My Bio
“I was born in a small town…” – John Mellencamp
I grew up in a small town in central Massachusetts with two very hard-working parents, two sisters and two brothers. My parents came here from County Kerry, Ireland with a hearty immigrant attitude and believed in hard-work and perseverance to get ahead in this great country. Because of this, they were able to invest their hard-earned money into real-estate and make a nice living for themselves in their golden-years. They also made sure their children were educated and taught us all that with hard work and determination you can do anything you want to in life.
“Fly Like An Eagle…” – Steve Miller Band
As a teen, I enrolled in a trade school and studied Electrical Theory and Electronics. Then after graduating, at 18, I joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Sheppard AFB and spent three-and-a-half years in Tornado Alley (Wichita Falls, Texas) dodging tornadoes. At the end of my duty there I was promoted to a Senior Airmen. I was then deployed into West Germany, Ramstein Air Base (about 104 miles from the Black Forest.) At Ramstein, I was in a squadron which was called Prime Beef (the Air Forces equivalent to the Navys Sea-Bees.) My military training was in electronic security, which included installing and maintaining the electronic security systems for Ramstein Air base and other air bases throughout Europe. I would install, troubleshoot and repair sophisticated electronic systems, such as, perimeter fence detection systems, microwave protection on the F-4 and F-16 aircrafts, gate access systems, card access systems and CCTV systems.
The Black Forest, Bratwurst and Chemical Warfare Training
The times at Ramstein that I really dug the most (okay, maybe second most because going to the Oktoberfest’s in Munich ranked way up there!) was when our Air Base was on full alert or when we would conduct joint NATO exercises for a two week stretch. During these exercises, we would have to perform our Special Operations wartime duty. For me and my squadron, this meant protecting and maintaining the runways and making sure they were operational 24/7. In full ZULU alert (sirens blaring), our main goal was to make sure the runways were safe and secure so that we could get the birds off the ground and into Eastern Block countries within 12 minutes flat. When I say flat, I mean, it! The Air Forces mission in Germany, at that time, was to wipe out and take down forward positions along the Eastern Block countries and to create havoc and bomb the heck out of any attacking country’s air base. Therefore, 12 minutes was not a negotiable time. We had to meet our mark!
I could go on and on about my time in Germany…like the 2 week stints walking around the air base in our highly fashionable, and very sweaty and uncomfortable, CWPDS (Chemical Warfare Protective Dry Suits), and the endless drills for RRR (Rapid Runway Repair), and the times spent on leave in the German gasthauses, and the very filling bratwurst and wiener schnitzel, and let’s not forget the incredible German frauleines! Oh, the good ol’ days – but, they’re no where near as good as today!
“I’m Shipping Up To Boston…” – Dropkick Murphys
After returning home from my five-year enlistment, I got my Electrical Journeyman License and then my Master Electrician License. I then worked for seven years as a foreman, at a few different large electric companies, that did large-scale electrical, security and structure cabling jobs. During this time, I met my lovely wife, Natasha. After seven years as a foreman, I decided I would really love to get back into the security field. So I gave my notice and opened my own security company, in 1994, and basically started with zero clients. I had some prior sales training, but really had to learn on my feet. I hated the thought of manual selling so I researched and discovered several old-school direct marketing gurus. I studied marketing for years (spent a small fortune on it) and attended seminars, conferences and courses, private consulting sessions, and master mind groups that taught me online and offline direct marketing strategies. I then took these strategies and deployed them in my own security business.
I had to test, tweak and perfect my marketing systems, so I used my security company as an R&D lab. It was a lot of work, but it paid off! I now have many successful “tried and true” online and offline marketing systems in place for the residential and commercial markets that do all of my selling for me, robotically. I have a very stable and profitable security business that makes me well into six figures, each and every year. Having a successful security business has also allowed me to create other profitable income streams. It has afforded me to venture into the real-estate market; I have a real-estate investment and management company and, over the past five years, a successful security marketing consulting firm, called Security Marketing Guru™, where I’ve trained hundreds of security entrepreneurs around the world. Oh, I don’t want to leave out the best part! I married Natasha, in 1999, and we have two beautiful daughters, Bridget and Kiera, who make every day a wonderful thing!
Robotic Security Selling System™
Security Marketing Guru™ is a company that provides knowledge-based products, such as, proprietary, tried and tested security marketing tools that attract “A” list clients that Pay, Stay, and Refer, and Robotic Security Selling System™, that work 24/7/365, to deliver clients that are pre-qualified, pre-sold and EAGER to do business with you, plus simple techniques for developing and enhancing M.S.I. – Multiple Streams of Income, and personal training programs for security entrepreneurs seeking to create an E.S.P.™ Style Businesses – Easy, Successful and Profitable!
