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Sofia, BG

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

Participate in day-to-day strategic planning and corporate management for an EU-based downstream energy company. Portfolio includes strategic business development in Africa, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance.

Lagos, Nigeria

• Senior Foreign Service representative leading and managing the U.S. government activities in the largest city on the continent. Responsible for fostering U.S. diplomatic and commercial relations and executing.
• Negotiated and purchased on behalf of the U.S. Government an $80 million property for a new consulate.
• Developed and implemented a comprehensive engagement strategy to reduce violence in Niger Delta during the 2019 National Election cycle.
• Mitigated between key stakeholders, e.g., local politicians, international oil companies, militants and civil society, to reduce loss of life and destruction of critical infrastructure in the conflict prone Niger Delta.

Abuja, Nigeria

• Served as principal advisor to U.S. Ambassador and designed and managed comprehensive security programs protecting people, facilities, events and data throughout Nigeria. Responsible for a $30 million annual budget and.
• Designed and implemented procedures to conduct in excess of 200 missions annually into non-permissive regions of northern Nigeria to support political and developmental activities.
• Oversaw special security operations to support Polio eradication in terrorist impacted areas of northern Nigeria and Ebola containment in southern Nigeria.
• Led the successful resolution of more than 30 Kidnapping for Ransom cases in the course of a 36-month tour.

Baghdad, Iraq

• Served as the Special Operations and Logistics coordinator for the largest security office in the world during the transition from the U.S. Military to Iraqi civilian rule.
• Led contact plans with Iraqi sources to recover remains of allied forces who had been kidnapped and executed during the Coalition occupation of Iraq.
• Negotiated with the Deputy Prime Minister for the removal of unlicensed armored vehicles and weapons. Used Iraqi assets to move materiel to Kuwait from Northern, Central and Southern Iraq, saving U.S. government.

Carlisle, PA

Student at U.S. Army War College.

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Served as principal advisor to U.S. Ambassador on all security matters. Designed and managed comprehensive security programs protecting people, facilities, events and data during a the period following the 2007 peace agreement to end a the First Ivoirian Civil War. Coordinated with rebel forces (Force Nouvelle) and United Nations forces to ensure free.

Dakar, Senegal

Served as principal advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Senegal for all security matters in Senegal. Also, covered constituent posts of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Served as the officer in charge of the $70 million annual U.S. government team responsible for the day-to-day protection of the President of Afghanistan.
• Designed, selected and built a world class protective security team on short notice, and deployed to Afghanistan to assume security responsibility from Joint Special Operations Command.
• Successfully protected the President in the capital and throughout Afghanistan and around the world.
• Pioneered tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that are used to this day to protect executives in non- and semi-permissive environments.

Nouakchott, Mauritania

• Served as principal advisor to U.S. Ambassadors and designed and managed comprehensive security programs protecting people, facilities, events and data. Developed and implemented security programs to shield facilities.
• Led teams comprised of special agents, local investigators, and contracted security providers.
• Oversaw perimeter, physical, technical and procedural security and access controls for all visitors.
• Developed performance, training, conduct, and disciplinary standards, policies and guidance.

Arlington, VA

French Language Training and North Africa Area Studies at Foreign Service Institute.

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Served as principal advisor to U.S. Ambassadors and designed and managed comprehensive security programs protecting people, facilities, events and data. Developed and implemented security programs to shield facilities and residences from physical and technical attack. Formulated emergency action plans to manage various crises and emergency situations.

Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA

Student in Russian Language and Central Asia Area Studies at Foreign Service Institute.

Cairo, Egypt

Served as ARSO responsible for the Ambassadors Protective Detail, Surveillance Detection, and Emergency Action Plans.

Dunn Loring, VA

Progressed from team member to assistant team leader, and team leader in Mobile Security Division on a variety of emergency special missions to Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Bosnia, Columbia, and the Philippines.

Dunn Loring, Virginia, United States

Basic Special Agent Training and short-term assignment to the Washington Field Office. Distinguished Honor Graduate of Basic Agent Training.

Served as an Infantry and Special Forces Officer in a variety of units following Active Duty and Reserve commitments as an ROTC scholarship recipient. Graduated from Basic Airborne, Ranger, Jumpmaster, Pathfinder, and Rough Terrain Parachutist Training. Distinguished Honor Graduate of the Special Forces Qualification Course.

Masters, Strategic Studies

Master Of Science - Ms, Medill School Of Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature