Expert Details
Armored Car, Cash-in-Transit, Truck Crashes, Premise Security
ID: 726337
Pennsylvania, USA
Expert was cited with numerous awards for leading US Regions in producing superior results in safety and security while holding the senior field leadership positions of Area General Manager and Regional Vice President in the cash-in-transit industry. Expert has been a member of ASIS, International since 1981 and is board certified in security management. Expert is also a member of International Association of Professional Security Consultants.
Expert has 20 years of senior field management experience in preparing operations in vulnerability assessments.
Expert has testified in criminal and civil court cases and is an expert witness in armored car incidents and premise security incidents for plaintiff and defense.
Expert has 27 years of leadership expience in the trucking and security industry repsonsible for fleet operations in a large geographic territory.
Expert was cited with numerous awards for leading US Regions in producing superior results in safety and security while holding the senior field leadership positions of Area General Manager and Regional Vice President in the cash-in-transit industry. Expert has been a member of ASIS, International since 1981 and is board certified in security management. Expert is also a member of International Association of Professional Security Consultants.
Expert has 38 years of security management experience. He conducts security risk assessments for businesses and in an adjunct professor teaching criminal justice classes at a college near his home.
Expert joined the U.S. Army at the age of 18, serving 3 years, receiving an Honorable Discharge with the rank of E-5, Good Conduct Medal and an ARCOM medal. He then served eight years as a police officer where he earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice and joined the Armored Car industry as a supervisor where he earned a Master's in Management, serving 26 years (22-Brinks’ and 4-Loomis) with a total of 20-years in senior level positions of Area General Manager, District Manager and Regional Direc-tor/Regional Vice President.
Expert had full P&L responsibility ranging from $40 to $100 million with direct reports which Included: Loss Prevention Managers, Human Re-source Managers, Account Executives, Branch Managers, Controllers, District Managers, Transportation Managers, Coin Managers, Currency Processing Managers, ATM Managers, and Training Managers.
During his 26 years working in the cash-in-transit industry, he was responsible for managing and protecting assets at 50 high risk facilities, several thousand armed guards and 1,000 armored vehicles. It is this profit and loss experience that separates him from other security consultants and has helped him to recommend cost effective security measures to mitigate risk and properly balance security with profits.
He has been interviewed on security loss events by CNN, ABC, New York Times and other Canadian and US news media and publications.
Since 2008, Expert continues to serve as an expert witness within the security industry, retained by both defense and plaintiff attorneys and organizations in the U.S., Canada and South America to provide expert opinions in security cases pending litigation.
Expert is vetted as a Security Contractor for the U.S. Department of State Anti-terrorism Administration Assistance (ATA) Program to train law enforcement officers, military and private security professionals for the following courses: Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience; Preventing Attacks on Soft Targets; Surveillance Detection, Instructor Development Course, Preventing Terrorist Attacks on Bus and Railway Systems and Combating Domestic and Transnational Terrorism and several other ATA courses.
Since 2012, Expert has served as staff and lead instructor for 45 ATA courses and five train-the-trainer courses, training federal, state, local law enforcement and private security professionals for the following countries, many on multiple occasions: Afghanistan, Egypt, Columbia, Jordan, Mexico, India, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uganda, Pakistan, Philippines, Tunisia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Chad, Niger, Mauritania, India, Yemen, Libya and Saudi Arabia Kingdom.
As part of the ATA Program, he has supervised security risk assessments in the aforementioned parts of the world at the following facilities: Water Treatment Plant, Railway Stations, Bus Terminals, Electric Power Plants, Hotels, Malls (13 stories), Hospital, Sports Stadiums, Secretary of Energy facility, Secretary of Interior facility, Military Training Centers, Department of Interior facility, National Police Headquarters, Government School (ages 5-18), a Mosque, Churches, National Art Museum, Airport, Commercial Shipping Pier, Police College, an International Expo Center and numerous government critical infrastructures.
Expert is one of approximately 200 security professionals world-wide who holds all three ASIS Board Certifications in Security Management, Physical security and Investigations which are accredited by the Department of Homeland Security, International Standards Organization and American National Standards Institute.
