Control)

- Process Documentation and Change Management Compliant with ISO-9002

- Statistical Process Control (Yield Improvement, Yield Management).

Jim Myers' Experience

Disaster Action Team Member

American Red Cross, McKinney, TX Branch

Nonprofit; 10,001+ employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry

July 2011Present (1 year 2 months) McKinney, TX

Aid disaster clients and first responders. Provide clients with psychological first aid,

funding allowances for temporary housing, food, clothing, bedding, first notification of

insurance agents, friends or other family members, shelter and direct them to appropriate

care. The personal feeling of helping others recover from a disastrous event is a

fantastic experience! Presidential Volunteer Award Winner 2012.

Stuctured Wiring and Electrical Wiring SpecialistHabitat for Humanity, Collin County, TX

January 2011Present (1 year 8 months) McKinney, TX

I'm working on the construction my seventh house project, strictly as a volunteer. All

inspections have passed without one noted defect or problem by the local City Inspectors.

Consultant

Anything Computer

April 1995 Present (17 years 5 months)

Serving the North Dallas-McKinney Texas Area. Expert at solving Customer IT related

problems, whether WiFi networking, printing, security, virus/malware recovery and

prevention, systems upgrade, product recommendation and evaluation, or general end-user

training. Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning, Anti-Terrorism training. OSHA

required training on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Safety risk analysis and

personnel training. Emergency Management Consulting. Specializing in integration of

physical security with Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery and SAP or PeopleSoft

business systems to resolve personnel and visitor accountability requirements.

Security System DesignerWai Wize LLC

Information Technology and Services industry

October 2010 March 2011 (6 months)

Systems designer for access control, alarm, CCTV, emergency communications, NFPA-72 2010

Mass Notification, and Lockdown systems. Successfully added NTTA Tolltag identification

(RFID) to Employee parking. TX Reg#: 445570, OK Reg#: 010347. Email: *********@*****.***

Sales EngineerMagellan Integration (Intelesec LLC)

February 2007August 2010 (3 years 7 months)

Interviewed the Customer to define their requirements for security access control, alarm,

CCTV, building lock down, WAN/LAN interface, DoD or Special Access Control, life safety

interface (including SCADA), then design a system to meet all requirements. Advise the

Customer on local and national building code and legal requirements. Estimate labor and

materials to build a bid proposal. Submit the proposal to the Customer and close the sale.

Obtain all required city permits, and manage implementation to include all required city

and state inspections. Attend Customer progress meetings, keep management informed.

Resolve all issues to ensure project completion and total customer satisfaction.

Colonel, US Army Reserve

US Army

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Military industry

January 1972 April 2007 (35 years 4 months)

Started as a junior Officer assigned to a classified project to develop a nuclear war

survivable communications system called TCP/IP developed under a DARPA contract. Developed

a very successful narrow band secure radio linkage in the UHF/VHF band. Today, we know

this as Internet and WiFi, but back then it was far simpler and slower (4.8 kB). Promoted

and served multiple command tours and stayed on Active Duty for a ten year period, left

Reserve Active duty in 1980 to develop a career with Texas instruments. Stayed with the

Army Reserves, selected by name from over 2000 eligible to support the National Security

Council's National Communications System (NCS) in Arlington VA, in support of FEMA in both

peace time and wartime missions. Retired from the Army after 37 years commissioned

service.

HIPAA Systems Analyst/Programmer (ColdFusion)

Mass Group MarketingSeptember 2005February 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Mass Group Marketing manages benefits, health insurance, life insurance, dental plans,

long and short term disability as well as pre-tax health employee savings plans (Cafeteria

Plans). they had just implemented a web based benefit enrollment server and desperately

needed a systems analyst/programmer to develop HIPAA based enrollment feeds to the plan

carriers (e.g.: Blue Cross/Blue shield), and I successfully implemented 33 nightly secure

feeds to the various carriers to obtain HIPAA compliance. I left upon successful

completion of assigned job and career progression to a new challenging opportunity.

