Operational security and intelligence programme leader with over twenty years of experience across physical security, threat intelligence, and operational risk in Korea, Japan, and the wider APAC region. Former New Scotland Yard investigator with a strong foundation in evidential discipline, behavioural assessment, and high-consequence decision-making. Korea-based with demonstrated operational security experience across the Korean peninsula, including engagements with US Military commands, Korean law enforcement, international education and corporate environments, and the development of Korea's first sector-wide pre-employment screening service. Korean and Japanese language capability supports direct stakeholder engagement across APAC without dependency on intermediaries. Developed a structured offender profile for a senior US Military command in Korea addressing institutional violence and behavioural risk. The analytical framework was subsequently validated against major institutional cases in UK law enforcement, confirming its cross-institutional applicability across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries. Designs and operates a multi-layered operational security intelligence programme, operational exposure reviews monthly crime behaviour intelligence briefings operational threat briefings on drug-related risk Currently deployed across sites in Korea, San Francisco, and central London. Korea-based investigation commissioned for a major financial institution identified geographic and temporal patterns in missing women cases that Korean law enforcement had not detected, findings resulting in measurable changes to official reporting procedures. Self-starter with a consistent track record of identifying what institutional frameworks miss, and translating analytical findings into operational security programmes that protect people, assets, and continuity.

Operational Security & Physical Security ·         Physical security operations across multiple sites and jurisdictions ·         Environmental risk assessment and threat corridor analysis ·         Site security design, access control, CCTV, and alarm systems ·         Incident response, escalation, and emergency operations leadership ·         Vendor management and security contractor oversight Intelligence & Threat Analysis ·         Operational threat intelligence programme design and delivery ·         Environmental exposure analysis — urban crime, behavioural instability, transit corridor risk ·         Offender profiling and behavioural threat identification ·         Monthly crime behaviour and intelligence briefing production ·         Victim selection pattern analysis and target hardening Korea & APAC Operations ·         Demonstrated operational security experience across the Korean peninsula ·         US Military command engagement — institutional violence and behavioural risk ·         Korean law enforcement authority engagement and capability development ·         Japanese law enforcement capability development and training programme design ·         Multi-jurisdictional security operations across APAC, Europe, Middle East, and Africa Insider Threat & Trusted Access Risk ·         Insider threat identification and behavioural risk assessment ·         Employee, contractor, and vendor risk management ·         Procurement fraud and conflict-of-interest exposure ·         Pre-employment screening framework design ·         Investigation governance and evidential integrity Stakeholder Engagement & Programme Leadership ·         Executive and senior leadership reporting and briefing ·         Cross-functional engagement — HR, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, Information Security ·         Law enforcement, regulatory, and government authority liaison ·         Security awareness programme design and delivery ·         Crisis management and emergency preparedness Governance & Compliance ·         Security policy, standards, and compliance framework design ·         Audit-ready documentation and reporting ·         Regulatory compliance across multi-jurisdictional environments ·         Risk ownership, decision threshold, and escalation framework design ·         Defensible governance and investigation oversight

The five sub-titles provided here are explained in full within their own menu tabs... DSRM Risk — Operational Security, Intelligence & Corporate Risk Senior Consultant / Director | 20+ Years | Korea-based Operational Intelligence Programme Environmental exposure reviews, monthly intelligence briefings, missing women research, offender profiling Corporate Investigations & Operational Risk — Korea Counterfeit mobile phone investigation, electronics manufacturer security review, auto parts supply chain fraud Major Event Security & Crisis Management — Korea G20, PyeongChang, Presidential Inauguration, Asia Development Bank Executive Protection & Travel Security — APAC Japanese financial institution chairman, eight years, Korea, UK, China, France, Germany, Israel Institutional Risk, Governance & Capability Development Safe Schools Korea, US Military engagement, Japanese law enforcement programme, Korean universities NEW SCOTLAND YARD — Metropolitan Police Service Investigator, Crime Squad | 9 Years INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY ENGAGEMENT Japanese Law Enforcement Capability Development

