Professional Training Faculty



Contracting/Acquisition/PM/Finance

Al Laich

Al Laich is Chairman of the Accounting and Finance department at the University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) where he has helped to increase enrollment of Accounting and Finance students by more than 130% in the past year. In addition to his Chairman duties, Al teaches graduate classes including Financial Accounting, Federal Income Taxation and Principles of Management.

Al retired from the federal government in January 2009 after assignment with the Postal Service, the Peace Corps and the Department of Labor. At the Department of Labor, Al served as the Director of Management and Administrative Programs where he managed all phases of an annual $82 million budget for the Office of Federal Contractors Compliance Programs (OFCCP). This branch managed several operations such as capital planning, human resources activities, procurement procedures, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

As the Chief of Reference, Records and Distribution at the Peace Corps, Al managed several administrative functions such as the mailroom, personal property, and records management. Mailing activities are vital in the Peace Corps because it supports 7,000 Peace Corps volunteers spread all over the world with supplies, equipment and material. Within one year, Al changed the Peace Corps mailroom operations so significantly, that he was awarded the Federal Mailroom Manager of the Year in 2005 by the General Services Administration.

Al started his government career with the Postal Service as a Postal Carrier in Cleveland, Ohio while working his way through college. In 1984 he was selected for an exclusive management trainee program for the Postal Service and assigned to St. Louis, Missouri. When he completed the training program in 1987, he was promoted to the position of Area Manager and managed 15 stations and branches in St. Louis with nearly 1,100 employees in his area.

After a few promotions, Al served at Postal headquarters as the Manager of Budget and Administrative Support and was responsible for budgeting 122 postal programs with an annual budget of $490 million. During the Postal automation era of the 1990s, Al was in charge of Complement Planning for clerical operations and he led an extensive study utilizing 30 industrial engineers and managers in a complement and productivity review of 59 offices nationwide. The study was pivotal because it led to sweeping changes in clerical staffing of 20,000 post offices and more than 150,000 postal clerks and resulted in savings of $75 million for the Postal Service without any grievances filed by unions.

Al has a strong management, accounting, and budget background based on his Master’s Degree in Management, Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, four years of industrial accounting experience, and 31 years of government experience. In addition, Al is a licensed tax preparer and the owner of Capital Tax Services and has prepared federal and state income taxes for his clients for 32 years.

Al values government training highly because he believes his training experiences helped him throughout his government career. In additional to technical training classes, he also attended two prominent senior leadership classes known as the Leadership for a Democratic Society (LDS) offered by the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) and the Advanced Leadership Program (ALP) offered by the Postal Service.


Steven Tomanelli – Contracting & Acquisition

Mr. Tomanelli is a retired Air Force attorney and has held numerous high-level procurement law positions, including Chief of Acquisition and Fiscal Law for the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command and Senior DoD Counsel for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, Virginia.

He has provided consulting services and legal advice in support of highly classified major system acquisitions and has been a member of many source selection boards, advisory councils and “red teams.” Mr. Tomanelli has a current TS/SCI security clearance and has provided legal support on numerous classified aerospace systems acquisition for the NRO for five years. He also was a Professor of Contract and Fiscal Law at the Army Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Virginia, for three years where he provided instruction in a wide variety of procurement and fiscal law topics. In 2001, he was selected as “The Outstanding Career Judge Advocate of the Air Force.”

Mr. Tomanelli received a B.A. and J.D. at Hofstra University, and a Master of Laws in Federal Procurement Law at George Washington University. While earning his Master of Laws degree in Procurement, Mr. Tomanelli worked as an Intern at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, where he gained valuable experience in all aspects of contract claims.

Since 1995, Mr. Tomanelli has consistently been one of the highest rated acquisition trainers in the country according to student evaluations. He has authored over thirty-five course books and written numerous articles for national publications on the topics of federal procurement and fiscal law. Mr. Tomanelli has authored a comprehensive textbook titled, A Practical Guide to Federal Appropriations Law (MCI, 2003); is the Lead Editor of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Annotated FAR for Thomson-West Publishing Company; and has received “Small Business Achievement Awards” for two consecutive years from the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Tomanelli is an attorney in good standing of the Virginia, New York and Florida Bars; and serves on the Advisory Board of the Government Contractor (West Publishing).


