Management
Arthur Birch is Chairman & CEO of ECSI International. A few years after implementing his plan that increased the revenues of Lightolier from $35 million to $56 million in five years, he opted to take his experience, creativity and innovative mind set to another level. He co-founded Bajer Industries, a manufacturing company of lighting products. Arthur founded ECSI Industries, an HVAC company, in 1976, which evolved into an international security and anti-terrorism technology system solutions company. His management and marketing experience has contributed to ECSI’s current success, which includes an international list of government agencies and commercial/industrial customers.
Phillip Bower is President of ECSI International. He brings decades of experience in business development, operations, establishment of overseas operations and workforce management and supervision. In 14 years with L-3 and Titan, he was consistently promoted and recognized for abilities in revenue generation and strategic planning. His experience ranged through the full life cycle of business development from opportunity identification and qualification, capture, proposal development, SOWs (scope of work), basis of estimate development, cost analysis and pricing preparation. This, combined with knowledge of market making, sales and operations leadership, serves to qualify him to lead ECSI International to greater profitability and success.
Ronald Thomas is Vice President, Program Management and a Director of the Company with over 25 years of experience in engineering, management and marketing in the electronic security industry. He is a former President and CEO of Securacom, Inc., a security systems integrator that specialized in the design and implementation of medium to large-scale projects for businesses and government; EVP of SenTech, Inc. a company that provided business software to the security, fire and life safety industry; and VP of Technology and Integrated Systems for ADT Security Systems. Mr. Thomas has a Master of Science, Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY and a Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical from City College/CUNY in New York City. He is a member and past chairman of the American Society for Industrial Security, Council on Physical Security and a member of several professional organizations. Mr. Thomas has published numerous articles in various trade journals on integrated security systems and is a frequent speaker at industry workshops and seminars. He has served on the faculty of the U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Protective Service, and Physical Security Academy.
Robert Oliver is Vice President, Operations, responsible for product design and engineering, R&D, production scheduling, purchasing and inventory control in accordance with ISO 9001:2008 standards. Mr. Oliver brings decades of experience and innovation in engineering design and management to this position. He has successfully performed and managed the design, test, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of products and systems in avionics, nuclear power plants, power instruments, medical devices, medical instruments, research instruments, surveillance and life safety for military, law enforcement, hospital, surgical, industrial, commercial and consumer markets domestically and internationally. He has functioned at all levels, including CEO. He has enjoyed successful deployment of security systems of his own design while working through AE firms such as Syska & Hennessey and Flack & Kurtz, among others; for clients that include major banks and brokerage houses. He holds multiple patents in the US and elsewhere for industrial and security products and systems.
Thomas Isdanavich is Vice President of Project Management. He determines installation and service support requirements for in-house and field applications. Mr. Isdanavich’s responsibilities include field labor analysis and the planning and coordination of all administrative phases of sales and customer support services.
Richard Stern is Vice-President of Marketing and Sales Support. Mr. Stern has built a strong rapport with ECSI’s customer base, giving technical and sales support to ECSI’s new and existing customers. Previously, he served as Vice President of Manufacturing with responsibility for the overall management of manufacturing which included materials management, and production scheduling, manufacturing, testing, shipping and logistical support of the technologies. Review and evaluation of new and existing product equipment, packaging, quality control, test equipment, procedures and oversight of manufacturing personnel.
Eldon Moberg joined ECSI in 1996 under the FOIDS product division and has served as Vice-President since July 1, 1999. Mr. Moberg is responsible for establishing the FOIDS manufacturing and test facility in Huntsville, Alabama. His duties include planning and coordinating manufacturing schedules and resources and providing technical data for security system design plus project cost analysis. Prior to joining ECSI, Mr. Moberg was production supervisor for Mason & Hanger National, Inc., a company engaged in the manufacture and marketing of the FOIDS product line where he initially was a production support technician and performed optical/electronic fabrication and testing of fiber optic based security systems and components.
Dana J. Palm is Director of Business Development. Mr. Palm is also responsible for developing new business in both the government and private sectors in the eastern U.S. coastal states from Washington, DC to Florida. As Senior National Account Manager for Stanley Convergent Security Solutions, Mr. Palm’s responsibilities included the maintenance of existing customer relationships as well as the establishment and maintenance of new accounts. Additional responsibilities included systems design and engineering, proposal development and sales negotiations. He developed a sole source relationship with a security consultant for systems design and sales of 70 secure room projects for a government agency as well as securing a position as one of eight contractors invited to bid on the U.S. Mint’s systems upgrade program. Previously, Mr. Palm was Director, Business Development, at SIGCOM, Inc. He established national accounts, provided recommendations to customers for system design and pricing structure, assisted in the development of corporate responses to government proposal requests (RFPs) and establishing GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts. During his career, Mr. Palm has developed accounts with the Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Reclamation, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Mint, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, DoD Corrections and Immigration, Department of the Treasury and Tennessee Valley Authority.
Jerry Dropik is Director of Marketing, Sales and Corporate Accounts in the U.S. and also responsible for managing the Company’s international sales representatives and dealer/installers in the Middle East. Mr. Dropik was based in Cairo, Egypt for 2½ years and developed the Company’s representatives and dealer/installers in Egypt, Iraq, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. As Vice President for Lucent Technologies, he organized and led a culturally-diverse sales, business development and administration team for five years in Cairo, Egypt which grew to 650 employees and $300 million in sales. He was also responsible for Public/Government Affairs for Cairo, GOE, USAID Agency, Egypt’s U.S. Embassy, and Washington, D.C. Mr. Dropik also served on the Overseas Security Advisory Council of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and was a member of the U.S. Ambassador’s Technical Council that addressed communications and security threats. As Sales Support Director for AT&T, he headed a team of sales managers and market and senior project consultants to support sales of switching, transmission and cable/fiber system sales to various telecommunications corporations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa with sales of $500 million annually. Mr. Dropik earned a B.S. in Management and Organizational Behavior from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, an A.A.S. in Industrial Engineering from Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., and completed electrical engineering studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Yaser Hassan joined ECSI as a project engineer. He took charge of our quality assurance program in keeping with the ISO 9001 international standard of operation, and in compliance with the organization’s quality and process systems. Mr. Hassan has designed and engineered security systems for ECSI projects including ARAMCO oil and gas refineries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has responsibility for submittal drawings and related documentation including installation and training manuals. Mr. Hassan knowledge of International Ship and Port facility Security (ISPS), European regulation for enhancing ship and port facility security and US coast guard requirements allowed him to prepare a white paper on port security and cargo inspection that was presented at the 21st International Maritime Security Port Conference in Alexandria, Egypt during February, 2005.
Jody Laufer is Purchasing, QC & Inventory Control Administrator. Mr. Laufer is responsible for the implementation, monitoring and control of the Company’s processes and procedures per ISO 9001:2008 standards. He coordinates with Sales in scheduling and manufacturing-related activities in order to support customer requirements. He will also oversee the maintenance and accuracy of the Company’s inventory control system.
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