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December 2009
December 17, 2009 – Omnilink Expands Executive Team with Addition of Suzanne Henderson as Vice President of Engineering
Omnilink Systems, a market leader in location solutions that help ensure the safety and security of people and valuable assets, as well as the recovery of any that go missing, recently expanded its executive team with the addition of Suzanne Henderson as vice president of engineering. Henderson is responsible for overseeing all application development initiatives at Omnilink as the company focuses on launching new personal tracking applications and building unique location solutions for all types of enterprises. She is based in the company’s Atlanta office and reports to Omnilink’s CEO, Wain Kellum.
October 2009
October 22, 2009 – Alzheimer's Association Launches Comfort Zone, The First Comprehensive Location Management System Designed for People With Alzheimer's
Launched today, the Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone™, powered by Omnilink, is the first comprehensive location management system designed specifically for Alzheimer’s, giving people with the disease more freedom and independence in their community while providing their family some peace of mind. Comfort Zone is a Web-based application that works with various location devices throughout the progression of the disease to proactively communicate the location of the person with Alzheimer’s within two to 30 minutes, based on the family’s selected plan. Comfort Zone also offers families assistance with 24/7 monitoring center services and access to emergency health records from the MedicAlert Foundation
May 2009
May 12, 2009 – Omnilink Systems Expands Team To Accomodate Growth
Omnilink Systems, a leading provider of end-to-end location-based service (LBS) monitoring solutions today announced the expansion of its executive team with the addition of James Franklin as Vice President of Professional Services. Franklin is responsible for the implementation and customization of Omnilink’s location-based services platform into client organizations and will lead these initiatives as the company continues its exponential growth. He is based in the company’s Atlanta office and reports to CEO Wain Kellum.
August 2008
August 26, 2008 – Omnilink Systems Promotes Daniel Graff-Radford to Vice President of Judicial Solutions
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, today announced the promotion of Daniel Graff-Radford to Vice President of Judicial Solutions. Effective immediately, Graff-Radford will lead Omnilink's judicial sales and account management initiatives for federal, state and local agencies.
July 2008
July 29, 2008 – Victim Safety First Uses Omnlink's Offender Monitoring Solution for Alternative Sanctions Programs
With one of the largest prison systems in the U.S., Texas, like many other states, faces prison overcrowding issues. To alleviate the strains on the system, Victim Safety First provides alternatives to incarceration in several Texas counties. Today, the organization announced that it is using Omnlink's offender monitoring solution to track the movements of participants in the program.
July 21, 2008 – Omnilink's Offender Monitoring Program Continues Proven Success Amongst the Judicial System in Oakland County
The Oakland County, Michigan judicial system has implemented the use of Omnilink Systems' electronic offender monitoring technology and is seeing positive results throughout the community by tracking the movement of those awaiting pretrial and low risk offenders. With this information being sent real-time, pretrial officers and law enforcement can more easily monitor these offenders and ensure they are abiding by their established curfews and geographical boundaries.
April 2008
April 8, 2008 – Omnilink Systems Selected to Present at CED's 25th Annual Venture Conference
Omnilink Systems announced today that it has been selected as one of thirty-six companies to present at CED's Venture Conference. Scheduled for April 16-18, 2008, at Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, N.C., CED's 25th Annual Venture Conference will showcase the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic's top investment opportunities to hundreds of venture capitalists and financiers from throughout the United States.
April 3, 2008 – CTIA WIRELESS 2008® E-Tech Award Winners Announced
CTIA WIRELESS 2008®, the premier global event representing the $500 billion global wireless industry, today announced the winners of the third annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. The E-Tech awards honor the best products and innovations in a number of categories representing the wireless ecosystem, including mobile consumer electronics, consumer mobile applications, enterprise solutions, network infrastructure, mobile widgets and 4G. CTIA WIRELESS is taking place this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
April 1, 2008 – Omnilink Systems Introduces Mobile Tracking Solution for Loss Prevention and Recovery of Valuable Assets
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, today introduced an enhanced solution, powered by the company's FocalPoint™ LBS software, for the tracking of valuable goods that enables companies to ensure their whereabouts at all times.
