Senior Security Professional
Resume:
Alan W Russell
Keller, TX *6248
Email: acqafx@r.postjobfree.com
SECURITY SUMMARY
Over 27 years in DOD, Government and Corporate security environments as Director, Manager, and Senior Investigator. Expertise protecting government and corporate personnel and physical assets, financial crime, fraud, international investigations, intelligence collections, counterintelligence investigations, risk analyses, compliance, contracts and community relations.
Innovative and proven team builder and leader with keen analytical vision and goal achievement successes. Strengths: leadership; strong work ethics, initiative, facilitation skills in team environments.
EXPERIENCE
Nautilus Hyosung America, Inc. 2012 - Present
Irving, TX
Head of Security
Established Corporate Security Program.
Wrote Corporate Security and Facility Policies, Standards, and Procedures.
Oversees ATM Security Program, protecting Hyosung’s greatest assets (Field Service Engineers) and financial institution assets (monetary instruments) exceeding millions of dollars.
Negotiates contract language with financial institutions and ATM vendors.
Investigates fraud and thefts of financial institution monies from ATMs as well as by corporate personnel.
Liaisons with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and corporate security personnel.
Office of Inspector General 2010 - 2013
Palm Beach County, FL
Director Contract Oversight
Directed team of four specialists that investigates allegations of fraud, waste and abuse within Palm Beach County, Solid Waste Authority, Children Services Council, Health District, and 38 municipalities – identified $2.3M in questionable costs in first year of operations.
Reviewed entities’ contracts prior to solicitation to identify and eliminate potential language liabilities.
Developed fraud risk analyses and conducted fraud prevention and detection tools for County departments.
Served as compliance officer for entities’ contracts to prevent fraud and corruption associated with billions of dollars in municipality, County and federal funds.
Ensured that proposed negotiated terms of contract are consistent with the bid or request requirements.
Accomplished independent performance analyses of proposed contracts and interpreted results.
Performed complex financial and/or statistical analysis of proposed contracts and associated risks.
Attended meetings to observe contracting process and interviewed project staff to obtain information relative to contract oversight and identify red flags of fraud.
Wrote Contract Oversight Unit processes to develop risk models based on risk identification, risk likelihood, and risk response.
Reviewed proposed contracts to determine efficiency and/or cost effectiveness.
Conducted independent evaluations of internal procedures, controls and contract management to determine the adequacy, effectiveness and sufficiency to validate and verify that all work being performed is within the scope of the contract and that the County has received all required contract deliverables.
Developed and conducted fraud presentations and training to County/Municipal employees.
Office of Inspector General 2010 - 2010
New Orleans, LA US
Procurement Fraud Specialist-Investigator
Investigated allegations of fraud, waste and abuse within city of New Orleans.
Reviewed city contracts prior to solicitation to identify and eliminate potential liabilities for the city.
Served as compliance officer for city contracts to prevent fraud and corruption associated with billions of dollars to rebuild the city following Hurricane Katrina.
Ensured that proposed negotiated terms of contract were consistent with the bid or request requirements.
Accomplished independent performance analyses of proposed contracts and interpreted results.
Performed complex financial and/or statistical analysis of proposed contracts.
Reviewed City solicitations to ensure they adhere to best practices.
Contract Investigator 1995 - 2010
Dayton, OH US
Conducted federal government personnel security investigations.
Ensured proper Industrial Security procedures were followed in accordance with NISPOM directives and company standard operating procedures, Department of State, Department of Defense and other applicable government sponsor regulations.
Created and maintained security documentation in accordance with government and company guidelines.
Processed proper documentation to obtain new industrial clearance through the electronic questionnaire for investigation processing (EQIP).
NCR Corporation 1998 - 2010
Sr. Security Investigator/Program Manager Global Security
Dayton, OH US
A $4.6B global provider of automated teller machines and point of sales equipment.
Directed global Automated Teller Machine (ATM) security operations program (international and national), protecting employee safety and over $5B in cash reserves in the U.S. only.
Performed international investigations involving thefts, frauds, conflicts of interest, FCPA violations, and revenue recognition. Clear, concise, and accurate reports of investigation, submitted to federal and state prosecutors, resulted in over 31 criminal convictions and restitution payments exceeding $1.3M.
Wrote requests for proposals, evaluated vendors in selection committees or reverse auctions, and monitored security contracts.
Oversaw cost, schedule and performance of security-related contracts associated with installation of ATMs and construction of facilities.
Established and managed the ATM claims department, consisting of five persons, and claim processes, saving NCR millions of dollars in potential contract liability payments to financial institutions.
