Professional
Experience

Frank Hopkins has more than thirty years electronics experience including over twenty five years experience in the design of electronics systems for over 200 facilities. He specializes in the design of security and communications systems, that integrate alarm gathering and annunciation with door control systems, access control systems, surveillance television, intercom, guard tour verification and fire alarm systems. This combines with his expertise in communications systems which include CATV / MATV / SATV, video tele-conferencing, video projection, audio/visual projection, voice and sound reinforcement, and telephone & data distribution systems.

Project
List

AT&T Building - Bandon, Oregon
This project included fire alarm, security, access control and CCTV systems with separate and redundant systems for their tenants: MCI, and Sprint. To maintain the facilities low profile public image, the CCTV system included infrared lights, night viewing cameras (mounted together with regular cameras in the outdoor enclosures) with a connection to the security lighting system's photocell for automatic camera switchover at dusk and dawn.

U. S. Department of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration - Oregon and Washington
Work included a series of projects including multi-site, mutil-building facilities. Systems designed included access control, security, and CCTV systems at the 100 acre - 24 building Celilo site in Oregon, and at the 40 acre - 10 building Ross site in Washington, and several maintenance facilities in Oregon and Washington.

Central Washington University - Ellensburg, Washington
This project included fire alarm and security upgrade at several campus buildings. 

Columbia Gorge Community College - Hood River, Oregon
This project included the replacement of all security and fire alarm systems, campus wide.

Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Interpretive Center - Umatilla, Oregon
Work included security and life safety fire alarm systems throughout the facilities.

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Interpretive Center - Warm Springs, Oregon
Work included security and life safety fire alarm systems throughout the facilities.

Dulles International Airport - Washington DC
Work included airport perimeter security using active and passive infrared, active and passive microwave, and CCTV surveillance systems.

Environmental Protection Agency / Oregon State University - Corvallis, Oregon
This campus-wide (27+ building) replacement of a variety of existing fire alarm systems with a single life-safety system featured a state-of-the-art addressable fire alarm system with a distributed data topology, multiple liquid crystal annunciator panels and a computer interface with graphics software. In addition to calling the fire department in the event of a fire, the system was designed to: monitor emergency shower and eye-wash stations and automatically call emergency medical response teams to the initiating area. The system was designed to monitor process controls associated with critical systems and automatically call the appropriate personnel to the point of initiation.

Freightliner Corporation - Portland, Oregon
This project provided an integrated security / access control system in the headquarters building and included the adjacent 4 buildings of a LAN and 3 other sites on a WAN.

Intel - Aloha, Oregon
This was a series of projects at the Aloha, Hillsboro and Beaverton facilities. Work included monitoring and control of toxic gas management systems, fire alarm systems and a variety of life safety / security systems.

Oregon Health Sciences University - Portland, Oregon
This project included the replacement and expansion of OHSU's fire alarm systems.

Parkrose School District - Portland, Oregon
This project included fire alarm and security systems, and rough-in for telephone and category five data in five elementary schools and one middle school.

PCC, Cascade Campus - Portland, Oregon
This Office / Library building expansion and remodel included telephone/data rough-in, media retrieval, security and fire alarm systems.

Port of Portland, Portland International Airport - Portland. Oregon
This project included the replacement and expansion of the existing CCTV system throughout the airport and included a comprehensive networked video archival system for most new and many existing cameras.

Port Of Seattle, Sea-Tac Airport - Sea-Tac, Washington
Work included designs for an expansion of the CCTV, security, and fire alarm systems throughout the parking structures.

Port Of Seattle, Metro - Seattle, Washington
Work included designs for CCTV, security, and duress alarm systems for the Seattle Metro Transit System

PSU, Central Receiving Station for all PSU and OTI campuses - Portland, Oregon
This project provided a UL Central Receiving Station for fire alarm and security alarms generated at all on-site and off-site PSU buildings, the Oregon Institute of Technology Buildings and numerous other facilities which contract to PSU for their central receiving station needs. In all more than 50 buildings were being monitored at the time of construction completion.

PSU, Ondine Building Security and Fire Alarm Replacement - Portland, Oregon
This was a fire alarm project for a thirteen story high rise with multiple occupancy, multiple use building consisting of a theater, restaurant, museum, retail, office, and student dorm components.

PSU, Harrison Hall Security and Fire Alarm Replacement - Portland, Oregon
This was a fire alarm and security alarm replacement project. 

PSU, Shattock Hall Security and Fire Alarm Replacement - Portland, Oregon
This was a fire alarm and security alarm replacement project.

PSU, Kramer Hall Security and Fire Alarm Replacement - Portland, Oregon
This was a fire alarm and security alarm replacement project.

Salem Hospital Security Renovation and Expansion Project - Salem, Oregon
HK, Hammes Co., and KMD worked together on this 5 story hospital building that expands the existing Hospital building. HKs work included provided security, access control and CCTV system designs.

US Bank Tower - Portland, Oregon
This project included the complete replacement of fire alarm systems to meet the high rise and ADA requirements throughout this existing 40-story tower and adjacent 7-story Plaza building. Designs included access control, a new security / fire alarm Fireman's Command Center and redundant fire control systems networked in each of the two buildings to support each other. Note: Total change orders on this project were less than ½ of 1%. Also after two years of operation there have been no false or nuisance alarms generated.

