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Posted: October 23, 2009
David Aggleton 2009
Name: David Aggleton, CPP, CSC
Title: President/Principal Consultant
Company: Aggleton & Associates Security Consulting
Location: Tarrytown, N.Y.
Birthplace: London, England
College: Derby Technical College; University of Connecticut
First job outside of security: Mechanic (jet engine) engineering at Rolls Royce
First job in security: Systems design for nuclear power plants
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Aggleton & Associates is an independent security consulting firm, i.e., we do not sell security products or services, so our allegiance is only to our clients. After 25 years in the security field I founded A&A in 1996 in midtown Manhattan (we moved to Tarrytown in 2006). We offer consulting services for security operations and we develop designs for security technology solutions (producing construction documents and providing implementation management.) We have completed over 600 projects - we specialize in solutions for high-rise office building (working for both building managers and tenants), data centers, pharmaceuticals and higher education.
Hobbies: Sailing, carpentry
Keys to success: Passion and integrity
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Architecture
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