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Angela Whyte began her career in law enforcement in 1998 as a Custom's Officer with Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). She has spent seven years as an intelligence analyst—five years with CBSA and the last two as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). As a tactical intelligence analyst she has worked investigations concerning international drug and human trafficking, money laundering, commercial crime, and homicides. As a strategic analyst she was seconded to Criminal Intelligence Service Manitoba (CISM) and to CBSA Headquarters in Ottawa. Analyst Whyte has instructed at the Canadian Police College and co-developed and teaches “Criminal Intelligence Analysis” at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Manitoba where she researched war crimes and international law, and continues to guest lecture on transnational organized crime.
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Bart R. Johnson was appointed the Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano in April 2009. He serves as the second-ranking official in the office charged with providing the Secretary, her senior leadership, the DHS components, and state, local, tribal, and private sector partners with the homeland security intelligence and information they need to keep the country safe. I&A is also a member of and DHS liaison to the national Intelligence Community. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Johnson served as the Director of Homeland Security and Law Enforcement (HSLE) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In this capacity, Mr. Johnson was the principal advisor to the Director and his executive staff for HSLE issues, and primary subject matter expert on missions, capabilities, and organizations of the Intelligence Community’s homeland security and law enforcement Federal, State, local, and tribal (FSLT) partners. His work focused on facilitating two-way communication between the IC and FSLT customers and assisting in identifying current and projected needs. Mr. Johnson was—and remains—deeply engaged with key Federal partners to ensure that the national network of state and local fusion centers is supported and functioning at standards established in the Baseline Capabilities for State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers. To ensure that the IC takes into account the needs of the SLT, he developed the Partners Group, which is comprised of FSLT leaders from across the country to directly interface with the Director of National Intelligence on FSLT capabilities, issues, best practices, and contributions to national and homeland security. Before joining the federal government, Mr. Johnson served as a Colonel with the New York State Police. He has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience, 24 of them with the New York State Police. He began his career as a police officer in Peekskill, New York, in 1977, and he then rose through the ranks of the state police. During that time he participated in a number of complex and high-level criminal investigations. He retired from the state police as the Field Commander—a position that oversaw the daily activities of nearly 5,000 sworn members of the agency.
Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Mr. Johnson became involved in counterterrorism when he was tasked to develop a preparedness, response, and prevention capability within the state police. His efforts led to the establishment of the New York State Police Office of Counter-Terrorism in February 2003, which Mr. Johnson commanded as Lieutenant Colonel and which evolved into the current New York State Intelligence Center. Mr. Johnson is a former Co-Chair of the Global Advisory Committee and former Chair of the Global Intelligence Working Group and Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council. These positions exposed him to a number of national intelligence efforts as well as the development and establishment of the National Fusion Center Network. He is also a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Committee on Terrorism. Mr. Johnson has received numerous awards, including the Superintendent’s Commendation and the Federal 100 Award. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management and Economics from Empire State College.
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As one of the world’s leading authorities on terrorism and sophisticated crime, Brian Michael Jenkins works with government agencies and international organizations. He is Senior Advisor to the President of RAND. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Jenkins was the Deputy Chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigative firm. Before that, he was Chairman of RAND’s Political Science Department. From 1972 to 1989, he directed RAND’s research on political violence. Mr. Jenkins has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a Masters Degree in History, both from UCLA. He studied at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala where he was a Fulbright Fellow and recipient of a fellowship from the Organization of American States. Commissioned in the infantry at the age of 19, Mr. Jenkins became a paratrooper and ultimately a captain in the Green Berets. He is a decorated combat veteran with service in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Mr. Jenkins is also the author of several books and numerous articles on conflict and crime. "Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves" was published in 2006. His latest book, "Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?" was published in 2008. In 1996, President Clinton appointed Mr. Jenkins to be a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. In 2000, he served as an advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism and since then, he has served as a member of the U.S. Comptroller General's Advisory Board. Mr. Jenkins also is the Director of the National Transportation Security Center at the Mineta Transportation Institute. Mr. Jenkins serves as a Special Advisor to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)and a member of the advisory board of the ICC’s investigative arm, the Commercial Crime Services. As part of its international project to create a global strategy to combat terrorism, the Club of Madrid in 2004 appointed Mr. Jenkins to lead the international working group on the role of intelligence.
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Casey Dunlevy is the Technical Director, Strategic Cyber Security Programs for the Global Analysis Division of BAE Systems. Global Analysis provides on-site intelligence analysis in direct support of the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and a variety of other government Departments and agencies. In his current position, Mr. Dunlevy is expanding Global Analysis’s highly respected analytic capabilities to include all-source analysis of the cyber threat environment in all of its many variations including nation-state, criminal and non-governmental organization threat actors. Mr. Dunlevy has also developed a Cyber Threat Analysis training program to build a cadre of certified cyber analysts. Prior to moving into the private sector, Mr. Dunlevy spent over nine years as a senior member of the technical staff at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute CERT. Initially recruited to create the CERT Analysis Center, he was the primary developer of the Critical Systems Protection Initiative (CSPI) methodology for the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security. This methodology was designed to integrate cyber and physical security in support of the Secret Service protective mission and the DHS critical infrastructure protection mission. Following the attack on 9/11, working directly with the U.S. Secret Service, Mr. Dunlevy led a multi-disciplinary team that provided on-site integrated security analysis for every National Special Security Event (NSSE) through the 2005 Presidential Inauguration, including the 2002 Winter Olympics, two international summit meetings, the World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting, and both national political nominating conventions in 2004. Mr. Dunlevy also served as a senior Subject Matter Expert and Advisor on cyber security supporting the DHS National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) in a number of areas including their work with the Committee on Foreign Investments in the U.S. (CFIUS), the Strategic Homeland Infrastructure Risk Assessment (SHIRA) program, and the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) where he served on two of the initiative Working Groups. Mr. Dunlevy has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School for Public and International Affairs where he taught courses in Strategic Analysis and International Terrorism. More recently, he was an adjunct professor at the Carnegie Mellon H. John Heinz III School for Public Policy and Management where he taught a graduate course in Information Security Policy.