March 2008
March 26, 2008 – Omnilink Systems Named Finalist in CTIA WIRELESS 2008®
Omnilink Systems announced today that its FocalPoint™ solution was selected as a finalist in the Third Annual CTIA Emerging Technologies (E-Tech) Awards. Omnilink’s FocalPoint is the industry-leading LBS platform to monitor the location of people and valuable assets of interest. FocalPoint delivers an on-demand Software as a Service approach to easily provision and manage location-based devices. With FocalPoint, customers can define geospatial rules, know real-time or historical location points, and receive exception-based notifications.
March 25, 2008 — Midland County Texas Uses Omnilink's Electronic Monitoring Solution To Get Students Back In School
Truancy not only keeps students from getting an education, it also acts as a gateway to the commission of illegal activities, such as vandalism, theft or more serious crimes. That’s why getting students back in school is so important to the Midland County Justice Court in Texas, where they announced the use of Omnilink’s electronic monitoring devices on at-risk truant students to track whether they are attending school.
February 2008
February 28, 2008 — Omnilink Systems Recognized By The Technology Assocation Of Georgia
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, has been recognized by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in the state. The award was presented to Omnilink during a reception at the Georgia Technology Summit: Innovation in Transformation at the Cobb Galleria Centre.
February 5, 2008 — Omnilink Systems Announced New Board Member, Dendy Young
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, announced today that Dendy Young has joined the company's board of directors. Mr. Young is the Managing Partner of McLean Capital, LLC, a private equity firm focused on government information technology. Mr. Young's thirty-plus years of experience includes a decade as CEO of GTSI Corp., a $1 billion government-focused enterprise services and solutions provider. He founded Falcon Systems, a systems integrator that was sold to Oracle Corp. in 1988 and Falcon Microsystems, Inc., which became a nationally recognized, multi-platform federal reseller and integrator before being sold to GTSI in August 1994.
December 2007
December 3, 2007 — Omnilink Systems Offers Relief to Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office
After years of dealing with faulty GPS offender tracking devices, the Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office was on the verge of giving up on the technology, until they were introduced to Omnilink Systems' offender monitoring solution. Disappointed with false readings and inadequate location information, the Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office had reviewed nearly every Radio Frequency (RF) and GPS tracking device available on the market. "Omnilink is the only device that provides 24/7 real-time surveillance regardless of an offender's location," says Bill Delehanty, director of Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office. "Omnilink's tracking system is heads above anything else that's out there."
November 2007
November 14, 2007 —Salt Lake County Selects Omnilink's Offender Monitoring Solution
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services technology (LBS), today announced its offender monitoring solution has been chosen by Salt Lake County to electronically track non-violent offenders as they re-enter society. Salt Lake County is launching the innovative monitoring program with a two-pronged goal: to increase the odds of offender rehabilitation, while enhancing public safety. Officials believe diligent monitoring of offenders with electronic tracking devices gives offenders a better chance at getting their lives back on track upon leaving jail. Omnilink’s solution stood out as the only one that effectively tracks people indoors and outdoors through a groundbreaking combination of GPS and cellular technologies.
November 9, 2007 —Omnilink Systems Announces Appointment of Keith Landers as COO
Omnilink Systems today announced the appointment of Keith Landers as Chief Operating Officer. Leading the Development and Client Services teams, Landers will devise and drive operational procedures that support outstanding service for Omnilink’s rapidly expanding customer base. Omnilink’s offender monitoring solutions are currently experiencing exponential growth in the judicial field because of their remarkable ability to track offenders where traditional GPS products cannot. Landers will oversee day-to-day operations for the offender monitoring solutions and the newly-launched covert surveillance solution, as well as Omnilink’s other commercial offerings.
October 2007
October 30, 2007 —Omnilink Announces Covert Surveillance Solution for Law Enforcement
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services technology (LBS), today announced the general availability of its covert surveillance solution for law enforcement agencies. Omnilink provides LBS solutions that go beyond the traditional GPS-based offerings to provide the real-time location of people and valuable assets, even where GPS solutions do not work. Omnilink’s covert surveillance solution, a combination of a small tracking device and Omnilink’s FocalPoint software, gives law enforcement the ability to easily and covertly track vehicles or stolen goods during criminal investigations. While traditional GPS-based surveillance products lose track of goods or vehicles whenever they move out of the line-of-sight of global positioning satellites, Omnilink’s covert surveillance solution works anywhere.