Department Manager (Electrical)Home Depot Inc.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HD; Retail industry

August 2003 September 2005 (2 years 2 months)

Managed a $7 Million annual net sales business unit, exceeded forecast sales by 11%.

Cleared excess inventory with shipments to Hurricane Katrina ravaged stores in Louisiana.

Rebuilt the sales staff. Authored Customer training on the National Electrical Code, safe

product installations writing new training documentation. Received seven Store Awards to

include Department Manager of the Year. Lead just-in-time retail inventory operations.

Left the job to pursue career progression.

Senior Network Validation Engineer (SONET

)

Fujitsu Networking SystemsSeptember 2001August 2003 (2 years) Richardson, TX

Lead Network Validation Engineer, using industry standard Belcore SONET specifications,

authored test plans to validate equipment operation and initiate any corrective action.

Conducted tests to document SONET multiplex equipment function and identify any resulting

system problems or failures. Worked with systems engineering to correct problem areas to

full customer acceptance. Joined Sales Team to close sales with Customers.

Corporate Security EngineerTexas Instruments Inc. and Raytheon Systems CompanySeptember 1980April 2003 (22 years 8 months) Dallas, TX

Designed and installed all fire and life safety systems on the main TI campus, complete

with SCADA Interface, at Texas Instrument's main Corporate site. The South Building Safe

zone became the largest project ($11 M) and was a complete success. It became a world-wide

showcase for very large shelter-in-place projects. Knowledge of building code, systems

requirements, the reading and correction of of architectural blueprints was critical to

that success. Personally conducted extensive training of the Customer and technicians in

the proper techniques, operation and maintenance of the systems.

Awarded 23 TI quality and innovation awards for saving a total of $50 million in cost

savings and productivity improvements cross all of Texas Instruments. Upon outsourcing of

the entire department, offered an excellent five-year retirement bridge package . The

various employment during this retirement bridge explains the obvious overlap shown in the

LinkedIn employment history.

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planner

SAIC

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry

September 1999August 2001 (2 years)

Hired to assist Williams Communications Company (Tulsa, OK) develop a workable

telecommunications business continuity plan for their Network Operation Center (NOC). The

immediate problem was that the NOC would be made inoperable during construction of a

second Williams tower with the new cross link between buildings. I found a suitable

hardened secure emergency NOC location several miles away, which was immediately approved

and implemented by the WCC Board. Williams Communications is still using this location

today as it is still serving their needs. My threat analysis revealed that the Tulsa

airport frequently closed in winter storm conditions, isolating Tulsa and making distant

travel impossible in winter. I left the job upon successful completion.

Project Engineer (NICET Certified Fire Protection)

Lockheed Martin

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry

May 1997July 1999 (2 years 3 months) Austin International Airport, Austin, TX

Austin International Airport Construction: Responsible for design and installation of 192

CCTV alarm triggered servo controlled security cameras, controlled access at 167 doors,

with tie-in to all life safety systems per NFPA-101, local Fire Marshall requirements ans

code, and FAA Airport Security Guidelines. The biggest challenge was to negotiate code and

requirement conflicts between the Austin City Fire Marshall and the FAA Security Team. The

result was very successful and we were awarded the City Certificate of Occupancy on the

first attempt. The challenge regarding life-safety

Manager, Systems Support Expressway Corporate Site

Texas Instruments

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry

June 1985 December 1991 (6 years 7 months) Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Provide IT systems and LAN support to 17 Business Units, 8,500 customers. Directly

supervised seven exempt and three non-exempt systems administrators, operators and

technicians, to provide 24x7 IT support for medium sized DEC VAX mini-computer servers,

and PC support. Provide Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity planning, data backup /

restoration support, application support, and end user training. Pioneered the Customer

Contact Team concept, providing the Customer with dedicated in-depth support resources to

accomplish complete Customer satisfaction. Pioneered job skill requirements profiling with

individual career skill planning, and training. Pioneered Customer trouble call

statistical analysis and preventive consulting with needs-driven training. The developed

High Performance Team performed terrifically, with dozens of Customer appreciation letters

received on all team members. My goal was to make team members job's both enjoyable and

rewarding. This was my most favorite assignment at TI!

