The Homeland Security Management Institute’s The Long Island University Homeland Security Management Institute boasts an unparalleled faculty of highly experienced Homeland Security professionals who hold doctoral degrees and other outstanding academic credentials. "All members of our faculty of Senior Fellows, which includes four Fulbright Scholars, are highly experienced practitioners with exceptional academic and professional credentials who do the work they teach ." "In conjunction with our renowned Board of Advisors, the Institute's faculty of Senior Fellows make our graduate-level Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management and our Master of Science in Homeland Security Management degree the nation's only programs that are designed and delivered by professionals, for professionals." |
Bruce Blakeman, a practicing attorney and 2006 graduate of the Homeland Security Management Institute’s Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management program, has been a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey since 2001. In this capacity, Mr. Blakeman serves on numerous committees managing all financial, risk management, and policy aspects of the nation’s largest and most complex Port Authority, an entity with a $4.6 Billion annual budget whose transportation infrastructure includes JFK, Newark Liberty, LaGuardia, Teterboro and Stewart International airports, the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth, the PATH Commuter Railroad, and the World Trade Center. Reflecting his particular expertise in homeland security and transportations security matters, Bruce serves as Vice Chairman of the Port Authority’s Security Committee, and he is a member of the Construction, World Trade Center, and Legal Committees. Mr. Blakeman is Associate Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Foundation, and he holds numerous law enforcement and homeland security positions that include honorary Sheriff of the City of New York, honorary Chief of the Hempstead, NY Police, and honorary Police Commissioner of Mineola, NY. Mr. Blakeman served as a panel member and subject matter expert for the U.S. Naval Institute's prestigious Homeland Port Security Conference in 2006, and he is a frequent panelist and commentator on legal, homeland security, and transportations security issues for media outlets that include CNBC, the Fox News Network, WLIW (PBS), and Court TV. Mr. Blakeman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Arizona State University and his Juris Doctor degree from California Western School of Law. Bruce became one of the Homeland Security Management Institute’s first graduates in 2006 when he earned the Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management. Dr. Keith Bryett is a highly-regarded international academic expert and private consultant in matters relating to terrorism, law enforcement, and security issues. Dr. Bryett, who retired from the Queensland (Australia) Police Service as a detective sergeant following a 27-year police career, earned his Ph.D. from Aberdeen University in 1987 where he studied law enforcement's counterterrorism activities in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom with regard to the Irish Republican Army. In addition to various academic and consulting positions he held in Australia, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States, Dr. Bryett served as director of human resource development and education for the Northern Territory (Australia) Police, Fire and Emergency Services Department. In that capacity he was responsible for all recruit-level and in-service training and education for personnel providing police, fire and emergency services throughout the Northern Territory – an area of more than a half million square miles. Dr. Bryett has co-authored or co-edited six books on policing and terrorism issues, including (with Joanne Wright) "Policing and Conflict in Northern Ireland" (London: Macmillan, 2000) and numerous refereed articles, book chapters, monographs, and consulting reports. Dr. Bryett has an expansive knowledge and a great deal of practical experience in law enforcement systems throughout the world, and is currently working with the United Kingdom's National Crime Squad (NCS) to assess the street-level impact of national-level operations against organized crime groups. Dr. Steven Bucci is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. He was raised in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating with a B.S. in National Security and Public Affairs in 1977. In 1986 and 1987, he earned a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, both in International Relations. Bucci is also a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, the Hellenic Army War College in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Department of State Senior Seminar. His highest award is the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He also has the Bronze Star, the Special Forces Tab, Master Parachutist’s wings, and the Order of Naim Frasheri, 1st Class (Albanian). Commissioned in the Infantry, Bucci served in various leadership positions in the 82nd Airborne at Ft Bragg, NC, before joining the 5th Special Forces; from that point in his career, he served in Greece as a detachment commander, at Ft Jackson, SC, as a brigade operations officer, and in the Foreign Area Officer program. He completed 4 years of graduate study, language training at the Defense Language Institute, and regional training in the Balkans. At the JFK Special Warfare Center at Ft Bragg, Bucci taught European Studies, Foreign Policy, International Relations Theory, and Development Studies for the Army Special Operations community. Bucci moved to the 7th Special Forces, conducting numerous counter drug and development deployments across Latin America. Dr. Bucci was selected to be the first ever resident Defense Attaché in Tirana, Albania. In the period 1994 to 1996, he planned, coordinated and oversaw nine combined exercises and numerous other high level activities. Moving to Ft Campbell, KY to command the 3d Battalion of the 5th Special Forces, he led major operational deployments to eastern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia, including Operation Desert Thunder. Post command he served as the Defense Attaché in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Bucci assumed the duties of the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense on 1 July 2001, and served in that capacity through the 9/11 attack, and the Global War on Terrorism. While there he led a team of 25 other colonels to Baghdad to directly assist the Coalition Provisional Authority leadership in the final six month period leading to the transfer of sovereignty; serving as the military assistant to the Deputy Administrator. He retired from active duty in spring of 2005, but