October 18, 2007 —Omnilink Wins Law Enforcement Technology Innovations Award
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, was awarded the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group Innovation Award for Corrections technology on Sunday night in New Orleans during the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference. A leader in location-based service technology (LBS), Omnilink provides LBS solutions that go beyond the traditional GPS-based offerings to provide the real-time location of people and valuable assets, even where GPS solutions do not work.
October 17, 2007 —Total Sentencing Alternatives Program (TSAP) Selects Omnilink Systems to Provide Offender Monitoring Technology
After completing a nationwide search for the most advanced electronic monitoring technology, Total Sentencing Alternatives Program (TSAP) selected Omnilink Systems' solution to monitor offenders in TSAP's alternative sentencing program throughout the New Orleans area. A leader in location-based service technology (LBS), Omnilink provides LBS solutions that go beyond the traditional GPS-based offerings to provide the real-time location of people and valuable assets, even where GPS solutions do not work.
October 5, 2007 —Wain Kellum Appointed as CEO of Omnilink Systems, Inc.
Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, today announced the appointment of Wain Kellum as chief executive officer. Kellum will be responsible for driving the company’s strategy and operational execution as it continues its rapid growth in providing location-based services solutions. Kellum brings over 25 years of experience and a solid track record of successfully building industry-leading companies to his role as CEO. As the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Extreme Logic, he led the professional services firm from inception to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, where it formed the foundation of HP’s applications solution business in the Americas. He also spent several years as the CEO of nuBridges, launching the company into the position of the leading secure eBusiness authority. Today, more than 3,000 companies use nuBridges software and services to conduct over $884 billion in secure electronic transactions every year. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Kellum is also the chairman of TechBridge, the Atlanta NPower affiliate.
October 2, 2007 —Omnilink Systems Announces Partnership with Nonprofit Organization Focused on Protecting America's Children from Sexual Predators
Omnilink Systems, a pioneer in location-based services technology, today announced a partnership with Stop Child Predators, a non-profit organization committed to protecting America's children from sexual predators. The two organizations have partnered to encourage policy makers and law enforcement officials to enforce mandatory GPS tracking devices on all convicted sex offenders. Through this partnership, Stop Child Predators is endorsing Omnilink Systems and its offender monitoring solution as its recommended sex offender monitoring system.
September 2007
September 18, 2007 —Las Vegas Corrections Center Taps Omnilink Systems for House Arrest Program
After testing four competing offender monitoring solutions, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department selected Omnilink Systems' advanced wireless offender monitoring solution for the Clark County Detention Center house arrest program. Prior to implementing the advanced Omnilink solution, authorities could not track offender movements outside the home; they only knew where offenders were located when they "checked-in" their devices at their home bases. Using Omnilink's advanced FocalPoint 2.0 technology, officers now track the real-time location of more than 200 offenders currently in the house arrest program, and participation in the program is growing. Monitored individuals include people awaiting trial for or convicted of drunk driving and sex-related offenses.
August 2007
August 7, 2007 —Sales and Marketing Veteran Selected to Lead Omnilink Systems Marketing Efforts
Omnilink Systems today announced the appointment of marketing veteran Shala Nicely as director of marketing. With more than 12 years as a marketing and sales professional and expertise in the software and wireless industries, Nicely is well-poised to lead the development and execution of Omnilink's marketing strategy. Her responsibilities will include all aspects of the company's marketing, including providing marketing strategy to support Omnilink's fast-growing network of solution partners.
July 2007
July 9, 2007 —Omnilink Systems Selected by Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems as Preferred Technology Provider for Kansas Department of Corrections Work
For its winning bid to provide offender monitoring services to the Kansas Department of Corrections (Kansas DOC), Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems (RMOMS) selected Omnilink Systems as its preferred technology partner. As a partner with RMOMS for the Kansas DOC, the Omnilink/RMOMS partnership began system implementation in October of 2006 tracking fewer than 20 offenders. One month later, more than 300 offenders were and are tracked by Omnilink's FocalPoint 2.0 system, a combination of ankle devices linked to Web-enabled mapping software that keeps offenders in check.
