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Steve Katz is
an Academy Award winning sound engineer with over 30 feature film
credits including the original Star Wars. As Vice
President of Research and Technology for Troy Acoustics, he is a
pioneer in developing new techniques and technologies for
measuring, evaluating and reducing noise in indoor and outdoor
shooting ranges. He is the author of "A Primer on Indoor Shooting
Range Acoustics," and a member of the Acoustical Society of America
(ASA), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and the Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). |
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Jeffrey D.
Brasseur is a Registered Architect and partner at Brasseur
& Drobot Architects, P.A. in West Palm Beach, Florida. With
over 25 years experience in the field of Architecture, his firm
specializes in the Historic, Residential, and Commercial
Architecture. He also has experience in the schematic design of
large range complexes and small private ranges. He was the 1985 and
1989 National Junior Pistol Champion. He competed at the US
International Shooting Championships - Olympic Tryouts in Chino,
California while on the National Development Team. He is also
double distinguished in pistol and high power rifle. His extensive
competitive shooting background allowed him the opportunity to be
exposed to and shoot on ranges all over the country. |
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Richard "Dick"
Peddicord, Ph. D., is a nationally recognized leader in
environmental assessment and management of lead and other
shooting-associated environmental issues at outdoor rifle, pistol,
and shotgun ranges. He has contributed to workshops and
publications of the National Rifle Association and the National
Shooting Sports Foundation, and was recognized by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency for his contributions to its Best
Management Practices for Lead at Outdoor Shooting Ranges. His goal
is to help ranges minimize potential environmental liabilities in a
practical and sustainable way. |
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Ed Santos is
founder and President of Center Target Sports and the Tactical
Services Group, Inc. Ed is a Threat Management Specialist. He
serves as an expert witness on matters of Shooting Range
Operations, Design and Safety, Personal and Industrial Security. Ed
has been a featured instructor at every major National Law
Enforcement Conference in the United States. He has been teaching
for over 32 years and has taught at DOD schools and various
agencies around the world. |
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Tom Shay is a
lifelong small business owner and manager. The fourth generation to
be involved in the family business, as a native of Fort Smith,
Arkansas, Tom started his first job working in his grandfather's
general store. Tom moved to Florida to join his parents in the
family operation they had purchased in 1971. Over the next 26
years, the Shay family owned and operated three businesses in the
retail trade and a fourth in the wholesale and manufacturing
industry. As a speaker, Tom has earned the Certified Speaking
Professional (CSP) distinction, an honor that has been earned by
fewer than 7 percent of speakers worldwide. |
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Stefan B.
Tahmassebi has been working as an attorney in the Office
of the General Counsel of the NRA for over 22 years, including the
last 12 years as its Deputy General Counsel. His areas of practice
include employment, corporate, commercial, commercial real estate,
sales & use tax, insurance, constitutional, civil rights law,
including litigation and appellate work. Prior to that, Mr.
Tahmassebi worked as an associate in the Washington D.C. and
Virginia offices of Jawad George & Associates, where his
practice areas included employment, corporate, commercial,
commercial real estate and personal injury law, including
litigation. |
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Don Turner has
served in the professional management of shooting ranges for over
34 years, as an advanced tactical police firearms instructor to
manager of two large 5 star public shooting ranges in AZ and NV,
and statewide manager of all shooting ranges in AZ. His expertise
is in providing innovative solutions for shooting range management.
He served on the NRA BOD for three years and has been on the NRA
Range Development Committee for 12 years. |
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Chuck Ward is a
graduate of the University of Toronto who spent 25 years in the
graphics arts business in marketing, business development, and
management. He has spent the last decade working at Mancom
Manufacturing in business development and marketing of live fire
training systems, and is currently on contract with Mancom
providing conference and trade show development and organizing. He
also presents range equipment pricing for the NRA at Range
Development Conferences. |