continued serving as the Staff Director of the Immediate Office of the Secretary, and a Presidential appointee as a member of the Senior Executive Service. He presently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, one of the four components of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs. In this position he oversees the policy issues involving the Defense Domains (Air, Land, and Maritime), National Guard operational issues, Domestic Counter Terrorism, and readiness exercises. Dr. Bucci and his wife, the former Suzanne Sloane of Bettendorf, IA have two sons; Peter, who with his wife Jennifer live in Atlanta, and Philip, who is attending the Military Academy. Leo G. Callaghan, J.D. Recently retired from New York Police Department, Leo Callaghan is an attorney and consultant who has wide experience dealing with the complex range of legal and policy issues facing major law enforcement agencies. He has served as both a police supervisor and special legal counsel, working as an advisor at the highest levels of the New York Police Department, managing projects, analyzing policy questions, and providing legal advice. He has special interests and experience in intelligence and counter terrorism, organizational management, human resources administration, risk management, and workplace drug testing. As Special Counsel, Leo Callaghan was the primary legal and policy advisor to the New York Police Department's Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence concerning the New York Police Department's intelligence and counter-terrorism operations, managing litigation, special projects, and policy development. As deputy managing attorney in the New York Police Department’s Legal Bureau, Mr. Callaghan managed agency litigation and provided counsel and training on matters including employment, discipline, labor policy, drug testing, discrimination, contracts, administration, legislation, and internal and public policy. As special counsel to the chief of personnel, he provided legal and policy advice and managed litigation and special projects concerning human resources functions in the nation's largest municipal police agency. He co-authored and edited Police Commissioner Bratton's Plan of Action Re-Engineering Report, served as a member of the legal team achieving the landmark modification of the Handschu Federal Consent Decree governing intelligence operations conducted by law enforcement, and held key operational, planning, and policy-making positions for the New York Police Department during both the 1992 Democratic and 2004 Republican National Conventions, among many other special projects and assignments. Leo was a first responder to the World Trade Center terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Leo Callaghan is certified as an instructor by the New York State Police Municipal Training Council, and previously worked as an instructor for the Law Enforcement Training Institute, where he developed and conducted in-service training for law enforcement personnel. Leo Callaghan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School. He is admitted to practice law in the New York State Courts; United States Supreme Court, and United States District Courts (Eastern and Southern Districts of New York). He is a graduate of the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services Management Academy Executive Development Program. His professional associations include the New York State Bar Association, American Society for Industrial Security International, and American Academy for Professional Law Enforcement. Leo Callaghan currently serves as executive director and general counsel of CrimeStoppers of Suffolk County. Mary Ann Cline, M.S, Ph.D. (ABD) Mary Ann Cline received her Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University and her Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College. She has completed all coursework for a doctoral degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova Southeastern University and is currently completing her dissertation. Professor Cline's research interests deal with addressing the organizational and systemic conflicts that exist within the Intelligence Community, as well as focusing on the opposing forces and competing interests involved in dealing with the economic, political, operational, and social realities of our changed environment since the events of 9/11. Professor Cline has 20 years experience as an Air Force officer and over 16 years experience serving in the Intelligence field. She has served in seven overseas deployments, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, Professor Cline has extensive military training and experience in personnel recovery plans and operations, force protection, counterterrorism, and tactical deception. Mary Ann Cline’s research and teaching reflect her extensive experience and broad expertise in the Intelligence field. Brian Dietzman, M.S. Brian Dietzman is a US Army Major currently serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he teaches American Politics, Advanced American Politics, and the Homeland Security course. Brian received his military commission through ROTC upon graduating from the Sam Nunn School of Public Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he earned a BS with High Honors in International Affairs and was Distinguished Military Graduate. Brian also graduated from the George Bush School of Public Service at Texas A & M University in 2005, earning an MS in International Affairs while focusing on Homeland Security and completing an internship at the Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis Infrastructure Protection Directorate. A Fellow at the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at Texas A & M University, Brian also serves as Adjunct Professor at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service where he teaches the "Department of Defense in Homeland Security and Homeland Defense" course. Brian Dietzman has presented at numerous conferences on defense issues associated with Homeland Security, including the role and structure of the National Guard and Reserves, the North American Security Perimeter, and Homeland Security education and curriculum development. His professional military education includes the Army War College’s Defense Strategy Course, the Tactical Signals Intelligence Course, the Combined Arms and Service Staff School, the Military Intelligence Advanced Course and the Military Intelligence Officer Transition Course. His personal decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (1 OLC), the Army Achievement Medal (3 OLC), the National Defense Service Medal (with Star), the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. Brian’s military service deployments include Bosnia, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Vincent J. Doherty, M.A. Vincent Doherty is a retired Captain and a highly decorated 25 year veteran of the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY), where he served as Company Commander of Hazardous Materials Company 1 and retired as the Executive Officer of HazMat Operations, Special Operations Command. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University and a Master of Arts degree in Security Studies from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. Vincent is presently the Director of Program Outreach for the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security, and is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Naval Analysis and an instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, AL. A highly regarded subject matter expert in such fields as Hazardous Materials, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Emergency Management, first responder communications, and various fire service specialties, Vincent was the CHDS 2005-2006 Senior Fellow/Practitioner at the Department of Homeland Security’s Preparedness Directorate and currently serves on the Board of Advisors for ICx Corporation and EdgeVelocity Corp. A member of the Homeland Security Management Institute’s distinguished Board of Advisors, Vincent also serves as Co-Chair of the Science and Technology Committee for the Interagency Board (IAB) for Equipment Standardization and Interoperability. A member of the Editorial Review Board of the peer-reviewed journal Homeland Security Affairs, Vincent Doherty teaches HSMI courses that include Emergency Management and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Frederick J. Ferrer, M.S.S.I., Ph.D. (ABD) Frederick Ferrer is a Director in Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Office of Homeland Security. He completed his Ph.D. course of studies in History at the Florida State University and holds a Master of Science degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College. Dr. Ferrer is a military veteran with twenty years of distinguished service in the U.S. Air Force as a signals intelligence specialist in three foreign language fields. During the course of his military and civilian teaching career, he taught and evaluated language courses and earned a Master Instructor rating in the Air Training Command; he developed, designed and led career training and education courses at the National Security Agency’s National Cryptologic School; he served as a Senior Faculty member at the Central Intelligence Agency University; and he designed and taught American and Diplomatic history courses at the Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College. Mr. Ferrer holds the distinction of receiving the Chapel of the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Award; was honored with the title of Historian Emeritus of the 91st Squadron Demon Chasers; and has served on Cold War Museum Board of Directors. Vincent E. Henry CPP, Ph.D. Vincent E. Henry earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York (John Jay), and is associate professor and director of Long Island University's Homeland Security Management Institute. He earned B.A. and M.S. degrees from Long Island University (C.W. Post Campus) and an M.Phil. degree from the City University of New York. A first responder to the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack, Vincent retired from the NYPD in 2002 following a 21-year police career in which he served in a wide variety of uniformed and plainclothes patrol, undercover decoy, training, investigative, supervisory and management assignments. The first American police officer to be named a Fulbright Scholar (Australia, 1989 – 1990), Vincent also holds the American Society for Industrial Security’s Certified Protection Professional (CPP) credential. Among the academic awards Vincent Henry has received are the McCabe Fellowship (2001), the City University of New York’s Arthur Niederhoffer Memorial Fellowship (1994) and the Kenneth B. and Mamie Phipps Clark Fellowship (1994-1995), as well as the John A. Reisenbach Foundation Dissertation Prize. Vincent’s doctoral dissertation was one of three international finalists in the prestigious Council of Graduate Schools / University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award competition, and he was the valedictory Commencement Speaker at the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center’s Doctoral Commencement. Vincent has received the C.W. Post College of Management Dean's Outstanding Alumnus Award as well as the C.W. Post College of Management Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Service to the Community. He also is a management consultant to numerous law enforcement agencies across the United States as well as in Australia, Japan, and South America. As Commanding Officer of the Police Commissioner's Office of Management Analysis and Planning's Special Projects Unit from 1991 to 2000, Vincent Henry was a member of the Police Commissioner’s executive staff and played an integral role in developing and implementing policy initiatives throughout the agency, particularly those related to the COMPSTAT process and the NYPD's reengineering. As commanding officer of the Police Academy's Education Support Section, he and his staff developed the NYPD's initial training program for first responders to terrorist incidents. He served as NYPD representative on the multi-agency New York Metropolitan Counter-Terrorism Committee (Training Subcommittee) following the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, and was part of the NYPD research team seconded to work with the Special Branch and other anti-terrorism entities of the London Metropolitan Police, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and the Garda Siochana (Irish Police) to identify and implement appropriate counter-terrorism strategies and terrorism intelligence practices in New York City. Vincent is the author of numerous publications in the fields of law enforcement management, police corruption and reform, psychological trauma, terrorism, and homeland security. His recent books include "The COMPSTAT Paradigm: Management Accountability in Policing, Business and the Private Sector" (Looseleaf Law Publishers, 2002) and "Death Work: Police, Trauma, and the Psychology of Survival" (Oxford University Press, 2004) Joseph (Greg) Kaufmann, M.A., M.S. Joseph (Greg) Kaufmann concluded a 30-year career in the U.S. Army in 2005, retiring as a Colonel in Army Aviation focused on Strategic Plans and Policy. His final military assignment was to the Office of the Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, where he was initially the Military Assistant to the Deputy Chairman, then Special Assistant to the Chairman. Selected issues with which he was involved included establishment and execution of the ISAF mission, NATO support to counter-terrorism (CT) activities, coordination of NATO-Russian CT activities, and NATO support to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon retirement, he became Director and established the Institute for Global Security Studies at Austin Peay State University, and was also named to the Board of Advisors of the Tennessee Homeland Security Consortium. He is now an independent management and education consultant. Greg Kaufman’s previous assignments include Director (1999-2001) and Chief of Staff (1997-1999) of the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Balkans Task Force, where he served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on all Balkans-related matters while overseeing all DoD Balkans-related policy issues; Commander of the 1st Battalion, 58th Aviation Regiment (Corps)(Airborne) of the XVIII Airborne Corps (1993-1995), with concurrent deployments in Somalia, Haiti, and Kuwait; Executive Officer of the 4th Battalion, 58th Aviation Regiment and Company Commander in the 501st Aviation Regiment in Seoul, Korea; Action Officer of the Concepts, Doctrine and Force Policy Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, HQDA; Deputy Executive Director of the, Human Research and Engineering Directorate at the Army Research Laboratory; and Assistant Professor of English at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He also held leadership and staff positions in the 101st Assault Helicopter and 229th Attack Helicopter Battalions, both at the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); the 222nd Combat Aviation Battalion; and the Electronic Research and Development Command’s Flight Test Activity. Greg was the CSA-selected Senior Army Fellow at Harvard University for 2001-2002, where he was in residence at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and where he remains an active Fellow. He earned an M.S. in National Resource Strategy from National Defense University and an M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an M.I.T. Seminar XXI Fellow in 1998-99 and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College’s Defense Strategy Course as well as numerous other executive-level leadership and national security development programs. Dual-rated in both rotary and fixed wing aircraft, he holds the Senior Army Aviator and basic Army Parachutist ratings. He has published widely across both professional and scholarly refereed journals, most notably with a 2002 article in the Harvard International Review on the U.S. national security and interagency system and the challenges facing a new Department of Homeland Security. His entry in the 1998 CJCS Strategic Essay Writing Competition on the pre-commissioning educational needs of military officers was selected as a Distinguished Essay. Greg Kaufmann’s teaching focus is in the area of Homeland Security Leadership. Marian Leerburger, Ph.D. Marian Leerburger, a subject matter expert in transnational illicit activities, homeland security and crisis management, teaches a variety of subjects, to include thesis writing, counterterrorism, political science, criminal justice, homeland and national security, and business management. She received her Doctorate in Political Science from University of Maryland, holds masters degrees from Georgetown University and American University, and was granted her BA from Colby College. She is employed by the Federal Government and has published papers on counterterrorism, international gangs, and other homeland security issues. Sean W. Malinowski, Ph.D. Sean Malinowski earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2003. During his graduate studies, Sean was named a Fulbright Scholar and studied police training and counter-terrorism at the Egyptian National Police Academy in Cairo. He graduated from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1994 and is currently a sergeant serving as an aide to Chief William J. Bratton. Sean has worked Los Angeles Police Department patrol assignments in South Central Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley and in the west side beach community of Venice. He also has been assigned to Training Division where he revised course curricula to comply with department policy and with the federal Consent Decree. He led the re-design of the Basic Supervisor Course, Narcotics School and Vice School. He designed scenarios on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) for delivery to all in-service officers and incoming recruits, utilizing cutting-edge simulation and sand table exercises. Sean is now consulting with the College of the Canyons on the Terror Consequence Management Gaming Simulation Project. This Department of Homeland Security grant is designed to increase public safety by using proprietary gaming software, similar to popular commercially available PlayStation®-type video games to prepare first line police and fire supervisors to respond to incidents involving Weapons of Mass Destruction. He also formed a unique partnership between the Los Angeles Police Department, The Los Angeles City Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles County Fire Department to fulfill their common federally-mandated training needs. Sean also serves on the advisory board for Institute for the Study of Violent Groups, at Sam Houston State University, where he provides advice and expertise as a subject matter expert in research design and database protocol for this major Department of Homeland Security-funded research program. Drawing upon an existing database of more than 800 terrorist groups compiled over the past 20 years, this research program is designed to test the relationship between terrorist groups and criminal elements operating in the global environment. In the past, he held a university appointment as executive director of the Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. OICJ provides opportunities for criminal justice academics and practitioners to collaborate on research and training in 35 countries across the world. He also taught Criminal Investigation, Introduction to International Terrorism and Comparative Criminal Justice Issues courses at UIC and lectured extensively in countries throughout the world including in China, Vietnam, Egypt, Cuba, Hungary, England, Poland and Russia. In 1996, he was appointed by Chicago Mayor, Richard M. Daley, as executive director of the Mayor's Commission on Police Integrity where he designed the commission's research study and authored its final report responding to Chicago's police corruption scandal of 1996. He is also the founder of "Cop to Cop," the State Department’s international police exchange program in Eastern Europe. The author of numerous articles on topics ranging from Sharia Law and Moslem Women to the Measurement of Police Corruption to Criminal Profiling, Malinowski continues to serve on the editorial board for Crime and Justice International. He is a member of the Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Intellectual Property Committee and the City of Los Angeles’ 311 Implementation Work Group. James F. McShane, J.D. Jim McShane joined Columbia University as the assistant vice president for the Department of Public Safety in January, 2004. Jim is responsible for security and safety at both the Morningside and Medical Center Campuses. He oversees all uniformed operations and investigations, and is responsible for security technology and fire safety. Jim McShane is a 24-year veteran of the New York City Police Department. He began his career on patrol in the 52nd Precinct. He was promoted to sergeant in October 1984 and served as a patrol supervisor in the 41st and 42nd Precincts. After graduating from St. John’s University School of Law in 1986, he obtained a leave of absence to work as an associate attorney at the Law Firm of Rogers & Wells. Upon his return to the Department in October, 1987, he was assigned to the Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters and then to the Office of the Police Commissioner as legal advisor to Commissioner Benjamin Ward. Promoted to lieutenant in November 1989, Jim McShane was soon assigned to the staff of First Deputy Commissioner Ray Kelly. He was promoted to captain in January 1992 while attending the Kennedy School of Government where he received a Master of Public Administration degree. In the fall of 1992, he returned to the Police Commissioner’s Office as legal advisor to then Police Commissioner Kelly. In 1994, Deputy Inspector McShane commanded the 47th Precinct in the Bronx. Thereafter, he was assigned as commanding officer of the First Deputy Commissioner’s Office under Commissioner John Timoney in January 1995. In August 1996, he was assigned as commanding officer, Narcotics Borough Manhattan South, where he served until June 1997, when he was transferred to the Traffic Control Division. He served in traffic for nearly six years, as both the executive officer and as commanding officer, and was a first responder to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center. He was promoted to deputy chief in January 2002. In March 2003, Chief McShane was appointed executive officer of the Narcotics Division, his final assignment in a 24-year career with the Department. Prior to joining the New York Police Department, Jim McShane taught mathematics in the South Bronx for five years; first at St. Angela Merici Elementary School and then at Morris High School, where he also served as dean of students. Jim McShane holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Fordham University, a Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law, and a Master's of Public Administration from Harvard University. He also is a 1994 Graduate of the Police Management Institute at Columbia University and was awarded a Fulbright Grant as a lecturer at the Police College of Finland in Helsinki, Finland in 2000. Jim and his wife, Joan, are the proud parents of two daughters, Kerry and Caroline. They also are the proud grandparents of Aiden James. James F. Miskel, Ph.D. James Miskel is an Emergency Management and Defense Industry Consultant in Rhode Island and until 2005 was a professor of National Security Affairs and Associate Dean of Academics at the U.S. Naval War College. Before joining the War College faculty in 1993, he was an executive at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Director for Defense Policy at the National Security Council under Presidents Reagan and Bush I. During 2005-7 James was also a consultant to the State of Rhode Island and designed and conducted homeland security tabletops for nineteen municipalities. James is widely published in the national security field. His most recent books are: Disaster Relief and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn’t (Praeger, 2006) and A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in the Greater Near East (co-author, University Press of Florida, 2006). James’s undergraduate degree is from Boston College and his graduate degrees are from the State University of New York. Gregory Moser, M.S. Gregory Moser was appointed the Executive Director of Homeland Security Programs at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies in January 2007 and has been a member of D.U.’s homeland security graduate program since its inception in early 2001. He also created an innovative “HLS Classroom-to-Workplace” program that provides internships and entry-level job placement for students. As an adjunct instructor for the Naval Postgraduate School, he supported the design and delivery of a four-course certificate for the Army National Guard. Gregory is routinely invited as a guest lecturer at colleges and public events throughout Colorado. Gregory also has seven years of practical experience in state and local homeland security and emergency management. He served in the Colorado Office of Emergency Management as the state’s terrorism preparedness coordinator from 1999-2003, assisting local communities and state agencies with a wide range of grants, planning and training programs. As the plans, training and exercise coordinator for Jefferson County Emergency Management from 2003-2006, Gregory coordinated a wide range of activities to enhance local level all-hazards prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Gregory is also a retired U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer, and in that capacity he supported a wide range of joint and combined combat operations and military operations. In addition to supporting worldwide airborne warning and control missions and strategic airlift operations, he also served as the U.S. Intelligence Advisor to Kuwait (1994-1997), and developed the Intelligence Support to Multi-National Operations for the National Military Intelligence Training Center at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Gregory Moser holds an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, a B.S. in International Affairs, and an Area Certificate in Africa and the Middle East from Oklahoma State University. Daniel T. Mullin, J.D. Daniel T. Mullin is the senior director for Security and Facility Management for Major League Baseball (MLB). Dan is involved with the security and evacuation planning for all 30 major league ballparks. He has direct responsibility for security planning at all of MLB’s major events, including the All-Star game, the World Series, and the World Baseball Classic. He has oversight of all investigations involving players, coaches and other major league employees. Dan also helps coordinate Department of Homeland Security drills at ballparks around the country. Dan is currently serving on the Department of Homeland Security Critical Infrastructure working group. Prior to joining Major League Baseball, Dan served 23 years with the New York City Police Department, retiring as a deputy chief. He last served as the executive officer of the Bronx, where he supervised more than 3000 police officers. He also served as the executive officer of the Narcotics Division, as well as the commanding officer of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Squad, Staten Island Detectives, and the 114th and 103rd precincts. Dan was a first responder at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and at the crash of American Airlines flight 585. Dan is a graduate of St. John’s University and New York Law School. He has been an adjunct professor at John Jay College (1993-2000) and at Seton Hall University (2001-03). He has recently provided training for both the California and Utah Departments of Homeland Security. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the International Association of Assembly Managers. James W. Munday, CEM, M.S., (M.S.,H.S.M. candidate) James W. Munday, a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM), currently serves as the Senior Manager of Emergency Readiness, Office of Emergency Management of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In this capacity, he leads the Emergency Readiness Team in the development and implementation of agency-wide emergency response and recovery plans, business continuity plans, and training and exercise programs for the nation’s largest and most complex transportation infrastructure system. He designs and facilitates emergency response drills and exercises for agency responders, state and federal partners, and senior Port Authority executives. A retired US Army Infantry Officer with 21 years of service, James Munday held key leadership positions that include Battalion Commander, Brigade Executive Officer, Instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Commander of the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington D.C. Following his retirement from the military and prior to joining the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Jim was Manager of Emergency Preparedness and Communications for the Walt Disney Company in California, heading up both the Emergency Operations Center Team and the 911 Central Communications Team. At Disney, he developed and implemented emergency management plans, leadership training, and emergency response drills and conducted the largest and most complex full-scale emergency exercise ever conducted at the Disneyland Resort. Mr. Munday, who holds the International Association of Emergency Managers’ Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) credential and who serves as Advisor to the International Association of Emergency Managers Student Association (IAEMSA) at the Homeland Security Management Institute, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California. Jim will receive his Master of Science in Homeland Security Management Degree (with highest distinction) from the Homeland Security Management Institute in May 2008. Daniel Oates, J.D. Daniel J. Oates is the safety services administrator and chief of police for the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his responsibilities include managing and coordinating all of Ann Arbor's public safety functions, including police, fire and emergency management in agencies that have a total of 330 employees and a combined budget of $35 million. Prior to coming to Ann Arbor, Chief Oates served for 21 years in the New York Police Department, retiring as the executive officer and second-in-command of the Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, where he supervised 3,000 patrol officers and 700 civilians and was responsible for all patrol services for 1.4 million residents in the city's largest borough. Between 1997 and 2001, Chief Oates served as the commanding officer of the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division. He was a member of the police commissioner's Executive Staff and served as his principal advisor on citywide security and intelligence matters. Chief Oates' prior New York Police Department assignments also included those of chief counsel and commanding officer of the Legal Bureau, the New York Police Department's 85-attorney law office, and as commanding officer of the Police Cadet Corps, where he recruited, trained and supervised nearly 500 police cadets attending 30 colleges and universities in the New York area. Chief Oates also has held varied field and staff assignments in the ranks of police officer through captain, including patrol in three Manhattan precincts, community relations, law, personnel management, teaching in the Police Academy, supervising narcotics investigations and coordinating training for the Narcotics Division. A graduate of Bucknell University with a B.A. degree in English, Chief Oates also holds a Master of Science in Management from New York University and graduated from Columbia University's Police Management Institute. Chief Oates earned his Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School in 1986 and is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey. He is a member of numerous professional associations, including the Police Executive Research Forum and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Chief Oates also serves on the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council, the elite national advisory council of police chiefs, created in May, 2004 to advise the U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security on intelligence and security strategies in a post- 9/11 world. Joseph E. Pascarella, Ph.D. Joseph E. Pascarella, Ph.D., currently is a captain in the New York Police Department's Office of Management Analysis and Planning and has been an adjunct assistant professor at Queens College. He also is a consultant for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Dr. Pascarella obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 2003. In 2003, Joseph Pascarella received a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to lecture and conduct research at the Police College of Finland in Espoo, Finland. A first responder to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, he is the editor of a forthcoming Prentice-Hall text entitled "Homeland Security for Police Administration: Recruitment, Retention, and Organizational Strategies," which is scheduled for publication in 2005. Dr. Pascarella also is the author of “Health Performance and Age Restriction Policies in Policing,” forthcoming in The International Journal of Police Science and Management, 8 (1). His research interests include homeland security practices and policies for managers in police and law enforcement agencies, police organizational management and strategic initiatives, and transnational crime and criminal networks. Paul Rapess, M.S. (M.S., H.S.M. candidate) Paul Rapess is currently