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Driving Commerce and Keeping Technology Secure

December 5, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Driving Commerce and Keeping Technology Secure

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Rick Strawn/Paradign Security Services

Rick Strawn serves as the President and CEO of Paradigm Security Services and Strawn Security Services. He retired from law enforcement in 1998 after 25 years of service with the Atlanta Police Department. During those years, Rick worked in many assignments ranging from patrol to Detective Sergeant and Day Commander over the White Collared Crimes Unit.

Rick started Strawn Security Services in 1988 to provide services of top quality off-duty law enforcement personnel to major construction firms throughout Atlanta. The company also provided traffic control and security for executives. He developed one of the largest resources of dedicated state, county and municipal law enforcement officers and deputies available in Georgia.

In 2006, after years of establishing their reputation as a provider of highly trained law enforcement personnel and at the repeated request of their clients, Rick and his wife Susan formed Paradigm Security Services to provide those clients with professional unarmed uniformed and plain-clothes safety and security personnel.

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New Partnerships with Public and Private Sectors using Technology, with Keary Lord

May 30, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

New Partnerships with Public and Private Sectors using Technology, with Keary Lord

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Keary Lord/Atkins North America

Keary Lord is the Deputy Program Manager for the City of Atlanta’s Renew Atlanta Bond and TSPLOST Programs as part of the Atkins North America led program management team. Keary manages a team of city staff, consultants, and contractors to deliver transportation system improvements throughout the city of Atlanta. Keary has over 25 years of combined civil, transportation, and intelligent mobility engineering experiences with both the public and private sectors. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a transportation specialization from Southern Polytechnic State University.

Most recently, Keary delivered the city of Atlanta’s North Avenue Smart Corridor Project consisting of Smart City and Internet of Things (IoT) applications including connected vehicle infrastructure, an autonomous vehicle (AV) demonstration. He is managing the city’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicle deployment in Midtown Atlanta.

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How To Help the Most Vulnerable Drivers, with SteerSmart

May 2, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

How To Help the Most Vulnerable Drivers, with SteerSmart

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Lauren Winborne/SteerSmart

Atlanta native Lauren Winborne became concerned about the highways and surface roads when her oldest of six children began the driving process. What began as a project with her husband of merely clipping out articles about crashes involving high school and college students in order to discuss them with their children, turned into the educational initiative and non profit SteerSmart.

Through years of research, Winborne has developed a unique one hour program centered around cars. The program is hardly a one dimensional “Don’t Text and Drive” or “Don’t Drink and Drive” initiative. Along with conversation around distractions and drugs and alcohol, there is a heavy focus on trucks, speed, seat belts and weather. There is also strong conversation around decision making, being a passenger, and the magnitude of what being a passenger means and back-up plans.

There are two SteerSmart programs. One is specifically for seniors in high school and college students, and one is for all high school students who are not seniors. The program for older students focuses on specific senior/college specific scenarios such as road trips, falling asleep at the wheel, sober drivers, Lyft vs. Uber, drinking at night, and getting a shared ride service or a designated driver, and then getting a DUI the next day while alcohol is still in your system and more.

SteerSmart has had programs in 15 states and has had multiple programs at the University of Alabama, Georgia Tech and University of Georgia. SteerSmart is free of all charges and is a 501c(3).

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Women in Transportation, with Winter Horbal

April 4, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Women in Transportation, with Winter Horbal

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Winter Horbal/Temple Inc.

Temple, Inc., located in Decatur, AL, is a family-owned company that’s been serving the South for over 60 years. Throughout the years, the people of Temple have worked to develop enduring relationships with city, county, and state agencies, utility departments, engineering firms, electrical services contractors, and vendor partners. A commitment to integrity, outstanding service, and relationships endure as the guiding principles of their business.

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Keeping your aging loved ones safe on the road – Jennifer Curry

July 31, 2012 by angishields

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Keeping your aging loved ones safe on the road - Jennifer Curry

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Born and raised in a small town in Ohio, Jennifer Curry attended Ohio State University and received a degree in Womens’ Studies. After graduation she started her career working in libraries. It wasn’t until fifteen years later that she moved to Atlanta and began taking classes at Emory University. There she earned her Masters in Public Health. Along the way Jennifer also earned a Certificate in Aging from Boston University’s School of Social Work.

Though, in Jennifer’s words “it took a long time to get here”, she realizes that she was moved to serve seniors from an early age when a nursing home was built at the end of her small “dead-end” street, and she and her mother volunteered there. Today, Jennifer is a Program Consultant for the Older Driver Safety Program in the Office of Injury Prevention, and part of the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Listen as Jennifer share a wealth of information about older driver safety in Georgia. Also, check out the following links for more resources:

Hartford/MIT Older Driver Safety Conversations (tips, videos, resource guides)

AARP Driver Safety Program (including class locator)

CarFit Helps Georgia seniors find out how the effects of aging change the way they fit in their vehicles and how that can affect their driving.

Alzheimers Association – Georgia Chapter (This link goes directly to the portion of the website devoted to driver safety, including information about driving assessments and the grant to help pay for them through 9/30/12.)

Federal Highway Administration Older Road Users (drivers, pedestrians & cyclists)

American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Guide to Assessing & Counseling Older Drivers

Georgia Older Driver Task Force Georgia Older Driver Task Force/Governor’s Office of Highway Safety

Georgia Dept. of Public Health Facebook Page

To contact Jennifer directly, please call her office at (404) 657-2894, or email her at jlcurry@dhr.state.ga.us.

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for 20 years.