About Me
Jim Goding, is the author of this website and of the well-respected website Casino Surveillance News. Jim has a textbook, Casino Surveillance Operations Manual, currently in use in over 100 casinos worldwide, on the real-world applications of casino surveillance.Jim has been certified as a casino surveillance professional (CSP) and as a professional Security officer (CPO).
Jim Goding in present time
Jim is not a really conventional person, and has a tendency to think out of the box.He trains people to THINK WITH the information he passes on, so that his trainees can see implications, other threats associated, and detect such threats when they exist.
He has more than twenty years in the casino business, and has been in Casino Surveillance for more than ten years, including teaching surveillance as a professional in the field since 2002.
He trained under some of the best people in the business, including Gary Powell, who had nine years in Nevada Gaming Control before they made acquaintance; Derk Boss, renowned and consulted by major casinos for his work in internal theft and cheating and currently teaching at University of Nevada Las Vegas. Jim has worked with and learned from the best in the business.
Jim’s personal talent is in writing and making the things he has learned useful and real to the average person, in teaching things he has learned, and in learning something new from every single person he interacts with, and in passing along everything he has learned to others, in a way that makes it real and useful. Whether teaching in classes to individuals, or in writing procedures and training programs, Jim makes it real and useful to the average individual.
When training, Jim does not do card tricks or other forms of dog and pony show.
Jim refuses to sell his training through fear. His training and his programs are dedicated to confronting actual problems and actual threats, and he refuses to make problems more threatening than they are. As a result, his training is based on the real world, on real threats, on things that have actually happened to create bottom-line threats to the casinos, on how to PREVENT these problems at minimal cost, and when prevention has failed, on how to detect and handle the cheats and thieves, both external and within the casino itself, who actually pose a threat to the bottom line.
If you wish to know more about Jim Goding and his methods of training, his viewpoint on Casino Surveillance, please visit Casino Surveillance News, with which this site is affiliated. On this site you can get an idea of his writing and viewpoints on the casino surveillance world.
