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GARDENIA ROMERO

Palmdale,CA

Summary

Detail-oriented Security Specialist with experience in implementing and maintaining comprehensive security measures to safeguard against threats. Skilled in conducting risk assessments, managing security protocols, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Visitor Control Center Salary 62,000

Culpepper & Associates Security Services
Edwards AFB, CA - Supervisor Christian Perez 661-800-8247
06.2024 - Current
  • Assist facility security officer in the development of consistent practices, policies and protocols while ensuring the correct implementation across the programs and facilities.
  • Working alongside governments, military counterparts to support, investigate potential security violations and preventive actions within the shared facility environments.
  • Ensuring personnel, including, and not limited to physical management, document control, subcontractor security management, and security education and observation.
  • Authority entrance and exit of personnel within the facility of the installation. Controlled, inspected for potential threats against personnel and installation.
  • Ensured and issued authorized badges to individuals that had business or otherwise on the installation.
  • Perform in individual and team roles supporting all contractual security requirements for DoD collateral classified programs.
  • Evaluated threat assessments, within that of the scope of the OPSEC of the installation and post, assigned each day.
  • Implement federal security regulations that apply to company compliance and contract execution as set forth in the 32 CFR Part 117 (NISPOM predecessor).
  • Determine and coordinate with military security forces on a routine basis to respond to multiple potential issues, alarms, threats or otherwise to personnel and installation.

Security Specialist -Salary 65,000

JT4
Edwards AFB, CA - Supervisor Joseph Maruca 661-361-5384
10.2022 - 01.2024
  • Classified document control, security education, briefings and debriefings, personnel security management, and other tasks as required.
    • Management of security infrastructure concerns, security vulnerabilities, while operating and development of security protocols and specific software.
  • Coordinated with Security Forces to add and remove users from; SAPF ADVANTOR system.
  • Maintaining regular scheduled maintenance on multiple systems, while managing a team of other IT professionals in the improvement, security set forth by protocols by the Dept of Defense.
  • Ensuring the management of the system is being maintained, through multiple of means of communication, through clear, oral or otherwise communication.
  • Identifying and evaluating corrective actions to vulnerable security risks, within the installation for potential information assurance inspection findings or otherwise.
  • Security infrastructure concerns, security vulnerabilities, while operating and development of security protocols and specific software.
  • Physical Security liaison for the facility, conduct investigations, Crisis Management, contract guard liaison, security integrator for service providers, and visitor control.
  • Maintained all JSF -F35 account SAPF safes, ensuring document control, and correct forms were used. Held self-inspections for compound, performed security audits on the following forms 700, 701, 702 and form 89.

Security Contractor

Allied Universal - Northrop Grumman -Salary 56,000
, CA - Supervisor Jamal Green 714-714-3192
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Assist and Maintain facility security officer (FSO) in the development of consistent practices, policies ensuring the correct implementation of a variety of tools and within all programs.
  • Performing all individual and team roles supporting the facility and all contractual security requirements for the DOD classified programs.
  • Be responsible for the protection of and access to highly sensitive locations, equipment, technology or otherwise known as classified locations.
  • Preserve order and enforce rules, regulations, directives for viability of site and safety protocols to ensure all personnel, equipment, and other essential sensitive areas.
  • Providing force protection within the facilities, locations that otherwise are considered off limited to known authorized personnel.
  • Ensure prompt and accurate preparation, signature, and submission of account correspondence, message, and accounting reports.
  • Regular updates to field other personnel, through the day to ensure responses to other locations were being observed or otherwise secured.
  • Managed foreign travel for compound residents and updated PSQ’s for those leaving and returning.
  • Tracked security policies to ensure compliance with government and customer regulations and procedures.

Education

High School Diploma -

Los Angeles Education Corps
Los Angeles, CA
12.2011

Skills

  • Spanish
  • English
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Access Control
  • Professionalism
  • CCTV Monitoring
  • Crime Prevention
  • Theft Prevention
  • Incident Reporting
  • Evidence collection
  • Teamwork and Collaboration

Certification

  • Cybersecurity for Security Personnel CS160. 16
  • Derivative Classication IF103. 16
  • Identifying and Safeguarding Personally Identiable Information DSIF101.06
  • Introduction to Information Security IF011. 16
  • Introduction to Personnel Security PS113. 16
  • Marking Special Categories of Classied Information IF105. 16

Personal Information

Title: SECURITY SPECIALIST

Clearances

  • Top Secret

Timeline

Visitor Control Center Salary 62,000

Culpepper & Associates Security Services
06.2024 - Current

Security Specialist -Salary 65,000

JT4
10.2022 - 01.2024

Security Contractor

Allied Universal - Northrop Grumman -Salary 56,000
01.2021 - 01.2022

High School Diploma -

Los Angeles Education Corps
GARDENIA ROMERO