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Coffee Break with JakeWhat Makes a Great Central Station?In this episode of Coffee Break with Jake, we sit down with Steve Butkovich, president of The Monitoring Association (TMA) and Chief Product Officer at CPI Security, to unpack where professional monitoring is headed and why it matters for dealers, integrators, and end users.From life-safety saves to business-critical dispatches, we explore how modern central stations turn sensors, video, and automation into real outcomes.✅ Real saves that matter✅ Next-Gen ASAP-to-PSAP✅ AVS-01 Alarm Scoring✅ Two-Way Voice.✅Central-station portals and daily activity reports✅ Central Station as a Service✅ What makes (and breaks) partne...
2025-09-1653 min
SDM Editors' PodcastTMA Talks Free Online AVS-01 TrainingSDM spoke with Steve Butkovich, president, The Monitoring Association (TMA), and Julie Webber, vice president, education & training, TMA, about the AVS-01 standard and the association's free online AVS-01 training.
2024-07-2224 min
25 Years of Vampire: The MasqueradeWild West CompanionThe book is a solid look into WOD wild west life.We get into some of the book but some interesting if not uncomfortable topics led us to where truth was stranger than fiction.Part 2 on Patreon!Why? we owe a more focused discussion to tribal weaknesses and Storm born.CreditsAuthors: Brad Butkovich, Jackie Cassada, Ben Chessel, Lon Franson, Brian Glass, Michael Lee, Robert Scott Martin, Aileen E. Miles, James A. Moore, Devin Parker and Fred YelkDevelopers: Ed Hall with Justin Achilli and Ethan SkempEditor...
2022-12-181h 19