Operational Intelligence Programme — Environmental Security & Threat Analysis Environmental Exposure Reviews — San Francisco and Central London Designed and delivered site-specific environmental exposure reviews for major operational sites in Mission Bay, San Francisco and the Moorgate corridor, City of London, examining how the urban environments surrounding each site intersect with workforce movement, operational continuity, and organisational visibility. Each review applied a structured analytical framework across multiple exposure vectors, incorporating physical security, transit corridor risk, parking environment vulnerability, late-hour isolation, behavioural instability, and, in the London review, a dedicated analysis of violence against women as an operational risk to female shift-dependent workforces. Reviews were supported by primary data sourced directly from the San Francisco Police Department, British Transport Police, Metropolitan Police Service, City of London Police, and London Ambulance Service under Freedom of Information request. The London review identified EC2A 1, the postcode covering the primary parking facility used by the workforce, as carrying vehicle crime at 497% of the England and Wales national average, within a district whose aggregate crime rate is the lowest of any postcode area in the country. The gap between the aggregate figure and the postcode-level finding is a precise illustration of why standard data consultation is insufficient for operational security assessment in complex urban environments. Crime Pattern Analysis — Serial Disappearances of Korean Women Commissioned by a major financial institution conducting staff safety due diligence ahead of a potential Korean market entry. Analysis of missing women aged 18 to 30 across South Korea between 2016 and 2018 identified a trajectory that the aggregate data had not surfaced, annual figures rising from a nine-year baseline average of 40 cases to 118, 195, and 294 in successive years. By 2018 the annual figure was more than seven times the prior baseline. Within that dataset, independent pattern analysis identified geographic and temporal clusters that Korean law enforcement had not formally connected, including a day-of-week clustering pattern in one city that was invisible in the official data because the reporting form captured date but not day of week. The finding was brought to the relevant authorities. The missing persons reporting form was subsequently updated to include day of week as a required field. Findings were published in the Korea Times in August 2019 under the title Missing Korean Women Rise Suddenly, the first independent analytical publication to identify and quantify the acceleration in the dataset and to surface the structural data collection failures that had prevented earlier detection. Offender Profiling — Institutional Violence and Behavioural Risk Developed a structured offender profile for a senior US Military Command in Korea addressing institutional violence and sexual offending within hierarchical organisational environments. The profile identified the structural enabling conditions, hierarchy, authority, ingroup protection dynamics, and inadequate accountability mechanisms, that allow predatory behaviour to persist within trusted institutional environments over extended periods. The profile was produced for a US Military context. It was subsequently validated against major cases in UK law enforcement, specifically the convictions of two serving Metropolitan Police officers for serious sexual offences, confirming that the enabling conditions identified in the profile are not institution-specific. They are structural. They recur wherever the same organisational conditions are present, regardless of the nature or jurisdiction of the institution. The analytical framework produced from this work has since been applied to corporate security risk assessment — identifying institutional vulnerability to predatory behaviour as a component of the broader insider threat and duty of care picture. Monthly Operational Intelligence Briefings & Threat Briefings Designs and delivers a standing monthly operational intelligence briefing programme covering crime behaviour trends, victim selection patterns, target hardening guidance, and environmental instability indicators across designated operational environments. Briefings are produced from primary data sources, police recorded crime statistics, public health intervention data, transport network crime data, and independent analytical observation, and are designed to provide organisations with a current, forward-looking intelligence picture between formal assessment cycles. Operational threat briefings on drug-related risk are produced as a separate product — covering the behavioural profile of dependency-driven acquisitive offending, the emerging synthetic opioid environment in major urban centres, and the specific operational implications for workforces moving through affected transit corridors. Current briefings address the nitazene acceleration in the London drug supply and its implications for the behavioural unpredictability of the Type 2 threat actor in the Moorgate operational environment. Together the environmental exposure reviews, monthly intelligence briefings, and operational threat briefings constitute a continuous intelligence cycle, from baseline environmental assessment through ongoing monitoring to specific operational threat awareness, that provides the organisational visibility standard security frameworks are not designed to generate.