Developed claim procedures, processes for identifying ATM fraud indicators, and evaluating ATM claim documents that may have resulted from ATM frauds.
Served as Deputy Manager for Investigations team of seven persons in the absence of the Manager.
Developed global investigative plans, cost estimates, schedules, and assessments for investigative projects and assignments.
Oversaw IT forensic investigations.
Conducted 97% of the physical security reviews for domestic and international offices and warehouses, reducing losses and shrinkage on an annual basis by 13%.
Reviewed, negotiated, and recommended changes to financial customer and cash-in-transit ATM contracts.
Drafted vendor security service contracts and conducted monthly performance reviews.
Briefed senior company officials on investigative reports identifying weaknesses in company policies and procedures and recommending the best course of action to remedy it.
Conducted fraud and safety/security presentations and prevention training programs to employees, financial customers, and cash-in-transit companies.
Wrote and updated the Global ATM Security policy, security policies and procedures, emergency action plans and drafted the corporate background screen policy.
Worked closely with FBI and State Department officials in identifying threats nationally and internationally to traveling NCR personnel and NCR facilities.
Defense Contractors (DRC/ISN/ITC) 1995 - 1998
Dayton, OH US
Acquisition Program Manager/Training Analyst (A&AS PM Level 4)
Focal point for Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) in revolutionizing training initiatives through development of a Joint Synthetic Battlespace (JSB) - a Distributed Mission Training (DMT), now Distribute Mission Operations (DMO) environment, comprised of live, virtual, and constructive simulations.
Served as Deputy Program Manager for AMC DMT programs and KC-10 ATS.
Prepared DMT briefings for Office of the Secretary of Defense, HQ USAF, and MAJCOM personnel defining the role of the Training System Product Group (TSPG) in implementing DMT.
Drafted Operational Requirement Documents, System Requirements Documents, and Capstone Requirements Document for DMT programs (F-15 Aerial Combat Enhanced Simulation (ACES) program, C-5 DMT prototype, and DMT O&I).
Helped Users define weapon system training requirements.
Hosted the quarterly DMT Usersgroup comprised of all major commands and support commands.
Co-sponsored a monthly High Level Architecture (HLA) Working Group at Wright-Patterson AFB to discuss the DOD mandated common architecture for all DOD simulations and associated issues.
Analyzed acquisition reform initiatives and aircrew training programs to establish training baselines.
United State Air Force 1988 - 1995
Director, Criminal Investigations
Air Force Office of Special Investigations
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH US
Directed criminal, fraud, and counterintelligence investigative unit resulting in numerous federal, state, and local criminal convictions and monetary recoveries exceeding millions of dollars.
Supervised unit fraud programs responsible for investigating acquisition program management contract violations and irregularities across the broad spectrum of functional disciplines throughout the life of the contract and base level contract fraud throughout all base functional areas.
Managed and conducted forensic investigations involving acquisition fraud, IT fraud, acquisition security, counterintelligence matters, and internal security matters.
Oversaw the acquisition security management program providing for the identification of valid threats to critical and sensitive systems and their enabling technologies throughout the acquisition life-cycle.
Conducted Acquisition Program Protection Surveys which validated security measures and developed cost effective countermeasures.
Evaluated contractor and subcontractor performance in accordance with contract requirements.
Reviewed and audited several billion dollars in government contracts with Defense Contract Audit Agency and Air Force Audit Agency to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
Knowledgeable of EPA, OSHA, FAA regulations/processes, FARS, DFARS and associated Codes of Federal Regulations.
Conducted investigations into the violation of the transfer of critical and sensitive acquisition program technologies.
Reviewed program threats and conducted vulnerability analyses to define security functional requirements for effectively securing systems against overt and covert attacks.
Directed government fraud task forces responsible for investigating acquisition program management, contract violations and irregularities across the broad spectrum of functional disciplines throughout the life of the contract.
Collected and shared intelligence information (Humint, Sigint) with various Federal agencies and sources in order to reduce potential threats against base personnel and assets.
Knowledgeable with DOD 5200 series security directives.
Executed the concepts, procedures, and techniques that apply to the fields of physical security, industrial security, information security, and personnel security to ensure conformance with established EO, DoD/DAF Security Directives, DCIDs/ICDs and JAFANs.
SECURITY CLEARANCE – Top Secret (adjudicated June 2009)
EDUCATION - Master of Arts - Management and Public Administration - Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Bachelor of Science - Education/Chemistry - University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Fraud Examiner – CFE
Certified Inspector General Investigator - CIGI
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