Tag: JoAnna Sohovich

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Honeywell today announced that Scott Harkins will replace JoAnna Sohovich, who resigned from her role as president, Honeywell Security & Communications, on Dec. 2. Sohovich moved to a job outside of the security industry and is now president, Industrial & Automotive Repair (NA, Asia & EMPG) at Stanley Black & Decker. Harkins who has overseen Honeywell's video surveillance and access control divisions, has been appointed to a newly created role and will now oversee Honeywell...

MELVILLE, N.Y.—JoAnna Sohovich has resigned as president of Honeywell Security & Communications, Security Systems News has learned. Sohovich resigned Dec. 2, according to sources. Honeywell spokesman David Gottlieb confirmed that Sohovich “has decided to leave Honeywell to pursue other opportunities.” “We thank JoAnna for her contributions to the Security Group as well as other Honeywell businesses and wish her well in her future endeavors,” Gottlieb said. Sohovich...

Veterans Day, the floods in Thailand and the "cookie ladies" were all part of the conversation at the opening session Friday at Honeywell's First Alert Professional Convention 2011 that I attended in Scottsdale, Ariz. Nov. 10-12. Friday was Veterans Day and JoAnna Sohovich, Honeywell Security & Communications president, started the general session off by thanking those who have served this country in the armed services. Later in the program, Sohovich, a graduate of the United States Naval...

ST. LOUIS—Interface Security Systems is in the process of completing the installation of a secure managed cloud services project for the entire Dollar General 9,500-store retail chain. While terms of the deal were not released, Interface CEO Michael Shaw told Security Systems News that the Dollar General multi-year contract is “expected to generate in excess of $100 million in top-line revenue for Interface.” Interface is providing the WAN management, PCI compliance, wireless access...

LAS VEGAS—What was new on Day 1 of ISC West 2011? As usual, there were a number of partnership announcements and a couple of acquisitions; new this year was lots of talk about physical security information management systems. PSIM announcements abounded on the show floor. IPVideo Corporation announced its first endeavor into the PSIM space with the release of C3 Fusion. Steve Sleicher, chief operating officer with IP Video said that the company, which has a video management software platform,...