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Greater Denver Area

7Spears is a security consulting company focusing on Security Compliance Management (SCM), New Market Entry, and Protective Intelligence on a domestic and international scale. 7Spears offers optimization of all aspects of high and low-profile security details to include advance work, executive protection, asset protection, and command post activities.Senior Executive in charge of all aspects of the company:• Serve as the thought/strategy leader and owner for 7Spears Security International; a security consultancy firm that specializes in New Market Entry, Advance Work in support of Executive Protection (EP) teams, Threat and Vulnerability Assessments, Physical Security Consultation, Travel Security and Business Continuity Planning (Risk Assessments and Business Impact Analysis) in multinational arenas.• Counsel/mentor/influence a diverse team of expert security practitioners, fostering a culture of innovation and thought diversity. • Set the culture and brand for the company. • Forecast and execute annual budgets with a constant eye on fiscal prudence and responsibility.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Conduct multiple Threat Assessments and surveys across multiple global locations.• Incorporate expertise in intelligence, risk analysis, and threat identification and management to support Close Protection teams on an international scope, and improve the guardianship of both the clients' safety, privacy, and brand (to include family members) with consideration to environmental risks, client-specific threats, and signature reduction.• Monitor extremely sensitive, high-profile risks that may contain political or social ramifications within the public domain.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Regularly present oral and written strategic plans, budgetary briefings, or policy recommendations that may impact business risk confidently to C-Suite executives and senior stakeholders.• Provide holistic physical security consulting solutions to a multi-national manufacturing firm at the corporate headquarters level and across several satellite sites. This includes influencing and collaboration across several different business units, diverse cultures, and competing interests.• Train key leaders in emergency response and Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) and establish appropriate steering committees.• Consult on the proper implementation of access control and physical security programs and improvements that leverage relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement and government agencies.• Test new disaster response procedures for effectiveness and fit within the company culture that vary across numerous sites.• Implement change management on security upgrades while simultaneously limiting impact to core business functions and day-to-day operations.• Incorporate lessons-learned into a quality management process that remains dynamic; allowing for changes in threats, pivots in strategy, and regular reassessment.

Louisville, Ky

• Worked closely with C-Suite executives, General Counsel, Public Affairs, and crisis management teams to support company continuity and contingency operations during the aftermath of a fatal workplace violence incident.• Conducted a top-to-bottom review of corporate documentation to update workplace violence policies, crisis contingency plans, access control procedures, and other critical security plans to conform to industry standards and best practices.• Performed a comprehensive Threat and Vulnerability Assessment (TVA) of the main campus and satellite offices to ID security deficiencies and provide recommendations for improvement that fit within the company culture.

Grand Junction, Colorado Area

Manages the curriculum implementation, logistics, and day-to-day operations of Executive Security International's suite of scholastic offerings including the renowned Executive Protection (EP) and Surveillance/Surveillance Detection (SSD) courses. Ensures uniform application of proprietary concepts and methodologies across multiple cadre, curricula, and student populations.

Grand Junction, Colorado Area

Executive Security International exists to raise the standard in Executive Protection, PSD Protective Operations, Corporate Security Management, and Tactical Medicine through intelligence-based training. ・Primary instructor for advanced assessment methodologies in overseas environments.・Primary instructor for Threat Assessments and Threat Management Plans in ESI's infamous TATMP final exercise.・Teach in both the Surveillance/Surveillance Detection (SSD) and the Executive Protection (EP) curriculum.・Responsible for the training, mentorship, and guidance of up to 40+ students and 8+ cadre at a given time.

Mdw Region

Served 26 years in the United States Army as a Senior Leader, Army Ranger, and Military Intelligence professional (MOS 35Z – Intelligence Sergeant Major); a career that spanned multiple wars and global conflicts. The majority of this career was spent in the Special Operations Community with a focus on tactical SIGINT operations in support of counter-drug and counter terrorism operations. Served in Southeast Asia, South America, Europe and multiple combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Central Command (CENTCOM) arena. Honorably retired from Military Service as a Sergeant Major (E9). Defense Language Institute - trained in both Thai and Russian languages. Granted a position of trust by maintaining a TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.• Ranger Qualified Senior Leader• Created and sustained strategic relationships with public and private sector leaders that led to increasing the overall organizational capabilities.• Developed crisis contingency plans for specialized DOD projects that were implemented at an enterprise level.• Led and supervised a cross-functional organization composed of 20+ specialized military personnel that provided administrative, intelligence, logistical, and communications support to a 200+ person organization.• Consulted on, negotiated, developed, and implemented an international training plan that dramatically increased multi-national coalition capabilities and inter-agency cooperation.• Developed and refined the leadership talent of four subordinate business unit leaders to achieve an "Excellence" rating during an external audit. All four leaders received early advancement.• Organized and coordinated the decentralized operations of four dispersed teams conducting training and advisory missions; created processes to synchronize operations, planning, communications, administration, logistics, fiscal, and facility management.• Granted a position of trust by maintaining a TS/SCI clearance for 26 years.

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

• Developed and executed crisis plans to recover both personnel and assets for a client operating in Libya, post-collapse.• Worked with nation-state actors in Libya to safeguard millions of dollars of oil drilling and exploratory equipment.• Coordinated with senior leaders from GardaWorld and Control Risks to co-sponsor a Libya Security Operations Working Group at the 2012 ASIS Middle East Conference in Dubai, UAE.• Conducted post-incident analysis of the attack on the In-Amenas oil facility in Algeria.• Provided in-depth analysis and focused problem-solving techniques that specifically addressed the client's gaps and provided lessons-learned for future operations in the region.

Post Graduate Certificate, Business For Security Executives

Master Of Arts (Ma), Security Management

Post Graduate Certificate, Project Management Fundamentals

International Post Grad Certificate (Madrid), International Management For Security Professionals

Program On Negotiations Executive Education Series

Graduate, Threat Assessment And Management

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