Talent is Acknowledged & Celebrated With 2014 CSAA Awards
This year’s CSAA Excellence Awards winners are wholly dedicated to their customers, jobs and co-workers; work calmly under pressure; and always take extra steps to support colleagues and clients, day or night.
The Ninth Annual CSAA International Central Station Excellence Awards, co-sponsored by SDM and the Central Station Alarm Association, were presented at an awards breakfast during ESX held in Nashville, Tenn., in late June. Annually, these awards recognize outstanding central stations and individuals that raise the bar for dedication, innovation and best practices in monitoring. On hand to present the awards were CSAA president and chief technology officer for Tyco Integrated Security, Jay Hauhn; Steve Doyle, CSAA executive director; Monique Brent, CSAA executive office assistant administrator; and Laura Stepanek, editor of SDM.
Inclement weather the previous winter was on record for being brutal, and the spring brought tornados and other damaging high winds, among other emergencies, that had central stations busy in the past year. Throughout it all, the central stations and individuals nominated for these awards showed incredible dedication, resourcefulness, talent and security awareness during day-to-day (and night-to-night) operations around North America. In the end, dealing with disaster is something all central stations must do in order to stay afloat, but excelling every day is what they must do to thrive.