Sentinel Solutions Group exists because the agencies doing the hardest work in public safety, government, and mission-critical technology deserved someone on their side of the table. We are that partner.
Our founders did not enter this industry from the outside. They came up inside it. One answered 911 calls, served as a full-time law enforcement dispatcher for several of the largest cities in his state, worked as a Fire Specialist at a major regional dispatch center, instructed active shooter response courses, and ran a regional communications center before leading one of the most nationally-watched public safety software modernizations in the country's history. The other spent his career as a Principal Systems Engineer responsible for some of the nation's most complex public safety IT environments, serving among the largest police, fire, and EMS organizations in the country, engineering the P25 radio systems and consolidated CAD deployments that those agencies depend on every shift.
When our founders left those roles, it was not to get further from the mission. It was to make sure the agencies still doing it had a partner on their side of the table. One who understood the work from the inside, knew the technology at the engineering level, and had no financial incentive to steer them toward any particular vendor's product.
Public safety and mission-critical technology decisions are some of the most consequential choices a government makes. A CAD migration determines how fast your officers get to a scene. A radio upgrade determines whether your firefighters can talk to each other on the worst fire of their career. A records management selection determines whether your detective closes the case. A next-generation 911 decision determines whether a missing child is found in time.
These decisions deserve more than a sales pitch dressed up as advice. They deserve a firm with no product to sell, no resale margin to protect, and no incentive to tell you what you want to hear. They deserve someone who has done the work themselves, engineered the platforms you are evaluating, and managed the vendors you are about to sign with, on behalf of agencies exactly like yours.
Sentinel earns no referral fees. We hold no vendor resale agreements. We carry no commissions or kickbacks. Our loyalty runs to the mission of the agency we work for, and nowhere else.
Sentinel was founded around a simple idea: the two most common failure modes in public safety technology programs are operational misalignment (the platform technically works but the workforce cannot or will not use it) and engineering gaps (the design looks elegant on paper but collapses under real operational load). Most firms have experience in one or the other. Our founders bring both.
Justin Scott, our Managing Partner for Operations & Change Management, came up through the dispatch floor, led one of the most politically visible public safety software modernizations in the country, and has instructed and presented nationally on active shooter dispatching, change management, and RMS modernization. Jason Floyd, our Managing Partner for Engineering & Technology, served as a Principal Systems Engineer on the largest P25 and consolidated CAD deployments in the United States, including systems supporting agencies serving tens of millions of residents. Together they designed Sentinel as an integrated firm where neither discipline gets short-changed.
Sentinel is not a two-person firm. Every engagement we accept is supported by a bench of decorated practitioners: sitting fire chiefs, former law enforcement executives, telecommunications and P25 specialists, jail and corrections experts, legal counsel with deep government procurement experience, and data-analytics leaders with background in some of the most recognized mission-critical software companies in the country. When you engage Sentinel, you do not get one consultant. You get a coordinated team with primary leadership, depth support, and discipline-specific subject matter expertise on every program.
Our founders and advisory bench bring more than 200 years of combined public safety operations and mission-critical technology experience to every engagement.
Our four signature practices, the Sentinel Delivery Framework™, Sentinel Readiness Method™, Sentinel Deployment Blueprint™, and Sentinel Value Assurance™, were pioneered during the LAPD Records Management modernization and refined on every program since.
No referral fees. No resale margin. No commissions. Our only financial relationship is with the agency we work for.
We are the only firm of our scale that delivers consulting, managed technology services, and subscription-based strategic governance under a single roof. Staffed by the same people, guided by the same methodology, and measured against the same standard. Most firms sit in one lane. We engineered Sentinel so that agencies could engage us as advisor, operator, or specialist, depending on what the mission requires, without having to onboard a new partner each time the need evolves.
We are small enough to give you the actual people whose names are on the proposal, and we are deep enough, thanks to our advisory bench, to bring the right discipline expertise to the table no matter which corner of public safety you are navigating. That is the model we promised when we founded the firm, and it is the model we deliver on every day.
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