Center for Advanced Public Safety University of Alabama Allen Parrish University of Alabama, Center...

Center for Advanced Public Safety

University of Alabama

Allen ParrishUniversity of Alabama, Center for Advanced Public Safety

Center for Advanced Public Safety

• Headcount = 77– 4 faculty members– 53 staff members– 20 students

University of Alabama

Current Headcount Statistics

New Hires in Past Month

• Louise Costley - Converted from TekSystems to full-time UA staff – Business Analyst - works in HSV office

• Dr. Laura Myers - Research Social Scientist – in process of hiring

• Craig Thorstens – Tek Systems – developer – will start in Huntsville in Jan.

New Student Hires in Past Month

• Three new students have been hired recently and will start working at CAPS in January:– Johnathan Snyder developer for Matthew’s team – Tarif Haque will be working approximately 10 hours/a week

with the Android mobile app team– Weston Jones – developer for Chris Sims’ group

Current News• Montgomery:

– Law enforcement consolidation– IT consolidation

• Our response:– Continue to be supportive of our projects– Try to stay out of the politics– Innovate, focus and diversify!

Innovate, Focus and Diversify• Innovate:

– New products and technologies– Mobile applications– CARE/ADVANCE – Data analytics

• Focus:– Try to play to our strengths and ignore other things– We have to fight the tendency to want to do everything

• Diversify:– Other state markets besides Alabama– New markets for specific strong innovations

Security• Two recent breaches of state data systems• Lots of data in our trust:

– Responsible to the public– Liability issues

• We have to increase our vigilance and strengthen our overall digital security:– AlaData – Production data center– Local machines and servers

• Matthew and Beau are going to discuss some specifics