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Meet Your AFC Advisor: Diana Garcia (Northern California)
October 13, 2021Diana Garcia is a telecommunications engineer with over three decades working in public safety communications with the California Office of…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisor: Ben Homes (Massachusetts)
October 7, 2021Ben Homes began his public safety career as a public safety telecommunicator for several towns in Massachusetts before being hired…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisor: Shimon Pike (Virginia)
September 27, 2021Shimon Pike is a telecommunication engineer who works for the Virginia State Police. His main responsibilities include providing development and…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisor: David Baker (Arkansas)
September 23, 2021David Baker is program manager for the Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN). AWIN is the statewide P25 Phase II 700/800…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisor: Glen Gosnell (New York)
September 17, 2021Glen Gosnell is currently the director of public safety for Washington County, New York. Gosnell began his career with…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisor: Mike Kionka (Colorado)
September 10, 2021AFC, APCO’s frequency coordination department, is pleased to introduce its network of dedicated local advisor volunteers. APCO’s advisors are responsible…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Jeffrey Smith (Maine)
March 30, 2017Jeffrey Smith started his Public Safety Career in the Town of Cape Elizabeth at the age of 16 as an EMT for the local Ambulance. At 18 years old, he was hired as a part-time public safety dispatcher and at this time he was still a senior in High School. About a year later he was hired as a full time Dispatcher at the Falmouth Police Dept and then became a police officer within a few years.
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: James Westover (Wisconsin)
March 23, 2017James Westover serves as the state frequency coordinator and LMR system manager for the statewide P25 trunked radio system for the State of Wisconsin at the Department of Transportation, Division of State Patrol. Additionally, he sits on the State Interoperability Council’s LMR Subcommittee and is active in the state’s COMU program. James has been a licensed amateur radio operator and active in the LMR industry for over 20 years in a variety of capacities and has also been an APCO Local Advisor for about a year. Previously, he was the Statewide Interoperability Coordinator (SWIC) and a public safety dispatcher.
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Anthony Melia (New Jersey)
March 16, 2017Anthony Melia has been APCO’s local advisor in the state of New Jersey for nearly 17 years. He has over 26 years of extensive communications and emergency management experience and has been consistently recognized for outstanding accomplishments. Throughout his career, Anthony has obtained substantial training in numerous technological areas such as radio communications infrastructure, on scene coordination, and planning and training.
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Paul M. Mayer (Ohio)
March 9, 2017Paul M. Mayer retired in 2014 after more than 46 years of service to the citizens of Ohio. Paul began his state service on April 29, 1968, as a communications officer at the Berea District 10 Headquarters (Ohio Turnpike) of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. He was transferred to the Massillon District 3 Headquarters where he continued to learn his craft. In 1980, he was promoted to radio technician 3 and sent back to Berea as the district chief technician where he primarily supervised highway patrol telecommunications operations across the 241-mile-long Ohio Turnpike and secondarily served as the Highway Patrol’s telecommunications liaison with the public safety community in northeastern Ohio.
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