40 Under 40

YARMOUTH, Maine—Security Systems News is excited to bring you this year's inaugural “40 under 40” class of 2019, made up of a diverse and talented mix of young professionals representing the next generation of leaders in security.Opening the award up to consultants for the first time added new depth and perspective to this year's class, bringing all winners — consultants, integrators, monitoring professionals and end users — together into one “40 under 40”...

As the Sr. Engineer and Team Lead for the Physical Security Technology and IoT Infrastructure for United Airlines, John Harrington's day-to-day responsibilities include building and maintaining IP cameras, physical access control systems and IoT/sensor device networks and systems. “That includes managing our team of engineers and soliciting feedback from our customers on their experience, and collaborating as a cross-functional team member for the development of 'IoT' at United Airlines,”...

Morgan Harris, formerly senior director, Enterprise Solutions at ADT, founded Harris Technology Services LLC to focus on helping customers find positive outcomes using technology. “I want technology to work for people, not the other way around,” he said.Harris' introduction to the security industry was at a company called Integration Logistics. “I originally accepted the position to build an IT practice, but I discovered a large need for an IT-centric approach to make security technology...

With a background in education as an elementary school teacher, Ebony Haywood said that her security journey is definitely happenstance and being in the right place at the right time. “Ironically, one of our families [referring to a student's family] owned a security business and when I was looking for a change, they took a chance on me,”Haywood said, starting out on a part-time basis and transitioning into operations coordinator. “At the time, I did not understand the business...

During his college days, Juergen Henry was looking for a job where he could also attend classes and a good friend of his, a dispatcher at COPS Monitoring, referred him to the company. Henry also became a dispatcher and really enjoyed helping people. “It became evident rather quickly that COPS was where I wanted to make a career,” Henry said.Since his time as a dispatcher, Henry has had the chance to work under the supervision of and side-by-side with some leaders who helped him strive...

Stephanie Higgins joined Securitas in 2016 and now has a leadership role with a wide variety of HR responsibilities, including employee relations, human resource information systems (HRIS), policy development, rewards and compensation, associate development programs and special projects.“It has been an amazing and positive experience with Securitas,” she said. “I enjoy designing new programs, working with a great leadership team, and helping to make our associates their very best.”Higgins...

As a Director at Affiliated Monitoring, Anthony Iannone has a diverse portfolio of responsibilities, including the company's video monitoring services, PERS/mPERS solutions, new product assessment/development and infrastructure planning.“The common theme is working at the nexus of business and technology to create new solutions for our partners,” Iannone said. “I have been with Affiliated for three years, and started my work here as a member of the team responsible for bringing...

Matt Jones has been at H. Stephen Jones and Associates, Inc. (HSJ), a design engineering and consulting firm in Jacksonville, Fla., since 2008. He and his older brother have helped their father, who founded the firm in 2000, grow the business to what it is today.Jones' day-to-day responsibilities consist of leading the physical security design, engineering and consulting department.  “I am heavily involved with our physical security assessment team, and more hands-on than most in terms of testing,...

As a child, Nicole Kenny would visit her mother who managed a central station, and following in her footsteps, her first job was working for the same central station.Now, with a 15 year tenure at Criticom Monitoring Services (CMS), “I have the pleasure of managing two different teams — the operations support project team, responsible for everything from data cleanup to activity reduction analysis and the business development support team, who's primary focus is on existing alarm companies...

Travis May's role recently changed at Mastercard, where he has been for nearly  six years, moving from director of North America Regional & Global Event Security to director of Learning Technology & Innovation.“I am responsible for the design, development and execution of the learning technology and innovation strategy for Mastercard,” said May. “This includes researching and evaluating new and emerging technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence...