Security & Technology Services welcomes the following new staff to our team

Our growth in Darwin is still impacting on us all the time and we try had to balance work and life for those employed here. Finding new staff is never easy and we have recently employed 5 more additions to our installation team  Ryan, Nahum, Ross, Theo and Sean are helping to expand our capability and will be vital to us being able to deliver our current and future commitments.

We have added our fourth apprentice to the team. Jobe Rout has joined us and is keen to learn our trade. Good luck Jobe, welcome aboard and we look forward to teaching you over many years to come.

Well Christmas has come and gone and the new year has brought several new faces to the Security & Technology Services team, this is a particularly exciting time for us because we are starting to feel (for the first time!!) that we have finally achieved the balance that we have been looking for. Joining us from a long term career within the NT Government is Barry Brown, Barry has commenced as a Project Manager and brings with him a wealth of experience from technical roles within Correctional Services and the NT Police Department. Also starting is a young man named Michael Mitchell, Michael joins us from down south (yes another Mexican!) where he has been in a technical support role for a regional Victorian company, he has a sound understanding of the electronic security industry and adds further capability to our installation and service departments.

Down in the Adelaide Office the team welcomes Shaun Cummins, Shaun is a welcome addition to the Installation team which is bursting at the seams with work at the moment.

We have welcomed a few more people into the Security & Technology Services family and these are Dianna Lietis, Dianna has joined us as our Service Coordinator for the NT taken much of the workload from Annette Henschke and allowing Annette to concentrate on the developing Adelaide office. Deb Schapel now has some much needed administration support from Asad Khan. Asad is originally from Pakistan, loves working with numbers and he has a constant smile on his face. Cricket season around here will always be interesting with us Aussies being surrounded by South Africans, Indians and Pakistanis.

Another new team member is in our Adelaide installation team and his name is Mike Jones. Jonesy has been around forever (we worked together back when I was an apprentice!). Mike adds considerable experience to our Major Projects team in SA.

There have also been additional staff in Darwin, Steve Aulden has joined the team. Steve is focused on some of our larger projects.

We also have a soon to be staff member, Nigel Smith and his family are on their way from the UK to join us (more cricket season bets to make!). Nigel is very experienced in the industry and will add considerable capability to our service team.

Another one of our staff is moving on, Craig Curby has decided that he has had enough of ladders and roof spaces and is taking over his families business of trophy making and engraving. Good luck with the business Curbs we will miss you around here, trust me you always know when Curbs is in the building!!

Down in Katherine Alex has been struggling away to keep his head above water (so to speak) and he finally has some support to help. Bart Smets has joined the Katherine team to assist Alex with the increasing workload and provide support to our clients. Welcome Bart!

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Overdue Update

Ok, I've been pretty slack lately and have not kept up with keeping you informed of the happenings here at STS. Well there has been a fair bit to catch up on so I will list the highlights below.

Fishing the run off last year was a real focus for some and most of us spent our time going to Shady Camp and making the trek up the coast to a small feeder creek named March Creek. Whilst every trip was worthwhile for a number of reasons there were a couple of standouts. Greg Ireland fished with Telstra's Mark Sweet and Top End Hire's Chris Nicholson. Three good fish were landed with two of these going over a metre and both landed by Mark! Measuring 108cm and 101cm he now clearly deserves his new nickname of Mark "The Metre" sweet.

Our financial controller Tim "Almost but not Quite" Curran captured another nice fish which for some unexplained reason was nicknamed "Rufus" by Alex Brown. Anyway Rufus was measured at 97 cm taking Tim's PB to a new high and closer to that magic metre mark that he has been trying to surpass for the last dozen years or so, hopefully it won't be too much longer Timmy!

Since the advert of the GFC, we at STS have initiated our own stimulas packages. Everybody here has been working pretty hard and we want to put some balance back into our lives and the four events planned have so far been a winner. Our first get together was an afternoon of 10 pin bowling where Wes Sherry proved once again that he is the "King of the Alley" and many others gave strong demonstrations as to why they are not!

This was followed up with a potentially dangerous session of archery where Dave "The Dog" Langley (a first time archer who was not sure whether to shoot left or right handed) cleaned everybody up - on the scoreboard. The dark horse for next time must be Nigel "The Legend" Smith who consistently shot some good darts. A relaxing game of mini golf followed the high pressure of the Bows & Arrows before a few drinks and nibbles.

Next was Lawn Bowls, before the game there was much discussion about who would rule the greens and there was no clear standout. It is fair to say that after the game that this was still the case. The highlight would have been Mark Mobers brilliant effort of bowling two balls at once.

Our last event for this year will be Go Karts and this promises to be a hard fought affair we will post the outcome for you soon.

Some of our staff have been travelling this year. Keith Bear took in the sights of Canada and as I write this Ben Maywald is winging his way back from Germany (and other European destinations) where he attended that famous drinkathon Oktoberfest. On ya Benny, I am sure you did Australia and STS proud. 

Marlin!

Greg Ireland and George Rakkas were on board "Billfish" chasing Marlin around the GBR and another angler Stuart broke his long standing duck by hooking and landing a 950lb Black Marlin. This was followed up with a couple of "rats" of 200-300lb for Greg & George before George landed a 900lb fish a couple of days later. To say we had a great time would be an understatement and we would like to thank Rick & Marg and the crew of "Billfish" for a fabulous time. 

Gooone Trekking!

Deb Schapel has just returned from her dream holiday, spending a month away Deb travelled to South America and along with long time friend Tash climbed for several days to reach the moutain ridge above Urubamba Valley in Peru that holds the famous Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. Situated some 2,400 metres above sea level, Deb said the climb was very difficult at times due to the altitude and she suffered a dose of altitude sickness before recovering to complete the climb with no other issues other than a few blisters.

Well done Deb, that is one of lifes boxes ticked and not one that many people get to do.

Big Merv!

Ben Maywald recently had the holiday of a lifetime when he followed the Australian cricket team on their tour of the West Indies. Arriving in time for the 3rd Test, 20/20 and 3 One Day Internationals, Ben had a fabulous time at the cricket soaking up the relaxing West Indies atmoshpere (not to mention soaking up the local rum!!). The tour group even shared hotels with the Aussie team and Benny met a few legends along the way including Boony, Kerry O'Keefe and blonde bombshell Lara Bingle (you rock Benny!).

Ben is a keen fisherman and, always keen to wet a line, organised a trip few a few of the gang on the trip when along came a big fish who volunteered to come along in the form of Merv Hughes. Big Merv was a hit with the boys (as he always is) and the trip was a success with The Magnet (see story below) landing a nice Wahoo and another angler scoring a sailfish.

Projects 

During the month of May 2009  Security & Technology Services were awarded the Contract with NT Police Fire and Emergency Services to supply and install the Darwin CCTV Street Camera Network. The project consists of sixty two new pan, tilt and zoom cameras plus the integration of forty seven existing cameras. We are extremely proud of being selected for this project and our innovative system design which incorporates an optical fibre backbone was a major contributor to our success. The system has been designed using leading edge IP Video technology from IndigoVision  and is due for completion in early December and we will be able to bring you further updates on our progress soon.

We are also well into the upgrade for the Port of Darwin which involves removing the existing system and upgrading it to the latest products from Pacom and lndigoVision. We are looking forward to the successful completion of this project and big able to deliver a fully functional and reliable solution for our client.

We have recently completed a refit of 35 buses for Darwin's Department of Transport. The new CCTV systems use Ness digital mobile recorders and will improve the reliability of this important service for both drivers and passengers alike.

Royal Darwin Hospital has also undertaken a series of upgrades over the last year or two and now boasts a facility wide Pacom Systems and IndigoVision solution.

Security & Technology Services opens it's doors in Katherine

Security & Technology Services were recently successful in becoming the NT Government Contractor for all Fire, Security and Public Address Systems in the Katherine region. We have teamed up with long time Katherine resident Alex Eggert to establish our office and provide the basis for lifting the level of service to this area for both Government and Commercial clients.

We look forward to a long association with all the residents of this region and the surrounding communities.

We have moved into a premises in Katherine, you can find us at Shed 1 / 44 Crawford Street, Katherine East.

Alex now has two staff supporting him, Bart Smets and Satnam Singh are both leaning the industry and keen to offer their services to our ever growing client base.

Adelaide office finds a home 

Our Adelaide branch has found a home and have moved into a premises at 27 Wood Street Brompton, this site will serve us well for the next few years as it has room for us to expand, provides a place to meet with our clients and show off our product range.

Product Show

We are holding a product show April 15 & 16 at the Brompton Hotel showcasing Access Control, CCTV and Key Management Systems. If you require any further infomation please contact Stuart Thomson.

It is fair to say that Indigo Vision are market leaders in IP Video Compression Technology and we are quickly expanding our range of clients using Indigo Vision TCP/IP CCTV technology.

Security & Technology Services along with partner Pacom System were recently featured in an article in the Australian GovLink Magazine.  Download the article

We can assist you manage your fleet!

Security & Technology Services have been appointed the SA/NT dealers for C-Track Fleet Management Systems. If you are interested in understanding your fleet's movements and potentially reducing your operating costs please read on.

Do you (or others) lose your keys?

Keywatcher is a highly secure storage container for your key storage solutions, the product is favoured by institutions such as Department of Defence, Correctional Services and anyone that has expensive master key systems. The system provides software to fully manage access to the keys and provide an auditable record of who has withdrawn any keys and when they were returned.

Security & Technology Services are now the SA/NT agents for Keywatcher.

Additional information can be found here

Do you want an "intelligent" home or office?

Security & Technology Services have recently undertaken training and received certification as approved installers of Control 4 Home Automation products. American based Control 4 is primarily an Audio / Video management system however it is highly flexible and has additional products to control lighting, air conditioning, gates and a myriad of other devices. We have now completed several installations and found the system to be very flexible and reliable.

Please call Greg Ireland or Greg Hoskins if you would like any further information.

You can see more information on Control 4 here

This range of signs is quite flash (get it?)

We are the Darwin agents for LED Signs and Scoreboards, if you would like any information on any of these products please contact George Rakkas.

For further information check out led-signs.com.au

The Security Industry is one of the fastest growing in the world and there is a shortage of experienced staff everywhere to service this market. Fortunately for us we have a wealth of experience in our Company and better yet we are willing to share it!!.

If you are looking for a new opportunity and are keen to bring your existing skills to our business, we are keen to teach you the intricacies of this complex and challenging industry.