First Responder Training.

Resident Instructor for the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness - Anniston, Alabama. The HT course is delivered to various disciplines of first responders from throughout the United States and teaches attendees how to respond and use associated detection and monitoring instruments to complete their assigned missions.

In English and through the use of interpreters, I provide training in Explosive Incident Countermeasures, Advanced Explosive Incident Countermeasures, Post Blast Investigations, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear-Operations and Crime Scene Investigations to foreign law enforcement agencies that are U.S. partner nations. This allows these nations to successfully deal with security challenges within their borders and defend against threats to their national and regional stability.

Instruct first responders and military personnel in recognizing hazards that involve explosives, homemade explosives, precursor chemicals, improvised explosive devices and clandestine laboratories.

Assigned to the police department’s Patrol Division as a Motor Officer, Field Training Officer and Crime Scene Technician. Also assigned to the Emergency Services Unit as a Hazardous Devices Technician (Bomb Technician).As a senior member of the New Haven Regional Bomb Squad and the FBI’s EOD/WMD Task Force. I am tasked with responding to suspicious packages, CBRNE incidents, IED's, military ordnance, bomb threats and post blast investigations. I conduct dignitary protection details at both small and large scale events and have been sworn in as Special Deputy United States Marshal with a Top Secret Clearance.As a certified law enforcement instructor in the state of Connecticut, I teach both recruits and sworn officers in several specialized areas that include Explosives and Incendiary Devices, Suicide Bombers, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Hazardous Materials, Connecticut Based Anti Terrorism and Crime Scene Investigations.

Directed daily field operations and supervised a variety of criminal investigations.

Emergency Medical Technician- 1985-1988Emergency Medical Technician Intermediate- 1988-1990Responsible for providing basic and intermediate emergency medical treatment.

Volunteer Fire Fighter/EMT-I 1985-1990Utility Paid Firefighter/EMT-I 1986-1988Served the community of West Haven Connecticut by responding to a wide variety of situations, ranging from fire suppression, emergency medical aid, rescue and hazardous material release.