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Roam Secure Announces Team Additions and National Expansion; Company's Growth Paves Way for Rapid Deployment of Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN) Throughout the Country.


ARLINGTON, Va. -- Roam Secure Inc., the leader in text-based emergency communications, today announced its national expansion, into the Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, South central and North central regions of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The company also announced the addition of Nick Akers, Senior Vice President of Sales to its executive leadership team.

"Roam Secure has recruited and deployed exceptional people to further enhance its regional leadership, bringing more than 100 years of combined business development experience in the public safety and federal technology sectors to the company," said David Drescher, Chief Executive Officer of Roam Secure. "It is critical to have industry experts on the ground helping state and local officials solve their regional and local communication issues. We've reached an important milestone, and have achieved national expansion by establishing a strong regional presence throughout the county."

"Text-based emergency communications works, and the need continues growing in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the London bombings, 9/11, and the looming threats of pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik)
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Epidemic over a wide geographic area.

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. The lessons of recent disasters continually reinforce the need for reliable, critical communication systems when traditional lines of communication "Lines of Communication" is an episode from the fourth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. Synopsis
Franklin and Marcus attempt to persuade the Mars resistance to assist Sheridan in opposing President Clark.
 fail," said Drescher. "Time and time again text is the only reliable means of providing mass notification to the public, as well as interoperable communications among emergency responders. The Company's expansion extends our presence into the very communities that need our solutions the most and enables us to work hand in hand with local emergency officials, businesses and volunteers to solve immediate problems."

Leading the Southeastern region, Roam Secure Vice President Oliver Oetterer has been in the government technology industry for more than ten years. Oetterer has been responsible for delivering technology to more than 70 public safety agencies in the Southern United States The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States. , and has also taken government software portfolios to the international market.

Peter Jafuta is heading the North central Region as Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Jafuta's previous experience has included providing enterprise mobility solutions in the state and local government marketplace throughout the Midwest. Mr. Jafuta has been a business development leader in the public safety and wireless communications wireless communications

System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data.
 industry for more than eight years.

Seasoned professional Elizabeth Fritsche will focus on the Southwest and Central regions as well as Federal accounts. Ms. Fritsche has more than 20 years of executive sales experience specializing in information technology enterprise solutions. Prior to joining the Roam Secure team Ms. Fritsche worked as a Client Executive for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  representing the company's entire portfolio of hardware, software, service, research and development, and storage in the Federal Classified accounts and the commercial divisions. Twenty-four year veteran of the public sector software industry, Bill Josko will run Roam Secure's Northeastern expansion. Before joining Roam Secure, Mr. Josko was president of Government Technologies Group (GTG (chat) gtg - Got to go. The user is about to stop chatting. ), which he founded in 1992, which focused on selling software, integration, mobility, and interoperability solutions for public safety agencies. Career highlights include authoring a $2.7m COPS-MORE Grant, which led to software deployment Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.

The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them.
 of integrating 150 multi-jurisdictional public safety agencies in a New Jersey County and Marketing Specialist for IBM.

Michael Dougherty, previously based out of Roam Secure's headquarters in Arlington, VA has joined Roam Secure's West Coast office. Mr. Dougherty will head up Northwest regional sales. In addition to his experience at Roam Secure Mike has experience overseas as a business project manager and is a volunteer firefighter. Mike is also Director on the Board of the Glen Echo Fire Department and chair of the volunteer organization Rescue Corps that brings emergency medical, fire/rescue, and disaster response services to communities in need around the world.

With experience deploying and managing the regional text alert system for the National Capital Region and the highest levels of U.S. government, Rick Tiene, Vice President of Homeland Security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Department of Homeland Security

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 Solutions, will assist the national sales team and their customers. In his new role he will provide the team with experience from lessons learned in developing regional alerting systems, as well as this extensive knowledge of the communication needs of first responders first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency  and the homeland security sector.

The entire team is under the stewardship of Nick Akers, Senior Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Akers oversaw the sales growth of a relational database relational database

Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple.
 firm from start-up, to forty consecutive quarters of growth and profitability. The publicly traded firm, now part of IBM Corporation, had thousands of customers and operations across the US and worldwide.

About Roam Secure

Roam Secure builds, deploys and manages text-based emergency alert and notification systems A modern notification system is a combination of software and hardware that provides a means of delivering a message to a set of recipients. For example, notification systems can send an e-mail when a new topic has been added to Wikipedia. . Tens of thousands of government leaders, first responders, employees, volunteers and citizens in cities, counties and the federal government rely on Roam Secure's expertise and innovative solutions, including the award winning Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN RSAN Remote Storage Area Network ) to communicate more effectively.

To learn more about the Roam Secure Alert Network visit www.roamsecure.net, e-mail sales@roamsecure.net or call 703.294.6768 x208.

* RSAN is a trademark of Roam Secure, Inc.
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