About FTIN: History

In 1999 former IBM sales executive, Richard Young, was standing in line, waiting to vote. He saw the antiquated ways that voters were tracked by party volunteers as they checked into vote and knew there had to be a better way. He mentioned this idea to his business partner, David Cerrone, a former computer analyst for one of the three major credit bureaus. “Richard was always coming to me with ideas and asking me if they were technically feasible,” David recalls. “At the time, the technology was not in place to do what he wanted to do. There was no cellular data service and no wireless hand-held devices. So we continued to focus our efforts on the business we had at the time: A system, that helped landlords identify problem tenants before signing a rental agreement with them.”

When Cerrone and Young were bought out by their biggest competitor in 2004, a Fortune 500 corporation, Young thought again of the voter-tracking idea. This time Cerrone realized that all the elements of technological puzzle were in place. They could use wireless hand-held devices at the polling place, and the cell-phone carriers were now offering data services that could allow communicating over the internet possible.

The only thing left to do was to write the applications that would make all this connectivity super-easy for the volunteers who would use them. “My job was to make the applications simple and failsafe for the conditions under which they would be used.” Not only did Cerrone meet these requirements he also added GPS based navigational capabilities so volunteers could easily get around town as well as enabling campaign HQ to track these very same volunteers using mapping technology.

“We've created the technology and tested it in the field, we know how well it functions under all sorts of circumstances and we're excited to now see it being used on county, state and national levels," Cerrone reports.

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