Client Service Excellence Awards, First Quarter 2008
Thirteen offices reported a client retention rate of over 93% or higher in the first quarter of 2008. Click Here for details.
USA Recognizes 2007 Top Performers
On March 28, 2008 the 3rd annual Winner’s Circle ceremony took place at Château Élan in Braselton, Georgia. The ceremony was designed to honor the individuals who have made major contributions to the organization. These individuals have gone above and beyond their normal responsibilities to afford the company outstanding success. Each award recipient embodies the company’s core values, mission and vision; which makes them the best of the best.
This year’s recipients celebrated their achievements at the elegant winery and resort. Château Élan is situated on 3,500 scenic acres in the sprawling foothills of the North Georgia Mountains. The resort is convincingly reminiscent of a French château and includes a vineyard, a winery, a golf course, a spa and many other features. It is a place fit for nobility. Attendees enjoyed a fun a weekend of wine tasting, fine dining, golf, and/or a relaxing visit to the luxurious, 33,000 square foot spa.
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USA Recognizes 2006 Top Performers
More than 90 attended an event-packed weekend in Atlanta that was topped off with a gala honoring the best of the best at USA. The Winner’s Circle Awards for the outstanding achievements of 2006 were presented on March 28, 2007, at the JW Marriott in Buckhead,Ga. Members of The Winner’s Circle celebrated their achievements over a relaxing weekend at a 4 star hotel.
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U.S. Security Associates selected as one of the world's 40 best employee learning and development organizations
Atlanta, Georgia, October 5, 2006–U.S. Security Associates (USA) has announced that it has been named a 2006 BEST Award winner by the American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD). Other 2006 winners include such highly respected companies from around the world as Caterpillar, Infosys Technologies Limited (India), Microsoft, NCR Corporation, Verizon Communications, American Express, Deloitte & Touche, Merck and Wal-Mart Stores, among others.
Criteria for selection as a BEST (Building talent, Enterprise-wide, Supported by the
organization’s leaders, fostering a Thorough learning culture) Award winner is a company’s ability to demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee training and development that creates and supports a deep learning culture, and provides opportunities for achieving business results.
Chuck Schneider, CEO of U.S. Security Associates, said, “Training and development is
paramount to U.S. Security Associates’ long- and short-term success. Two years ago, we created the USA Security Academy with the mandate of developing the best-trained people in the industry to serve our clients. We knew we were on the right track due to our client retention rate of over 90 percent, but the BEST Award affirms our investment and direction, and we’re delighted to be in such distinguished company.”
Begun in 1944, ASTD is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. Its 70,000 members and associates from more than 100 countries include multinational corporations, medium-size and small businesses, government, academia, consultants and service suppliers. For more information visit www.thebest40.com.
Founded in 1955 in Atlanta, Ga., U.S. Security Associates is the country’s fourth largest
uniformed security service company, with 22,000 employees in 103 cities. Some of its other clients include Abbott Laboratories, CB Richard Ellis, CVS, Federal Express, Georgia-Pacific, J.P. Morgan, Lockheed Martin, Merrill Lynch, Procter & Gamble, Union Pacific and UPS. For more information, visit www.ussecurityassociates.com.
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Lockheed Martin Commends U.S. Security Associates' Officers
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to right: Geldon Harper, USA District Manager;
Ollie Thomas, Lockheed Martin Lead Security Supervisor;
Tammie Pate, Lockheed Martin Security Manager; Patricia
Washington, USA Security Officer; George Bozeman, USA
Operations Manager; and Buck Marr, vice president, Center
for Innovation, Lockheed Martin. |
In March 2006, the Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation
in Suffolk, Va., honored U.S.
Security Associates officers Rodney Bercaw, Cornelious Reynolds,
Walt Desenberg and Patricia Washington for their excellent
visual coverage and for escorting employees. Lockheed management
commended the entire USA staff for conducting their on-site
duties and assignments with the utmost professionalism.
The account is usually 148 hours per week, but at times it
will double depending on events occurring at the Center. USA’s
officers work very closely with Lockheed’s in-house
officers, and all USA personnel are required to have a Department
of Defense Top Secret clearance in order to be posted on the
account.
The Center is desribed on Lockheed Martin’s website,
www.lockheedmartin.com:
“Lockheed Martin's Center for Innovation is a powerful
net-centric experimentation and analysis laboratory. Backed
by an expansive network of [their] best labs and brightest
minds, the Center for Innovation serves as a focal point for
resourceful thinking and revolutionary technology. Lockheed
Martin’s Center for Innovation is a world-class laboratory
for collaborative experimentation and analysis involving Lockheed
Martin, its customers and industry partners. The Center for
Innovation has core resources to test ideas and analyze warfighting
concepts, and it is where Lockheed Martin will collaborate
with customers to develop integrated Net-Centric solutions
for defense and the changing national security environment.
