United States
Regulatory guidance and critical infrastructure protection. Strategic security and regulatory thought leadership. Law enforcement, security, and government relations professional with over 30 years of enforcement, security and intelligence experience. Tasked with understanding, protecting, and enhancing the security and reliability of the electric grid - both near term and strategic - to include emergent technological and complex drone/UAS issues. External liaison with federal, state, and local regulatory and policy bodies for regulatory clarity, education and training for complex grid reliability & security issues. Regular speaker on grid reliability & security and drone security issues throughout the U.S. I believe in management by affirmation and positive reinforcement - in the end, everyone wants to succeed. Mentoring is a gift given, not a burden.
SERC’s External Affairs Team provides state legislators and energy regulators with independent, accurate, and objective information to reduce risks to the reliability and security of the bulk power system (BPS).
SERC's Outreach, Assistance, and Training Team is comprised of experienced security and reliability professionals who engage directly with registered energy entities to provide training, coaching and guidance on program development, understanding of emerging risks, and best practices to solve current and emergent security challenges faced by the entity, and the electricity ecosystem at large.
Power grid counter-terrorism, security, and resiliency. Maintained relationships and fostered collaboration between electric utilities and law enforcement and the intelligence community to analyze, identify, and respond to criminal and terrorist threats to the electric sector.
Power grid security, and resiliency. Analyze, identify, and respond to electric sector terrorism threats within Dominion's footprint. Conduct systematic risk and security assessments of CIKR facilities. Routinely interacted, engaged, and briefed law enforcement, intelligence, and private sector partners regarding grid specific activities.
Special Agent, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Senior ATF Agent responsible for the investigation of violations of federal weapons, explosives, arson and narcotics laws. During the course of four posts of duty assignments with ATF I investigated mass murders, multi-jurisdictional armed robberies, weapons and narcotics trafficking organizations, bombings, and terrorism. Throughout my career I was assigned to street-level task forces with state and local law enforcement to reduce violent crime.
Responsible for the investigation of complex waste, fraud, and abuse violations among Department of Justice (DOJ) employees, components and contractors, as well as outside interests seeking to defraud or compromise DOJ programs or interests. Investigations often involved politically sensitive matters that required frequent domestic travel and the utmost in professional discretion. Routinely interacted and coordinated with domestic law enforcement. TS/SCI