TALLAHASSEE, Fl., August 17 -- Effective 8/1/2009 L. Scott Harrell joined IRBsearch^® as Director of Brand Management and eMedia. Harrell was hired by IRBsearch^® to spearhead the company’s expansion in the fields of online continuing education, e-commerce, and e-magazine communications. Scott Harrell’s background hails from nearly twenty years of professional investigation and security service. He worked undercover operations while in the United States Navy, as a corporate investigations manager with a fortune 500 company, and more recently as the owner of two successful investigative companies along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida.

As founder of CompassPoint Investigations in 2000, Scott Harrell created an investigative agency that originated in Austin, Texas and soon moved to Pensacola, Florida with branch offices in Gulfport, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama. Harrell continued to initiate new product launches and services during his tenure as a professional private investigator.

In June of 2002, Harrell premiered www.PIeducation.com. Harrell designed PIeducation as an industry-specific curriculum for delivering online continuing education classes to private investigators. Scott Harrell is distinguished as one of the leading United States private investigators to develop training programs recognized and approved by 14 different state licensing and regulating agencies. His courses are accepted in almost a dozen states and professional associations, making PIeducation the market leader in state-mandated continuing education for private investigators.

In addition to PIeducation, Harrell has constantly been in demand as an accomplished industry trainer, speaker, and author. Harrell has written eight books on investigative subjects and regularly speaks on the topics of skip tracing, sources of digital evidence, several real-world marketing subjects, and bail forfeiture. He has been well received by audiences at events hosted by organizations such as the American Society of Industrial Security, the National Sheriff’s Association, the Texas State Bar, and numerous other national and state associations.

Harrell most recently launched the online magazine entitled, Pursuit Magazine in 2008. With the advent of Pursuit Magazine, private investigators, legal professionals, and security experts have access to free subscriptions and online content at http://pursuitmag.com. Harrell passed his successful CompassPoint Investigations to top investigator-employees in July of 2009 to accept a senior management position with IRBsearch^®.