The Department Of Homeland Security, Homeland Security, Homeland Security

Eleven days after our Nation was forever changed by the attacks on September 11, 2001, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge was appointed to oversee and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy. This strategy birthed a new federal department designed to safeguard the country against terrorism and respond to any future attacks. Our Nation’s leaders, created a strategic plan to develop a department that would encompass 22 federal agencies, some who’d been in existence for more than 100 years. They took the mission of some of these agencies and rebirthed their priorities, others they completely restructured and the others were created from nothing.

Like the creation of DHS, my journey in to law enforcement was birth thru opportunity and exposure.

I strive to handle each case with a special attention to detail and respect. I am so proud of the role that I play within my department. Like DHS, my career has been created by merging together my limited life experiences, education, talents and skills. Now as a tenured Special Agent within The Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, I have gained knowledge of the inner workings of the second largest investigative arm within the federal government. I have a strong background in cyber investigations with emphasis on child exploitation. My communication skills have been developed and structured through continuous application and

One of the major areas that can impede on the forward motion of protecting our nation’s security is our inability to keep up with the ever evolving speed of technological developments. Individuals and criminal organizations are working tirelessly to infiltrate our financial institutions, personally protected information and classified correspondence, from the comfort of their living room. As our Nation seeks to develop top candidates invested in our Nations security, we need to strive to lead the private sector in software development, strategic security implementation and policy development which can combat future unexpected and undetected terrorist attacks. As a student of CDHS, I plan to explore the strategies being developed to respond to these security and intelligence threats. I will research a broad spectrum of traditional and non-traditional security issues and examine them from a regional and global