Steven W. McKinzie – Contracting & Acquisition

Steven W. McKinzie, B.S., M.S., Navy Commander (retired), Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) by NCMA, Certified ISO 9000 Lead Auditor certification #4605962, Member of the Professional Acquisition Corps, United States Navy, President of M3 Corporation.

EXPERIENCE

Mr. McKinzie has thirty-six years of hands on government and private sector experience in federal government contract training, quality assurance auditing, and logistics support. He has been an instructor of government contracting for the past fifteen (15) years. Other related positions that he has held include U.S. Navy Contracting Officer, with an unlimited warrant responsible for contracting for major weapon systems and their support 1980 to 1994, and Disaster Assistance Contracting Officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2000 to 2005. He was the Quality Control Manager on a consultant contract for the Federal Transit Administration conducting audits to insure contractor compliance with ISO9001 and 9002 standards from 1999 to 2003 for 13 different projects performing more than 60 quality audits.

TRAINING AND AUDITING EXPERIENCE:

Course Development and Instruction: Mr. McKinzie has developed course material and taught all of the following courses numerous times over the past 15 years.

- Introduction to Federal Government Contracting
- Contracting Acquisition Management
- Federal Appropriations Law
- Writing a Performance Based Statement of Work
- Developing an Independent Government Cost Estimate
- Contracting Officer's Representative
- Contracting Officer’s Representative Refresher
- Monitoring and Measuring Contractor Performance
- Simplified Acquisition Procedures
- Understanding and Using ISO 9000
- ISO9000 Internal Auditor Training
- Leadership and Team Building
- Facilitation Management

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AS A CONTRACTING OFFICER

- HURRICANE KATRINA disaster relief, and various other disaster relief projects
- SPAWAR Fixed Distributive System (FDS), a category One D Cost Plus Fixed Fee
contract budgeted at $1 billion dollars.
- SURTAS, a category One C Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract budgeted at $250 million.
- SOSUS, a category One C Fixed Price contract on-going as repair and replace
- SINGARS, a category one C Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract in the development stage

OTHER SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE:

Instructor Army Logistics Management College (6/92-6/94)
Commander, DPRO AT&T North Carolina, (6/89-6/92)
Assistant Supply Officer, USS VULCAN (AR-5), (7/86-1/89)
Contracting Officer, DCASMA Indianapolis (8/83-7/86)
Assistant Petroleum Officer, Naval Station Rota, Spain (7/80- 8/83)
Qualified Submarine Supply Officer, USS FINBACK (SSN-670), (5/76- 5/78)
US Navy (9/65- 8/69) two tours in Viet Nam with Seabees

EDUCATION: Colleges:

1. Troy State University, 1981-1983 MS, Management Major Field: Management, Economics, Finance
2. Ball State University, 1969-1971 B.S., General Business Administration Major Field: Accounting, Finance
3. Armed Forces Staff College, 1989
4. Army Logistics Management College, 1984


Scott Cook – Contracting & Acquisition

Scott P. Cook, CFCM, has over thirty years of experience in the cradle-to-grave management of multi-year, multi-million dollar federal contracts. He is an expert in federal acquisition procedures and policies, having served as a director of contracts, director of acquisition policy, a Level III Contracting Officer and a senior procurement analyst in both DOD and civilian agencies. He has supervised all aspects of federal contracting, both in contract operations and acquisition policy.

Mr. Cook is a Certified Federal Contract Manager, is DAWIA/FAC-C Level III certified and had held an unlimited Contracting Officer warrant. He has also taught federal procurement courses for University of Virginia, Northern Virginia Community College, the USDA Graduate School and numerous other institutions.

Mr. Cook holds an MBA from George Washington University and a BA in English from the University of Virginia. He was a recipient of the Secretary of the Navy Career Fellowship for graduate study, and was a graduate of the first GSA Trail Boss contracting officer program.


