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2007 National Campus Security Summit
Speaker Profiles
Joe
Bierly
National Director, Public Safety
Group, Oracle Corporation
As National Director for Oracle's
Public Safety Group, Joe is
responsible for domain support for
justice and homeland security
clients in the United States and
Canada. Joe has been with Oracle for
nine years and previously served as
the National Director for Justice
and Public Safety with Oracle
Consulting. He has also worked for
Motorola as their National Solutions
Leader for integrated justice and
Logicon where he was their Director
of Law Enforcement Programs.
Additionally, Joe served his country
for 22 years as an infantry officer
in the United States Marine Corps in
a variety of assignments ranging
from infantry duty in Vietnam to
counterterrorism operations in
preparation for the 1986 Asian Games
and 1988 Olympics in Seoul. He
retired in 1991 with the rank of
LtCol.
While on active duty, Joe planned
and directed US counterterrorism
(CT) operations prior to and during
the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988
Olympic Games and served as primary
liaison with the FBI, national and
foreign CT response units, and other
civilian agencies to augment
host-nation CT capabilities. Joe
coordinated the activities of the
country's Counter Terrorism Working
Group and coordinated US response to
a variety of actual incidents to
include aircraft bombings,
hijackings, street rioting, hostage
incidents, and assassination
attempts. He planned, coordinated,
and directed multiple combined
exercises to include world's largest
special operations exercise (2.5
million participants) and the
largest counterterrorism exercise
ever held.
Earlier in his Marine career, Joe
commanded a 350 man Marine and
civilian security force responsible
for public safety, base security,
and special weapons protection at
San Diego's three naval bases (total
population in excess of 100,000).
Bases under his jurisdiction
included two major airfields, one
major port, and three large
industrial facilities. He also
commanded an elite security force in
Vietnam responsible for the personal
protection of the Ambassador and key
staff, as well as external security
of the Embassy and all US Consulates
in the country. He served special
operations tours with Marine
reconnaissance units and planned
special operations missions in
support of Desert Storm.
After retiring from the Marine
Corps, Joe consulted for foreign
governments on sensitive internal
security and intelligence issues. He
has also worked on counterterrorism
operations and executive protection
with private firms.
Joe has spoken on the subject of
counterterrorism to audiences
ranging from several hundred law
enforcement agencies in California
to the staff of the National
Security Council at the White House.
His series of presentations
entitled: "Winning the War at Home"
has taken the counterterrorism
message to over 4000 law enforcement
officers.
Joe has a BS from Penn State
University, a Masters from
Pepperdine University and has
attended a wide variety of
counterterrorism related courses to
include hostage negotiations, SWAT
tactics and crisis management
courses at the FBI Academy, training
in Israel with Israeli security
forces, hostage rescue training with
Israel's elite YAMAM unit, and
training in multiple terrorist
doctrine based on the Beslan School
attack.
He resides on his farm in Menifee,
California where he raises avocados
and trains working dogs in his spare
time. He is also President and
founder of Counterterrorism Training
and Consulting, Inc, a corporation
focusing on enhancing the readiness
of local law enforcement to prevent
or respond to a terrorist attack. He
is a member of the Police Executive
Research Forum, the National
Tactical Officers Association, the
Texas Tactical Police Officers'
Association, the American Society
for Industrial Security, the Western
States Police K9 Association, the
International Association for
Counterterrorism and Security
Professionals, and the International
Association of Chiefs of Police. He
is a certified combat handgun
instructor.
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