Security Guard Emergency Management

WILLIAM NEWBERRY

(C) 714-***-**** **************@*****.***

Professional Summary

A seasoned professional with more than 30 years of management experience and 20 years specifically in security leadership roles. Specific experience in High Rise Safety and Security management programs, including Fire Life Safety. Experience in both Luxury Hotels and Luxury Apartments. Excellent ability to identify initiatives and develop the needed programs to execute through strong leadership, communications, analytical and critical thinking skills. A track record of exceptional results in problem solving, collaboration, process building and analysis of procedures. A proven leader in public relations, communications, and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

• Plan, Design and Execute Projects

• Administration / Management

• Personnel Management

• Facilitator / Trainer

• Operations Analysis / Attention to Detail

• High Rise Fire Safety Certified

• Critical Thinking / Communications

• Collaborative Relationship Building

Experience

Vice President, Operations 9/2021 – Present

Famian Private Security, Riverside, CA

Oversee the safety and security operations at various sites to include high rise luxury apartments in the downtown Los Angeles area. Develop security strategies, implement security procedures, and supervise security staff. Work with local law enforcement, fire department and community organizations. Create and implement training programs specific to site needs.

• Manages, hires, conducts onboarding, and trains security guards

• Sets the security guard staffing schedule

• Creates security policies and procedures with regular performance evaluations and review

• Investigates security threats and breaches

• Writes comprehensive security reports

• Presents security improvement plans to senior management

• Leads company emergency response training

• Maintains utmost confidentiality and discretion

• Ensures that the team follows security and privacy laws and standards Executive Director, Business Development 2/2020 – 7/2021 Pathways In Education, Pasadena, CA

Develop, coordinate, and implement plans designed to increase existing business and capture new opportunities. Conducted strategic marketing and operations planning with top executives, setting objectives, and identifying methods and training to reach those goals.

• Collaborate with the board of Directors to identify, create, and implement strategic plans to actualize business objectives.

• Identify, recruit, train and develop a talented team of employees who can lead critical departments and manage strategic business functions.

• Monitor company operations and ensure employees and business practices align with training objectives and overall company goals.

• Develop the organizational culture and promote transparency and collaboration throughout the organization.

Regional Sales & Marketing Manager 11/2001 to 12/2019 Aflac Insurance Company – Columbus, GA

• Create an environment of strong training programs with an emphasis on relationship building aligned with goals.

• Plan and develop staffing and marketing, to maximize brand awareness, sales and service.

• Confer with potential customers regarding insurance needs and ways to best market our brand through print and media creative deployment for large and multi-state clients. Vocational Education Teacher; (Law Enforcement / Business) P/T 10/1999 to 06/2003 Garden Grove Unified School District – Garden Grove, CA

• Instruct students in the knowledge and skills required in Entrepreneurial and Business applications, Microsoft Office, (Word, Excel, Power-Point, Publisher), as well as Law Enforcement / Security occupations, using a systematic plan of lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, laboratory, and field studies.

• Plan, develop and facilitate activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, evaluate and investigate.

• Collaborate with other staff and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of programs.

• Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities. Security Advisor (P/T) 10/1999 – 01/2001

Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel – Beverly Hills

• Conduct training and workplace conduct specific to a 5-star facility, knowing the level of clientele are different than a typical hotel environment.

• Serve as the liaison for high profile visits, identifying risks, safety protocols, impact on hotel overall.

• Conduct hotel wide training on Active Shooter training, major incident training, and effective communications training.

• Develop and manage the processes for securing classified and sensitive information

• Liaise with public law enforcement agencies and fire department

• Set up key controls on company equipment and facility to limit access to restricted property

• Implement safety and health policies and procedures to protect employees against workplace hazard

• Prepare and present reports of incidents and ways to limit reoccurrence Security Consultant 01/1996 to 09/1999

Ritz Carlton Hotel Company – Marina del Rey

• Participate in the Malcomb Baldridge National Quality Service training program, to include train the trainers.

• Conduct security audits to identify potential vulnerabilities related to physical security, staff safety.

• Design security policies, programs, or practices to ensure adequate security relating to issues such as protection of assets, alarm response, video surveillance and access card use.

• Design and establish requirements for security systems, video surveillance, motion detection, or closed- circuit television systems to ensure proper installation and operation.

• Conduct sensitive investigations and conduct pre-VIP Dignitary planning visits. Coordinator, Lieutenant 04/1983 to 02/1998

Los Angeles School Police Department – Los Angeles, CA

• Supervise and provide leadership to 130 security professionals. Including hiring, background investigation, training programs, assigning work schedules, evaluating performance, and disciplining.

• Coordinate security operations and activities with law enforcement, fire and other governmental agencies.

• Develop and manage budgets, to include purchasing security-related supplies, equipment, and technology.

• Consult with site and District administrators and representatives of outside agencies to discuss staffing and special event needs and establish priorities with staffing, budgets, traffic, student and staff safety.

• Analyze District and outside agency crime reports to determine needs assessments.

• Conduct investigations of a sensitive nature.

• Review, analyze and investigate various district and site security needs to estimate staffing, critical coverage hours, needed equipment and prepare cost and budget assessments.

• Develop long-range and large-scale training for staff and other organization members.

• Direct or participate in emergency management and contingency planning.

• Prepare narrative and statistical reports that include information on special events, personnel usage, budgets, and crime data trends.

Education

Bachelor of Science: Business Administration May 1982 California State University Long Beach - Long Beach, CA Post Graduate Law Certificate Program Apr 1995

University of West Los Angeles School of Law - Los Angeles, CA Masters in Education May 2005

Grand Canyon University – Phoenix, AZ

School Safety Training Jul 2015

National School Advocacy Safety Council - Lawrence, MA POST PC832 Module I, II & III Aug 1997

Rio Hondo College, Police Academy – Whittier, CA

POST: Defensive Tactics Training Apr 1995

Rio Hondo College Police Academy – Whittier, CA

Professional Training

• Los Angeles Fire Department, High Rise Fire Life Safety Director Training

• California Commission on Teacher Credentialling Designated Subjects Level 1 & 2; 2001

• USC; Leadership Development Symposium; 1996

• Museum of Tolerance; Cultural Diversity Train the Trainers; 1995

• Long Beach State, Center for Criminal Justice; Sexual Harassment Instructors Course; 1997

• FEMA: Active Shooter Training, 2016

• FEMA: Social Media in Emergency Management, 2017

• FEMA: NIMS (National Incident Management System) Certification, 2015

• South Coast Air Quality Management District; Transportation Demand Management Certified, 1990

• PMW & Associates, Law Enforcement Training Center; Police Management; 1991 Honors, Awards, Activities

• Certificate of Special Recognition, United States Congress

• Creator and publisher of the book; From One Room . . .(250 page hardback)

• Citizen of the Year, California State Legislature

• Lifetime Volunteer Award, United States Presidential Commission on Volunteerism

• Historian of the Year, Riverside County Historical Society

• Citizen of the Year Award, Jurupa Community Services District

• Founder & Former Chairman of the Saluting Those That Serve Committee

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