Janelle Hill – Capital Planning

Janelle is the President and Lead Consultant of PBS Marketing / Federal Concierge LLC.

JB is a Premier Instructor with Government Training Inc. In this capacity, she has demonstrated consistent excellence in training based on student evaluations of his…

- Knowledge of the Subject
- Ability to instruct – Quality of instruction
- Ability to maintain student interest
- Responsiveness to student inquiries

JB also serves as the Director of the Federal CPIC Forum. JB has performed the role of Senior Analyst (Subject Matter Expert or SMEIII) within DHS Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS Transportation Security Administration, The HHS Centers for Disease Control and the Veterans Health Administration in support of Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) initiatives.

JB has provided a full range of CPIC-related consulting support and strategic planning in the areas of information assurance, risk management, budget evaluation and analysis, as well as support and direction for a wide variety of multi-agency collaboration activities. For these agencies and many others, JB has written and improved OMB Exhibit 300s for capital investments, supported development of Exhibit 53 (budget) documents, as well as developed presentations and supporting documentation for a Supplemental Budget Requests for Congress.

JB routinely performs IT Portfolio reviews for agencies and develops the strategic and tactical recommendations for remediation of weak compliance areas. JB routinely trains for a variety of clients on the topics of CPIC and OMB Exhibit 300s.

JB is a contributing author to the CPIC Guidebook and the Wounded Warriors Guidebook. JB is a proud Alumna of East Carolina University, National Defense University and Syracuse University, as well as a United States Marine Corps Key Volunteer and an advocate of special-needs children.


Dorice Odell

Dorice Odell is a Premier Instructor with Government Training Inc. In this capacity, Dorice has demonstrated consistent excellence in training based on student evaluations of her

- Knowledge of the Subject
- Ability to instruct – Quality of instruction
- Ability to maintain student interest
- Responsiveness to student inquiries

Dorice Odell has a wide breadth of knowledge and experience in Project Management, Earned Value Management, Change Configuration Management, Supply Chain Management, Contracting/Procurement, and DOD 5000 1 & 2.

Her career starts in the US Army in 1976 as an analyst and participation on the ground floor of Military Computer based technology. Later she joined the US Air Force Reserves as an Air Crew Member on the C-141B, (forward supply system). After receiving her commission and becoming a Flight Operations Officer, she worked on several significant projects as a program officer, namely the C-141B Glass Cockpit and KC-135 Pacer Crag Conversions. Here she developed earned value management programs, contracting/procurement, and scheduling to track and monitor performance measurements and Indicators and monitored metrics bringing expansive budgets to within 10% for over 6 years.

After 20 years and retirement from the US Military, Ms. Odell joined Jet Propulsion Laboratory working with HQ NASA and DOD extensively regarding risk management and procurement policies for failed, fraudulent, and counterfeit part identification and mitigation.

Further her work with the Government Industry Data Exchange Program and as the Vice Chair of the Industry Advisory Group at DOD, she provided input and insight into the procurement policies during space flight project lifecycles for the OMB helping to shape the revision for OFPP 91-3. She identified procurement trends that focused on penetration of counterfeit parts into procurement programs.

She received one of the highest awards from NASA for her development and implementation of a “one of a kind” systems integration program that provided strict monitoring of EEE and Material space flight parts procured against known part and material failures. Ms. Odell utilized EVM during this project keeping the project on track, at spec, and within budget. She is published inside NASA Tech Brief Magazine and was awarded the Tech Brief Award for her program.

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Ms Odell is a faculty member with University of Phoenix. She teaches Project Management, Public Administration, Finance, and Management and Business Ethics. She has internal and external audit and consulting experience with both the Air Force and NASA regarding risk management and analysis.

Ms Odell received a B.S.B.A from University of Phoenix and Masters in Project Management (M.P.M.) from Keller Graduate Institute.


