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• Manage five direct reports, 15 indirect reports during tenure, and a $7M vendor budget. • Oversees physical security and threat management for 68 federal judges, 90+ court security officers, four federal facilities, and 1500+ protectees. This includes managing 20+ threat cases simultaneously. • Spearheaded 50+ active shooter trainings and delivered it to 1500+ personnel over the past three years. • Developed a standardized checklist for judicial protection, resulting in 100% compliance. • Executed insider threat screening procedures for a highly secured federal building and resulted in numerous changes including policy changes and employee terminations. • Created and modified 25+ SOPs, policies, and procedures governing physical security, access control and audits, and threat management. • Identified an agency need for online presence and volunteered to become the Social Media Coordinator for all agency news in Illinois. This included Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. • Established relationships with numerous utility companies for bi-directional information sharing, enhancing investigative prowess and providing the ability to connect the dots among disparate data sets. • Mentored and coached 2K+ personnel encompassing threat investigations, active shooter, leadership development, and more. • Executed a residential threat assessment for 65+ judicial judges with a 92% acceptance rate and a 66% security technology upgrade rate. • Oversee the Home Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) program for all judicial judges which provides approximately $3K in reimbursed security technology costs, resulting in a nationwide leading 94% compliance rate. • Manage the regional court security officer program for 90+ personnel, delivering 24 training hours annually for each officer and serving as the training coordinator. Awarded $215K in funds for exterior physical security.

• Manage a regional program premised on mitigating court disruptions, leading to zero security incidents. • Conducted physical security assessments for eight reproductive health facilities. • Overhauled the facility emergency response plan and aligned it with best practices. • Oversee physical security technology for the largest federal courthouse in the country, consisting of 1000+ duress alarms, 2K+ card readers, and 500+ video cameras. • Spearheaded a statewide initiative to remove judicial judges personally identifiable information from public records through an existing and little-known state law. • Led and participated in 50+ executive protection details for advance work, motorcades, close protection, protective intelligence, TSCM, residential security, and threat assessments. • Inherited a vendor security program suffering from low morale and implemented an employee awards program, recognizing 50+ personnel since 2021, leading to significantly streamlined communication and improved working relationships.