Multnomah County Inverness Jail (Phase 2 and 3) Expansion - Oregon
Phase 2 (1990) expansion of this minimum-security detention facility included the addition of space for 220 new beds and administration areas and upgrading the facility to medium-security requirements. Phase 3 (1997) consisted of the expansion of this 440 bed facility to 930 beds and the complete renovation of all administration and kitchen areas. Work included the provisions and/or expansion of all door control, door monitoring, intercom, paging, video surveillance, MATV, internal radio distribution, nurse call, video arraignment, and site intercommunications systems. Also included was integration of the access control system with the Owner’s county wide system. Note: The county has directed that all future systems are to be modeled after our work at the Inverness facility.

Oregon State Master Plan - Oregon
This master plan evaluated the existing condition, expansion capacity, spares inventories, remaining economic life of every data and telecommunications system and every security, fire and communications system in the Oregon DOC system.

Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus - Portland, Oregon
This Office / Library building expansion and remodel included telephone/data rough-in, media retrieval, security and fire alarm systems.

Oregon State University / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Corvallis, Oregon
This was part of the EPA campus-wide (27+ building) replacement of a variety of existing obsolete fire alarm systems with a single life-safety system featured a state-of-the-art addressable fire alarm system with a distributed data topology, multiple liquid crystal annunciator panels and a computer interface with graphics software. In addition to calling the fire department in the event of a fire, the system was designed to: monitor emergency shower and eye-wash stations and automatically call emergency medical response teams to the initiating area. The system was designed to monitor process controls associated with critical systems and automatically call the appropriate personnel to the point of initiation.

Additional
Low
Voltage
Experience

JAE - Oregon

Fujitsu- Oregon

Techtronics - Oregon

nLight - Oregon

Monsanto Corporate Headquarters - Missouri

US Forestry / Wasco County Interpretive Center - Oregon

High Desert Umatilla Confederated Tribes Interpretative                 Center, and Portland Art Museums - Oregon

First Interstate Bank Tower - Oregon

Oregon State Office Building Tower - Oregon

Bonneville Power Administration Main Tower - Oregon

Bonneville Power Administration Maintenance Bldgs. - Washington

Nabisco Corporation - Oregon

Sea-Tac, Dulles, Portland and McMinville Airports - various states

Aberdeen, Sherwood, Yamhill, Three Rivers, North Bend, South Bend, and Lapine elementary schools - Oregon

Salem SX, Bend, Redmond, and Crook County mid. schools - Oregon

Mountain View, Primeville, Gresham and Crook County high schools - Oregon

Gresham/Barlow SD, 12 Elementary Schools and 3 Middle Schools - Oregon (Report Only)

PSU - Harrison, Shattock, and Kramer halls - Oregon

University of Portland - Mehling Hall - Oregon

Portland Com. Colege, Sylvania Campus - Oregon

Columbia Gorge Com. Col., Main Campus - Oregon

Green Hill School and McDurmoth high schools- Washington

Gila, Apache, Cochise and Warm Springs Indian Reservation - various states.

Oregon Youth Authority (OYA)- MacLaren, and Hillcrest Juvenile Detention Schools. Also two boot camps - OR

Beverly Hills, Fremont, Marysville, L.A. Central, and Berkeley city jails - California

Anaconda, Seattle Regional, Ada County, King, Waianea, MCAS Brig, Galen County Juvenile, Del Norte County Juvenile, Thurston County Juvenile, King County Juvenile, Island County Jail, Island County Juvenile Facility, Lewis County Jail, Lewis County Juvenile Facility, Kitsap County Jail, Fresno Juvenile Justice Center, Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Center, San Mateo Juvenile Facility, Tohono O'odham Nation Combination Jail Juvenile Facility, Tehama County Jail, Humboldt Courthouse, Lane County Public Safety Building & Courthouse, Ada County Jail, Ada County Medical Unit Expansion, Ada County Juvenile Facility, Fresno (Main, South Annex, and North Annex), Tillamook, Multnomah (Inverness 220 exp., Inverness 440 bed exp., Wapato 500 bed new, Temp Booking, D.T. Intake renov.), DuPage, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Chelan, LA Central, Lynwood, Gypsum Canyon, Foot Hills, Santa Clara, Fremont, Del Norte, West Contra Costa, Thurston, Kitsap, Columbia and Pierce county jails, juvenile facilities, and Courthouses - various states.

Kapolei, WSR, Colorado 750 bed Women's, Denver Diagnostic Center, OSP, EOCI, OWCC, WDC-Clallum Bay, CDC-PJP Honor Rancho, HDC-Hallawa state prisons, and 1500 Bed Coalinga State Mental Hospital Secure Treatment Facility - various states

United States Army Records Depot, 2 projects - Missouri

Environmental Protection Agency - Oregon

Education

UEI Technical Institute, Portland, Oregon Associate of Electrical Engineering Technology, 1980.

ITT Technical Institute, Portland, Oregon
Bachelor of Technology, Automated Manufacturing, 1985.

Professional
Associations
and
Activities

Mr. Hopkins is a member of the American Jail Association (AJA), and is on the committee of advisors for curriculum studies at ITT Technical Institute and is a regular guest speaker at ITT and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. (IBEW) 

He has been a Guest Speaker for seminars hosted by the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) and for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SMI).

Mr. Hopkins has received numerous awards for public service including "Man of the Year" from the Congressional Businessmen's Advisory Council.