Public Safety Risk Management

RANDOLPH MERCED

GALLOWAY, NJ 609-***-**** **********@*****.*** HTTPS://WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/RANDOLPH-MERCED-00474147/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Accomplished career demonstrating consistent success as an administrator and educator at the higher education level.

• Highly skilled in leading and executing complex and multi-disciplinary projects at all organizational levels.

• Effective communicator with excellent planning coordinating and negotiating strengths as well as the ability to lead, reach consensus, establish goals, and attain results.

• Proven leader and director of Community College and University programs, resources, and staff.

• Thought leader and strategic thinking in sensitive and complex situations, and the highest ethical standards, integrity, authenticity, credibility, and character.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Incident Investigations Title IX Investigations Policy and Procedure SaaS Management

Purchasing Budgeting and Finance Human Resources Access Control/CCTV

Emergency Management Cabinet level leader Contracts Management Servant Leader

Clery Compliance Risk Management Electronics Management Training CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Created first regional active shooter/hostage full scale exercise with the City of Philadelphia Police Department, Homeland Security, and federal agencies.

Created and coordinated a legal counsel conference “best practices in Judicial Affairs using a restorative justice model.”

Campus Security Magazine “Director of the Year” runner up.

Integrated a comprehensive access control system at a large urban college.

Led risk management team to reduce exposure for the college. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Director of Public Safety June 2015-April 2023

Community College of Philadelphia

Provide leadership under a growing public safety department. Manage and maintain budgetary obligations ($3.5 Million) for a large urban campus. Creator of a judicial affairs annual seminar thematically surrounding the restorative justice model. Lead investigator for all incidents. Risk management lead. Chaired the Campus Safety Committee as per Pennsylvania workplace safety standards. Lead risk management administrator responsible for data collection and predictive analysis of college risk exposure. Conducted background investigations for new hires for the college.

• Director of Campus Services and Operations

Culinary Institute of America- Greystone Campus January 2014- October 2014

Director of all services on campus including event management support, public safety, transportation services, facilities, and hospitality services departments.

• Director of Public Safety/Facilities September 2010- 2012 Doer of good. Higher education leader. Strategic thinker. University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Direct oversight of the University Public Safety Department and Facilities department providing security services for the University as well as managing oversight for code enforcement, legal and compliance matters. Lead investigator for all incidents of crime and safety violations complaints. Chaired the campus Safety committee. Chaired Emergency Management Team

• Director of Public Safety July 2003-September 2010 Community College of Philadelphia

Direct oversight of Community College of Philadelphia’s Security Department managing the day-to- day public safety operation for an urban institution (40000+FTE). EDUCATION

ABD- Doctoral of Education-Organizational Behavior, Grand Canyon University

1/2023 Masters of Science- Organizational leadership, Grand Canyon University

6/2007 Masters of Public Administration, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

6/1997 Bachelors of Arts, Justice- legal track, Richard Stockton University, Galloway, NJ MEMBERSHIPS

The Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association (NECUSA)

The National Association for Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment (NABITA)

International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA)

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