James Kuo
Covina,USA
Summary
A highly organized and hard-working individual seeking a responsible position to expand my learnings, knowledge, and skills.
Security professional with strong background in management, executive protection, risk/threat assessment, and emergency response planning. Proven ability to lead teams and collaborate effectively to achieve organizational goals and adapting to evolving security needs. Skilled in crisis management, surveillance systems, and regulatory compliance, with focus on delivering reliable and consistent results. Dependable and adaptable, ensures efficient results through proactive strategies and decisive action.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of Security
Lighthouse Security Group, Inc.
01.2023 - Current
- Oversee daily operations including management of budget, providing supervision, scheduling, conducting counseling, evaluations and providing professional development.
- Oversee daily administrative operations including accounts payable and receivable, hiring and human resources.
- Maximizing team success in a fast-paced and demanding setting.
- Detailed site and risk assessment resulting in mitigation of risk and providing the best service to clients while being cost efficient.
Executive Protection Agent & Residential Security Agent, Lead
Security Professional
05.2021 - Current
- Lead a team of agents to accomplish the highest level of safety, security and service to high profile clients.
- Rapidly analyze problems, while seeing all potential outcomes quickly.
- Threat assessment of person of interest and site of interest.
- Travel logistics to minimize exposure with route management, forward operation and emergency readiness.
- Implementation of emergency readiness plan.
- Advising clients resulting in a positive outcome while mitigating risk.
Residential Security Agent
Security Professional
08.2020 - 05.2021
- Extensive knowledge of camera systems. Monitor property utilizing various camera systems.
- Internal and external patrol of the property.
- Manage access and monitor all staff, vendors and visitors on the property.
- Ensure staff can work efficiently while prioritizing client’s privacy and space.
- Rapidly analyze problems, while seeing all potential outcomes quickly.
Officer
State of California
10.2007 - 11.2019
- Enforced provisions of the California Penal and Vehicle Code and other complex laws, regulations, and court rulings by taking enforcement actions. Made a variety of in-custody arrests; Administered field sobriety tests; assisted in directing and leading investigations of traffic collisions, thefts, property loss and unlawful activities. Crowd management during disturbances and other assemblies.
- Provide Protective Services Detail for national and foreign government officials and dignitaries. Providing supplemental security for the federal agency with primary responsibility for the visiting dignitary. Encompassing outer perimeter security for motorcade and outer perimeter security during walking movements at event sites, threat assessment, protective intelligence, routes and emergency response operations.
- Management of accident scenes or other emergencies; investigated complex traffic collisions; interviewed victims, witnesses, and suspects for information to support criminal complaints and traffic collision reports.
- Prepare and review a variety of reports and forms; maintained firearm proficiency monthly; recovered evidence and provided for its safekeeping.
- Develop meaningful professional relationships with government and private partners to oversee and ensure projects are completed. Draft and execute reimbursable contracts relating to various projects.
- Trained newly graduated Officers to perform their duties proficiently through supervision, inspiring and encouraging.
- Mentored youth to develop young people into responsible and productive citizens through discipline and a commitment to serving their community. Oversee daily program operation including management of budget, providing supervision, scheduling, conducting counseling and evaluations and providing professional development.
Education
Associates of Arts Degree - Administration of Justice
Rio Hondo College
Whittier, CA08.2005
Skills
- Proficient in assessing and prioritizing work assignments
- Assertiveness, and engagement in teamwork
- Works well with little to no supervision
- Excels in working in fast-paced environments
- Motivated, articulate, confident, optimistic, and reliable
- Able to learn at a fast pace and able to multitask
- Bilingual; able to speak fluent English and Chinese Mandarin and Taiwanese
- Capacity for empathy and compassion, use of good judgment
- Budget/financial management
- Excel in accurate report writing and reviewing
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office
- Law enforcement experience
- Emergency vehicle and countermeasure operation
- Threat assessment and protective intelligence gathering
- Worked in dynamic shifts and overtime hours
- Directing and leading investigations of accidents, thefts, property loss and unlawful activities
- Emergency response
- Coordinating various training
- Flexibility to travel
- Skilled in effective leadership
- Demonstrated skills to communicate with credibility, tact and diplomacy
- Executive protection
- Event security management
- Investigation techniques
- Security management
- Operation oversight
- Policy development
- Staff training and development
- Crisis management
Certification
State of CA BSIS guard registration.
State of CA BSIS permit for exposed firearm.
Red Cross adult first aid/CPR/AED certificate.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Chinese (Mandarin)
Limited Working
Timeline
Director of Security
Lighthouse Security Group, Inc.
01.2023 - Current
Executive Protection Agent & Residential Security Agent, Lead
Security Professional
05.2021 - Current
Residential Security Agent
Security Professional
08.2020 - 05.2021
Officer
State of California
10.2007 - 11.2019
Associates of Arts Degree - Administration of Justice
Rio Hondo College