Corporate Investigations & Fraud Exposure — Korea and APAC Globally Renowned Korean Mobile Telephone Manufacturer — Lead Investigator Following the discovery of multiple containers of counterfeit mobile phones in Israel, appointed as lead investigator to determine the origin and structure of the operation. Investigation established that product designs had been provided by a former employee who had subsequently established a manufacturing facility in China, exploiting relationships developed during his employment as an engineer across networks in China, the Middle East, and Europe. The investigation required multi-jurisdictional analytical work tracing supply chain relationships, identifying the commercial and personal networks through which the operation was sustained, and producing findings suitable for legal and executive action. The case demonstrated the intersection of insider threat, intellectual property theft, and organised commercial fraud across multiple jurisdictions, and the requirement for investigative methodology that could operate effectively across cultural and legal boundaries without local institutional support. Major Korean Electronics Manufacturer — Security & Risk Assessment Conducted a complete security review of a major Korean manufacturing site. The assessment identified multiple critical failures, including inadequate fire suppression capabilities, weak access controls, and the absence of any employee screening system for a large population of foreign workers, predominantly Chinese trainees with access to sensitive production areas. The finding that sensitive operational areas were in many cases less secure than the on-site canteen was a precise and actionable illustration of the gap between the organisation's perceived security posture and its actual one. Within two years of the assessment, the client's primary Chinese competitor had overtaken the organisation in the production of high-end electrical goods, an outcome consistent with the unmitigated insider and access control risks identified in the review. The assessment demonstrates the operational and commercial consequences of security vulnerabilities that organisations normalise because they have not been examined by an independent eye. It also illustrates the direct relationship between physical security control failure and competitive and commercial exposure, an argument that resonates particularly in a technology manufacturing environment.     Major Global Auto Parts Manufacturer — Lead Investigator, Supply Chain Fraud Appointed lead investigator at a non-Korean manufacturing plant losing millions of dollars to contract bidding and supply chain fraud across a robotics systems procurement programme. The investigation examined multiple contract bids submitted by fifteen suppliers, requiring the development of a structured red flag identification methodology that could be applied consistently across a large volume of complex commercial documentation. Trained a team of interpreters in red flag identification for supplier and procurement fraud, enabling the investigation to operate effectively across language boundaries without compromising analytical rigour. Following examination of several thousand bid documents, exposed an active price-fixing cabal operating across multiple suppliers, identified the ringleader organisation, and identified a specific individual within that organisation as the primary architect of the scheme. Developed vetting programmes and key performance indicators to enable the client to recruit and manage contractors with significantly greater confidence following the investigation, translating the investigative findings into preventive operational controls that reduced future exposure.

PyeongChang Winter Olympics — Risk, Security & Crisis Manager Represented a multinational company and TOP Olympic Sponsor throughout a five-month preparation and live event cycle, reporting directly to senior management. Responsible for security team selection, training, and operational management across all Olympic venues, accommodation facilities, and client locations used by 500-plus executive guests arriving in multiple waves throughout the event. Threat environment included nuclear and ground war contingency, environmental protest activity, inclement weather exposure, and seismic risk. Threat investigations independently identified significant frauds relating to land acquisition, deforestation, and property speculation in the surrounding area, findings that extended beyond the original security brief and demonstrated proactive risk identification beyond the scope of the commission. Designed and delivered complete crisis management, threat analysis, and emergency response plans. Prepared all evacuation procedures including mountainside safe-housing, food supply logistics, and country extraction protocols. Produced a complete photographed road map book covering national driving routes to designated safe destinations, enabling client personnel to self-navigate in the event of total transportation infrastructure failure. Established and maintained productive working relationships with emergency responders and held regular briefings with senior government stakeholders and Korean security services throughout the preparation and live event periods. Managed all security operations through the full duration of the Olympic event and delivered the final debrief to all related parties. Seoul G20 Summit — Risk, Security & Crisis Manager Engaged to provide security and crisis management for senior international bankers attending the Seoul G20 Summit alongside political leaders from across the world. Assessed violent demonstration threat as high and implemented a comprehensive pre-event risk mitigation programme. Worked closely with South Korean government organising committees, maintaining regular briefings with police and security services throughout the preparation period. Conducted all venue, route, and people-asset evaluations, including route rehearsals for principal movements. Trained and managed a team of eight close protection specialists providing operational cover throughout the event. Korean Presidential Inauguration Ceremony — Security & Crisis Management (Lee Myung-bak) Provided security and crisis management support for the Korean Presidential Inauguration, one of the highest-profile and most operationally complex security events in the Korean political calendar. Responsible for threat assessment, venue evaluation, and operational security delivery throughout the ceremony. Asia Development Bank Summit — Security & Crisis Management Provided security and crisis management for the Asia Development Bank Summit in Korea, a high-profile multilateral financial institution event attended by senior government and banking delegations from across the APAC region. Conducted threat assessment, venue security review, and operational security management throughout the event.

Major Japanese Global Financial Institution — Principal Protection Programme Responsible for the travel security of the Japanese Chairman and Chief Executive Officer over an eight-year engagement covering regular visits to Korea and international destinations. Assessed all potential threats across the full journey cycle, including public appearances, speeches, travel routes, accommodation, and venue environments. Provided 24-hour escort cover throughout all principal movements and trained and managed support staff to deliver consistent operational standards across the programme. Threat assessment for each visit incorporated environmental analysis of the destination city, route reconnaissance, venue security evaluation, and real-time situational awareness throughout the principal's presence. Developed and maintained operational protocols that balanced security effectiveness with the discretion required for a senior executive of international standing. The eight-year duration of the engagement reflects sustained client confidence in operational delivery, threat assessment capability, and the ability to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional protection requirements with minimum supervision across an extended programme. International Executive Protection & Travel Security — Multi-Jurisdiction Provided executive protection and travel security services to senior clients travelling to the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, and Israel, primarily for high-level business meetings, trade delegations, and international trade shows. Each engagement required independent threat assessment of the destination environment, route planning, venue evaluation, and operational security delivery in jurisdictions with different legal frameworks, cultural contexts, and risk profiles. Ballistic Protection Design — Executive Garments Designed and produced a range of discreet ballistic protection garments for executive use, challenging the orthodoxy of established global test standards to develop solutions that combined effective protective capability with the appearance and functionality required for senior executive environments. This work required independent analytical assessment of existing standards, identification of their operational limitations, and the development of a practical alternative that met real-world executive protection requirements.

Safe Schools Korea — Pre-Employment Screening Service Following independent identification of a pattern of registered sex offenders entering South Korea to work with children in the English language teaching industry, designed and established Korea's first sector-wide pre-employment screening service. The pattern was identified through analytical work that preceded the formal service design, recognising that the absence of a structured screening framework was not simply an administrative gap but an active vulnerability being exploited by a specific offender population. The response was not to recommend that an existing institution address the gap. It was to build the mechanism that closed it. Liaised directly with the Korea Immigration Service, the Korean Ministry of Education, and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to surface the pattern, establish the data-sharing framework required to support screening operations, and embed the service within the institutional landscape. The service addressed a vulnerability that affected thousands of children across the Korean education system and that no existing institutional framework had identified or responded to. This engagement demonstrates the full operational cycle from independent pattern identification through institutional engagement to practical programme delivery, and the willingness to act on an analytical finding rather than simply report it. US Military Command — Institutional Violence & Operational Readiness Advised a senior US Military command in Korea on insider violence and behavioural risk impacting unit cohesion and operational readiness, an engagement that had reached sufficient severity to generate its own chain of command to General officer level. Delivered a structured analytical debrief to senior command identifying the specific institutional conditions that were enabling the risk to persist, including the absence of a systematic mechanism for identifying predatory personalities within a promotion culture focused exclusively on identifying high performers. The analytical finding was that the same institutional