Mr. Dunlevy joined the Software Engineering Institute after nearly thirty years as a member of the National Intelligence Community. Over the years he worked as a senior intelligence analyst at a number of agencies and commands, including the National Security Agency where he spent four years on the National SIGINT Operations Center (NSOC), the Navy Operational Intelligence Command where he was selected to be the Deputy Chief of Crisis Response during Desert Shield/Storm, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)/U.S. Space Command. During his time at NORAD/USSPACECOM, Mr. Dunlevy served in a variety of senior positions including Chief of Current Intelligence Division, Chief of Foreign Threat Division, Special Assistant to the Commander for National Programs, and Chief of Foreign Computer Network Operations Analysis. Mr. Dunlevy earned his B. S. at the University of the State of New York and is also a graduate of the Defense Language Institute and the Armed Forces Staff College.
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Charles Duelfer spent over 25 years in the national security agencies of the U.S. government. He was involved in policy development operations, and intelligence in the Middle East, Africa, Central America, and Asia. Mr. Duelfer was also involved in U.S. nuclear weapons and space programs. Most recently, he was the top CIA officer directing the investigation of Saddam’s regime and its WMD programs. Mr. Duelfer’s experience with the Iraq tragedy began in the 1980’s as Washington considered its role regarding the Iran-Iraq war. During the 1990’s, by virtue of his position at the United Nations, he was virtually the only senior American to have regular contact with the top members of Saddam’s regime in Baghdad. At the same time he worked with the senior Washington officials in both the intelligence and policy areas of Washington. He saw how U.S. policy and intelligence went wrong and he saw how Iraqi intelligence and policies went wrong. Mr. Duelfer's experience and perspective is unique. As Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence for Iraq WMD, Mr. Duelfer led the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) that conducted the investigation of the scope of Iraq’s WMD. The ISG was a unique intelligence organization of over 1700 military and civilian staff that investigated Iraq WMD programs. It used all available collection and analytic capabilities in a hostile environment. The Duelfer Report is the definitive work on the relationship of the Saddam Regime to WMD and was presented to the President and Congress in October 2004—shortly before the presidential election. In the 1990’s Mr. Duelfer was at the United Nations serving as the Deputy Executive Chairman and subsequently, acting Chairman, of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1993 until its termination in 2000. UNSCOM was the original group of U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq that was at the friction point between Baghdad and Washington in regular crises until President Clinton ordered a limited bombing in response to Iraq non-cooperation in 1998. Mr.
Duelfer has recently headed a small entrepreneurial space launch company as well as consulting and lecturing. He is currently an advisor at Omnis, Inc.
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Dale Ferranto (D.O.J. Ret.), Former Assistant Chief and Assistant Director, Firearms Division, Deputy U.S. Marshal, U.S. Navy Captain and
current Business Development Specialist and Law Enforcement Liaison, LexisNexis Advanced Government Solutions.
Dale Ferranto has over 35 years of law enforcement experience and has commanded inter-agency law enforcement task forces consisting of
hundreds of state, federal and local police officers, special agents,investigators and civilian analyst. Dale was responsible for team
building, training and implementing task force protocols, policies and procedures for the forging of long term, effective intra-agency
enforcement and client/industry relationships. He also supervised all levels of government law enforcement teams responsible for fugitive
tracking, firearms manufacturers and dealers business compliance and integrity of security systems, motion picture property masters inventory
control, and the California National Guard and Office of Emergency Services Disaster preparedness plans, equipment acquisition, training and CAL-MAT/D-MAT liaison. Over the years, he also coordinated and supervised several private industry loss prevention investigations
involving organized criminal groups that stole and embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from well-known retail chains
throughout the United States. He successfully employed covert undercover operations, ground and electronic surveillance, GPS monitoring devices and intelligence information gathering through
computerized database searches, such as Accurint(r) from LexisNexis. Dale Ferranto also held after-action meetings to develop much needed
improvements in pre-employment background procedures, loss prevention reporting policies and inventory controls.
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Supervisory Special Agent(SSA)Damon A. Villella has been assigned to the FBI Criminal Justice Investigative Services (CJIS) Division, National Data Exchange Program Office (N-DEx) since April, 2004. SSA Villella has served as a lead law enforcement (LE) and criminal justice (CJ) liaison in building N-DEx participation. SSA Villella has served in other capacities for N-DEx, including, but not limited to a LE/CJ subject matter expert (SME) for N-DEx development and a legal/privacy coordinator for the N-DEx Program Office. From 1997 until April 2004, SSA Villella was assigned to the FBI's Newark, NJ field office where he worked drugs/narcotics and was also assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
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Dana Sugarman is Verint's Director of Business Development and Strategic Marketing for West Europe and North America. Ms. Sugarman brings with her over ten years of global experience in the creation and delivery of law enforcement solutions with special focus on wiretap solutions as well as - and increasingly - fusion and investigation platforms. In recent years Ms. Sugarman has spearheaded various global initiatives to improve analysts and law enforcement executive preparedness to new types of threats associated with what has been come to be known as the information chaos.
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Mr. Daniel Akins is Solutions Architect focusing on solutions that address the needs of the Justice and Public Safety Community throughout the U.S. Mr. Akins has been with Microsoft's Public Sector Services group for nearly 10 years, all of it spent serving the needs of the state and local government community. Over the last two years Mr. Akins has been working closely with local, tribal, and state law enforcement agencies defining and implementing cross discipline and cross jurisdictional collaborative solutions that help address the all threats, all crimes, all hazards mission shared by many agencies. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Akins worked for IBM Global Services working with customers across many industries to apply both IBM and Microsoft technologies to their business problems.
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Detective David Hill has 19 years of law enforcement experience, all with the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. Fifteen of those years, he served as a detective and the last eight he investigated retail crimes exclusively. Detective Hill was instrumental in developing a networking program, in the Maryland/Washington D.C./Virginia area in 2002, where law enforcement officers and loss prevention agents, communicated on a daily bases via email and shared information to try and identify and arrest criminals associated with retail crimes. In 2004, Detective Hill received special deputation by the United States Marshals Service, which authorizes him to work with the United States Secret Service (WFO) in support of its federal task force. In 2006, Detective Hill arrested and convicted Claude Allen (former Domestic Policy Advisor for President Bush) for retail theft. He has been featured in the Washington Post and New York Times and appeared on CNN and Inside Edition. Detective Hill has had cases featured on CNBC and has testified before the United States Congress House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. In 2009, he was the co-recipient of the 2009 National Retail Federation's Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Award for shutting down a "Skimming" organization, where servers at restaurants in Washington D.C. were stealing customers' credit card numbers and the ring leaders were using them to purchase gift cards and electronics for a $1 million loss. He is currently a Regional Director for the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R).