The Center for Innovation is the site for prototype and evaluation
efforts for horizontallyintegrated, Net-Centric operations
systems. It is a key entry point to a growing network —
known as the Global Vision NetworkTM — of Lockheed Martin
engineering and laboratory locations. With Net-Centric modeling,
simulation and analysis capabilities, the Center for Innovation
plays a vital role in helping define, test and assess the
architectures that will be the critical underpinnings of emerging
Net-Centric systems.
The 50,000-square-foot high-end laboratory, located in Virginia’s
Hampton Roads region, is part of Lockheed Martin’s investment
in research and development facilities, programs and infrastructure.
The Center for Innovation serves as a gateway to this broad
capability across the Corporation. The Center for Innovation
houses highly trained specialists in operations analysis,
modeling and simulation, and visualization, and is staffed
by operational domain experts.
The Center for Innovation is currently focused on advanced
“initiatives,” which bring together pertinent
Lockheed Martin resources from across the company’s
business areas to develop a “blended” capability
to solve joint warfighting needs with horizontally integrated
systems. Current initiatives are focused on Net-Centric Operations;
Joint Force Projection; Homeland Defense and Security; and
Logistics and Materiel Readiness.”
U.S. Security Associates is proud to be a partner with Lockheed
Martin and is excited and pleased to have personnel assigned
to this one-of-a-kind facility.
Atlanta, Georgia, August 2006–U.S. Security Associates has been named a Preferred Provider by Rockwell Collins, a defense communications and aviation electronic equipment manufacturer. The Preferred Provider status is Rockwell Collins’s highest level of supplier recognition. To qualify, a Preferred Provider must establish a mutual relationship with Rockwell Collins and meet expected levels of excellence in technology, quality, delivery, service delivery processes, responsiveness, cost ownership, financial stability and environmental responsibility.
For over 70 years, Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins has been recognized as a leader in the design, production, and support of communication and aviation electronics Rockwell Collins supplies defense communication and defense electronic solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense, foreign militaries and manufacturers of military aircraft and helicopters. It also supplies avionics and cabin electronics to business aviation and commercial air transport operations worldwide.
Founded in 1955 in Atlanta, Ga., U.S. Security Associates is the country’s fourth largest uniformed security service company, with 22,000 employees in 103 cities. Some of its other clients include Abbott Laboratories, CB Richard Ellis, CVS, Federal Express, Georgia-Pacific, J.P. Morgan, Lockheed Martin, Merrill Lynch, Procter & Gamble, Union Pacific and UPS. For more information, visit www.ussecurityassociates.com.
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USA Officer Tracks Down Robbery Suspect
Lawrence Howard, a U.S. Security Associates Security Officer at Citizens Bank in downtown Pittsburgh, helped police arrest a man wanted in connection with several robberies by following the suspect from a robbery scene to a nearby bar last week, police Cmdr. Maurita Bryant said.
Scott Leadbetter, 50, of Oakland, was arrested Friday at Mahoney’s on Liberty Avenue. He was later charged with three counts of robbery. Earlier that day, around 1 p.m., a security guard followed Leadbetter from Citizens Bank at 525 William Penn Place after the man told employees he had a gun and ran off with an undetermined amount of money in his backpack. The security guard saw Leadbetter enter Mahoney’s and he asked a passing paramedic to call police.
After they arrived, two police officers went inside and saw Leadbetter sitting at the bar, drinking a beer, with an open backpack full of money at his feet. He did not have a weapon.
Police later connected Leadbetter with two robberies that occurred last month, one at Citizens Bank on Smithfield Street, Downtown, and another at Parkvale Savings Bank on Murray Avenue, Squirrel Hill. He was being held at the Allegheny County Jail on $25,000 bond.
The Fury: Preparing for Natural Disasters
In the wake of the devastation that Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma visited upon the Gulf Coast, commercial real estate managers must realize that the risk of catastrophic property damage is higher than ever.
In the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane season, risk managers asked themselves an important question: what can commercial property companies do to better prepare for future storms and decrease their risk of damage? The answer is simple—advanced technology solutions and hurricane management preparedness.
Facility and property managers need to think proactively while preparing for emergencies. Proactive planning and management will better preserve their assets and reduce possible economic loss for owners, tenants and the community. To effectively develop a disaster plan, managers must assemble a support team that can assist them in this effort. The team should include the facility owner, insurance carrier, local and state authorities, vendors, contractors, maintenance personnel, tenants and clients occupying the facility. All of these groups have a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the facility and its restoration, if needed.
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