Glenn Voelz - Contracting & Acquisition

Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Voelz is an intelligence officer for the U.S. Army, currently serving on the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. His recent military assignments include service as a security assistance advisor to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and as Deputy Director of Intelligence for the Combined Media Processing Center in Doha, Qatar. Previously he served as Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

During his career, he has managed government-contractor workforces for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. LTC Voelz is the author of, Managing the PrivateSpies: The Use of Commercial Augmentation for Intelligence Operations, as well as several recent articles dealing with contracting issues and the Intelligence Community.

His most recent book, Contractors in the Government Workplace will be in print in March 2010.

LTC Voelz is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds masters degrees from the University of Virginia and the National Defense Intelligence College in Washington D.C.


Brice A. Yocum – Construction Contracting

Brice A. Yocum is an instructor with Government Training Inc. and has over 15 years of experience in construction and construction management. He has helped small businesses find and win millions of dollars in federal contracts. Brice has consistently received positive feedback from clients and customers regarding his…

- Professional and engaging presentation style;
- Understanding of client needs;
- Subject matter knowledge and experience;
- Efficient approach to the material.

Brice A. Yocum is a professional presenter and consultant. His ability to emphasize important information and deliver it in an understandable and concise method ensures participant satisfaction. He has provided one-on-one, targeted consulting to small businesses and start-up federal contractors for more than 15 years. Mr. Yocum’s holistic approach is designed to focus all areas of a contractor’s business on maximizing their potential return in the federal market.

Mr. Yocum has personally represented construction firms to contracting representatives from the Navy, USACE, Air Force, Army Reserve, Department of Veteran’s Affairs, US Coast Guard, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA, Bureau of Reclamation, IRS, GSA, NASA, as well as numerous state and local agencies.

Mr. Yocum holds a JD Degree from Pepperdine University School of Law where his studies centered on business and federal law. He graduated with a certificate for his studies in Negotiation, Mediation, and Arbitration from the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, the top-ranked dispute resolution institute in the country. Mr. Yocum has completed graduate courses in marketing and strategic management. Mr. Yocum is a member of American MENSA, the DAU’s Acquisition Community Connection, and is admitted to the California Supreme Court, as well as the Eastern, Central, and Northern Federal District courts in California.

Agency & Business Mgmt

Sandra Gurvis

Sandra Gurvis is a Premier Instructor with Government Training Inc. In this capacity, Sandra has demonstrated consistent excellence in training based on student evaluations of her

- Knowledge of the Subject
- Ability to instruct – Quality of instruction
- Ability to maintain student interest
- Responsiveness to student inquiries

Sandra Gurvis, professional development instructor, is the author of fourteen books and hundreds of magazine articles. Her titles include MANAGING THE TELECOMMUTING EMPLOYEE with Michael Amigoni (Adams , 2009), MANAGEMENT BASICS, 2nd ed (Adams, 2007), and CAREER FOR CONFORMISTS (Marlowe, 2001), which was a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club. Her books have been featured on "Good Morning America," "CBS Up to the Minute," "ABC World News Tonight," in USA Today and in other newspapers and on television and radio stations across the country; and have been excerpted in magazines.

Sandra has traveled throughout the US, lecturing and providing information on telework and telecommuting, as well as other issues relating to management and self-employment.


Rita Rizzo and Lou Vincent

Rita Rizzo and Lou Vincent are threat management specialists with over two decades of experience in training topics related to prevention of workplace violence. Typically earning an evaluation average of 4.85 on a 5 point scale, Rita and Lou have been validated as high impact trainers who deliver value-added content with a down-to-earth style. Over 5,000 training participants can attest to the couples’ effectiveness in providing best practice approaches to quelling violence in tense environments.

As a marshal arts practitioner and firearms marksman, Lou’s philosophy emphasizes prevention of violence over confrontation. He stresses situational triage over knee-jerk reaction, and holds preservation of life as his guiding principle. He is a member of the National Rifle Association and has CCW Training Academy certification.

