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Raleigh, NC, June 29, 2020 – Strategic Security Solutions (S3) is pleased to announce and welcome Howard Hutchinson to its team.  Hutchinson comes to S3 with 10+ years of security industry experience along with 20+ of sales leadership experience.  Hutchinson will join the company’s Raleigh sales team as a Business Development Leader after previously being employed as an Area Sales Manager for a national security integrator.

S3 CEO Jay Slaughterbeck expressed great confidence in Hutchinson by saying “The hiring of Howard directly relates to our business growth strategy in the Raleigh market and beyond.  Hiring talented people who fit our unique culture and can see our vision is sacrosanct to us.” S3 President Ron Oetjen continued further by stating “We have an unconventional sales methodology for the security industry and Howard is a great fit to the team.”  S3 uses a utilizes a sales team methodology that puts three individuals on a team together an allows them to operate as somewhat of a micro-enterprise.

Hutchison is an entrepreneur and business leader and he likes what he has seen from S3 saying “S3 is a great fit for me.  There is a lot of excitement in the company and that can be contagious.”  Hutchinson joins Brian Whitman and Ryan Liebzeit at S3 on an already successful sales team focusing primarily on central and eastern North Carolina.

Strategic Security Solutions is a fast-growing Raleigh, NC based electronic security integration company.  To learn more about the company go to www.s3nc.com or contact Jay Slaughterbeck, CEO by email at jay.slaughterbeck@s3nc.com.

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Ron Oetjen Joins Raleigh-based Strategic Security Solutions

Strategic Security Solutions (“S3”) announced today that Ron Oetjen has joined the company as a partner and will assume the role of President effective immediately. Adding an industry veteran to the leadership team at S3, a company widely regarded as one of the top systems integrators in the region, will provide additional leadership experience as the company continues to grow.

“We are extremely proud to get a deal done and to have Ron join our team” explained Jay Slaughterbeck, CEO of S3. “I have learned a lot from Ron through the years. His focus on employee development and his “customer first” philosophy are among the things that we are able to attribute much of our success. We are very like-minded and our value systems are synergistic, especially regarding company cultures, which makes us very excited about our future and the go-forward strategy.” Slaughterbeck added.

Strategic Security Solutions was formed in 2002 as the security division of Strategic Connections. In 2011, Strategic Security Solutions was split off into its own entity of which Jay Slaughterbeck became the managing member. Since its inception, S3 has continually grown and has been recognized on the SD&I Fast 50 list, as well as, the SDM Top System Integrators list. “While we are happy with our past performance, we also understand that what got us here won’t necessarily get us where we want to go. Adding Ron to the team brings new perspectives” added Slaughterbeck.

Ron Oetjen is the former President of Intelligent Access Systems and the architect of the company’s highly successful growth strategy. Oetjen noted “I am obviously excited about the potential that comes with joining a team that has been as successful as S3. Combine that with the chance to work with someone as dynamic as Jay, who is a good friend and former co-worker, and I couldn’t be happier.” Ron Oetjen has owned and led several organizations but has been absent from the security industry for the past 5 years while leading a successful aviation company, as well as, serving as a board member for 3 separate organizations.

About Strategic Security Solutions

Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Strategic Security Solutions is a full-service security provider focusing on enterprise-class security systems deployments and next-generation security solutions. The business was founded in 2002 and currently has revenues nearing $8M from its lone branch office in Raleigh. For more information regarding Strategic Security Solutions, please contact Jay Slaughterbeck, Chief Executive Officer at jay.slaughterbeck@s3NC.com

Jay Slaughterbeck, the managing partner and co-founder of Strategic Security Solutions was honored as part of the “20 Integrators Under 40” class in October 2016. He said that the security industry is all he’s ever done. He started as an technician for a security company in Ohio and has never looked back.

One of Jay’s favorite parts of the Security System Industry is the lack of repetitiveness in what he does on a day-to-day basis.  Jay also likes the fact that because Strategic Security Solutions is a Security Company in Raleigh that likes to focus on cloud-based solutions, the technology with which he works is constantly changing and evolving: “We are doing a lot in that space and trying to do more. In instances where smaller customers don’t have the level of IT support needed, it eliminates that requirement but still allows them to have the functionality of a true enterprise solution.”

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Jay Slaughterbeck, a managing partner of Strategic Security Solutions, a security systems integrator based in Raleigh, NC, told Security System News that the company “is on track to have our biggest year ever” in 2016. He also indicated that the company was due to exceed $6 million in business, due in large part to sustainable growth from large customers and major projects. Jay explained: “The growth is all organic and when you bring on big customers, you get a lot of recurring service and expansion-type revenue.”

Another area in which Slaughterbeck says the company is growing is in the use of cloud technology: “The biggest new thing that we have embraced is cloud-based, or cloud-hosted technology,” he explained. “We are doing a lot in that space and trying to do more. In instances where smaller customers don’t have the level of IT support needed, it eliminates that requirement but still allows them to have the functionality of a true enterprise solution.” The growth of cloud-based solutions from Strategic Security Solutions has also partially occurred due to the company’s improved customer education attempts. Many customers did not initially understand the benefits of cloud-based solutions, but Slaughterbeck believes that Strategic Security Solutions has started the positive momentum towards cloud-based integrated security solutions.

Strategic Security Solutions has 12 employees and is the subsidiary of Strategic Connections, which does AV, fire alarm, phone systems and structured wiring. As a result, Strategic Security has ready access to its parent company’s technicians, and also derives sales leads from its parent company.

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