Providing geopolitical risk and emergency management training, consulting, and advisory services as well as comprehensive research, security planning, development, recruiting, training and execution. Specific work includes:•Providing overseas training for diplomatic, NGO and other overseas staff. •Have developed curriculum covering political and cultural implications, security, how regions have taken shape based on local, continental and international geopolitics and geoeconomics. •Assisting clients to develop strategies to mitigate security risks; security plan development and implementation; response protocols and related training and exercising; monitoring events that have an impact on security, decisions, and actions.•Strategic Advisory Services within geopolitics and emergency management/homeland security that include industry briefings, high-impact executive workshops, macro and micro strategy conferences, crisis communications, and messaging•Modeling research and simulations to support and illustrate risk and potential conflict as well as determining related mitigation measures•Managing a full slate of homeland security and domestic risk training through the Minotaur Learning division. Includes retaining trainers, developing curriculum and syllabi and executing close to 120 hours of online training per month.•Assisting clients develop strategies to mitigate security risks; security plan development and implementation; response protocols and related training and exercising; monitoring events that have an impact on security, decisions and actions.•Strategic advisory providing development and planning; future trend identification; risk awareness; business continuity and recovery.Provides ‘breaking news’ alerts for applicable international developments, quantitative threat forecasting, and comprehensive country studies covering all aspects of security, political risk, economy and more.•Please see our website www.TheMinotaurGroup.com for more details

Directing business development and project management for the Homeland Security practice area. Developed practice strategy as well as emergency management and homeland security service solutions for the public and private sector; Universities, Transportation, and Emergency Response organizations. Further, managing professional consulting service engagements for client partners and coordinating strategic relationships with leading industry alliances and security vendors• Key project initiatives include:• Establishment of an Emergency Management Program Template forHigher Education Program Manager / SME for the University of the District of Columbia comprehensive emergency management improvement program• Program Manager for the establishment of the Computer Based Training program for theWashington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Office of Emergency Management• Key accomplishments include:• Designed curriculum and training to first responders, senior executives, collegeprofessors and students including; evacuation, active shooter, sheltering-in-place, physicalextrication, and security awareness• The development/execution of emergency response and strategic plans including:Emergency Response, Occupant Emergency, and Continuity of Operations• Development and execution of a complete Hazard Vulnerability Assessment for a Universitysystem which included 43 facilities over a 6-campus area• Established metrics to evaluate program success and used an evaluation tool to improveprocesses• Converted first responder plans into an actional training program. Plans included; evacuation, flood response, subway tunnel rescue, passenger extrication, terrorism response and continuity of operations• Development/execution of drills and tabletop exercises for senior leaders and responsepractitioners pertaining to Improvised Explosive Devices in a dense urban setting. Developedafter-action reports and improvement plans based on exercise results

Managed and led a full staff for County response and recovery operations as well as oversaw all planning, training, exercise and outreach initiatives. Further responsible for day-to-day operations of the department, grant management, human resources and department regional representation.• Key accomplishments include:• Developed County and regional plans for a variety of events; terrorism response, naturaldisasters, man-made disasters, evacuations and others• Spearheaded all After Action and Improvement Plan processes• Formulated and implemented policy changes to the Montgomery County Code, updatingemergency management protocols• Developed and managed regional collaborative efforts across 17 jurisdictions for funding,response, recovery and training / exercise activities• Managed and oversaw the County Exercise and Training program• Implemented successful changes to major response and recovery plans and policies as well asthe general emergency response system for the county.• Spearheaded policy and protocol modernization updating County efforts• Oversaw review and implementation of nearly $10 million in the local portion of regionalemergency management projects for training, communication improvements, planning andsecurity assessments • Presented to stakeholders and regional partners policy papers and initiatives which focused onstrategic transformational initiatives, stakeholder alignments, impact assessments and policyanalysis• Key accomplishments include:• The development of regional planning programs• Designed and implemented performance metrics for on-going regional projects whichdetermined future funding based on level of success• Used a coalition of emergency managers in lobbying the government to change federal grantallocation systems

Supported the Miami Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) and the City of Miami Department of Emergency Management through a number of disaster response operations, training, planning, exercises, threat assessments and grant management. Further held positions of Acting Planning Chief and Acting Deputy Emergency Manager during multiple disasters including Hurricanes Francis, Wilma, Katrina, Jeanine, and Rita• Key accomplishments include:• Assisted to develop and execute training for first responders on topics including EOC101, TerrorismResponse, planning and operations• Helped establish a comprehensive Emergency Management Planning Program and worked towards the completion of Flood Plans, Comprehensive Emergency Management Plans, and Hurricane Response Plans• Participated in budget management teams• Executed project recommendations based on developed performance measures and strategy• Assisted in developing an Event Driven Crisis Management Program through the writing of policy papers calling for the establishment of a Regional Terrorism Early Warning Program and a Public-Private Regional Partnership Program• Performed risk-based threat assessments to address gaps in preparedness• Designed, implemented and managed a region-wide emergency alert program requiring buy-in from pre-existing and new clients as well as over 100 first responder agencies acrosssoutheastern Florida

Worked with this UN Partnership Agency on the development and execution of the 5th Annual UN World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs, taking place in Lyon, France. Duties included all meeting administration, speaker booking, topic development, on-site operations and post-meeting reporting and task follow-up

Assisted in the development of ELIAMEP’s Halki International Seminars for 1995. Worked in vetting participants, preparing themes for seminars and providing post-event reporting.