Rita’s history with violence prevention includes experience with training over 500 nurses at the Cleveland Clinic in safety awareness and unarmed self-defense. Additionally she has trained over 1,000 home visitors, primarily nurses and DHS social workers in safety awareness for home visitors and unaccompanied women. It is Rita’s belief that women of any age can prevent themselves from becoming victims of violence through vigilance and preparedness. As a former mental health nurse and Department of Corrections contractor, Rita is masterful at verbal de-escalation of potentially violent others.

Ms. Rizzo and Mr. Vincent are popular presenters for the National League of Cities Conference, The Ohio Human Services Director’s Conference, and The Ohio Child Support Enforcement Conference. Rita was also well received at the North Carolina Governor’s First Annual Conference on Diversity, The National Pre-trial Workers Conference, and numerous American Society of Mechanical Engineers conferences throughout the US and Europe.

Rita is the author of the book The Culture of Generational Poverty: Providing Meaningful Help to the Impoverished. She is a Certified Management Consultant through the Institute of Management Consultants, the highest earned designation in her field, and holds a Master of Science Degree in Training and Human Resource Management from the University of Leicester in Leicester, England.

Intelligence

Howard Clarke

Howard Clarke, BA, MA, CCA is a consultant and trainer specializing in the area of intelligence analysis applications.

Howard Clarke serves as Director, Intelligence Studies for Government Training Inc.

Mr. Clarke is a Premier Instructor with Government Training Inc. In this capacity, Mr. Clarke has demonstrated consistent excellence in training based on student evaluations of his…

- Knowledge of the Subject
- Ability to instruct – Quality of instruction
- Ability to maintain student interest
- Responsiveness to student inquiries

Mr. Clarke enjoys a distinguished career in federal law enforcement intelligence (Canada, Australia), with a lot of exposure, knowledge & experience with the US law enforcement intelligence context including international (Canada-US, and Australian-US transnational investigations). His background is steeped in the law enforcement intelligence field (30 yrs as analyst, senior analyst, analyst manager, intelligence systems consultant) in recent years he has applied his experience to the application of strategic intelligence methods in law enforcement and homeland security contexts and the use of intelligence concepts and processes in the fields of port and border security, transportation security and, currently, corrections sector intelligence.

Mr. Clarke is a lifetime Certified Criminal Analyst, a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts and is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Certified Criminal Analysts. He is also an associate and intelligence consultant with Toddington International Inc., an instructor in the British Columbia Institute of Technology Crime and Intelligence Analysis Program and he holds adjunct faculty status with Henley-Putnam University in the U.S.



David Toddington

A former Vice President and General Manager of a national Canadian Internet Service Provider with a solid background in policing, David has operated Toddington International Inc. (formerly DM Toddington & Company Ltd.) for the past twelve years.

Founded in 1997, Toddington International Inc. has established an international reputation as a leader in the provision of Strategic and Tactical Internet-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) support and training services to police, regulatory and other law enforcement related agencies primarily in Canada and the United Kingdom.

David regularly lectures on Internet investigative matters to various police and related agencies in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and has developed a number of training programs focused on Internet Technologies as they relate to intelligence gathering activities and ongoing online investigations.

In addition to his teaching at the Canadian Police College, David also instructs on an ongoing basis at the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre, the West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre (United Kingdom), the Justice Institute of British Columbia, the Forensic Sciences Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and Centro Internacional de Inteligencia in Mexico.

Among other awards, 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.

In working with the Private Sector, David maintains a position as Special Advisor to the International Chamber of Commerce Commercial Crime Section in London, England. David has frequently appeared as a guest on the national Canadian television news network, CTV NewsNet. Radio appearances include CBC Radio One and the BBC World Service. Dave is a regular contributor to Police Professional Magazine, the UK's largest circulation law enforcement weekly.

Since 1989 David has held numerous peace officer appointments including RCMP Supernumerary Constable, Designated Law Enforcement Officer (DLEO) with the Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia, RCMP Auxiliary Constable within the Province of British Columbia and Technical Reserve with the City of Moscow Police in Idaho State.



