I am a self-professed A-type personality. You have to be in this line of work to end the shift the way you started-alive. I thrive in my ability to act under pressure and try to live every second of everyday knowing that I lived life to its fullest and I worked extremely hard to make everyone I meet’s life better because I entered it. I don’t have visions of grandeur or think I’m going to save the world, but, simply put, I live a Christian life and try to be the best I can be as it’s God’s will.
I have 27 years of police experience with the last 10 years being a Sergeant. I have supervised in the casual and emergent setting and am very confortable with my leadership in both these environments.
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I can lead equally well in both casual and emergency settings. During my policing career I have had leadership roles in many crisis situations including, natural disasters, emergency responses, critical missing persons’ cases, numerous high-risk arrest situations, murder-suicide investigations and other high profile events such as the G20 Summit hosted in Toronto in 2010.
Being asked to be a member of the G20 Mobile Media Team was one of the highlights of my career. The experience provided significant augmentation of my media relations, personal and site security. During the G20 Summit I was given an “all access security clearance” which enabled me to attend the secure areas where many international heads of state attended. It was during these times I delivered key messaging in several press conferences where I relayed crisis communication particulars to a worldwide audience during a time when protesters rioted, vandalized their city and clashed with police.
I have extensive public speaking and training experience having been deemed a Law Enforcement Social Media Strategist. I have also taught media relations and social media skills to police media officers and have lectured internationally on the subject. I have delivered thousands of radio, newspaper and television interviews on both roles as a crisis communicator and corporate