Jim Myers' Patents

LED Hazard Marker for Military Applications

United States Patent Retained by Texas Instruments via Patent Disclosure

Issued June 15, 1993

Inventors: Jim Myers

While participating in Operation Desert Storm with the US Army, I discovered that our

Thermal Viewers could 'see' Saddam Husain's ceramic (non-metallic) anti-tank mines at

night for easily routing armored columns around the mines. The problem was that not all

drivers had thermal viewers, we needed a simple way to mark the thousands of mines so that

vehicle drivers could avoid contact with the mines. I invented a simple three piece

device, easily manufactured and using a single AA battery, that could be air dropped close

to a mine to safely mark it for approaching vehicle drivers. Actually, thousands of the

devices were manufactured and delivered in time for the operation. It worked perfectly!

Jim Myers' Volunteer Experience & Causes

Volunteer Interests

Causes I care about:

Civil Rights and Social Action

Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

Economic Empowerment

Environment

Health

Poverty Alleviation

Science and Technology

Social Services

Jim Myers' Honors and Awards

President's Volunteer Award

President Obama

June 2012

National Humanitarian Award

National Communications System, The National Security Council, Arlington, VA

April 1996

Awarded in recognition for personal sacrifice for rescue and recovery operations for the

Oklahoma City Terrorist Bombing.

Jim Myers' Publications

Digital Pager (and Cell Phone) as an Alarm Device

Texas Instruments Technical Journal

1989

Authors: Jim Myers

Developed and presented a windows based application and code written in "C" to monitor

for supervised manufacturing systems that upon an alarm condition would page (or call) the

on-call response personnel with a descriptive message . Also, to send a detailed email

alarm message.

Jim Myers' Skills & Expertise

- PSIM / SIM integration with Business Continuity Disaster Recovery

Physical Security architectural design

Construction specification authoring

IT Management

Business Continuity Planning

Management

System Monitoring

Analysis

Physical Security

Security

Security Management

Business Continuity

Security Audits

Access Control

Disaster Recovery

Jim Myers' Education

Ohio University

MS, BS Engineering and Technology, Engineering

My Freshman year, successfully designed and built a prototype Crab Angle Landing Receiver

(Avionics Engineering) to help win a FAA/NASA research grant for the Engineering

Department. The landing receiver worked by measuring the phase difference of two received

signals from two wing mounted dipole antennas transmitted from a single point transmitter

at the far end of the runway. The phase difference automatically calculated the cross-wind

landing angle (crab angle) used by the pilot during landing to automatically steer the

landing gear parallel with the runway. Thus avoiding tire and landing gear damage from

cross contact stress and tire spin-up. This allowed the pilot to actually fly the airplane

in a cross wind without risk of landing gear damage. The pilot would then switch off the

crab angle control to manually turn onto the appropriate taxiway on the tarmac.

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Student Council Member, ROTC March

Team.

Ohio University

BS

Jim Myers' Additional Information

Groups and Associations:

ASIS International

Active Shooter Intervention

BICSI Official Group

Business Continuity

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Consultants

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Professionals

CCTV Video Surveillance, IP Technology & Solutions

CareerDFW

Cisco Physical Security

Disaster & Emergency Management

FireandSecurityJobs.net US / CAN

Frisco Connect

GE - General Electric Company

Interrogation and Counterintelligence

Intuit Careers

Jobs 4 Security, Defence & Aerospace

Military-to-Civilian Transitoners

PSIM Trends

Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) Group

RFID Security Alliance

Security Industry Group

Security Marketing Guru

Security Sales & Integration

Structured Cabling Professionals

Surveillance Technology

Honors and Awards:

- Presidential Volunteer Award (Signed by President Obama)

- National Humanitarian Award

- Governor Award, State of Oklahoma

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