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Dave Cariens was born in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Ohio State University in German and Polish history and did graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Cariens served in the CIA for 31 years before retiring in 1997. During his career he was a political analyst for 22 years in the Directorate of Intelligence, specializing in Balkan affairs. In this capacity he produced finished intelligence for all levels of the U.S. government, from the President to working level counterparts throughout the Intelligence Community. He headed the training unit teaching all new CIA analysts in the writing and briefing skills needed to produce finished intelligence. Mr. Cariens has designed intelligence analysis/writing courses and taught them throughout the Intelligence Community. He has trained foreign intelligence services in the writing skills needed to produce finished intelligence. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mr. Cariens designed and taught the basic analytic/writing course currently used by one former member of the Warsaw Pact to train its new intelligence analysts. He also served on the CIA’s Inspector General’s staff. Since retiring, Mr. Cariens continues to design and teach intelligence writing and briefing courses throughout the Intelligence Community—including the CIA, the FBI, the Intelligence Community Staff, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, all branches of military intelligence, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and the Massachusetts State Police Fusion Center. He has given writing workshops at the IALEIA/LEIU Annual Training Conferences in Alexandria in 2005, in Vancouver, Canada in 2007, in Boston in 2008, and in Las Vegas in 2009. He also presented at the IALEIA Annual Training Conference in Mexico City in 2006 and the LEIU Annual Training Conference in Tempe, Arizona in 2006. Mr. Cariens has conducted intelligence analysis training for the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada, for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and for the Singapore Police Force. He is the author of "A Question of Accountability: The Murder of Angela Dales", an examination of the killing rampage at the Appalachian School of Law on January 16, 2002. For additional details on this book visit Mr. Cariens' website at www.aquestionofaccountability.com. Mr. Cariens is also a contributing author to the LEIU/IALEIA forth-coming publication "Criminal Intelligence for the 21st Century". Mr. Cariens’ text book, "Intelligence and Crime Analysis", is slated for publication in 2011.
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David Toddington is the President and Founder of Toddington International Inc. (TII).> Since 1997, TII has provided advanced, Internet-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) training and support services to a wide range of law enforcement, government and corporate organizations in both North America and Europe. With a background as both a sworn peace officer and a senior manager in the IT industry, Mr. Toddington has lectured extensively on Internet-related investigative matters in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has also developed a number of training programs focused on Internet research and intelligence gathering. In addition to teaching at the West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre, Mr. Toddington and his colleagues also instruct through the Canadian Police College, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre, the Ontario Police College, the British Columbia Police Academy, the Forensic Sciences Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the International Chamber of Commerce - Commercial Crime Section (Europe), Centro Internacional de Inteligencia (Mexico), and the Idaho State Police Academy (United States). Among other awards, Mr. Toddington David has been the recipient of a Royal Canadian
Mounted Police Commanding Officer's Commendation for his work in the development and implementation of new police Open Source Intelligence systems. A frequent speaker at numerous conferences in North America and
Europe, Mr. Toddington has been a regular contributor to a number of law enforcement publications.
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Detective Greg Rodriguez (retired) began his law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1974. In his last assignment, and until his retirement from the LAPD Major Crimes Division in November 2009, Detective Rodriguez, was on long-term loan to the FBI/JTTF where he worked domestic counter-terrorism cases. He is an expert in the area of prison intelligence gathering, specifically cultivating and handling informants inside and outside prison walls. As an undercover officer, for most of his 35-year law enforcement career, he worked notable assignments including R.I.C.O. indictments against the 18th Street gang and the Mexican Mafia, the Hillside Strangler case, and the Dirty Thirty case. He also worked international high-profile fugitive investigations culminating in several arrests.
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James Emery serves as a team leader and law enforcement liaison specialist with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). His current focus is studying the utilization of Bank Secrecy Act records in investigations. Mr. Emery also conducts outreach to inform law enforcement of FinCEN's products and services that can support criminal investigations.
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Jay "Jaybird" Dobyns is the unconventional, full-bore federal agent who achieved worldwide notoriety as one of America's most daring and
talked-about law enforcement officers. Special Agent Dobyns' introduction to the street was
immediate, vicious and nearly fatal. Within a week in the field he was taken hostage and shot through the back and chest. He quickly returned to work and now, after more than twenty years of undercover assignments Special Agent Dobyns became the first law enforcement officer to fully infiltrate the Hell's Angels outlaw biker gang. Special Agent Dobyns is the New York Times bestselling author of the book "No Angel, My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels" which has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox, and has been featured on CNN, Fox News, The National Geographic Channel, the History Channel and America's Most Wanted.
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Dr. Jerry Ratcliffe is Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, Philadelphia. He served 11 years with the Metropolitan Police in London (UK) on patrol duties, in an intelligence and information unit, and as a member of the Diplomatic Protection Group. After a winter mountaineering accident, he left the police and completed both a BSc and a PhD at the University of Nottingham. As a lecturer in policing (intelligence) with Charles Sturt University based at the New South Wales Police College in Australia, he ran graduate programs in criminal intelligence, and, for a number of years, coordinated Australia's National Strategic Intelligence Course. Dr. Ratcliffe was also a senior research analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology, where he conducted one of the first evaluations of an intelligence-led policing operation. He has published over 50 research articles in the areas of spatial analysis, crime reduction, and intelligence-led policing. Dr. Ratcliffe has also published four books: 'GIS and Crime Mapping' (Wiley, 2005), 'Policing Illegal Drug Markets' (Criminal Justice Press, 2005), ‘Intelligence-Led Policing’ (Willan Publishing, 2008) and ‘Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence’ (Federation Press, 2004). The second edition of "Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence" was published in April 2009. A full list of publications can be found at www.jratcliffe.net/jerry-cv.htm. However a possibly more illuminating resume can be found at www.jratcliffe.net/alt-cv.htm. Dr. Ratcliffe was an officer in the British Army reserves (Royal Engineers), has climbed the three highest mountains in Africa, led an expedition down the Selenga river in Siberia, and was the first non-Iban tribesman to successfully navigate (with a traditional carved boat) the rapids of the Temburong river in Borneo.