processes designed to surface the best were structurally blind to the worst. The engagement demonstrated the requirement for external analytical capability in institutional environments where internal frameworks are culturally or structurally prevented from seeing what they need to see, and the operational consequence of that prevention when the gap goes unaddressed. Japanese Law Enforcement — Capability Development & Security Training Designed and delivered a multi-year capability development programme for Japanese law enforcement, covering investigative governance, incident handling procedures, and the management of security matters involving foreign nationals. Developed training frameworks aligned with operational standards, procedural compliance, and the specific cultural considerations required for effective capability transfer in a Japanese institutional environment. The programme operated across multiple delivery cycles, requiring sustained relationship management with the client institution and the ability to adapt operational security concepts across significant cultural and procedural differences. International Education Group — Insider Allegations & Reputational Risk Supported senior leadership in managing serious insider allegations against a staff member presenting significant legal, safeguarding, and reputational exposure. Advised on investigation governance, escalation protocols, and defensible decision-making aligned with duty of care and regulatory expectations. Identified systemic pre-employment and trusted-access control gaps that had created the conditions for the allegations to arise, and led the design of a preventive background screening framework that subsequently formed the foundation of the Safe Schools Korea service described above. Major Korean Electronics Manufacturer — Security Governance Review Following the physical security assessment described in the Corporate Investigations section, provided governance recommendations addressing the access control failures, foreign worker screening gaps, and fire suppression vulnerabilities identified during the site review. Developed a structured remediation framework prioritising the highest-consequence exposures and providing the client with an auditable record of identified risks and recommended responses. The subsequent competitive outcome, a primary Chinese competitor overtaking the client in high-end electrical goods production within two years, was consistent with the unmitigated access and insider risks identified in the review. The engagement illustrates the commercial and operational consequence of security governance failures that are present but unexamined. Korean University Engagement — Security Awareness & Research Lectured and delivered security awareness workshops across multiple Korean universities covering travel security, campus sexual violence, substance-related crime, and the economic and institutional costs of sexual offending. Subjects included the international drugs traffic and global oil supply, drugs used in crime, the corporate dimensions of sexual violence, and analytical frameworks for understanding offender motivation and behaviour. The university engagement established and maintained productive relationships across the Korean academic community, providing both a platform for the broader analytical programme and a channel through which research findings could be communicated to the next generation of Korean professionals. Corporate Security, Insider Threat & Governance — Multinational Clients Provided corporate security leadership to multinational organisations operating across complex, multi-jurisdictional environments, covering insider threat identification and behavioural risk assessment, employee and contractor vetting, procurement fraud and conflict-of-interest exposure, and investigation governance and evidential integrity. Supported organisations in managing high-stakes security incidents with legal, regulatory, and reputational dimensions, ensuring appropriate escalation, defensible documentation, and audit-ready reporting aligned with the expectations of HR, Legal, Compliance, and senior leadership. Designed and reviewed security governance frameworks, compliance documentation, and investigation oversight procedures for clients operating across APAC, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa — translating global security standards into operational processes that function effectively in diverse legal and cultural environments.

NEW SCOTLAND YARD — Metropolitan Police Service  Investigator, Crime Squad | London | 9 Years Nine years as an investigator with the Metropolitan Police Service operating from New Scotland Yard — one of the most scrutinised and procedurally demanding law enforcement environments in the world. The foundation of an operational security career built on evidential discipline, behavioural assessment, independent judgement under pressure, and accountability to both senior leadership and external oversight. Investigative Operations Managed serious and sensitive criminal investigations requiring strict adherence to legal, procedural, and evidential standards from initial report through to prosecution-ready documentation. Exercised independent judgement in incident response, risk assessment, and escalation decisions — operating with accountability to senior leadership and external oversight bodies simultaneously. Developed strong foundations in behavioural assessment and risk-based prioritisation; identifying threat indicators, assessing credibility, and making high-consequence decisions under time pressure and scrutiny. Produced accurate, audit-ready documentation and disclosure material suitable for legal and executive review, establishing the evidential discipline that has underpinned all subsequent investigative and governance work. Behavioural Assessment & Risk Prioritisation Applied structured behavioural assessment frameworks to complex, sensitive investigations, developing the analytical methodology that has since been extended into corporate insider threat identification, offender profiling, and environmental risk analysis. Managed investigations involving vulnerable individuals, witnesses under threat, and subjects with significant legal representation, developing the judgement and procedural discipline required to produce defensible outcomes under adversarial scrutiny. External Authority Engagement Maintained productive working relationships with prosecutors, legal teams, forensic specialists, and external oversight bodies throughout complex investigations, establishing the authority engagement capability that has since been applied across law enforcement, government, and regulatory stakeholder management in Korea, Japan, and the wider APAC region. Operated within a multi-agency environment requiring effective collaboration across jurisdictional and institutional boundaries, the foundation of the multi-force and multi-jurisdictional analytical work that characterises the current DSRM programme. Foundation for APAC Security Career The New Scotland Yard experience established four capabilities that have defined every subsequent engagement: Evidential discipline — the ability to produce findings that withstand scrutiny, legal challenge, and audit review Behavioural assessment — the ability to identify risk indicators in human behaviour before they become incidents Independent judgement — the ability to make high-consequence decisions without supervision in time-pressured environments Procedural compliance under pressure — the ability to maintain rigorous standards when the environment is adversarial and the consequences of failure are significant These capabilities transferred directly from a major metropolitan police environment into corporate security operations across Korea, Japan, and the wider APAC region — and remain the analytical and operational foundation of the DSRM programme.

INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY ENGAGEMENT Japanese Law Enforcement — Capability Development & Security Training Designed and delivered a multi-year capability development programme for Japanese law enforcement — covering investigative governance, incident handling procedures, and the management of security matters involving foreign nationals operating within Japanese jurisdiction. Programme Design & Delivery Developed a structured training framework aligned with Japanese operational standards, procedural compliance requirements, and the specific cultural considerations required for effective capability transfer in a Japanese institutional environment. Designed and delivered training modules covering investigative governance, evidential standards, incident escalation protocols, and the management of cross-cultural and multi-jurisdictional security matters. Adapted operational security concepts and investigative methodology across significant cultural and procedural differences, maintaining analytical rigour while ensuring relevance and applicability within the Japanese institutional context. Delivered programme across multiple cycles, requiring sustained relationship management with the client institution and the demonstrated ability to build and maintain productive long-term working relationships with a major Asian law enforcement authority. Cultural & Operational Effectiveness Operated effectively within a Japanese institutional environment characterised by significant hierarchical structure, indirect communication norms, and a high premium on procedural precision and institutional trust, developing the cultural competency that directly supports the APAC regional security operations requirement. Maintained productive and trusted relationships with Japanese law enforcement stakeholders across the full programme duration, demonstrating the sustained authority engagement capability that external partnerships with law enforcement and government agencies demands. Japanese professional working proficiency supported direct communication with programme participants and institutional stakeholders without dependency on intermediaries, enabling more effective capability transfer and more nuanced relationship management than would have been achievable through translation alone. Relevance to APAC Regional Operations The Japanese law enforcement programme sits at the intersection of three capabilities directly relevant to the APAC projects: The ability to design and deliver operational security training and awareness programmes in a major Asian institutional environment The ability to build and sustain productive working relationships with Asian law enforcement authorities over extended periods The cultural competency and language capability to operate effectively across the Japanese and Korean institutional landscape without the intermediary dependency that limits the effectiveness of most Western security practitioners in the APAC region The programme complements the Korean operational security track record documented elsewhere in this document, establishing a dual-jurisdiction Asian law enforcement engagement capability that is unusual among Western security practitioners and directly relevant to a Korea-based role with APAC regional responsibilities. International Conferences (Crime) Provided invited presentations and specialist briefings for Korean law-enforcement, prosecutorial, military, corporate, and academic audiences.