Hal Simpson Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas

• Work in collaboration with HR, Business Integrity, and Legal to complete internal investigations that produce learning lessons from security-related incidents to ensure a safe, productive work environment that.• Partner with state, local, and federal investigators regarding theft and vandalism of company property, including performing investigations regarding the theft of proprietary company information.• Organize and direct the BPX Energy COVID19 pandemic Business Continuity Support Team, including the development of critical infrastructure, ensure the continued work program is maintained, refine remote work policy, and manage the safe return to office program for all BPX Energy corporate and field locations. • Direct the efforts of the Business Support team, Incident Response Communications, Business Continuity Programs, and Protest Response groups.• Created and implemented a highly effective Executive Security program that includes both foreign and domestic travel security, business support, and logistics.• Organized an intelligence-gathering system using open-source information to successfully track potential threats and unusual bodies of interest in and around BPX Energy operations, properties, and personnel.• Maintain full responsibility for all physical security of BPX Energy facilities, corporate offices, field office, natural gas production and compression facilities, tank batteries and oil production sites, electrical substations, supply yards, and all active drilling locations across the U.S.• Reformulated access control and alarm monitoring CCTV/video recording systems to ensure appropriate coverage while building a 24/7 Security Operations Center for remote monitoring and 24-hour emergency response reporting. • Manage the facilities team, which includes building maintenance, mailroom operations, and employee café• Develop and maintain Security and Crisis Management department budget including cost and expense approval authority.

Houston, Texas

• Responsible for all aspects of facility physical security and guard force operations for 11 corporate offices housing 1,100+ employees. • Provide comprehensive support to the Director by overseeing all operations and managing 3 regional Business Security Managers. • Manage the corporate Business Continuity Plan, the corporate Crisis Management Plan and the corporate Incident Management Plan. • Perform Lead Investigator duties regarding Health, Safety, Security, Environmental and Business Integrity investigations. • Develop and communicate detailed security operations plans to the executive team and create and manage the security contract proposal evaluation and award process.• Lead in the development of security measures in new construction planning to support the Director.

Baghdad, Iraq

• Led all continuous training operations, managing the efforts of 120 full and part-time employees and as many as 360 foreign and American students. • Provided direct contract oversight and led strategic project management efforts for the U.S. Department of State Worldwide Protective Service U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq Training Project. • Maintained full responsibility for sensitive equipment inventory and maintenance of $6M+ in training equipment, restricted weapons and explosives. • Developed and implemented training budgets, training management plans and task order management plans that directly supported the U.S. Department of State Worldwide Protective Service Program. • Created and managed ISO 9001 Process Charters that led to continued corporate ISO certification and developed and submitted training curriculum for government approval and Technical Data Export (ITAR) certification.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Provided comprehensive oversight and led training-related project management for the U.S. Department of State High Threat Embassy Security Force program. • Managed, scheduled and continually evaluated the performance of the training staff, instructors and the annual re-qualification program for 400+ U.S. Embassy Guard personnel.• Developed, implemented and managed the organization’s recruiting strategy and related efforts for U.S. Government security-related projects.

High Threat Diplomatic Protective Specialist/Lead Instructor/Firearms Instructor, (2007)• Assigned to the international training division as a Lead Firearms and Tactics Instructor, delivering detailed program instruction and weapons qualification to the U.S. Government contract performance standard.High Threat Diplomatic Protective Specialist/Personal Security Detail Member/Counter Assault Team Member (2004 – 2007)• Led the close personal protection of high-level U.S. Government and foreign heads of state travelling and working in high threat areas in the Middle East.• Completed high-profit/high threat static fixed site, motorcade and open-air security operations in dynamic permissive and non-permissive overseas environments.

Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration

Criminal Justice Mgmnt