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Special Constable Jill Paterson, is an Intelligence Analyst with the Vancouver Police Department, Criminal Intelligence Section. She previously worked for the Canada Customs Revenue Agency Pacific Region for 20 years, 8 of those years as an Intelligence Analyst in the Intelligence & Contraband Division. Her duties there included Strategic, Tactical and Operational analysis. Special Constable Paterson accepted a position as an intelligence analyst with the Vancouver Police Department’s newly formed Criminal Intelligence Section in 2001. She conducts tactical analysis for major investigations related to organized crime in British Columbia. Special Constable Paterson also publishes twice yearly threat assessments on organized crime groups operating in British Columbia. These reports are used by management to choose viable targets for enforcement. She is the president of the Western chapter of IALEIA and has been the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Analytic Products by Canada’s national intelligence agency, the Canadian Intelligence Services.
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John Gordnier received his BA degree from the University of Washington in 1966. His JD was earned at the University of Wyoming in 1969. In January 1970 he was sworn in as a member of the California bar. From 1970 until 1972 he worked as a Deputy District Attorney in the County of San Bernardino. In October 1972 Mr. Gordnier became a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Law Division of the California Attorney General's Office. During his time in the Criminal Law Division he tried cases involving public officials, served as the head of the Political Reform Act Enforcement Unit and was in charge of the Attorney General's Legislative/Lobbyist Task Force. When the Special Prosecutions Unit was created to handle organized crime cases in 1979, Mr. Gordnier was one of the attorneys assigned to a team consisting of an attorney and two special agents. In 1983 he was named the Senior Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Special Prosecutions Unit, a position he held until the Unit was disbanded in 1991. During his tenure in the Special Prosecutions Unit, Mr. Gordnier not only prosecuted cases and supervised prosecutions by the unit he also was responsible for the creation and enactment of several laws, including those penalizing money laundering, allowing for asset forfeiture, and permitting prosecution under a state RICO provision. He was also instumental in the development of wiretapping laws in California. From 1991 to 1998 Mr. Gordnier was a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Trials and Special Projects Unit. In this capacity he served as the legislative liaison for the Criminal Law Division, prosecuted certain cases such as the Mark Furman perjury case, implemented the Attorney General's response to the Medical Marijuana initiative, and sucessfully defended California's Assault Weapons Law. From 1998 until his retirement in 2007, Mr. Gordnier was assigned to act as the attorney for the California Department of Justice's intelligence systems, serve as the legal advisor to the CalGANG intelligence system and teach intelligence law for both basic level and executive level courses sponsored by the Attorney General's Advanced Training Center. Since retiring from public service, Mr. Gordnier has acted as a consultant and instructor on intelligence law.
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Special Agent (SA) Joseph Desmarais is currenly assigned to the Criminal Investigative Liaison Branch (CIL), at Diplomatic Security (DS)headquarters, located in Rosslyn, Virginia. SA Desmarais began his career with DS in 2006 and prior to CIL, was posted at the Miami Field
Office. Prior to DS, he gained a wide variety of experience, serving in the U.S. Marines as a DOD contractor and a police officer in North
Richland Hills, Texas. SA Desmarais received his bachelors degree in criminal justice from California State University, Sacramento in 2004. He has traveled to numerous countries with the military and State Department, posted to U.S. Embassies in Cyprus and Sri Lanka, as well as several temporary duties throughout the world.
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Julie Clegg is a former detective with the West Yorkshire Police in the United Kingdom, and brings almost 10 years front-line policing experience to her position as Executive Vice President of Toddington International Inc. She has extensive experience in both undercover and intelligence-led policing operations and a strong background in the technology field. Ms. Clegg is responsible for the provision of proactive and reactive operational Internet support services to a number of Canadian police and federal government agencies. She regularly lectures on Internet investigative matters to various
police and related agencies at both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pacific Region Training Centre and the Justice Institute of British Columbia. In addition to classroom based training, Ms. Clegg has developed and now
oversees a number of distance learning Internet Intelligence courses that are offered through and accredited by the Canadian Police College, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, the Assets
Recovery Agency (UK) and the West Yorkshire Police (UK). To date over 2,200 law enforcement personnel in North America and Europe have
successfully completed these highly regarded distance learning programs.
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Analyst Kathy Lichay has been a Criminal Intelligence Analyst for the Naperville (Illinois) Police Department (NPD) for the past four years. As the only analyst for NPD, she provides investigative assistance and analysis to all areas of her department including patrol, investigations, and special operations. As part of one of the only fully functioning police intelligence units in Illinois, Analyst Lichay has trained numerous analysts and detective personnel from various local departments who are seeking to establish their own intelligence unit. Prior to he employment with NPD, Analyst Lichay was an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, Chicago office, where she worked narcotics, financial crimes, and immigration investigations. She currently holds the office of Secretary for both the IALEIA "Land of Lincoln" chapter as well as for the Crime Analysts of Illinois.
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As a Senior Vice President at Hillard Heintze, Mr. Bouche reviews and re-engineers the direction and planning of his clients’ business to help align their security functions with their business objectives and the risks confronting their people, operations and brands. At Hillard Heintze, they view security as a crucial set of systemic protective measures, develop integrated solutions that further organizational communications, improve processes and align key resources for the security function with an enterprise-wide perspective that addresses strategic, tactical and fundamental concerns. Mr. Bouche works closely with clients and their executive teams, positions their corporate and product or service brands carefully within the markets they are intended to serve and among the constituencies that represent the greatest sources of both current and sustainable demand. Their clients offer products that either improve the effectiveness or efficiency with which security supports business and organizational objectives, or strengthen the protection afforded to the men and women serving on this nation’s frontlines – as members of the military, law enforcement, and the intelligence community.
Previously, as Vice President of MyThings, Mr. Bouche lead the worldwide implementation of Trace, the world’s leading global comprehensive and publicly searchable database of stolen, lost, and seized property. Trace is designed to be used by victims of crime, businesses, and the police, to easily document, report, and query stolen property data by building public/private collaborations that never before existed. Prior to joining MyThings, Mr. Bouche served with the Illinois State Police (ISP) for 24 years. His last seven years with the ISP was as Colonel and Chief Information Officer where he led the Information and Technology Command, one of five divisions for the ISP with the mission to enhance the collective technological needs of Illinois law enforcement. Prior to appointment as CIO, Mr. Bouche held operational positions from Trooper to Lieutenant Colonel. At the national level, Mr. Bouche served as a SEARCH member and Director. He also served on the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global). Mr. Bouche was chair of the Global Intelligence Working Group, the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council, and ultimately chaired the Full Advisory Board. Most importantly, at SEARCH and Global, Mr. Bouche learned the importance of a national strategy for justice technology supported by government, national committees and industry representatives. Mr. Bouche received a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a bachelor of arts degree from Northeastern Illinois University.
