Bruce Kelling Receives Award of Excellence from the IJIS Institute

Award recognizes national information sharing contributions

The IJIS Institute proudly recognizes and congratulates Bruce Kelling, managing principal of Bask Enterprises and founder/former CEO of Tiburon, Inc., on receiving the coveted Robert P. Shumate National Public Safety and Justice Contributor to Excellence Award on August 11, 2009. The award was presented to Mr. Kelling by Mike Lyons, president of the IJIS Institute Board of Directors, , during the National Forum on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, held in Bellevue, Washington.

The Robert P. Shumate National Public Safety and Justice Contributor to Excellence Award is presented annually by the IJIS Institute to the person from either industry or the public sector who has made the most valuable contribution to justice and public safety information sharing during the past year. Candidates for the award are nominated by IJIS Institute members and affiliates, and represent the highest level of conviction to public safety information sharing.

The award was presented to Bruce Kelling for his very significant contributions to the many successes of the IJIS Institute. Mr. Kelling has been active in a variety of capacities including his initial involvement as a founding member of the IJIS Institute’s predecessor organization, the Industry Working Group. He has served as president of the Board of Directors of the IJIS Institute and he served two three-year terms on the Board of Directors. He currently chairs the IJIS Institute’s Fundraising Development Committee, and works on various ad hoc study committees. As chair of the IJIS Institute NIBRS/N-DEx Advisory Committee, he was a major contributor to the acceptance of the use of a single national Information Exchange Packet Documentation (IEPD) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Advisory Policy Board. He is also the IJIS Institute’s representative to the Law Enforcement IT Standards Council. His contributions help make the IJIS Institute a well-known and successful contributor at national levels in serving the justice and public safety communities.

Bruce is well known as the founder and CEO of Tiburon, Inc., where he was the single-most responsible person in industry for creating the popular acceptance of the term “RMS” or records management system to describe police system automation. He was engaged in the design and administration of the implementation of hundreds of public safety systems, including serving as the original project manager for the implementation of the International Justice and Public Safety Network (Nlets).

The Robert P. Shumate National Public Safety and Justice Contributor to Excellence Award is named after Robert P. Shumate, who served as the first president of the IJIS Institute and chairman of the IJIS Industry Working Group. Shumate was one of the key organizers and creators of the IJIS Institute. Prior to his retirement, Shumate was one of the pioneers in designing and building statewide police information systems throughout the country.

About the IJIS Institute—The IJIS Institute serves as the voice of industry by uniting the private and public sectors to improve mission critical information sharing for those who protect and serve our communities. The IJIS Institute provides training, technical assistance, national scope issue management and program management services to help government fully realize the power of information sharing. Founded in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with national headquarters on the George Washington University Virginia Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, the IJIS Institute has grown to more than 250 member and affiliate companies across the United States. For more information visit www.ijis.org.