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Michael Bouchard Adjunct Professorial Lecturer Department of Justice, Law & Criminology

Bio
Mike Bouchard is the President of Security Dynamics Group LLC. Under contract, he also serves as the Chief Security Officer of Sterling Global Operations, with oversight over their domestic and international security programs. Additionally, he serves other clients on a variety of security related issues. He offers 25+ years of senior law enforcement experience retiring from ATF in 2007 as the Assistant Director- Field Operations. Throughout his career, he supervised several significant incidents for ATF including ATF’s assets at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and was one of the three overall incident commanders during the Beltway Sniper investigation. He earned a Masters of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, Washington DC, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Fire and Arson Investigation from the University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut. He serves as a subject matter expert on law enforcement issues for major news networks and print media. He is active in a number of organizations such as: the International Association of Police Chiefs, International Association of Arson Investigators, American Society for Industrial Security International, the ASIS Chief Security Officer Roundtable, Police Executive Research Forum, the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors and serves on a number of committees within these organizations. He also serves on the Technical Advisory Board, Henry Lee School of Criminal Justice, University of New Haven and serves on the adjunct faculty at American University, Washington, DC.
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