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Leonard Leedy III has twenty-five years of varied law enforcement experience including uniform, K-9, SWAT, vice, and narcotics assignments. He retired in June 1999 and now owns Law Enforcement Consulting, Inc. Mr. Leedy is an authorized reseller of the Law Enforcement Investigative & Intelligence Software produced by ACISS Systems. During his last 13 years as a police detective, Mr. Leedy worked in vice and narcotics and was assigned to the Strategic Investigations squad. His responsibilities included managing all the DNR's, wire intercepts and the installation of technical surveillance equipment. He was the system administrator for the ACISS software that completely automated the intelligence, vice and narcotics sections. Mr. Leedy specialized in the collection and analysis of computerized data and has developed many automated data analysis functions using Microsoft Excel. He has also developed a 5-day “Advanced Analytical Techniques Using Microsoft Excel” course. The Federal Law Training Center (FLETC) has two classes which he helped develop and currently instructs--"Introductory Intelligence Analyst Training Program (IIATP)" and "Intelligence Analyst Training Program (IATP)". Mr. Leedy has been an instructor and course developer for Multijurisdictional Counter Drug Task Force Training at St. Pete Junior College since 1995. He instructs in Analytical Investigative Techniques I & II, Intercept of Secure Communications, Conspiracy Investigations, and Drug Task Force Investigations.
He was the course developer and primary instructor for Basic Analytical Techniques for Law Enforcement (BATLE) I and II for the Northeast Counter Drug Training Center at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. Mr. Leedy was employed as an adjunct instructor for the University of Tennessee in 1999, working on several projects funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). He has a B.S. degree in marine science from the University of West Florida and received an instructor certification from the Florida Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Training. He also has certificates from St. Petersburg Junior College for Internetworking Support Technician and Webmaster.
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Just a few years ago, mafia boss, Michael Franzese was named one of the biggest money earners the mob had seen since Al Capone, by Vanity Fair. At the age of 35, Fortune Magazine listed him as number 18 on its list of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses”, just 5 behind John Gotti. Avoiding traditional mob domains, Michael masterminded brilliant scams on the edge of the legitimate business world. From auto dealerships and union kickbacks, to financial services and the sports and entertainment industries, to a multi-billion dollar gasoline tax scheme, he earned millions in cash every week at his peak. Not surprisingly, Michael quickly became the target of Manhattan’s famed federal prosecutor, Rudy Guiliani. After promising Michael 100 years behind bars after indicting him on racketeering charges, Rudy only came up empty handed. Escaping four more indictments, it seemed Michael Franzese truly was invincible.
While producing "Knights of the City", a break dance movie filmed in Florida, Michael met a beautiful dancer from Anaheim, California, named Camille Garcia, whose innocent beauty turned his world upside down. After falling in love and eventually marrying Cammy, she convinced Michael to take the rap on racketeering charges. Michael pled guilty, accepted a 10 year prison sentence and vowed to do the unthinkable – walk away from the mob. Nobody of Franzese’s rank had ever just walked away – and lived. Until now.
Michael Franzese is the only high ranking official of a major crime family to ever walk away, without protective custodies, and survive. He is now a man on a mission. Determined to use the compelling experiences of his former life for the benefit of corporate executives, professional and student athletes, at-risk youth, church audiences, and for anyone seeking the inspiration to beat the odds and make positive changes in their lives, he has become a highly regarded motivator and a source of invaluable information. Franzese candidly describes how he survived dozens of grand jury appearances, 5 major racketeering indictments, 5 criminal trials, 7 years in prison and a Mafia death sentence. He tells how he engaged bankers, corporate executives, union officials and professional and student athletes in a wide variety of financial scams. His open and honest presentations are fresh and unique. Audiences are captivated by stories of his personal experiences in organized crime and genuinely affected by his powerful anti-crime messages and eye opening revelations. In his autobiography, "Blood Covenant", Michael reveals answers to many mysteries surrounding his incredible journey. Walk the streets with him to find out how he has done what no one else has managed to do. His newest book, "I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse", was just released by Thomas Nelson, and contains insider business tips from the former mob boss.
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Just a few years ago Vanity Fair Magazine named Mafia boss Michael Franzese one of the biggest money earners the mob had seen since Al Capone. At the age of 35, Fortune Magazine listed him as number 18 on its list of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses”--just 5 behind John Gotti. Avoiding traditional mob domains, Michael Franzese masterminded brilliant scams on the edge of the legitimate business world. From auto dealerships and union kickbacks, to financial services and the sports and entertainment industries, to a multi-billion dollar gasoline tax scheme, he earned millions in cash every week at his peak. Not surprisingly, Michael Franzese quickly became the target of Manhattan’s famed federal prosecutor, Rudy Guiliani. After promising Franzese 100 years behind bars after indicting him on racketeering charges, Mr. Guiliani only came up empty handed. Escaping four more indictments, it seemed Michael Franzese truly was invincible. While producing Knights of the City, a break dance movie filmed in Florida, Michael Franzese met the woman who would soon be his wife. After they married, she convinced Franzese to take the "rap" on racketeering charges. He pled guilty, accepted a 10 year prison sentence and vowed to do the unthinkable – walk away from the mob. Nobody of Franzese’s rank had ever just walked away--and lived--until now.
Michael Franzese is the only high ranking official of a major crime family to ever walk away, without protective custodies, and survive.
He is now a man on a mission. Determined to use the compelling experiences of his former life for the benefit of corporate executives, professional and student athletes, at-risk youth, church audiences, and for anyone seeking the inspiration to beat the odds and make positive changes in their lives. He has become a highly regarded motivator and a source of invaluable information. Franzese candidly describes how he survived dozens of grand jury appearances, 5 major racketeering indictments, 5 criminal trials, 7 years in prison and a Mafia death sentence. He tells how he engaged bankers, corporate executives, union officials, and professional and student athletes in a wide variety of financial scams. His open and honest presentations are fresh and unique. Audiences are captivated by stories of his personal experiences in organized crime and genuinely affected by his powerful anti-crime messages and eye opening revelations. In his autobiography, "Blood Covenant", Franzese reveals answers to many mysteries surrounding his incredible journey. Walk the streets with him to find out how he has done what no one else has managed to do. His newest book, "I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse", was just released by Thomas Nelson, and contains insider business tips from the former mob boss.
