Meet the Scanner Master Staff!

Richard Barnett
Founder and President
Rich's love of radio communications and scanners began as a youngster when he first eyed the flashing LED of a Regency scanner in a friend home. Monitoring the local public safety agencies instilled in Rich a great respect for the jobs police and firefighters perform. Soon, Rich's first scanner would be the Bearcat III. On February 5th, 1978, the day the great "Blizzard of '78" began, Rich, a young teen, sold his first batch of Scanner Master frequency guides to You Do It Electronics in Needham, MA (where his books are still sold today). Later Rich expanded his line of books to cover the northeast and later the nation with Monitor America. In the mid 90's, Rich teamed with Gene Hughes of Police Call and became editor of that best-selling line of frequency guides. Rich co-holds numerous patents on scanners and other consumer-electronics technologies and he works closely with scanner manufacturers in scanner development. Rich also partners with Butel of Holland to develop high-end scanner software applications for hobbyists and professionals and Rich spends time in Europe and Asia each year sourcing scanners and accessories for his customers. Rich has also joint-ventured with Lindsay Blanton of RadioReference.com, the ultimate communications data resource. Scanner Master has become, over these past 45+ years, one of the largest scanner dealers in the world. Rich is proud of his team at Scanner Master and their strict focus on scanners, selling and supporting the product for state and local government, federal agencies, the military, news media, industrial accounts and of course radio hobbyists. Besides a continuing effort to support scanners and scanner customers in any way possible,
Dave Jacome
Director of Operations / Shipping Manager
Dave joined the Scanner Master team in April 2009. He brought with him a wide variety of experience, including shipping, receiving, purchasing, inventory control, warehouse and operations management. Dave worked for over 20 years in the children's residential playground industry (both at Childlife Inc. and his own company), where he sold, delivered and installed several brands of playground equipment. Looking for a change, Dave found Scanner Master and has now added Volusion E-Commerce Management, Web Development and administration and Rangecast installs to his background. Dave's hobbies include Camping trips off the coast of Maine, playing sports and anything related to the New England Patriots.
Rich Carlson
Scanner Expert | Sales Representative
Rich Carlson, past-president of the Chicago Area Radio Monitors Association (CARMA) and one of the nation's leading scanner experts, has been part of the Scanner Master team since 2015. Rich retired as a Sergeant for the Winnetka, Illinois, Police Department and now consults with Scanner Master on new product development as well as in other areas. Rich is a highly respected member of the monitoring community who has decades of experience with all types of scanners and communications receivers, antennas, software and accessories. He has a great knowledge of the radio systems that we all monitor as he himself helped to institute and manage many in his time. Rich Carlson, N9JIG, has been a railfan since the late 1970's and a radio listener since the 1960's. He has written several scanner guides, including the Scanner Master Illinois Communications Guides. He was a Director of the Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association, the largest scanner club in the USA and edits the renown CARMA Profiles. He has written several articles for Monitoring Times and other publications. He also owns the Illinois Highways Page at www.n9jig.com. He has a collection of over 25 scanners and dozens of transceivers and specialized receivers. Professionally, he was a Sergeant with an Illinois police department, in was charge of 9-1-1, Communications and Records. He is happily married with a grown son.
Jonathan J Higgins
Scanner Expert | Digital Marketing Consultant
Jonathan joined Scanner Master team in May 2008. He currently consults and assists with digital marketing and social media. He has grown the company’s social media spaces from the ground up mostly organically. He has helped build the Scanner Master brand. He is known as one of the top police scanner experts in the industry.
 Jonathan is also the host and producer for the only live police scanner talk show "The Scanner Guys" on YouTube. When Jonathan isn’t working, you will find him track-side rail-fanning all over the east coast. He has taken his love for digital marketing into his hobby as blogger, photographer and video producer. You can follow Jonathan’s rail-fanning adventures at https://trainaficionado.com.
Greg Jolly
Programming Manager
Greg has been an Attleboro,MA firefighter since 1991. In his free time he is a long time scanner and fire buff.
Monique B.
Accounting Coordinator
With over thirteen years experience in accounting Monique enjoys rolling up her sleeves and working to solve the everyday business problems. Prior to joining Scanner Master Corp, Monique held various diverse positions including: Controller at a manufacturing service company in Fall River, MA as well as working many years in the high tech industry at several well-known software companies. Monique is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Newbury College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

Lindsay Blanton
RadioReference
Lindsay is the president and owner of RadioReference.com LLC, the worlds largest radio communications data provider for radio communications enthusiasts and professionals. In 1998, Lindsay founded RadioReference.com by by recognizing the need for a dynamic, collaborative solution for collecting and disseminating radio communications data for public safety and hobbyist users. He has since grown the community to over 1,000,000 members, resulting in the RadioReference becoming the definitive source for radio communications data worldwide. Lindsay responsibilities include managing a team of 80 administrators located globally, the development and implementation of the site platform, business development activities with third-party partners and suppliers, and day-to-day financial and business management.
Gommert Buysen
BuTel
Gommert has been listening to scanners since he was 14 years old. Has a bachelors degree in electronics. During his university study, worked part time in a scanner shop in the Netherlands responsible for sales and repair of ham radio equipment. After approximately 10 years in the scientific industry as technical field expert trainer and developing software in the early nineties. He started career with famous arc8000 legendary for AOR ar8000 receiver and in 1999 Butel became an official business for both hobby and professional users.
Ginger Snow
E Commerce Consultant
Ginger Snow is now an E-Commerce Consultant for Scanner Master. Her role includes work on the company website including DataFeed Management, Online Marketing and Volusion E-Commerce Administration. Ginger graduated from UMass Lowell with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts with a in Concentration in Graphic Design, also minoring in Art History and discovering an early interest in the Internet. Joining Scanner Master in 2003 Ginger now has over 22 years experience in Web Development and Administration. Her varied background also includes Operations Management, Accounting, Print Design, Photography, Internet Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, E-Commerce Administration, DataFeed Management, and Professional Organizing. A New Hampshire native Ginger Snow is an avid athlete in her free time participating in many various activities including hiking, golf, basketball and Women's Professional Full Contact Football for the Boston Militia (retired).
Scott Halligan
Customer Service
Scott began working for Scanner Master in April of 2023. Prior to that he was the communications supervisor for a Cape Cod police department for close to 34 years. Scott is also the founder of the Scan New England website and remains there in an active administrator capacity to this day. He has been an avid monitoring enthusiast since a lady that took care of him as a child shoved an old shortwave radio into his hands to keep him occupied. It was at the tender age of 7 when that moment occurred and he has not looked back since. He has been incredibly fortunate to combine a lifelong hobby into a career, starting as a Radioman in the US Coast Guard, installing C-Band satellite systems after his honorable discharge in 1985, and then the aforementioned police employment, starting as a dispatcher in 1988 and remaining one in addition to becoming the supervisor in 1996 up to his retirement in July of 2022. Scott enjoys a wide scope of the radio hobby to include searching for new frequencies and radio systems, DX'ing low band and tropospheric ducting band openings, listening to local public safety activity, and amateur radio (callsign KC1UA, licensed since 1990). He also enjoys traveling with his wife Linda, hiking, gardening, computing, billiards, and his sports teams to include the New England Patriots and Boston Bruins.