Intelligence & Data Management / Homeland Security / Operations Management / Instruction
Proven record
As a Senior Special Agent with 37 years of international investigations, operations and training management in international law enforcement,Ihavea proven track record of developing programs, implementing multiagency budgets, and expanding strategic growth with international and domestic partnerships to maximize the results in operations and intelligence. I am an excellent trainer, skilled in creating tailored programs to instruct thousands worldwide including analysts and investigators, from military generals toSupreme Court justices.I have exceptionally strong written and verbal communications skills with expertise of coalescing diverse personnel into successful teams to implement programs and operations in diverse locations.
International Experience
My career assigned me as an international liaison for over twenty years todevelop joint operations and intelligence exchanges with foreign governments and business executives. As an instructor I created, budgeted and presented training to senior executives up to the cabinet levels from over 25 countries on systematic use of a wide variety of techniques, technologies and management skills to detect and investigate organized criminal activities and violent events including terrorism, tactical operations, investigating organized crime, murders and foreign counterintelligence.
Security clearance
Current Top Secret – Sensitive Compartmentalized Information
Employment History
- University of California San Diego, Homeland Security DepartmentUnited States Department of Justice – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information – Senior Special Agent, Violent Crime Intelligence Division, April 2012- October 2012
- Los Angeles Field Division, San Diego Field Office – Senior Special Agent, June 2011 – April 2012
- Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information – Senior Special Agent, Field Intelligence Division, May 2009 -June 2011
- Los Angeles Field Division, San Diego Field Office – Senior Special Agent, June 1998 – May 2009
- Los Angeles Field Division, El Centro Field Office – Special Agent, 1992 – 1998
- Los Angeles Field Division, Van Nuys Field Office – Special Agent, 1990 – 1992
- Los Angeles Field Division, Los Angeles Group – Special Agent, 1988 – 1990
- U.S. Border Patrol, 1984 – 1988
- Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement, 1980 – 1984
- Pinellas County Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, 1975 – 1979
Education
- Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice University of South Florida 1980
- Associate of Arts Degree in Police Administration Saint Petersburg Junior College 1975
Intelligence Management Experience
I created methodologies that he taught to thousands of investigators on systematic and effective methods to detect and investigate organized criminal activities and violent events by relating information from unlinked data bases to identify suspects, relationships between criminals, and their organizations that can focus law enforcement efforts.
For the past two decades I led international investigations with foreign counterparts and provided briefings, training and international investigative partnerships at all levels of foreign service to all integral personnel including ambassadors, investigators, military officers, foreign cabinet officials, clerks and Supreme Court Justices. I developed and taught courses on firearms and explosives identification, firearms trafficking, drug cartel operations, terrorism and intelligence operations across the United States, Canada, and Europe with a specific focuses towards binational cooperation in Mexico, El Salvador, and Canada.
Expert Certification in Federal Courts
I am certified in the United States District Court in Transnational Criminal Organizations operating in Mexico (Mexican Cartels). The specific areas stated in Federal District Judge’s Order for Expert Testimony included: TCOs’ business enterprises and structures, their marketing of drugs, their current “weapons of choice” types and reasons, their acquisition and use of firearms, the federal laws of Mexico pertaining to firearms, Federal Firearms Licensee business practices, the acquisition by individual or networks of “straw purchasers” of firearms, ammunition and related tactical equipment for criminals.
Overview of investigative experience
I have been the lead case agent and manager on hundreds of pro-active investigations across North America and for allied countries, which have been both complex and lengthy.I have conducted investigations involving national security issues including international terrorism and foreign counterintelligence. During the management of these investigations I have assisted in executing over 200 search warrants. During the scope of searches, my teams found and seized in excess of 100,000 firearms and as the case agent and/or undercover agent in the seizure of over 1,850 machine-guns (and thousands of other illegal firearms). My undercover operations contributed to the seizures of an additional 4,000 AK-47 machine-guns in the US and Canada. I havebeen the affiant/case agent on over 100 search warrants.I developed expertise in managing and conducting investigationsof Colombian drug smuggling, Mexican firearms trafficking, Filipino arms trafficking and coups, Crips & Bloods street gangs,violent motorcycle gang members, Afghan extremists, Hamas terrorist money laundering and the Russian mafia in order to perfect criminal cases across the United States and in other countries.
Instructor Certifications (selected examples)
- Operations Security and Intelligence instructor – Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency June 1996 certification
- Instructor Certification – US Department of Justice &Langevin Learning Services’
September 2004 – Present
- Instructor Certification State of Florida’s Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Training May 1983 – Present
- Instructor’s Certification Training in Officer Safety and Survival – Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) December 1982 – Present
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