Ryan Siefert Email & Phone Number

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Belton, Mo

Supervises and conducts investigations of incidents and offenses or allegations of criminality affecting DA or DoD personnel, property, facilities, or activities. Duties include preparing investigation reports, interviewing suspects, victims, and witnesses, evidence collection and crime scene processing, testifying in court, maintaining records, collaboration with other agencies, and providing personal protection to dignitaries.

Us Army - Human Terrain System

FOB Warhorse, Iraq/Camp Spann, Bagram Air Base, FOB Fenty, Afghanistan: Planned, designed, and authorized highly complex research projects to provide a framework for collection and analysis. Created overarching research plans. Conducted and managed ethnographic research, determined methodology and analysis to develop research instruments for interview protocols and surveys. Provided authoritative advice on all phases and types of socio-cultural research and analysis to develop a common operating picture of the socio-cultural combat environment for recommendations into the military decision making process. Directed and participated in qualitative and quantitative data collection methodologies to include direct observation, visual ethnography, key leader engagement, participant observation, in-depth interviewing, group of focus group interviewing, surveying, secondary source research, and mixed method approaches. Assessed research processes and methods to improve future research, analysis, and products. Promoted 2 grades (GG-12 to GG-14) during first deployment. Highest pay grade in organization: GG-14 Step 2.Held positions on the following staffs:2-25 Striker Brigade Combat Team (Advise and Assist Brigade), FOB Warhorse, Iraq: Special Staff37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Camp Spann, Afghanistan: Special Staff101st Airborne Division, Bagram AB, Afghanistan: J-2CJSOTF-A, Bagram AB/FOB Fenty, Afghanistan: J-2Additional Duties: Held the HTT chair for the 2 SBCT 25ID Stability Task Force and US State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team. Responsible for the networking and maintenance of office computers for IZ-12, as well as building, sorting, and maintaining the Sharepoint portals at both tactical and strategic levels.Promoted to Work Leader May 2012. Responsible for overall operations and social science research of Human Terrain Team AF-24, in support of the 37th IBCT covering RC-North.

Iraq

Camp Cropper, Camp Liberty, FOB Kalsu, Iraq: Conducted screening interviews/interrogations of local national Iraqis and Iraqi military for the Department of Defense and Iraqi government in accordance with the local hiring process and intelligence collection procedures. Collected and analyzed intelligence utilizing current DOD databases, enrolled applicants in biometrics systems, and published intelligence reports on a daily basis.

Fort Campbell, Ky

Supervised and conducted investigations of incidents and offenses or allegations of criminality affecting DA or DoD personnel, property, facilities, or activities. Duties included preparing investigation reports, interviewing suspects, victims, and witnesses, evidence collection and crime scene processing, testifying in court, maintaining records, collaboration with other agencies, and providing personal protection to dignitaries.Special Assignments:Assigned to the War Crimes Investigation Team from 10/2003 – 10/2004. Investigated members of the former Iraqi regime for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Successfully built criminal cases that resulted in prosecution or former Iraqi officials by the Iraqi Governing Council. Primary case agent in the investigation of war crimes committed by Iraqi forces against Soldiers of the 501st Maintenance Company who were captured during the invasion. Assigned as the NCOIC of the Fort Campbell Drug Suppression Team from 11/2004 – 10/2005. Supervised, trained, and mentored individual team members on both both overt and covert drug teams, planned and directed covert narcotics operations, networked with other law enforcement agencies, and carried a full case load.

Fort Leavenworth, Ks

Military Police Investigations: Supervised and conducted investigations of incidents and offenses or allegations of criminality affecting DA or DoD personnel, property, facilities, or activities. Duties included preparing investigation reports, interviewing suspects, victims, and witnesses, evidence collection and crime scene processing, testifying in court, maintaining records, collaboration with other agencies, and providing personal protection to dignitaries.Additionally responsible for the Juvenile Review Board, supervising and mentoring juveniles during their probation periods and setting up community service activities. Supervised investigative teams totaling 4 individuals while maintaining a full case load.Special Reaction Team (SWAT): Focused on building entries, hostage rescues and high-risk warrants. Appointed Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) in 02/2001. Responsible for training, and deployment of the Entry and Sniper teams (17 individuals), counseling and guidance for individual team members, as well as acquisition and care of new specialized police/tactical equipment.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Criminal Justice - Public Policy Leadership

ABD. Residencies completed. Currently working on dissertation proposal.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Criminal Justice

Master Of Science (M.S.), Criminal Justice