Robert Minshew Email & Phone Number

Willis, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Subject matter expert and principal advisor for HSI Headquarters (HQ) Senior Leadership and field management personnel related to all aspects of certified undercover operations. • Lead and oversee the HSI Undercover Review Committee, responsible for the audit/review, approval, and certification of every HSI-led undercover investigation. • Provide oversight and guidance to HSI’s 400+ personnel comprising the management teams for all 40 HSI certified undercover operations nationwide… Show more Subject matter expert and principal advisor for HSI Headquarters (HQ) Senior Leadership and field management personnel related to all aspects of certified undercover operations. • Lead and oversee the HSI Undercover Review Committee, responsible for the audit/review, approval, and certification of every HSI-led undercover investigation. • Provide oversight and guidance to HSI’s 400+ personnel comprising the management teams for all 40 HSI certified undercover operations nationwide, over 300 undercover agents, over 1,100 active confidential informants, and provide expenditure guidance for an annual undercover operational budget in excess of 4 million dollars, while identifying ways to streamline operating costs. • Routinely engage HSI senior executives, foreign delegations, interagency leadership, U.S. Congressional staffers and industry partners on trends, threats, policies, and investigations related to all undercover operations programs. • Responsible for coordinating international covert operations involving all foreign-based HSI Attaché offices, which requires special approvals and coordination with the HSI Legal Division, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of State (DOS) Chief of Mission in the host country.• Authored an update to the HSI undercover operations policy. • Conduct audits of certified undercover operations to ensure compliance with established agency policies and procedures, prepare and submit audit findings, and make recommendations for corrective action. • Instrumental in working with a team of highly skilled civilian contractors to create, develop, and implement the Undercover Operations Modernization (UOM) application, which increased workflow production and significantly enhanced HSI operational capabilities nationwide respective to all undercover operations programs, systems, and platforms. Show less

Houston, Texas, United States

Directed and managed complex investigations and multi-agency enforcement and administrative operations while supervising the HSI Houston International Airport Group, the Human Smuggling, Trafficking and Hostage Rescue Group, and the Certified Undercover Operation. • Supervised, mentored, and led over 20 employees, which included criminal investigators, intelligence research specialists, administrative staff, task force officers and the undercover operations management team, while creating… Show more Directed and managed complex investigations and multi-agency enforcement and administrative operations while supervising the HSI Houston International Airport Group, the Human Smuggling, Trafficking and Hostage Rescue Group, and the Certified Undercover Operation. • Supervised, mentored, and led over 20 employees, which included criminal investigators, intelligence research specialists, administrative staff, task force officers and the undercover operations management team, while creating a positive and professional working environment by promoting transparency when making decisions that impacted employees and ensured all personnel were held accountable for obtaining agency goals while adhering to agency policies.• Provided direct oversight of complex multi-jurisdictional criminal investigations involving transnational criminal organizations attempting to exploit vulnerabilities related to financial crimes/money laundering benefit fraud, organized retail crime, narcotics smuggling, human smuggling and trafficking, hostage taking, cyber-crimes, and national security.• Oversaw all hostage taking operations within the Houston, Texas area of responsibility, which involved being the lead on-scene decision-maker and handling extremely high-pressure, life-threatening circumstances, while making sound decisions that resulted in the successful negotiation with hostage takers that resulted in the safe rescue of hostage victims, and the arrest of hostage takers which were frequently armed and dangerous. • Initiated, organized, oversaw, and trained 300+ Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers related to bulk cash smuggling, trade-based money laundering (TBML) activities, and other financial crime related violations to disrupt and dismantle terrorist groups and transnational criminal organizations that move and launder illicit funds through complex schemes involving global trade, travel, and finance through U.S. airports. Show less

Calexico, California And Corpus Christi, Texas

Conducted 500+ complex multi-jurisdictional complex investigations involving targeting domestic and international crimes related to financial crimes/money laundering, narcotics and weapons trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, IPR/commercial fraud, cybercrimes, threats of terrorism, and hostage taking.• Responsible for developing and conducting investigations involving federal, state and local violations; planning, briefing, and executing enforcement actions to include arrest… Show more Conducted 500+ complex multi-jurisdictional complex investigations involving targeting domestic and international crimes related to financial crimes/money laundering, narcotics and weapons trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, IPR/commercial fraud, cybercrimes, threats of terrorism, and hostage taking.• Responsible for developing and conducting investigations involving federal, state and local violations; planning, briefing, and executing enforcement actions to include arrest, search, and seizure operations; interviewing and interrogating suspects, confidential informants, cooperating defendants and witnesses; preparing reports of investigation, intelligence and research documents, criminal and civil affidavits, and Title III intercept/wiretaps; and providing witness testimony in court proceedings. • Conducted investigations which identified illicit actors in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act’s (BSA’s) anti-money laundering (AML) regulations and suspicious activity report (SAR) reporting requirements resulting in OFAC sanctions and FinCEN violations.• Lead investigator for several high-profile and successful investigations, to include identifying the first underground tunnel between Mexico and Calexico, California; overseeing one of the first illegal alien smuggling death investigations in Texas; and successfully conducting one of the largest HSI-led Organized Criminal Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), multi-defendant, continuing criminal enterprise investigations in the HSI Corpus Christi, TX office, which lasted 4 years and resulted in over 20 co-conspirators being arrested, indicted, and convicted, the forfeiture of several properties, the seizure of multiple bank accounts, and the main target being included on the OFAC Sanction’s List. Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

International Inspections Toronto International Airport

Calexico, California, United States

Southern Border Inspection and EnforcementNarcotics SeizuresIncident ReportsResearch Analysis ReportsCrime Scene ProcessingEvidence CollectionInterviewing Skills

The Netherlands / Clovis, New Mexico

Served in Europe during the Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991). Honorable Discharge and Commendation Medal recipient.