Afghanistan Expert Witnesses in Maryland

This expert has over 25 years of experience in military intelligence, counterintelligence, and security program management. He earned two MS degrees in strategic intelligence and defense strategic studies from the National Defense Intelligence College and Missouri State University, respectively. He has extensive experience with weapon threat and defense, serving the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and Organization as the deputy inspector general and chief of security and counterintelligence. He also served as the executive officer for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force, the chief of Arab Peninsula Policy Branch, and a strategic intelligence planner for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Currently, this expert is a counterintelligence consultant for a number of national security firms.

This security management expert has been in the field for more than 30 years. A Certified Protection Professional, he is extensively published and holds membership in both the American Society for Industrial Security and the International Association of Professional Security Consultants. He has lectured on security and criminology at the university level for multiple schools, including the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and he has served as corporate Security Director, Senior Security Director, and Chief Security Officer for three multi-national organizations. Currently, this expert is the Principal of his own consulting firm, specializing in identifying, avoiding, and mitigating and managing security related risk.

This expert has over 30 years combined experience in the fields of Emergency Management and Campus Safety. He is currently responsible for all operational and strategic aspects of campus safety, security and emergency management at a four-year residential University of 3,500 students and 900 on-campus residents on three campuses in the Washington DC metropolitan area. He has designed and implemented comprehensive safety and training programs for students, staff, faculty and property protection. His areas of responsibility and expertise also include the training and development of safety and security professionals with a focus on excellence in service quality; development and implementation of crime prevention programs, legal compliance, criminal and incident response and investigations, budgetary development and oversight; implementation of physical security systems including CCTV, alarm systems, access control systems and emergency response. In the field of Emergency Management, the expert has designed, developed and implemented comprehensive university programs for incident and emergency management, preparedness and response including policy development and creation of campus threat assessment programs, continuity of operations planning, campus and department-wide emergency drills, exercises and training, comprehensive testing of all emergency systems, and the development and coordination of a campus-wide system of emergency volunteers and coordinators.

This expert served in the US Navy as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, retiring after 15 years as a platoon chief. He has been deployed multiple times to the Horn of Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and has extensive experience with weapon technical intelligence and counter-IED analysis. Since 2011, he has been working for JIDO contractors. In his current role, he is the primary adviser to the commander and staff on all C-IED efforts.

This expert is one of the top specialists in the fields of litigation, legal systems and business risks in the Russian Federation and the former Soviet republics. After graduating from the Moscow University of Finance and Law, he spent ten years working for the Federal Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, rising through the ranks from the position of Senior Investigator to Deputy Prosecutor for the Moscow Region. While at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, he completed his Ph.D. in Law. At present he is Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Risk Analysis and Economic Security, and Director of the Master's Degree Program on Business Compliance Assurance at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. He combines his research work with private legal practice and providing expert testimony in courts of various jurisdictions. The expert is included in the top 100 most cited scholars of Russia. He is certified by the International Compliance Association (UK). The expert resides in Pennsylvania.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience as a computer engineer in the areas of cybersecurity, network forensics, and encryption. He earned both his BS in information technology and MS in management of secure information systems from George Mason University. He holds several certifications, including information systems security professional, EC-Council ethical hacker, Microsoft enterprise support technician, and SonicWall network security essentials administrator. He has previously served as a network consultant for American Technology Services, senior technical specialist for Tango, network administrator for SonaBank, and cybersecurity team lead for the Department of Homeland Security. Currently, this expert is a cybersecurity analyst for a United States government department.

This expert has extensive experience in the security industry, with his work focusing on off-duty police survival, law enforcement, field drug identification kits, investigations, social media intelligence, executive protection, and training standards. He earned his BS in strategic security and protection management from National American University and currently holds several certifications, including professional crime investigator, social media intelligence expert, and body language specialist. He currently holds one patent for a firearm part. He has formerly served as an infantryman in the US Army, a weapons handler for Lockheed Martin, a protective security specialist for International Development Solutions, an executive protection specialist for K17 Security, a police corporal for the United States Department of Defense, and a mobile security operator for GardaWorld Federal Services. Currently, this expert is the owner of a security consultancy in Virginia.

This highly credentialed cryptocurrency and blockchain expert graduated from the American Military University and has experience working in both the public and private sectors. He earned his BA from the American Military University and is a certified Blockchain and Law Professional, Bitcoin Professional, and Chainalysis Reactor Professional. He previously served as an operations coordinator for various companies and as the director of defense and the bureau of investigations for a cryptocurrency company. He currently serves as a psychological operations specialist for a US military branch, a security advisor for multiple companies, and as a lead investigator for a cryptocurrency investigation firm in Pennsylvania.

This expert has extensive experience in naval security and the international and domestic defense industry. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the US Naval Academy. During his 37-year career with the Navy, he served as a senior naval officer, as a director of warfare requirements, and as a military commander for the Iceland Defense Force. This expert then went on to serve as the corporate direction of naval aviation programs at Lockheed Martin and as the director of business development at Raytheon. Currently, this expert serves as the president of an independent defense industry consultancy in Virginia.