Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
Dr. Jim Henderson began his law enforcement and security career as a police officer in Santa Cruz, California, before transferring to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy sheriff. He later served as a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and then transitioned to the defense industry, where he worked in counterintelligence and managed security for classified government programs, projects, and operations both domestically and internationally. Henderson also volunteered as a police chaplain with the Aurora Police Department for over ten years. He concluded his professional career as the Director of Ethics and Compliance for the world's largest missile manufacturing company. For the past twenty years, Dr. Henderson has served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, teaching various courses, including human factors in security management and legal and ethical issues in security management. Throughout his 50-plus years of dedicated service to protecting people, property, operations, and teaching, he has held positions on the executive boards of InfraGard, the Industrial Security Working Group (ISWG), and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Association (MELA). He has received numerous security and public service awards, including the FBI's highest civilian honor for Service in the Public Interest. He is a three-time recipient of the prestigious James S. Cogswell Award for security excellence from the United States Department of Defense, Defense Security Service (DSS). Henderson earned a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS) in Organizational Leadership from the same institution. He also holds a master’s degree in applied communication from the University of Denver, attended Pepperdine University, earned a bachelor’s degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Public Administration and Criminal Justice from National University, and obtained an associate’s degree in Police Science from Palomar College. Dr. Henderson has also earned academic certificates from the Harvard Business School’s High-Potentials Leadership Program and Bentley University’s Managing Ethics in Organizations Program.
Adjunct Professor Teach security management and organizational security courses in the graduate program at University College within the University of Denver. Courses include: Business Function of Security, Security Administration, Human Factors in Security, Business Assets Protection, Security Concepts, and Legal and Ethical Issues in Security Management.
Director of Campus Safety and Security - Community College of Aurora • Plan, organize, develop, implement, and monitor programs for Campus Safety, Security, and Emergency Management to protect over 10,000 students, staff, and faculty. • Investigate all safety and security-related incidents. • Investigate Department of Education Title IX cases. • Lead, manage, and train the CCA Campus Safety and Security staff to enhance the effectiveness of the Safety and Security Department. • Provide Safety, Security and Emergency Management training to students, staff and faculty. • Develop professional relationships with city, county and federal law enforcement relating to the protection of students, staff and faculty.
Director Business Ethics and Compliance, Tucson, AZ. (2012-2019) Direct the Corporate Business Ethics and Compliance Program for Raytheon Missile Systems. Ensure enterprise wide consistency in accordance with company values and code of conduct. Provide input to the development and implementation of corporate policy related to ethics and compliance matters. Insure successful deployment of effective ethics and compliance training programs and communication of ethics and compliance policies. • Serve as ethics advisor, responding to business unit requests for opinion, including advice to Corporate and Business Unit leadership on planning, organizing and administering courses of action to resolve ethics issues. • Ensure measures are in place for preventing and addressing violations of corporate code of conduct, including procedures for investigating and resolving allegations with appropriate and consistent corrective action. • Develop change management by influencing without authority - building a foundation of trust, honesty, reason, communication, respect, and uncompromising discretion. • Conduct investigations regarding violations of corporate policy, rules, and guidelines as well as ethics statutes in the Federal Acquisition Regulations and criminal law.
Facility Security Officer (FSO), Santa Barbara, CA. (2010-2012) Manage a security department of 67 employees with an annual budget of $4.1 million, protecting Raytheon business units along the Goleta corridor in Santa Barbara County including Department of Defense activities and Special Programs Operations. • Senior leader for Raytheon business operations in Santa Barbara for both Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Network Centric Systems (NCS). • Provide training to staff and employee related to the protection of classified information and processes. • Provide training to staff and employees related to counterintelligence, counterespionage, terrorism, and emergency management operations. • Liaison with city, county and federal law enforcement for the protection of DoD Top Secret Facilities.
Regional Security Manager, Aurora, CO. (1998–2010) • Managed a security operations team of 100 employees with an annual budget of $3.5 million having oversight of security activities at Raytheon facilities in Colorado, Nebraska, Virginia, Alabama and Alice Springs, Australia. • Three-time recipient of the nationally acclaimed James S. Cogswell Award for Security Excellence from the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Security Service (DSS). • Developed strategic community partnerships with city, county, state, and federal organizations external to the company resulting in the FBI’s highest civilian citation for “Exceptional Service in the Public Interest”. • Managed the safety, security and counterintelligence training for employees and security staff. • Investigated security violations and other special case investigations to include fraud and industrial espionage. • Assigned to special security operations in Malaysia and Australia.
Director of Denver Operations • Chartered to lead team of senior level consultants who provided business solutions for complex security issues in the United States and Europe. Reported to the corporate vice president for operations with a staff of ten. Analyzed company risks and opportunities through market trends, competitive landscape, strategic business partners and customer requirements. • Positioned Trident Data Systems (TDS) in the global market through a government contract to install command, control and communication software at numerous military sites throughout Europe. • Made formal presentations to board members, senior leadership team, and customers on business status, product roadmap to the future, and competitive analysis to gain commitment and funding. • Gathered customers’ requirements, conducted user group surveys, formed proposal teams, and identified strategic business development partners to increase market opportunities. • Evaluated security status and performance of DoD contractors across the country as a (CETA) representative of the government. • Trained government employees and DoD contractors in the use of Systems Security Integration Engineering (SSIE) in the development and management of classified programs and operations.
Chief of Security Operations Lead the establishment of security operations for the company’s Advanced Research Laboratories (ARL) and provided security direction for this new business unit. Reported to the ARL Director with a staff of fifteen. Presented to the company president, business executives, senior managers and customers on strategic security directions and architectural recommendations to gain commitment and funding. • Coordinated security infrastructure requirements for a state-of-the-art research and development laboratory costing $13.0M. • Coordinated the establishment of a security response team with IT to combat threats and disruptions associated with computer viruses, theft of computer code, government investigations, and other serious issues which could impact the company or customers. • Participated in the government/industry NISPOM, Special Access Program (SAP) Supplement sub-committee that developed national security policy standardizing the protection requirements for SAP activities and operations in the United States. • Authored security policies, guidelines, and standards with customers, IT, program management and senior leadership to ensure awareness and compliance. • Provided risk assessment consulting to ARL business units on security issues related to leveraging advance technology applications to safely sustain competitive advantage. • Investigated violations of security relating to the protection of classified information within SCI, SAP and Collateral programs and activities. • Provided training to security staff and ARL employees on counterintelligence and the rules for protecting classified information against compromise. • Developed a close relationship with federal security representatives from a variety of departments, organizations and agencies regarding the protection of classified programs and information.