June 2007
June 13, 2007 —GA House Arrest Services, Inc. Implements Omnilink's Offender Monitoring Solution
Omnilink's offender monitoring system is helping alternative sentencing provider GA House Arrest Services, Inc. successfully execute court-ordered offender monitoring programs. Bryant Ackerman, services director of GA House Arrest, says Omnilink provides him with the industry's most accurate location technology, which results in significant time savings.
May 2007
May 21, 2007 Omnilink Systems Expands Executive Team with Vice President of Sales
Omnilink Systems announced today the appointment of technology and software sales veteran Curtis Rapp as Vice President of Sales. With more than 22 years of experience in the technology and software, Rapp is responsible for driving Omnilink's judicial sales team to achieve the company's market penetration and expansion objectives.
May 16, 2007 Hale County in Texas Selects Omnilink Systems to Electronically Monitor Juveniles on Probation
Today, the Juvenile Probation Board of Hale County, Texas announced it has selected Omnilink Systems to provide electronic juvenile offender monitoring services for several county youth that are on probation. After relying on landline-based monitoring, which only notified probation officers when offenders were home, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Eddie Subealdea stated that Omnilink's FocalPoint 2.0 monitoring technology solution allows the Hale County officers to know the location of their assigned juveniles at all times.
April 2007
April 30, 2007 Omnilink Introduces Wireless Monitoring Product FocalPoint 2.0
Omnilink Systems announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceWireless "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top wireless companies of the year. FierceWireless editors evaluated hundreds of organizations, and found Omnilink Systems to be amongst the "fiercest," proven by their creativity and innovations in the marketplace… "Omnilink is a wireless trendsetter – the firm's use of GPS, RFID and cellular to monitor and track assets is truly innovative," said Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief of FierceMarkets.
April 23, 2007 FierceWireless Names Omnilink Systems as one of Its "Fierce 15" Wireless Companies of 2007
Omnilink today announced the launch of its next generation offender monitoring technology, FocalPoint 2.0. Setting a new offender monitoring standard in 2005, FocalPoint is the only single-unit solution that tracks inside buildings and other places where GPS-only solutions do not work. The updated version enhances the user experience through more powerful mapping engines and precision location tracking capabilities that include proactive mobile phone alerts.
August 2006
August 30, 2006 Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems Selects Omnilink
Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems (RMOMS), a pioneer in the evolution of electronic monitoring technology as an alternative to jail or prison, has chosen Omnilink's offender monitoring solution to bring superior monitoring technology to its programs. RMOMS offender monitoring programs, aided by Omnilink's technology, allow offenders to become active community members, while ensuring their compliance and accountability per the requirements of the judicial system.
July 2006
July 11, 2006 Steve Hudson Joins Omnilink Systems as Vice President of Business Development
Telecommunications veteran Steve Hudson has joined Omnilink Systems as Vice President of Business Development. Hudson, who has more than 13 years of telecommunications experience, is responsible for expanding the global distribution, product portfolio, and capabilities of Omnilink's location-aware software through business partnerships with wireless carriers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, independent software vendors and direct enterprise companies.
June 2006
June 6, 2006 Omnilink Systems Introduces Focalpoint Web-based Monitoring Application
Omnilink Systems, a leader in the emerging field of Vital Status Services (VSS), will launch Focalpoint, a Web-based application expected to streamline offender monitoring, at the Innovative Technologies for Community Corrections Conference, June 12-14 in Atlanta. The second component of Omnilink's comprehensive suite of monitoring solutions, Focalpoint is a highly configurable exception-based platform, enabling users to specify the monitoring criteria and receive real-time alerts if exceptions occur, via automated voice calls, text message, pager, email, fax, etc. Focalpoint's inter-operability architecture makes it very easy to integrate the system into pre-existing applications to make the customer's value chain even more effective.