Rick Smith is the current Chief Executive Officer and President of Secures Technologies. Securus Technologies is a Dallas based tech company that provides civil and criminal justice technology answers. Secures ensures that the public and inmates have modernized and safe jail experience. The firm boost of the thousands experiences professional engineers, designers, and technologist that provide quality and secure technology to correction facility and law enforcement authority. Securus technologies function to connect those who are incarcerated with families and friends and also join correctional facility with inmates’ personal information that can be crucial to the investigation.

Rick Smith assumed the CEO position in SECURUS technology in July 2008, and this was possible because Rick Smith has an excellent educational background: an associate degree received from Rochester Institute of Technology, an engineering degree from the State University of New York and a post-graduate degree in engineering from State University of New York. And MBA from Rochester University. Smith gained a lot of knowledge that made him the best candidate for the CEO position at SECURES technologies. Rick took over the company because of his experience, drive, and focus.

Smith had previously served in higher capacity, and he proved himself productive. He worked in a different position at Global Crossing North America Inc. He later serves as President at Frontier Information Technologies and vice president of Midwest Telephone operations. Smith also worked as director of Network Plant Operations and the vice president of a financial management company. In 1998 Smith moved to Eschelon Telecom Inc as the chief financial officer of the company. He became the president of the company from 2000-2003 where he got a promotion to CEO position. During Smith time, the company’s revenue increased from $ 30 million to $ 350 million. The company owes this great success to Rick Smith. During the summer of 2005, the firm under the leadership of Rick Smith went public with a successful IPO.

Rick Smith left Eschelon in 2007 and joined Securus in 2008. In January 2009, Smith became company chairman. At this time, Secures faced stiff competition from Global Tel Link. Thus Smith expanded their area of product and service production. They also provided domestic call center which operated 24/7 and attended to at all time. The call center was receiving security from a company staff, which made them perform at a 600% better than their competitors.

In conclusion, Rick Smith is a force of reckoning because of his excellent leadership skills. Under Smith’s leadership, Secures Technologies has been able to build the most significant VOIP correction calling program in the entire world. They have also trained several field technicians who will help in operating these machines. Finally, the company boost of their massive investment into patents, acquisition, and technologies that were influenced by Smith and Cost over $600 million