Meet Jim Ure, our newest Vice President, who will oversee AV Sales and Marketing for AlarMax.
Driven by a passion he discovered in elementary school, Jim’s versatile AV career spans 35 years. Jim began his career in 1989 after training in recording engineering.
His extensive background includes roles as a concert sound engineer at SoundWorks in Virginia, co-owner and recording engineer at Media Kitchen Studios in California, and house of worship sound systems designer with Point Source Audio. He has also significantly contributed to product development and market strategy for major brands like dbx Professional Audio and BSS at Harman.
Most recently, as a Key Account Manager for Distribution with the Bosch Group, he played a pivotal role in reintroducing major brands like Electro- Voice and Dynacord to commercial and installed sound markets across 46 states.
Jim excels at showing how to set up AV systems and has an impressive collection of videos under his belt to that end. We will use that experience to help us create our own footprint on a YouTube channel for use educating and indoctrinating existing customers as well as attracting new dealers and integrators.
Born and raised in upstate New York, Jim now lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.
We are excited to introduce our newest recruit to AlarMax management, Jim Livingstone, who was just hired to the Chief Financial Officer position.
Jim started out in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand in Syracuse, New York, and transitioned to Senior Tax Manager after they merged and became PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited) in 1998. He went on to work in other accounting management positions in the retail, distribution and manufacturing industries, ranging in size from start ups to multi-million dollar companies. It was when he was the CFO for a sports nutrition products startup that he relocated to Pittsburgh. Along the way he became particularly adept at overseeing the transitions of acquisitions from one ERP system to another, so he will be particularly helpful in that respect as AlarMax continues to make acquisitions.
Jim and his wife, Kristen, live in Cranberry and spend most of their time enjoying life with their two daughters (who also live in Pittsburgh) and a son (who just moved to Louisville, KY).
We welcome both Jims to the AlarMax Team, and we are excited to see what their strong backgrounds will bring to the great mix of talents we have here. Great things lie ahead… Seize the day!