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Michael Kesead is Chief of the Air Targeting Cell, Joint Inter Agency Task Force - South. He began his 25 year intelligence career as an all source analyst in the cold war in 1985. Chief Kesead spent the vast majority of his army time focused on fusion of multiple sources of intelligence to combat threats that included, line units of the old Soviet Union, intelligence support to Unconventional Combat Forces, and Department of Defense intelligence support to U.S. and international law enforcement elements. As an introduction to law enforcement intelligence analysis, he was integrated into the High Value Target cell as a senior analyst. Chief Kesead's focus was on specific individuals who were conducting a wide range of illicit activities. Targets included; Consolidated Priority Organizational Targets or CPOT, Tactical FARC leaders, Colombian HcL Labs and Special Interest Aliens. His current position is the Joint Inter Agency Task Force – South, Chief Air Targeting with a primary focus on illicit smuggling by air from South and Central America to global markets.
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Nevin Grieve is a Director of Detica NetReveal®. He has responsibility for managing all ‘Reveal’ activity into the secure government sector including; law enforcement, national security, border control, and defense. Director Grieve has a deep understanding of the challenges and requirements of this sector and has worked with many senior representatives and government organisations in several countries around the world. Prior to working with Detica, Director Grieve was the General Manager of New Zealand based systems integration company, Advantage Group. He was responsible for a number of early eCommerce initiatives as part of Telecom New Zealand following his career in the Royal New Zealand Navy where he had his own command and was accountable for electronic warfare, signals intelligence, mine clearance, and navigation roles on warships.
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Lt. Pete Fagan began his law enforcement career in 1982 shortly after graduating from VA Tech with a bachelor of science in sociology. He was a police officer with the Bristol, Virginia Police Department until he was hired by the VA State Police in 1984. In 1987, Lt. Fagan was selected for the Executive Protection Unit, providing protection for the Governor and family. In 1989, he was promoted to special agent in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. His positions included undercover narcotics investigations, marijuana eradication operations, drug task force management, and planning and research. In 1994 Lt. Fagan was promoted to surveillance agent with responsibility of performing all types of electronic surveillance operations. In 1996, as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge, he managed pharmaceutical diversion investigations. From 1997 until 2003, Lt. Fagan managed the Technical Support Unit in the Criminal Intelligence Division; responsible for all electronic surveillance operations and technical support functions for Hostage Barricade Response operations for the VA State Police and in support of other federal, state, and local agencies. During this period he was designated a subject matter expert in telephone intercepts for Virginia courts. Lt. Fagan’s most recent assignment until retirement in 2009 was in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division. He served as the Assistant Division Commander and program manager for the Law Enforcement Activity Management Systems (RMS Project), Firearms Transaction Center, Uniform Crime/Incident Based Reporting, and Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). Lt. Fagan was the program manager for the Virginia Missing Children’s Information Clearinghouse; with duties as the VA Amber Alert and Virginia Senior Alert Coordinator. Additionally, Lt. Fagan was the Program Manager for the Virginia Criminal Information Network and acted as the Virginia NCIC/Nlets Information Security Officer. He served as a Subject Matter Expert in electronic surveillance, the FBI N-DEx Project, and areas related to ongoing regional and national information sharing initiatives. Lt. Fagan was part of the consultative process for the N-DEx incremental implementation roll-out. He served as the Chairman of the N-DEx Audit Plan Task Force, appointed as a Subject Matter Expert for the FBI Information Sharing Task Force, FBI Information Sharing, and N-DEx Task Force and was a member of the UCR Subcommittee for the FBI-CJIS Advisory Policy Board process in 2008 and 2009. Lt. Fagan is also part of several Virginia Domestic Violence and Fatality Review Committees within Virginia. He was selected to participate with an Information Sharing Focus Group with IACP and the Department of Homeland Security, Directorate for Science and Technology and; has been selected to participate with the National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology, Technology Policy Council for Intelligence Information Sharing Dissemination to state and local agencies.
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Rafael Brinner serves as a Department of Homeland Security intelligence specialist and lead representative to Northern California's coastal
counties. Before joining the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis in 2009, Mr. Brinner spent seven years overseas leading terrorism analysis efforts in support of U.S. forces in Europe and Africa and five years as the U.S. Coast Guard's senior terrorism analyst for the Pacific Area. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Brinner began developing methodologies for triaging the expanding flow of threat information,
focusing in particular on suspicious activity reporting (SAR). Since 2005, he has advised federal, state and local agencies on best practices for analyzing SAR and has presented his work to law enforcement and intelligence community audiences at national and international
conferences. In 2008, Mr. Brinner received a Distinguished Analysis Award from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis in
recognition of his pioneering efforts in this area. Mr. Brinner is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds master's degrees from Northwestern University and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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Supervisory Special Agent(SSA)Rafael Riviere, a Unit Chief in the Terrorist Financing Operations Section at FBI Headquarters, entered on duty as a Special Agent in February 1998. Upon graduation from the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, he was assigned to the Dallas Division where he worked drug investigations. In 2001, SSA Riviere transferred to the San Juan Division and worked on a variety of investigative matters including police corruption, organized crime/drugs, domestic terrorism, and violent crimes. While in San Juan, SSA Riviere was a member of the SWAT team for more than five years. In August 2008, SSA Riviere was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent and moved to FBI Headquarters, Counterterrorism Division. Soon after, he was promoted to Unit Chief in the Terrorist Financing Operations Section. Prior to joining the Bureau, SSA Riviere was a commissioned officer with the United States Air Force for 12 years where he performed duties as an experimental laser physicist, a space program project officer working in support of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, an electronic countermeasures engineer, and as an ROTC instructor. SSA Riviere has a bachelors of science degree in Physics from the University of Puerto Rico and a masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico.
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LEIU Past General Chairman Dick Wright began his law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1965 and worked a variety of uniformed, detective and specialized assignments as an Officer, Sergeant and Lieutenant during 21 years of service. During the last six years, he was assigned as a section leader in the Organized Crime Intelligence Division. In 1986, he joined the Simi Valley Police Department as a Captain and last served as commanding officer of the Department’s Support Services Division. Captain Wright retired from the Department in 2005. He co-authored the California Peace Officers’ Association’s publication, "Criminal Intelligence Program for the Smaller Agency" and several other criminal intelligence articles. He also was a co-editor and contributing author of the LEIU/IALEIA joint publication--"Intelligence 2000: Revising the Basic Elements". Captain Wright is currently the Managing Editor and contributing author to a new LEIU/IALEIA publication "Intelligence for the 21st Century" (to be published in 2010). Captain Wright taught criminal intelligence classes for The California Department of Justice and served on the California Attorney General’s Organized Crime Advisory Committee. Prior to assuming the duties as the LEIU Past General Chairman, Captain Wright served two terms as its General Chairman--starting in May 2001. Before becoming General Chairman, he served on the Executive Board for 10 years as Southwestern Vice Zone Chairman, Zone Chairman and LEIU’s Vice General Chairman.