Earl Moulton

Recently retired after 28 years of service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Earl Moulton brings to Toddington International Inc. a wealth of senior management and operational policing experience. After a varied career within the RCMP, Earl attained the rank of Assistant Commissioner and before leaving the Force, held the position of Commanding Officer, "F" Division (Saskatchewan).

With a long-held interest in Internet technologies and cyber-crime issues, Earl has been involved in overt and covert computer investigations since 1986, and has been recognized as an expert witness in computer issues by the Courts.

A founder and long time President of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), an internationally recognized network of policing and computer professionals, Earl was also the founder and inaugural co-chair for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Electronic Crime Committee. He is currently an active member of the Futures Working Group, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Society of Police Futurists International.

In addition to his undergraduate degree from Queen's University, Earl holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Earl is an author, regular lecturer and speaker on issues ranging from Human Rights to the Future of Cybercrime and the role of the Internet in the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering and analysis process. He has shared his revolutionary theories with interested audiences in Hong Kong, New Zealand, England, the United States and throughout Canada.



Lesley R. Rockwell

Lesley R. Rockwell is a an instructor with Government Training Inc, where she teaches a variety of courses on intelligence analysis. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Intelligence Management program at Henley-Putnam University (HPU) and the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels for both universities. At HPU, she wrote and teaches two core courses, INT 511 Advanced Analytical Techniques and ENG 330 Writing for the Intelligence Professional; she also wrote and is assigned to teach an elective, CJ 611 White Collar Crime. She has been an adjunct faculty member at HPU since 2005. At UTEP, she wrote and teaches INSS 4351/5351 Professional Skills: Writing for the Intelligence Professional. She has been an adjunct faculty member at UTEP since 2009.

Ms. Rockwell is a Senior Intelligence Analyst at a U.S. government agency, where she specializes in money laundering and financial crimes. In this capacity, she is responsible for providing strategic intelligence regarding domestic drug money laundering activity to U.S. policymakers, intelligence agencies, law enforcement officials, and the financial services industry. Ms. Rockwell has received numerous awards from her agency’s management in recognition of exemplary performance, including her agency's nomination to attend the Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence program at the National Defense Intelligence College. She has been an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government since April 2004.

She has published a wide range of products, many of which have been briefed before various government and non-government audiences. She is the author of more than a dozen products published by a government agency, and is a significant contributor to several documents written for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Ms. Rockwell has delivered briefings and presentations on intelligence and money laundering topics to various audiences. These range from presentations to attendees at government and financial services industry conferences to briefings to personnel from the Executive Office of the President.

Ms. Rockwell earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Mercyhurst College's Research/Intelligence Analyst Program (R/IAP; currently the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies) in 2001. She received a graduate assistantship to work for R/IAP's Center for Intelligence, Research, Analysis, and Training as the manager of the National Security Agency's Venona project, and completed Mercyhurst's Master of Science in Administration of Justice program in 2002. In 2009, Ms. Rockwell earned a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from Defense Intelligence Agency's National Defense Intelligence College (formerly the Joint Military Intelligence College).

She participates in many discipline-related organizations. She is a member of the International Association for Intelligence Education, the International Association for Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and the International Association of Crime Analysts. She has served on a multitude of Federal government working groups related to intelligence and money laundering.



Kim Lewis

Kim McLeroy Lewis spent most of her 20-year career in an undercover life in the CIA. She teaches courses in basic intelligence, intelligence analysis, and tradecraft, among other subjects. Most of her Agency career was spent as a case officer on counter terrorist missions for the Counterterrorism Center, including service as the CIA’s counterterrorism referent to USCENTCOM and USSOCOM.

Ms. Lewis worked closely with the FBI, Customs, Secret Service, and other domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies on bombing, kidnap, money laundering, and terrorism investigations against Osama bin Ladin, Palestinian groups, the FARC of Colombia, and Peru’s Shining Path. Today Ms. Lewis often works with the news media, contributing to foreign affairs pieces for both print and television. Among her areas of special expertise are HUMINT, tradecraft, Intelligence Community management, and the economics of terrorism. She is a sought-after consultant, analyst, and military trainer with a major defense contractor. Her specialty is instruction for US military interrogators and case officers, and for US and foreign law enforcement officers working counterterrorism. Ms. Lewis received a master's degree in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona in 1978.



