Resume

• 2015

  Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) phase I credit

  Air Command and Staff College

  National Security and Joint Warfare

  The Air University

  Military Intelligence Captains Career Course

  United States Army Fort Huachuca Military Intelligence School

  CAS3 employs small-group instruction techniques designed to improve an officer's ability to analyze and solve problems

  communicate orally and in writing

  interact effectively as a key member of a military staff

  and to apply operational doctrine and procedures in the field.

  United States Army Combined Arms and Services Staff School

• 2012

  Certified Instructor

  Joint Special Operations University

• 2011

  University of Denver

  United States Northern Command

  Greater Denver Area

  + Leads discussions for the Introduction to Homeland Security

  Global Players

  and North American Defense courses at the Korbel Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. \n\n+ Topics include homeland defense

  military exercises

  intelligence community

  counternarcotics

  counter threat finance

  and transnational organized crime.

  Guest Lecturer

  University of Denver

  Peterson AFB

  CO

  + Leads the VIGILANT SHIELD team responsible for facilitating each Tier 1 globally integrated exercise from concept to execution.\n\n+ Senior exercise lead and contracting officer's representative (COR)

  managing a multi-million-dollar planning

  programing

  budget and execution process that supports core NORAD and USNORTHCOM Tier 1 and Tier 2 exercise architectures. COR responsibilities include monitoring for technical compliance

  task and fund expenditures

  contract closeout and evaluation for exercise strategic emulation.\n\n+ Expertly orchestrates over 300 geographically dispersed exercise planning professionals spanning the entire defense enterprise to construct multi-domain threat scenarios

  structure crisis planning

  and control exercise execution. The result of which is the training of combatant commanders and their battle staffs in their Homeland Defense missions

  global integration of operations

  and to support the development of strategic and capabilities-based planning.\n\n+ Professionally facilitates discussion and advises senior officers and executives

  with an expert articulation of objectives

  developing concepts

  and recommendations for every way forward.

  Plans and Exercise Program Manager for Homeland Defense

  NORAD and USNORTHCOM

• 2010

  University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

  Colorado Springs

  + Principal graduate instructor and author of the modern critical infrastructure protection course for the School of Public Affairs. \n\n+ Aligned forefront academics with FEMA independent study

  and emergency management principles to shape student thought and develop vulnerability analyses. \n\n+ Developed the first Interagency Relationships workshop for the school and follow-on curriculum revision that was a highly successful virtual platform. \n\n+ Prepared and delivered lectures

  moderated discussions

  designed course content

  led curriculum development and revision

  and assembled readings and case studies.

  Adjunct Homeland Defense Lecturer

  University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

  Counternarcotics and Counter Threat Finance Office

  + Responsible for coordination of the USNORTHCOM Counternarcotics Program and liaison through national

  department

  and command levels. Principal advisor for counternarcotics and counter threat finance policy

  strategy

  and resourcing.\n\n+ Assisted in the development of the first-ever USNORTHCOM counternarcotics (CN) program

  maturing the program into a major command enabler with a staff of 35

  and an annual budget of $80M.\n\n+ Coordinated national

  department

  and command guidance that established the mission and budget for counter threat finance (CTF) support operations.\n\n+ Organized and developed staff. Authored and negotiated general schedule CN and CTF billets and position descriptions

  chairing interview panels and concluding the agreements for the placement of all CTF Specialist and Criminal Investigator positions.\n\n+ Developed interagency relationships with partners from the Departments of Homeland Security

  State

  Justice

  and Treasury

  private sector organizations

  and academia; negotiating the procedures for passing classified products

  reports

  and other CTF Specialist and Criminal Investigator support.

  Assistant Program Manager

  United States Northern Command

• 2009

  Graduate Certificate in Homeland Defense

  University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist

  Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists

• 2007

  United States Northern Command

  + Responsible for establishing the first command counter threat finance (CTF) program at USNORTHCOM. \n\n+ Developed the organizational goals and objectives that support and synchronize with national and department CTF guidance

  and mission partner priorities to counter threat networks. \n\n+ Coordinated policy and strategy with intelligence and law enforcement stakeholders to effectively provide all-source analytical products to supported mission partners in their efforts to counter transnational organized crime

  terrorism

  and proliferation. \n\n+ Organized CTF support activities

  ensuring compliance with statutory authorities

  policy and doctrine

  and strategic goals and tasks to meet consumer needs.

  United States Northern Command

• 2006

  Central Intelligence Agency

  + Team leader for the assessment of developments related to terrorism worldwide. \n\n+ Authored analyses consumed by senior U.S. policy makers. \n\n+ Provided the best information available to key decision-makers in the conduct of national policy

  law enforcement

  and intelligence operations. \n\n+ Mentored newly assigned intelligence analysts

  organizing working groups

  and advising coordination with interagency partners.

  Central Intelligence Agency

• 2005

  Joint Staff

  + Served as the senior civilian intelligence advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  Deputy Director for the War on Terrorism

  and OSD policy in support of national defense strategy regarding detained enemy combatants. \n\n+ Recognized with a Joint Staff award for implementing the first national level review of the U.S. Army Field Manual on interrogations in over 10 years

  at a time of intense congressional scrutiny. \n\n+ Developed procedures for the processing of war zone intelligence. Applied knowledge of policy and process to coordinate tactical war zone information through the Joint Staff to the Secretary of Defense in just hours instead of the standard days or weeks. \n\n+ Provided courses of action to executive branch leaders for decision support that improved exploitation and management of information.

