Mr. Lorne Sawatzky – Subject Matter Expert

Mr. Sawatzky has over 34 years of experience designing and implementing Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice hardware and software communications solutions. Mr. Sawatzky implemented a teletype message switch for the Maine State Police in 1976 and has focused his entire career on Message Switching technology for the Law Enforcement marketplace ever since. He started Computer Projects of Illinois in 1989 and has grown the business to become the premier Law Enforcement Message Switch provider in the United States with over half of all law enforcement users within the U.S. (including federal, state and local agencies) relying on the comprehensive and proven OpenFox™ suite of information sharing products.