Afghanistan Expert Witnesses in North Carolina

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.

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 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 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.