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What is SafeSchools?
SafeSchools is an online safety training and tracking system specifically designed for school employees. With several courses that address Environmental, Behavioral, Health, School Safety, Human Resources, and Transportation issues, SafeSchools delivers all of the essential training you need for each employee in your district.
Brief History
Co-Founders.
Focus.
Content Expertise.
Flexibility and Scalability.
Expanding and Growing.
Management Team
Brian Taylor - Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Brian honed his leadership skills over 15 years with Thomson Learning, one of the nation's largest publishers, where he held a number of executive and general management positions. More recently as co-founder and COO of Thinkronize, Brian helped conceptualize NetTrekker.com, the nation’s leading “Safe Search Engine,” which recently served its 11 millionth student.
At Thinkronize he led the sales, marketing, capital raising, and business development efforts for the business. Over the years, he's led successful partnership efforts with industry giants such as McGraw-Hill, Apple, Intel, Pioneer, the Follett Corporation, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin.
Throughout Brian’s career, he’s demonstrated the ability to help conceptualize and create market-leading educational products, including Computer Visions MultiMedia, Paws in Typing Town, The White House is Our House, NetTrekker.com, and now SafeSchools.com.
Experience: COO/Co-Founder, Thinkronize (NetTrekker); various executive positions at Thomson Learning, Publisher/General Manager, Thomson Learning TOOLS (acquired by McGraw-Hill).
Education: MBA, Xavier University; BA, Judson College; Additional Studies through Executive Ed., Columbia University, and Thomson Leadership Development Institute.
Greg Estep - Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder
Greg is the architect and engineer that masterminds the deployment of SafeSchools.com’s courseware across the revolutionary Compliance Management System, a sophisticated learning management system designed specifically for compliance. Greg and his team constructed the application from scratch, and it now serves approximately 1,000 school districts, including some of the nation’s largest. His broad IT skills range from database architecture to programming and Internet development. His renowned specialization in building cutting-edge, open-source Internet applications has made him widely respected in the education software industry.
Prior to SafeSchools.com Greg successfully led the IT development efforts for a number of education-oriented businesses including Thinkronize, CollegeView, and CARS Information Systems. His pioneering Internet work has been recognized in publications such as Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today.
Greg “hails” from Pike County, Kentucky’s largest and easternmost county.
Experience: Director of Technology, Thinkronize; Director of Engineering, Hobson's (Daily Mail and General Trust); Systems Engineer, Campus Administrative Resource Systems (acquired by Jenzabar).
Education: BS, Information Systems, University of Kentucky. |
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