PROFILE

A highly successful and independently motivated advisor and investigator with international experience and proven results in both the public and private sectors. Expertise includes investigations, project management and planning, policy development, and leading multiple agencies, both foreign and domestic. Conducted security function for police forces in Iraq as well as worked closely with foreign officers in their military/police command structure. Regarded for maintaining high sense of integrity, patience, and fortitude while accomplishing goals and initiatives of each agency.

Conducted multiple complex investigations of criminal law enforcement assignments, including homicide, sexual assault, narcotics, organized crime and auto-theft resulting in many direct plea adjudications.

Designed and implemented innovative investigative and management curriculums for Iraqi police forces to ensure safety of local communities while teaching law enforcement administrative techniques to the police service.

Directed many international projects aimed at improving police investigation and competencies in multiple districts of Iraq, working as a liaison to the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office while contracted with the US Departments of Defense and Justice.

Project Management · Operational Streamlining · Policy Development · Communications · Negotiations · Communications · Employee Relations · Labor Relations · Recruiting · Training/Development · Workforce Planning · Team Leadership · Criminal Investigation · Case Supervision · Case Management

EXPERIENCE

Military Professional Resources International, Mosul - Baghdad, Iraq, 3 years

International Trainer and Law Enforcement Professional

Law Enforcement Professional

Advised, Assisted, Mentored and Trained U.S. and Coalition Forces to better execute their law enforcement related responsibilities, building capacity in Host Nation Security Forces (Iraqi Army, Kurdish Security Forces, and Iraqi Police Services) in furtherance of Rule of Law development in Iraq. Used criminal enterprise investigative and analytical experience and skills, and the ability to teach administrative policing skills, standards, and tactical law enforcement to U.S. Forces. Advised and assisted U.S. and Coalition commanders and staff, using law enforcement expertise and methodology, to understand, identify, target, penetrate, interdict, and suppress criminal-like, insurgent network enterprises and special group criminals to include but not limited to their employment of Improvised Explosive Devices. Advisor to the commander on the role of biometric and criminal intelligence processes.

Created and monitored personnel manning and patrol activities for eleven (11) combined security checkpoints along the disputed internal borders between the Kurdish and Arabic populations of northern Iraq.

International Advisor/Trainer

Developed, coordinated, implemented, evaluated, and assessed strategic and other instructional planning processes for development of low, middle, and high command structure in Iraqi Police Service at Baghdad Police College. US liaison to United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office developing international standards for Iraqi senior instructor group. Developed and integrated in-service instructional planning processes for development of U.S. command peer trainers and instructors at Baghdad Police College including information technology, communications systems, meeting planning, and curriculum planning.

Created a management curriculum for command members of Iraqi Police Service that complied with international standards and indigenous culture that addressed command structure for the police service.

Benton Harbor Police Department, Benton Harbor, Michigan, 3 years

Deputy Director/Captain - Field Operations

Administrator for fifty-five personnel both operational and administrative; developed and maintain all information systems, network computerization, and technical support; approve time, accounting, and payroll; direct budget and human resource allocation, performance evaluation, and supervision; developed rules, regulations, policy, and procedures; developed and installed record management system, mobile digital video recorder (DVR), LiveScan electronic fingerprinting, and audio telecommunications monitoring systems; developed and administer grant applications and procedures; instituted and trained Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN), redesigned and trained dispatch operation and procedures; administer community and school resource programs; Emergency Management and Homeland Security Director; standing board member of Berrien County 9-1-1 committees; Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), Interagency Committee on Mental Health.

Executive Division, Headquarters, East Lansing, Michigan 7 years

Planner--Policy, Planning, and Research Specialist

Responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of strategic and other planning processes for the Michigan State Police; performed qualitative and quantitative research; developed and administered the current structure of the Chaplain Corps including the job description, selection, strategic plan and internal investigation processes; managed 32 member Chaplain Corp; department liaison and regional board chair with local, state, national, and international enforcement agencies; developed international, national, and department policy and procedures; and administered division Public Act 302 grant funding.

Contributed to the development of the Uniform Sergeant Operational Skills Manual, Second Edition, member of the committee constructing the manual Property-Evidence Handbook, instructed supervisors and administrators in leadership, ethics, planning and organizing; served as coordinator of the department's hosting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, State and Provincial Police Planning Officers (SPPPO) Conference, July 1996, planning advisor to the National Association of Fugitive Investigators, Eighth Annual Conference, September 1998, elected the North Central Region board chair of the IACP-State and Provincial Planning Officers (SPPPO) for three consecutive years, research responsibility to SPPPO and the International Association of Law Enforcement Planners (IALEP), conducted daily inquiries into contemporary issues and forecasting questions facing international, national, and local law enforcement organizations and their respective service communities.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

CivPol Alumni Association – Professional Membership

Police Futurists International-- Professional Membership,

International Association of Chiefs of Police --State and Provincial Police Planning Officers Section –

North Central Region Board Chair, 3 years,

EDUCATION

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Doctor of Philosophy, Public Affairs and Administration

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Masters of Public Administration

Lansing Community College, Lansing, Associate of Business Law Enforcement

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Bachelor of Science, Fisheries Biology

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Project Management ● Targeted Selection ● Program Evaluation ● Instructor Development ● Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Training ● Advanced Critical Incident Stress Management (CISD) ● ATF Explosives Investigation ● Combat Lifesaver ● Sexual Assault Investigations

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Professional

International Master Instructor (ICITAP), Advance Critical Incident Stress (CISM) Debriefer, Technical Agency Coordinator, Firearms Instructor

Computer

Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Explorer, Statistical Package for Social Scientists, Qualitative Analysis

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AWARDS

Professional Excellence, Ann Arbor Police Department

Professional Excellence, Skills Manual Development, Michigan Department of State Police

Professional Excellence, Criminal Investigation, Michigan Department of State Police

Professional Excellence, Narcotic Investigation, Michigan Department of State Police

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Coach, West Michigan Youth Soccer Association, River Oaks

Coach, American Youth Soccer Association, River Oaks

Chairman, Worship and Music Committee, Gull Lake Community Church

Strategic Plan and Initiatives, Gull Lake Community Schools, 3 years

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

My international, national, state, county, and municipal perspectives provide me with an understanding of operations and the supportive role of service oriented management. In addition, my continued professional contact with public organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector are an asset to fostering service oriented initiatives and collaborative issue resolutions. I possess value based integrity, patience, and persistence and have developed a reputation for being analytical, enduring, and effective in field, project, and research activities. I maintain a strong belief in quality service delivery to stakeholders and believe that the perception of internal quality, and respect, and professionalism from outside the organization is a significant resource in addressing customer concerns.

REFERENCES

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