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Menlo Park, California

U.S. Embassy Cairo

Conducted protective operations within Egypt for Chief of Mission (COM) personnel, Congressional Delegations, and other high-level visitors designated by the Regional Security Officer (RSO). - Coordinated counter-surveillance operations using the Surveillance Detection Program (SDP) for protective operations - Directed protective liaison officers and collaborate with Egyptian police (primarily in Arabic) in support of mission protective operationsOperational supervision for a Marine Security Guard detachment of 24 Marines. - Oversee MSG emergency drills in coordination with the Marine Detachment Commander - Provided MSGs training in firearms marksmanship, night vision operations, and foreign weapons familiarization Administrative supervision of the SDP (1 coordinator, 1 analyst, 8 supervisors, and 43 specialists). - Track suspicious incidents around all COM facilities and commonly used routes and analyze incident mapping in order to redirect assets for greater scrutiny - Report suspicious activity to Egyptian police for intervention and assist with investigationCollect data with direct and atmospheric applicability to the security situation in Egypt, analyze its relevance towards American personnel, assets, and mission, and report findings to Diplomatic Security (DS) Headquarters through the RSO for dissemination to the Intelligence Community. - Authored monthly, weekly, incident, and event analytic/intelligence threat reports collaborating with other Embassy sections and foreign embassies with security, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism responsibility, ensuring the Embassy’s intelligence community maintains a profuse, synergistic information-sharing network - Advised Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Constituents on security issues, such as terrorism, crime, and corporate espionage - RSO's primary lead in Counter-Intelligence operations and investigations.Served as the Acting RSO Alexandria, Egypt on numerous occasions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

International Programs Directorate Desk Officers are the primary support integration officers at DS Headquarters directing combined efforts with the Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis, Overseas Security Advisory Council, the Office of Protective Intelligence & Investigations, and the Office of Counter-Intelligence.Conducted Post Security Program Reviews and Post Assistance Visits at U.S. embassies, consulates, and missions in Europe, advise RSOs on methods to improve existing security programs and identify best practices that might be applied to other embassies, consulates, and missions.Brief senior Department officials on regional security issues specific to Europe, such as threat intelligence, counter-intelligence, and staffing issues.Prepare briefing papers for ambassadors and ambassador-designates appointed to European posts.Control Officer for high-level visits (foreign ambassadors and other dignitaries/diplomats).Urgently deployed to U.S. Embassy Kyiv in support of protective operations in the wake of the violent events during the Maidan Crisis – hand selected for high threat protective experience and Russian language.DS representative to the Sochi Olympics evacuation planning.

Dunn Loring, Virginia

Advised instructional design specialists in the development of curriculum at DSTC.Developed the curriculum for the multi-faceted Bodyguard Protective Services Operations. - Phase one consisted of exportable training to be provided to bodyguards at U.S. missions overseas, which included lesson plans, power point, instructor and example videos, and a field training exercise (40 hours of training) - Phase two consisted of bringing bodyguards from overseas to Washington D.C. to be trained together to reinforce training from phase one, which included firearms, driver, medical, and other training related to protective operations (40 hours of training)Coordinated the organizational review of the Basic Special Agent Course curriculum by collaborating with other subject matter experts of the special agent career field in order to assess areas of improvement. - Reviewed student critiques and identified emerging areas for review - Advised course designers on the means to implement desired changes to the curriculum

New York, New York

Duties are split between protective operations and passport fraud investigations.Advance agent at 64th, 65th, 67th, and 68th U.N. General Assemblies (Palestinian President, Russian Foreign Minister, Chinese Foreign Minister, and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister) using Arabic and Russian.Protective Intelligence & Investigations Coordinator at the 66th U.N. General Assembly, providing protective intelligence support to the Iranian Foreign Minister and Palestinian President.Extensive protection experience, to include several temporary domestic and overseas assignments protecting the Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton and John Kerry), Ambassador Susan Rice during a U.N. Security Council trip, Hotel agent at the Nuclear Security Summit, Washington DC, with over a dozen protective details, and various Minister-level visits to both New York, NY and Washington, D.C. Investigated dozens of suspected passport and visa fraud cases (some interviews were entirely in Arabic). Obtained and served several arrest and search warrants by establishing probable cause using investigative techniques. Deployed to Erbil, Iraq, in support of protective operations - primarily served as the Agent-In-Charge for dozens of protective details and Agent-In-Charge of the Quick Reactionary Force.

Los Alamitos Army Airfield

Lead the Platoon Leaders’ collective efforts to support the Battalion’s aviation mission.Company support included avionics maintenance, supply chain logistics, mess support, and fueling.Maintain engagement with executive officers of other companies, ensuring mission support needs are met.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the platoon’s pre-deployment and refresher training in the Counter-Intelligence and Tactical Human Intelligence Collection missions.Counter-Intelligence missions include ensuring the information integrity of the U.S. Army and conducting counter-espionage investigations.Tactical Human Intelligence Collection mission includes gathering information by meeting with the leadership of friendly communities in non-permissive environments, vetting interviews with employment applicants at U.S. military bases, and walk-in/volunteer interviews.Author analytic written and oral intelligence briefings to the Company Commander with data compiled by intelligence collection teams.

B.A., Political Science

Arabic Language And Literature