MEET THE INSTRUCTOR Meet the Instructor: Tom Demont Tom Resciniti Demont, AHC, CAI, CFDI, CFL, CMIL, CML, CMST, ICML, IFDI, ARL, gives us insight into his teaching style and what ALOA Education means to him. I n our recently established Meet the Instructor series, Keynotes is speaking with ALOA Education instructors to allow readers to get to know them better. We recently spoke with Tom Resciniti Demont, AHC, CAI, CFDI, CFL, CMIL, CML, CMST, ICML, IFDI, ARL, to get his thoughts on teaching and ALOA Education. When did you join ALOA? I joined in March 1970, while in the U.S. Navy and working part time at Able Lock- smiths in Arlington, VA, for an ALOA member who signed my petition. How long have you been an ALOA instructor, and what classes do you typically teach? In September 1990, Jim Glazier the education manager asked me to develop an ADA class to teach the new ADA law. At that time, I was the only AHC/CML credentialed locksmith in ALOA. I taught the first class for ALOA in October 1990. I teach Life Safety codes and ADA, Certified Fire Door Inspection, Fire Door and Frame Repair and Advance Employee and Shop Management. What is your favorite class to teach, and why? Advanced Shop and Employee Management. This class is less formal than my lectur- ing classes, so I can get on a one-to-one basis with the owners and managers to share what worked for me and what worked work for them. I use my 60+years’ experience of working in and owning locksmith companies to guide them into looking at issues from different angles. In this class, everyone participates and shares their experiences. How do you go about organizing your class material? How do you decide what content to include? Each course I teach is different because of the subject matter, and one way I found to keep my thoughts focused is to develop a teaching manual for my students. It WWW.ALOA.ORG Outside of the security industry, Tom spends a good deal of time cooking elabo- rate meals for his monthly Italian supper club, which has more than 120 members. He also restores antique key machines, with the goal of opening a museum for them by the end of the year. “Networking with friends and colleagues is very important to our industry.” started way back in 1990 when I did the first Life Safety Code manual of 50 pages, and now that same manual is 268 pages printed and bound into a usable reference of codes and updated every three years for accuracy. That worked so well for life safety codes that I wrote a short book titled “How to Run a Service Company — Made Easy” that I use for my manage- ment course. A funny story about that book is that I wanted to title it “The Psy- OCTOBER 2016 KEYNOTES 55
