Erik Endress

Current

CEO & Founder at Xpedite Network

Education

Ramsey High School
School of Visual Arts
Ramapo College of New Jersey

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Connections

82 connections

Industry

Public Safety

Websites

Erik Endress’s Summary

With more than 20 years of experience in the emergency services, Erik Endress has helped people who found themselves in emergency situations. Today, as the CEO and Founder of Xpedite Network, Endress is a Social Entrepreneur with a business that may actually help people worldwide before, during and after an emergency.

"There is a universal problem that exists around emergency situations and disasters and that is the lack of shared awareness amongst those involved" says Endress. "Whether it is an emergency is a school, a huge building, a community or a major city, the situation is always the same - there is a tremendous lack of information sharing, coordination and collaboration amongst all of the people involved. When you fix that, you can positively impact the outcome of the sitation as a whole. You can find that missing child faster, you can prioritize resources and response to an active shooter in a school and you can mobilize people to respond and help with great speed."

To further explain the model, Endress cites an excert from the book "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky.

The military often talks about “shared awareness,” which is the ability of many different people and groups to understand a situation, and to understand who else has the same understanding. If I see a firebreak out, and I see that you see it as well, we may more easily coordinate our actions - you call 911, I grab a fire extinguisher - than if I have to call your attention to the fire, or if I am in some confusion about how you will react to a fire. Shared awareness allows otherwise uncoordinated groups to begin to work together more quickly and effectively. This kind of social awareness has three levels: when everybody knows somehting, when everybody knows that everybody knows, and when everybody knows that everybody knows that everybody knows.

"That is what Xpedite Network is about. Period."

Erik Endress’s Specialties:

Emergency Response, Emergency Management, School Safety, Social Media, Web 2.0, Citizen Relationship Management, Public/Private Sector Partnership Enablement, Non-Profit Communication Strategies

Erik Endress’s Experience

CEO & Founder

Xpedite Network

(Public Safety industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Xpedite Network is a provider of social media and web-based communication solutions to citizens, communities, schools and education institutions, commercial properties, government agencies, non-profit organizations and the emergency management/public safety sectors.

Our solutions enable people to connect and communicate with each other before, during and after an emergency situation using ZipGroups and Private Groups that reside on a social media platform.