Michael H. Corcoran

Michael H. Corcoran, Ph.D. was in the law enforcement field for over 34 years beginning in 1968 and the threat assessment field since 1970 when he entered the United States Secret Service. Completing his doctorate in 1979 in Behavioral Science and utilizing his law enforcement experience, he specialized in identifying and handling potentially violent subjects. He does threat assessments, determination of true potentials for violence and criminal profiling for governmental agencies, law enforcement, Fortune 500 companies, school districts and healthcare providers around the world.

He has spoken internationally on all these topics, and has been “voir dired” as an expert witness on identifying violent individuals. Lastly, Dr. Corcoran was appointed President to Henley-Putnam University in 2004, the only accredited school of its kind in the world granting bachelors and masters degrees in Protection Management, Intelligence Management and Terrorism/Counterterrorism Studies as well as a Doctorate in Strategic Security. In 2009, he co-authored with James Cawood, Violence Assessment and Intervention: The practitioner’s handbook - 2nd edition, and in 2007, he wrote "Workplace violence goes beyond psychopathology", a chapter in Felthous, A.R. & Sass, H., International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law, England: Wiley Press.

Dr. Corcoran is author of a new book on Workplace Violence to be released in July 2010 and published by Government Training Inc.



Bart Bechtel

Mr. Bechtel is a retired CIA operations and counterintelligence officer with deep cover experience. He is much in demand to teach surveillance, surveillance detection, and threat recognition & observation skills. Mr. Bechtel has extensive experience working with federal, state and local law enforcement throughout the country and internationally.

Currently, Mr. Bechtel is a Special Advisor, Professor and Acting Chief of Academic Officer for Henley-Putnam University, San Jose, CA. He is a Private Investigator and the Director of Operations & Training for CTC International Group Ltd, in Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Bechtel is an instructor/role-player in HUMINT training for the armed services.

Mr. Bechtel was a primary instructor in Terrorist/Criminal Threat Recognition, Observation Skills and Surveillance Detection for the Washoe County, Nevada Sheriff’s Citizen Homeland Security Council. He was a lead instructor for the US State Department’s anti-terrorism Surveillance Detection Team Training Program. He trained surveillance detection teams in Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, and Mexico. He was a co-founder of the Sentinel Program®, providing counter terrorism and anti-crime surveillance detection training to the public and private sectors.

Mr. Bechtel is a US Navy Vietnam veteran. He is a member of the International Counter Terrorism Officers Association, International Association for Intelligence Education, the International Intelligence Ethics Association. He is a lifetime member of the National Ski Patrol; a former Outdoor Emergency Care® instructor and former EMT.

Education: BA, History, Monterey Institute of International Studies; MS, Intelligence Management, Henley-Putnam University.

Physical Security

Edward Clark

Edward Clark is a Premier Instructor with Government Training Inc. In this capacity, Edward has demonstrated consistent excellence in training based on student evaluations of his…

· Knowledge of the Subject
· Ability to instruct – Quality of instruction
· Ability to maintain student interest
· Responsiveness to student inquiries

Mr. Clark is the Senior Consulting Executive for Homeland Defense Training ™ (The security . He also serves as president of Executive Interface, LLC, a firm specializing in risk management and security training and operations.

Mr. Clark offers 24 years of experience as a Special Forces Officer (Green Beret) to include commanding an unprecedented four operational detachments. Mr. Clark has 15 years of operational experience in combat and security assistance missions throughout the Middle East and Africa. He also brings over 25 years of formal training as an instructor, training developer and training manager to the project.

Mr. Clark has just completed a major threat/risk assessment for a major US port.

After 9/11 Mr. Clark was actively recruited to serve as the Director of the Homeland Security Threats Office. It was this assignment that drove him to reverse engineer the CARVER targeting tool to conduct vulnerability assessments on Nuclear Power Plants, Food and Agriculture commodities, and other national assets to include the Ground Based Mid Range Missile Defense System.