He has worked for both plaintiff and defense in the following types of cases: Armored truck crash, Missing funds, Homicide case, wrongful death case while in police custody.He provides security risk assessments for businesses.He provides consulting to several brokerage firms for investors seeking insight into the cash-in-transit industry.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1989 | Degree: Masters Degree | Subject: Management | Institution: Webster University |
| Year: 1979 | Degree: BA | Subject: Criminal Justice | Institution: Aurora University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2009 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Adjunct Professor | Department: Criminal Justice |
Responsibilities:Adjunct Professor teaching criminal justice courses; Criminal Procedures and Crime in US Business. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2008 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Owner | Department: |
Responsibilities:Business development. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2004 to 2008 | Employer: Loomis Armored Car | Title: Area General Manager | Department: Northeast Region |
Responsibilities:Area General Manager responsible for sales and operations in the Mid-Atlantic Region. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2004 | Employer: Dunbar Armored | Title: Regional Vice President | Department: New York Region |
Responsibilities:Responsible for New Jersey Operations. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1982 to 2003 | Employer: Brink's Armored Car | Title: Regional Vice President | Department: US |
Responsibilities:Responsible for sales and operations in large geographic regions. |
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Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| 8 years in law enforcement; former licensed private investigator; expert witness cases--missing funds; truck crash; homicide at work; death while in police custody. Longest single deposition was 10 hours. Expert witness in 12 cases to date. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Professional Memberships: • ASIS International 1981-2018 • InfraGard-South Carolina Chapter-FBI Sponsored Organization 2013-2018 |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Certified Protection Professional (Expert) 1981-1998 Certifications: A Board Certified Designation is acknowledged as the security profession’s highest recognition of practitioners. Rather than the individual stating qualifications on a CV or resume, the individual’s experience and education are verified and reviewed by a professional board of his peers and once qualified, the candidate is tested in the area of expertise selected and must receive a passing score. Testing is monitored under cam-era and with supervisory personnel present at all times. The Expert®, PSP® and PCI® certifications are awarded based upon experience, education and examination that provides objective measure of an individual’s broad-based knowledge and competency in security management, physical security and the investigation process. Ongoing professional development is required to maintain each credential. The Expert®, PSP® and PCI® are administered by ASIS International, the preeminent international organization for security professionals, with 38,000 members worldwide which Expert has been an active member since 1981. These certifications are accredited by ANSI under the ISO 17024 Standard. In addition, and have been awarded the DHS’s SAFETY Act Designation, which gives ASIS board-certified professionals, their employers, and their customers immediate protection from lawsuits involving ASIS certification and the ASIS certification process that arise out of an act of terrorism. Certified Protection Professional (Expert®) – This certification designates individuals who have demonstrated competency in all areas constituting security management. Physical Security Professional (PSP®) – The PSP® designation is the certification for those whose primary responsibility is to conduct threat surveys, design integrated security systems that include equipment, procedures and people, or install, operate and maintain those systems. Professional Certified Investigator (PCI®) – Holders of the PCI® certification have demonstrated education and/or experience in the fields of case management, evidence collection, and case presentation. Education: • B.A. Degree, Criminal Justice, Aurora University. 1979 • Master’s Degree, Management, Webster University. 1989 • Illinois Police Training Academy. 1972 • Illinois Police Firearms Instructor Academy 1974 • John Reid & Associates, six Interview and Interrogation Training Courses • Dale Carnegie Train the Trainer Courses 1994-1999 • Dale Carnegie Public Speaking-6-weeks-1994 (Highest Achievement Award) • Walt Disney Management Program 1999 • Participated in more than 100 law enforcement and private security seminars |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| International Publications: 6 |
Fields of Expertise
deception, disaster planning, risk assessment, emergency management, disaster control, disaster avoidance, disaster prevention, natural disaster preparedness, safety management, risk management, security management, enterprise risk management, forensics, truck, trucking, armored truck, expert witness, freight, freight handling, risk, risk characterization, operational risk, security risk assessment, freight loading system