Captain Wright is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy and holds a bachelor’s degree in public management and a master’s degree in public communication from Pepperdine University.
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Rick Morton is currently a Supervising Investigator with the Orange County (CA) District Attorney's Office. He began his law enforcement career in 1968 with the Los Angeles Police Department. He retired from L.A.P.D. in 1994 as the Newton Street Detective Division Commanding Officer. During his career with L.A.P.D., Supervising Investigator Morton worked in patrol, gangs, homicide and special investigations--including vice and intelligence--as a police officer, sergeant, and lieutenant. During that time he worked six years in undercover assignments. In 1984 Supervising Investigator Morton was also assigned to the UCLA Olympic Village as the watch commander after spending 21 days in Europe undergoing anti-terrorism training. Supervising Investigator Morton began his career with the Orange County DA's Office in 1994 after retiring from L.A.P.D. He has worked for the Intelligence-Organized Crime Unit since 1996 and has supervised the unit since 2001. Supervising Investigator Morton's expertise is traditional organized crime-La Cosa Nostra. Supervising Investigator Morton is currently the LEIU Southwest Zone Chairman and the President of the Western Regional Organized Crime Association, whose focus is traditional organized crime. Supervising Investigator Morton has spoken at several Southern California colleges where he discussed organized crime and gambling with college athletes.
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Adv. Ronnie Eilat is a senior Product Manager at Verint Systems, responsible for the company's offerings in the fields of analysis and investigation. Mr. Eilat has more than ten years of experience in operational concept design and product management of interception and intelligence systems.
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Sandy Wilson has been an intelligence analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for the past seven years conducting both strategic and tactical intelligence analysis. Her work experience is diverse and includes regional, national, and international investigations on street gangs, drugs, weapons, homicides, migrant smuggling, extremist groups, and terrorism. Analyst Wilson has worked extensively in integrated units and is committed to advancing the field of intelligence analysis. She has co-designed and taught advanced intelligence analysis workshops regionally and nationally to multiple police agencies at the Canadian Police College. She lectures on the use of open source information for intelligence, investigation, and court purposes at events such as the Western Canada Street Gang Conference. Analyst Wilson provides training workshops on “Ethics in Intelligence Analysis” and “Intelligence-Led Policing” to agencies such as the RCMP and Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada. She also co-developed and teaches an advanced Honours-level university course on “Criminal Intelligence Analysis” for the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Analyst Wilson holds a masters degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia where she studied sexual homicide.
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Sara Arabian is a three year veteran of the Criminal Investigative Liaison Branch at the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. She acts as both an analyst and central point-of-contact in efforts made by outside agencies to engage Diplomatic Security elements
overseas.
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Steve Tochterman is a Special Agent (SA) with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He has been with the FAA since 1985. From 1985 until 2002, SA Tochterman served in Tampa, Florida as a Federal Air Marshal/Civil Aviation Security Specialist (CASS), Brussels, Belgium, as a CASS and Civil Aviation Security Liaison Officer (CASLO), Atlanta, Georgia as a Special Technical Support Officer and Singapore as a CASLO. Most of his experience had been in International aviation security. Since 2003 SA Tochterman has been assigned to the FAA, Southern Region, Law Enforcement Assistance Program in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Susan Constantine is a body language expert, professional speaker, and trainer. Additionally, Ms. Constantine is Supreme Court County Mediator, and former jury consultant with more than six years experience as a researcher and trainer in verbal and non-verbal communication. She often works with and trains attorney investigators, judges, law enforcement personnel, social workers, physician psychologists and business professionals in how to read and interpret facial gestures that reveal the true emotion behind them and deception detection. Ms. Constantine is a core trainer for Analytic Interviewing and is certified to teach and facilitate all aspects of Analytic Interviewing including deception detection, communication, cognitive interviewing, reading facial expressions of emotions and body language. She provides her expertise in "reading" people in high profile cases in Central Florida for several television channels and appears as a regular expert on the Casey Anthony (child homicide) case. Ms.Constantine has been involved in training courses for corporations, law firms, medical, banking institutions, organizations, and small businesses including: “Lie to Me”, “Bodies Don’t Lie”, “The Four Secret Languages of Communication”, “Deception Detection”, and “Instant Rapport”. Ms Constantine is the President of Silent Messages LLC; is a certified trainer for Analytic Interviewing; is certified in advance training in the Reid technique for interviewing and interrogations; is a Supreme Court county mediator; and is certified in cognitive interviewing. Ms. Constantine is a renowned speaker on understanding and predicting human behavior and is a body language expert who has served as a source for reporters during high profile cases. She is an approved trainer to facilitate facial expressions of emotions developed by Dr. Paul Ekman. Ms. Constantine has trained hundreds of law enforcement officers, investigators, judges, social workers and attorneys in how to read and interpret facial expressions allowing them to know what potential jurors, witnesses, and even criminals are subconsciously thinking and feeling.
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Thomas Manson is the owner of Police Technical, Inc. He speaks 50 weeks a year at national and international public safety conferences including: IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police), CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies), ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) and others. Mr. Manson taught at, and received degrees from: Wichita State University (Master of Arts, 1996) and Indiana State University (Bachelor of Science, 1993). He began his law enforcement career with the United States Border Patrol in South Texas.
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Thomas J. Colbert is the founder and CEO of the consulting firm, CommStatim. He is a senior executive with 18 years in crisis-management instruction for law enforcement and the military, along with 29 years of management and editorial experience in the national news business. In 2004, Mr. Colbert teamed up in business with the FBI’s top cyber-operative in counterterrorism, Judge Shannen L. Rossmiller (ret.). With her self-taught Arabic and dozens of undercover characters to engage Muslim extremists online, the renowned asset has been credited with 214 cases of actionable intelligence and global sting-captures since 9/11. In 2007, Mr. Colbert leveraged the judge’s proven online methodologies and technologies into the national security company, Advanced Cyber-CounterIntelligence Operations, Inc. (AC-CIO). He served as CEO for two years. Formerly, Mr. Colbert served as a rotating crisis-management trainer at various police, fire and military academies – including 18 years at the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI), the State Office of Emergency Service’s renowned disaster preparedness school at Camp San Luis. Thousands of professionals from around the world attended his presentations covering media, terrorism, disinformation, natural disasters, and hazardous materials training (from 1983 to 2001).