the Director of Public Safety at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. Under his leadership, the Department of Public Safety has organized and conducted various drills including a shelter-in-place, active shooter, and dormitory evacuation to develop relationships with local police, fire department, and emergency medical services to heighten the awareness of first responders and the campus community to the needs of a college campus during emergencies. Paul is a retired Lieutenant and 20-year veteran of the NYPD. After the merger between the NYC Transit Police and the NYPD, he was assigned to the Applicant Processing Division as Unit Commander, to the Auxiliary Police Section as Executive Officer, and to the Intelligence Section of Internal Affairs. Prior to joining the NYPD, he worked as an EMT/paramedic and was an instructor of CPR, EMT, and first aid for over 10 years with various hospitals in NYC. Paul Rapess holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from St. John’s University, and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Long Island University, C.W. Post. Paul will receive his Master of Science in Homeland Security Management Degree from the Homeland Security Management Institute in May 2008. Lance Robinson, Ph.D. Lance Robinson is the Battelle Homeland Security Education program lead under contract to NORAD and USNORTHCOM to administer the Homeland Security and Defense Education Consortium (HSDEC). In that position, he has led the effort to implement the homeland security education vision of NORAD and USNORTHCOM through a series of regional and curriculum workshops, the two HSDEC annual symposia, the HSDEC internship program and the HSDEC funded research program. Lance is a retired U.S. Air Force officer with over 23 years of service, including aviation operations, weapon system acquisitions, and five years teaching experience in Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Claremont Graduate School in 1997. His published and presented work focuses on executive power and American political thought, in particular on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and the political thought of the progressive era. Frank G. Straub, Ph.D. Frank Straub, Ph.D., became commissioner of Public Safety for the City of White Plains, New York in July 2002, and he currently oversees a staff of 500 uniformed and civilian personnel assigned to the Police and Fire Bureaus as well as a contracted emergency medical service. Commissioner Straub has more than 20 years of law enforcement experience at the federal, state and local levels. His range of law enforcement experience includes service as a special agent with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, as a special agent in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service, and as a special agent in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General. During his tenure with the DOJ-IG, he served as a senior special agent, assistant special agent in charge of the New York Field Office and special agent in charge of the Research and Analysis Unit. Commissioner Straub also served as the executive deputy inspector general in the New York State Inspector General's Office. As the New York Police Department's Deputy Commissioner of Training, Commissioner Straub oversaw a staff of 750 uniform and civilian personnel and was responsible for all recruit, promotional, in-service and executive training in the nation's largest municipal police agency. He also was responsible for developing and implementing New York Police Department-wide, first-responder training to terrorist incidents, a program that became the model for police agencies throughout the New York metropolitan area. Dr. Straub subsequently served as the assistant commissioner of Internal Training in the Counter Terrorism Bureau. Frank Straub holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York, a master's degree in Forensic Psychology and a bachelor's degree in Psychology. He has served as an adjunct assistant professor in John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Department of Public Management since 1995 and has published several articles on statistics-based performance management. Commissioner Straub serves as the chair of the New York State Regional Community Policing Institute, a member of the International Chiefs of Police Investigative Operations Committee, and the Police Executive Research Forum's Terrorism Working Group. Stan Supinski, Ph.D. Dr. Stanley B. Supinski is Visiting Professor at the Homeland Security Management Institute and an independent homeland security and defense education consultant conducting program development and management for a variety of homeland defense and security organizations. He was formerly the Deputy for Training and Education for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command (NORAD and US NORTHCOM), where he developed the organizations’ academic training and education programs. He also is the founder and former director of the Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium (HSDEC), a network of over 300 federal, state, military and private civilian educational institutions. The HSDEC is the nation’s premier group conducting homeland security/defense education and academic research, and has been instrumental in establishing national accreditation standards in this evolving discipline. He retired from the United States Air Force in 2003 following 27 years of active service. Dr. Supinski served in two capacities during his military career: as an educator with the United States Air Force Academy and as an intelligence officer in numerous locations and capacities. At the Academy he held positions in the Department of Foreign Languages as an Associate Professor of Russian, Chair of the Strategic Languages Division, Director of Instructional Technology, Director of the Language Learning Center and Director of Operations. For his last military assignment, he served as the Academy’s Faculty Squadron Commander, where he oversaw faculty personnel, administration, security, and facilities. As an intelligence officer, Dr. Supinski served primarily in the human intelligence field, managing intelligence collection and conducting operations using the Polish and Russian languages. His assignments included deputy commander at Field Operating Base, Korea, Defense Intelligence Agency; operations officer for the European Special Activities Center in Munich Germany; and as team lead and executive officer at the Air Force Special Activities Center, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. From December 1999 to May 2000, Dr. Supinski deployed to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he served as the Central Air Forces senior intelligence representative to Joint Task Force, Southwest Asia. Dr. Supinski holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Design from Florida State University and a master’s degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He has conducted research and authored numerous articles on homeland security and defense, technology support to education, and language acquisition. His research includes development of the Daily Knowledge Vitamin, a technology-based, distributed learning methodology used to maintain and incrementally increase knowledge and skills. The methodology has been used by military linguists worldwide, and has been adopted by the U.S. Coast Guard and other DoD and civilian organizations. Dr. Supinski is married to the former Jennifer Sue Wood of Helena, Montana. They have two daughters: Erin and Sara, who reside in Colorado. Bert B. Tussing, M.A., M.S.S. Bert Tussing is Professor and Director of the Homeland Defense and Security Issues Group of the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership. He graduated with honors from The Citadel in 1975 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. During a 25 year career in the Marines, Professor Tussing served operationally with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing; the 2nd Marine Division; Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One; Marine Helicopter Squadron One (where he was designated a Presidential Command Pilot); and with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). Over the course of his career he participated in multiple humanitarian relief exercises in the Caribbean; Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada; operations as a part of the Multinational Force in Beirut; Operations Provide Promise and Deny Flight in Bosnia; and the final withdrawal of U.S. forces from Somalia. Following his operational assignments, Professor Tussing was assigned to the Pentagon where he served as Marine Corps Analyst to the Secretary of the Navy in the Office of Program Appraisal. While there, he participated in the Secretary of the Navy’s focus group for the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces, and served as a consultant on the Defense Science Board on “Tactics and Techniques for the 21st Century.” Professor Tussing was subsequently selected for a Brookings Legislative Fellowship, through which he served on the staff of the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Personnel Subcommittee. Following the fellowship, he assumed duties as Deputy Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Professor Tussing joined the Center for Strategic Leadership of the U.S. Army War College in October of 1999. His focus areas include Homeland Defense, Terrorism, and Congress and Military Policy. In the spring of 2001 he participated in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ task force on CBRN terrorism which culminated in the publication of Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism: A Comprehensive Strategy. In August 2001 he teamed with CSIS to hold a Consequence Management Symposium at Carlisle Barracks, examining capabilities for responding to a WMD incident from the perspective of the military, the interagency, and state and local government. In April 2002 he presented a paper “A Measured Approach to Catastrophe: The Military’s Role in Combating Terrorism,” for the University of California ( Irvine) conference “Global Change and Terrorism: New World, New Threats.” In 2003 he served on the DSB summer study on DoD’s Roles and Missions in Homeland Security. In the spring of 2003 he accepted an appointment to the Board of Experts for UC-Irvines’s Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. In October 2003 his monograph, From “Defending Forward” to a “Global Defense in Depth: Globalization and Homeland Security (co-authored with Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria of the USAWC Strategic Studies Institute) was released. In 2004 at the invitation of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, he served on a Senior Advisory Group which oversaw the development of the Department’s Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support; served on another DSB on Critical Infrastructure Protection; and co-hosted a symposium, In Support of the Common Defense: Examining Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Public and Private Sector, with George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute. In January 2005 he accepted an appointment as a Senior Fellow to that Institute. In Nov 2006 he partnered with HSPI, CSIS, and the Heritage Foundation in conducting the first Homeland Defense and Security symposium sponsored by the Eisenhower National Security Series. In December he accepted an appointment to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council. He is currently on the CSIS Beyond Goldwater-Nichols task force examining the government’s response to catastrophic events. Professor Tussing was a Distinguished Graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and a fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seminar on Foreign Politics, International Relations, and the National Interest (Seminar XXI). He is a graduate (with Highest Distinction) of the United States Naval War College, from which he was awarded a Masters Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies; and the United States Army War College, from which he received a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies. His personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with a Combat V, the Navy Commendation Medal, the Presidential Service Badge, and the Department of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service. Professor Tussing is married to the former Dianne Day, his wife of 31 years. They have two daughters; Amber Christine and Crystal Dianne. Kevin J. Walsh, M.S., M.P.A., (M.S.,H.S.M. candidate) Kevin Walsh is a Captain with the New York City Police Department assigned to the Training Bureau. In 24 years with the NYPD, he has held assignments in patrol, management analysis and planning, narcotics and internal affairs. He is currently the Commanding Officer of the Training Support Section, responsible for training assessment, instructor development, technical support, policy and planning, and other functions. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Criminal Justice from Long Island University’s C.W. Post College, where he earned the Outstanding Accelerated Graduate Student Award. In 2002 he was awarded the New York City Police Foundation’s Richard Gelb Scholarship and the National Institute of Justice’s John B. Pickett Fellowship in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, and earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a candidate for the Homeland Security Management Institute’s Master of Science in Homeland Security Management degree. |
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