The Department of Homeland Security (US Coast Guard) reached out to Mr. Clark to serve as their senior security consultant to assist them in evaluating over 4,000 facility security and emergency response plans as they implemented the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA 2002). In addition to his serving as the Lead Consultant to the White House Homeland Security Council’s Bio-terrorism Team, he also applied his cutting edge techniques in developing US Northern Commands Red Team Program and developing a comprehensive security plan for a $4 billion natural gas project in war-torn Nigeria.

In support of DHS’ current trend to manage risk at a strategic level, Ed has project managed the development of a strategic risk management and trade resumption plan for one of the Nation’s largest Port Areas.

Mr. Clark possesses a BA in Criminal Justice, a Masters Degree in Computer Information Systems, is an expert in information security, and is a graduate of the following ICS courses: 100, 200, 300, 400, 700 and 800. Mr. Clark is a master trainer and has managed the business of training for both public and private entities.

He is also a graduate of the US Army Senior Leaders Course on Chemical Biological Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive Attacks and a member of ASIS International.



Doug White

Doug White is an active Public Safety Bomb Technician in a large sized metropolitan law enforcement agency. In addition to his role as a law enforcement professional, Doug is a contracted subject matter consultant to the U. S. Department of Homeland Security and National Terrorism Preparedness Institute. In this capacity, Mr. White has delivered and developed courses nationally in all levels of the Incident Command System, Active Shooter Response, Suicide Bomber Response and Mitigation, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Personal Protection Equipment.

Mr. White served nearly fifteen years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve as a Security Specialist and was later introduced to Special Operations Forces (SOF) during his nearly eleven year tenure assigned to Headquarters U.S. Special Operations Command. Serving in his capacity as a force protection specialist and “Plank Owner” of the Command Protective Services Detachment, Mr. White conducted protective services operations as a Mission Special Agent in Charge and detail member.

Mr. White has conducted nearly 200 “suspicious article” activations and has rendered safe live IEDs containing homemade explosive mixtures and added fragmentation, remotely and manually. He applies knowledge of tactics used by terrorists globally to provide shocking insight to local responders and administrators. Doug adds a Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security and a major in Terrorism Studies to 17 years of experience in operational and theoretical anti-terrorism to deliver thought provoking insight to the enemies’ tactic and methodology.

Having been an operator, planner and policy writer, Mr. White passionately covers his subjects from multiple vantage points with a firm grasp of the subject and an innate ability to teach and relate material to the end user’s scope in the simplest of terms.



Scott Tyler

Scott Tyler, is a consultant and provider of high-risk field protective services for private clients as well as U.S. Government entities. Scott Tyler serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Forge Solutions LLC. Due to his ability and expertise, various media channels have sought Tyler out. He has appeared on the PBS news program “WORLDFOCUS” and has been quoted in the Washington Post. He was the Tactical Producer and appeared in the prime time NBC Dateline series, “The Wanted”. Most recently, Tyler was the main subject for a feature article titled “The Way of the Sniper” in Men’s Journal.

Mr. Tyler spent most of his life in the armed forces specializing in symmetric and asymmetric solutions to difficult problems. Having spent his entire career as an operator, the majority of it in managerial and leadership positions, Mr. Tyler understands the complexities and risks associated with security and project enablement. From 1991-1996, Mr. Tyler served as a United States Marine, as part of a Reconnaissance Team in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia. He then went on to study and graduate from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science.

In 2000, Mr. Tyler received his commission in the United States Navy and continued his service as a Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer. In this capacity he led and assisted with sensitive and challenging missions in numerous locations throughout the world. In 2007, Mr. Tyler established Qaletaqa Corps LLC, as a way to assist and provide service to clients working in operationally challenging environments. In 2010 Qaletaqa Corps LLC was renamed Forge Solutions LLC. Through his company, Mr. Tyler has provided consulting, operational planning, security and project enablement for successful client ventures in the United States, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.