  Joint Staff

• 2003

  + Advised the Deputy Secretary of Defense

  Secretary of the Navy

  and special operations decision-makers on policy

  plans

  screening

  and assessments concerning enemy combatants detained in the war on terrorism. \n\n+ Chaired the interagency detainee working group for all detainee disposition recommendations to the Administrative Review Boards at Guantanamo Bay

  Cuba

  and authored the first DOD recommendations.

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  English

  Eagle Scout

  Boy Scouts of America

  Presidential Management Fellow

  United States Office of Personnel Management

  Henry J. Reilly Memorial Graduate Scholarship

  Henry J. Reilly Memorial

  Colorado Leadership Development Program Alumni

  United States Office of Personnel Management

  Civilian of the Quarter

  The Joint Staff

• 2000

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  NORAD and USNORTHCOM

  + Advised senior defense leadership on the most sensitive relationships with Latin American and Caribbean countries

  conceptualizing and advancing major national security policy initiatives in the Western Hemisphere.\n\n+ Developed policy and managed Secretary of Defense counter-part bilateral and multilateral meetings for two Defense Ministerials of the Americas (Manaus

  Brazil in 2000 and Santiago

  Chile in 2002).\n\n+ Planned and executed the first-ever official counterpart visit between the Secretary of Defense and the Brazilian Minister of Defense

  which helped to advance bi-lateral military to military cooperation.

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

• 1998

  U.S. Department of State

  + Advanced nuclear safety policy with European partners concerning the safe shutdown of Soviet-designed nuclear reactors throughout the former Soviet Union. \n\n+ Led the first U.S. delegation to the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation program that negotiated a tri-lateral agreement with Russia and Norway to develop a prototype 40-metric ton container to store and transport spent nuclear fuel from Russia's dismantled submarines.\n\n+ Served on detailed assignments to the Department’s China desk and to the DOD Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

  U.S. Department of State

  Graduate Certificate in International Security Studies

  University of Pittsburgh

  Graduate Certificate in Advanced Asian Studies

  University of Pittsburgh

• 1996

  Masters

  International Security and Advanced Asian Studies

  Conducted research on illicit trafficking and international organized crime at the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies. Interned in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Nuclear Energy

  Safety and Security

  developing U.S. policy on peaceful nuclear cooperation

  nuclear safety

  and nuclear export controls

  and consulting multilaterally and bilaterally with the International Atomic Energy Agency

  Nuclear Suppliers Group

  and the Zangger Committee.

  University of Pittsburgh

  Cyber Technologies and Financial Crime

  Introduction to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan

  Terrorist Financing and State Response Seminar

  Maximizing Bank Assistance in Financial Investigations

  Sharing Food Safety Information and Intelligence

  Ballistic Missile Defense Staff Officer Course

  Lessons from the Panama Papers

  Commercial Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services Essentials

  Joint Planning Course

  The Colorado Marijuana Conflict Seminar

  Colorado Leadership Development Program

  Methods of Instruction Course

  Joint Chemical Biological Radiological & Nuclear Familiarization Course

  Combating Terrorist Networks Interagency Seminar

  Counterterrorism Course

  United States Air Force Career Development Program Executive Seminar

  Latin America Course

  Threat Finance Course

  International Programs Security Requirements Course

  Counter Threat Finance Course

• 1992

  Certificate in International Relations

  University of Utah

• 1988

  US Army

  + Supervised intelligence analysis teams

  providing finished all-source intelligence products

  geospatial intelligence and other derived and collaborative assessments in support of planning and active combat operations in the Pacific

  European

  and Central Command areas of responsibility.\n\n+ Selected by commander to lead special project teams in research of asymmetrical threats

  and data collection requiring technical or trust-based partnership access to unique non-military sources. \n\n+ Managed the production and coordination of subordinate workloads resulting in high quality intelligence products and production rates recognized throughout the intelligence and operations communities.

  US Army

• 1985

  Bachelors Double Major

  Economics and Political Science

  Minor in Military Science. Certificate in International Relations. Interned at the Pragma Corporation in Falls Church

  Virginia

  coordinating content and instruction delivery for the company's foreign service officer orientation program. Served as the Hinckley Institute Intern Coordinator for one of the nation’s longest-standing internship programs in Washington

  DC.

  University of Utah

• Program Management

  Policy

  Intelligence

  Government

  Counterterrorism

  Intelligence Analysis

  Special Operations

  Military Experience

  Defense

  DoD

  Security Clearance

  Army

  National Security

  International Relations

  Command

  Interagency Coordination

  Leadership

  Homeland Security

  Foreign Policy

  Military

  Book Chapter: Thoughts on Special Operations Forces Role in Combating Transnational Organized Crime

  In April 2015

  military and civilian personnel from Canada

  Mexico

  and the United States came together at Colorado Springs

  Colorado

  for a symposium hosted by U.S. Special Operations Command-North and facilitated by Joint Special Operations University and Canadian Special Operations Forces Command. Their task was to examine the role of Special Operations Forces (SOF) in combating transnational organized crime (TOC). I wrote Chapter 11: Thoughts on Special Operations Forces Roles in Combating Transnational Organized Crime. The link includes both English and Spanish versions.

  Book Chapter: Thoughts on Special Operations Forces Role in Combating Transnational Organized Crime

  The exponential expansion of information is rapidly changing the national security\nenvironment. Therefore

  it is necessary to evolve our thinking and approach to national\nsecurity

  enabling cooperation amongst all elements of national power – from\nstrategy to tactics – to influence and shape that changing environment. This means\nshifting our strategic view from linear and legacy approaches to network‐based\nones.

  Book Chapter: Building a Network-based Approach to National Security

  Page 26. A famous criminal case from United States history shows how it takes a network to defeat a network. Publication URL is in Spanish. English copies will be furnished upon request.

  A Daunting Challenge

  Randy Paul