Woodie Andrawos started his career in the alarm industry in 1992 working for National Alarm Computer Center (NACC) in their business office, moving his way up to Billing and Credit Manager and as VP of Finance. In June 2001, Woodie Andrawos and Michael Shubert founded National Monitoring Center (NMC). In its first year of operations, NMC added 40,000 accounts and brought on new technologies that enabled the new monitoring center company to continue accelerated growth for many years. In 2007, he opened the company’s second monitoring center in Irving, Texas. In 2012, Woodie and his partners bought a 25,000-square-foot building in Lake Forest, Calif., and built a state-of-the-art monitoring center and moved the business there in 2014.