Since the 1930’s, radio and TV networks have routinely taken headline stories from small-town papers and stations without credit or compensation to the local reporters that broke them. Mr. Colbert felt this practice wasn’t ethical, so in 1992 he launched Industry R & D, Inc. (IRD) – a news research company and middleman “pipeline” that takes the best breaking tips from regional journalists to buyers in the national media. Since then, the IRD staff has developed and email-forwarded more than 17,000 local story tips to TV editors, publishers and producers in New York and Hollywood – without one civil suit or complaint for accuracy. Over two dozen reporter tips have become books, with a like number reaching the big and small screens – such as Baby Brokers, starring Cybill Shepherd (a surrogate fraud case involving the LAPD and U.S. Attorney); and The Princess & Marine (A love story with The Marine Corps, consulting). In 2009, Mr. Colbert stepped down from his 17-year CEO position and sold IRD. Mr. Colbert began his professional career in 1980 with a journalism internship at the CBS news division’s flagship station in Los Angeles--KCBS. Hired during college, he worked his way up to Senior Research-Reporter. Dozens of story exclusives garnished his station team regional Emmys and Golden Mike awards, especially during major emergency coverage. In 1989, Mr. Colbert was recruited by Paramount Studios to become Research Director for a syndicated TV news magazine show. Two years later, he departed to take the position of Managing Editor for two reality programs featuring recreations of dramatic police & fire incidents. Mr. Colbert is a graduate of the award-winning Journalism Department at Cal State University, Northridge.
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Thomas J. O’Reilly is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He was recently appointed Director of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative Program Management Office. He will lead a team of representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and state, local, and tribal agencies in the implementation of SAR to all fusion centers nationwide. In his capacity as Senior Policy Advisor, he contributes to a wide range of justice information sharing initiatives, including fusion center programs and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Program Manager’s Office Outreach Program. Prior to his position at BJA, Mr. O’Reilly was the administrator of the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, the organization responsible for oversight of the state police, emergency management, fusion center operations, criminal justice system coordination, criminal and civil legal services, and juvenile justice. Mr. O’Reilly also served as the assistant director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, the chief of Police Programs for the State Law Enforcement Planning Agency, and the planning officer for the Trenton, New Jersey, Police Division. Previously, Mr. O’Reilly was elected president of the National Criminal Justice Association and vice chairman of DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Advisory Committee. He also served as a member of the National Crime Information Center Advisory Committee, FBI, Criminal Justice Information Services Advisory Policy Board. Mr. O’Reilly received a master’s degree in administration from Rider University, a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University, and a Public Manager Certification from Rutgers University.
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Tom Oberweiser is the Eastern District Supervisor for the Montana Department of Justice Gambling Control Division, Gambling Investigation Bureau (GIB), having served in that capacity since 1994.
He has been a sworn law enforcement officer for twenty-eight years and a criminal gambling investigator for 21 years. Supervisor Oberweiser received his advanced law enforcement certification through the Montana Law Enforcement Academy and is certified through the Montana POST as an instructor in the areas of gambling and tobacco investigations and police ethics with an emphasis on organized sports bookmaking. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy (2000). He has successfully investigated large scale organized illegal gambling enterprises which resulted in convictions and large monetary forfeitures. Supervisor Oberweiser sits on the Advisory Council of the Montana State University (Billings)Criminal Justice Degree Program; the Board of the Montana Council on Problem Gambling and is a guest instructor at Rocky Mountain College in Billings--teaching a football officiating class. He has been a football official for over 25 years, the last 10 doing college and professional indoor football games. In 1998 Supervisor Oberweiser was awarded the Montana Governor’s Award for Excellence and was selected Montana Department of Justice Employee of the Year. He has spoken on the topic of organized sports bookmaking around the country and has provided training to many law enforcement agencies and professional organizations, including the North American Gambling Regulators Association (Washington, D.C. 2009) and the Midwest Gambling Investigators & Regulators Association (March, 2007).
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Mr. Godsey received his BA degree in Business and Political Science in 1984 from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. In 1986 he graduated from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy and for the next 4 years he worked as a police officer in Southeast Tennessee. In 1990, Mr. Godsey went to work at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in the special prosecution unit. He left the Attorney General’s Office in 1995 as the Chief Criminal Investigator and assumed the role of Violent Crime Support Unit Supervisor at the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP). In 1998, the MSHP combined the Violent Crime Support Unit and the Criminal Intelligence/Crime Analysis Unit and Mr. Godsey was promoted to supervisor of both units. Over the next 7 years, Mr. Godsey supervised the Criminal Intelligence/Crime Analysis Unit and became involved in several information and intelligence sharing initiatives. Some of these efforts include the Missouri Statewide Police Intelligence Network (MoSPIN), the Midwest HIDTA, the National Virtual Pointer System (NVPS), and many others. Mr. Godsey is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), International Association of Crime Analyst (IACA) and the Vice General Chairman of the Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU). In December 2005, Mr. Godsey was appointed as Director of the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), the State of Missouri’s designated Fusion Center. In April of 2009, Mr. Godsey assumed his current position as Assistant Director to the Division of Drug and Crime Control. Mr. Godsey has been involved as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on numerous initiatives for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice and served as the Central Region Vice Chair for the Homeland Security-State and Local Intelligence Community (HS-SLIC).
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Vanessa Chopyk has been a Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for nine years. She is currently posted in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Analyst Chopyk has worked on numerous provincial, national, and international drug trafficking investigations as well as investigations concerning money laundering, proceeds of crime, homicides, weapons trafficking, police corruption, and national security. She lectures regionally and nationally to both analysts and investigators. Analyst Chopyk has instructed on the Strategic Intelligence Analysis Course and the Advanced Analytical Techniques Workshop at the Canadian Police College. She has also instructed at the joint Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada/RCMP Criminal Intelligence course. Analyst Chopyk is a faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg where she co-teaches Criminal Intelligence Analysis. She was presented with the RCMP Award of Distinction in 2009 for dedication and expertise in intelligence analysis. She was also the co-recipient of an Award of Honor from the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association in 2005 for her work on Project Diversion/Operation Brain Drain, an international joint forces operation between the RCMP and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Analyst Chopyk has a masters degree in sociology from the University of Manitoba.
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