VITEK · Technology partnerships

PDK Integration

I lead the technical and marketing work behind VITEK’s PDK integration—from the first dealer requirements through hands-on validation, Sales demonstrations, and distributor communications. I connect customer needs, development priorities, and the materials the channel needs to understand and present the solution.

Illustrative PDK credential reader and VITEK camera treatment for access-and-video integration marketing. — Illustrative campaign image developed for the access-and-video integration story. View artwork ↗

My role: Technical & marketing lead
Scope: Requirements · Validation · Sales demonstrations · Positioning · Distributor materials
Status: Pre-release · Evidence through October 22, 2026

Define a useful customer workflow

The opportunity began with dealer requests: connect PDK access events to VITEK video so a customer could move from a credential record to the footage that helps explain it. Making that useful required decisions about customer organizations, locations, camera relationships, and the way people would search and review events.

I translated those needs into requirements and coordinated priorities across Sales, R&D, PDK, and software development. My role carries through the project: test the experience, identify what needs to change, and turn demonstrated functionality into clear dealer communication. Engineering implements the software; I lead the technical and marketing work that connects it to customer needs.

Hands-on validation

Make the workflow demonstrable

I coordinated physical door tests and traced the sequence from credential activity to the recorded event, mapped camera, and associated footage. That work surfaced specific playback and timing issues for development and informed what we could confidently demonstrate.

A concrete example: Sales feedback exposed a confusing time display. I translated it into a requirement to show the site’s local time, followed the change through development, and checked the implemented display.

Recorded video from the VITEK headquarters PDK demonstration showing the entryway, the original camera timestamp and playback controls. — Recorded-video view from the actual integration demonstration, included in the reviewed distributor feature package. View artwork ↗

Sales enablement · Adapted from my demo guidance

Give Sales a repeatable demonstration

Find the event

Orient the audience to the customer and location, then find a relevant access event. Explain what the credential record tells us.

Review the video

Show the associated recorded footage and its visual context. Check the example and playback before presenting it.

Connect it to the need

Ask how the dealer’s customer would use the workflow, what locations matter, and what the next conversation needs to resolve.

Equip Sales and the channel

I led the October 14 Sales demonstration and developed reusable walkthrough guidance, preflight checks, and qualification prompts. The team received the recording recap and practice instructions, creating a practical way to continue learning after the meeting.

I also developed PDK-specific positioning, feature copy, interface imagery, and supporting creative. An additional editorial opportunity at The Systems Depot led to a tailored feature package; I proactively developed an SES counterpart because it carries both brands. Both distributors acknowledged the delivered packages, and I coordinated the internal marketing handoff.

The message stays precise: an access record identifies a credential; video adds visual context. The copy, demonstration, and imagery all explain that same customer benefit.

From the delivered feature

VITEK and PDK connect access events with video

VITEK’s integration with ProdataKey brings access events, live camera views and recorded video into one dashboard. Security teams can find an access event, open the associated footage and review what happened at the door.

The access record identifies the credential used. Video adds the visual context: who appears in the scene and what happened around the doorway.

Excerpt from my feature copy delivered to The Systems Depot, October 2026. The package included application examples, demonstration imagery, and a distributor-specific call to action.

Campaign artwork

Partner campaigns & application marketing

The Systems Depot partnership campaign linking VITEK support and service with PDK, CHeKT and Deep Sentinel integration examples. — The Systems Depot: approved partnership artwork delivered for the November 2026 edition, with the PDK integration presented as a preview. View artwork ↗

School Safety Week campaign for The Systems Depot, with a school entrance scene and application panels for VITEK surveillance products and PDK access plus video. — **School Safety Week · The Systems Depot.** I connected VITEK products and integration capabilities—including PDK access + video—to school-security applications across entrances, hallways, parking areas, and temporary surveillance needs. View PDF ↗

What the work established

The project now has a demonstrated customer workflow, a completed Sales-team demonstration, reusable demo guidance, and tailored feature packages delivered to two distributor partners. These give Sales and marketing a consistent foundation for explaining the integration and preparing the next dealer conversation.

I’m carrying that work into preparation with Sales for the November 11 PDK ProConnect event in Raleigh. As of October 22, 2026, the integration remains pre-release, with production deployment, internal acceptance, and controlled-pilot approval still in progress.