Jared Guidry
Washington,DC
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Unit Supervisor, Embassy Operations Center (EOC)
U.S. Embassy Baghdad
08.2025 - Current
- Led and supervised DS's largest overseas 24/7 operations center comprised of forty foreign service, civil service, personnel services contractor and third party contractor personnel.
- Directed security, emergency, and medical response operations at U.S. Embassy Baghdad and off compound
- Coordinated resource allocation and deployment of over twenty protective security details that provide motorcade movement for Chief of Mission (COM) personnel assigned to U.S. Mission Iraq.
- Managed post's Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems and Counter-Rocket and Mortar defenses.
Unit Chief
Office of Mobile Security Deployments (MSD)
03.2022 - 08.2025
- Supervised and led a team of six specially trained DS Special Agents that provided crisis response assistance at embassies and consulates around the world.
- Developed and implemented security plans that enabled the Libya External Office to conduct critical diplomatic engagements in Tripoli.
- Provided close protection services to the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and COM personnel. Facilitated secure travel within Ukraine to advance high-profile USG priorities in Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, and Zhytomyr.
- Led training teams in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Bishkek, Phnom Penh, Skopje, and Amman that increased these diplomatic posts crisis and disaster response capabilities.
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Embassy Bamako
10.2019 - 01.2022
- Managed Embassy Bamako's security assistance program to the host nation's counterterrorism gendarmerie unit. Coordinated the delivery of $18.5 million in training courses and $1.5 million in equipment grants.
- Supervised the completion of a $2.5 million technical upgrade that modernized post's outdated security infrastructure. Managed an Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) project that doubled the size of the Marine Security Guard Residence.
- Following two coups, heightened political violence, and widespread terrorist activity - coordinated with Bamako's Front Office and Country Team to modify Post's movement security policy and develop solutions that facilitated COM personnel travel to Gao, Timbuktu, and Sikasso.
- Served as acting-RSO for six months.
Desk Officer
Diplomatic Security (DS) Overseas Criminal Investigations (OCI)
10.2018 - 07.2019
- Managed DS/OCI's Eastern Europe portfolio that covered Posts in Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, and Armenia.
- Conducted Program Management Reviews (PMRs) at Post to ensure Assistant Regional Security Officer - Investigators (ARSO-Is) complied with OCI reporting requirements, investigative best practices, and liaison/training mandates.
- Expanded OCI's Vetted Unit program at three Posts enabling prosecution of criminal activity under host country laws that did not rise to the level of U.S. prosecution.
- Prepared briefing documents for the DS Front Office, as requested by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, highlighting training and liaison activities that had been provided to host governments over a three year period.
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Consulate General Lahore
09.2017 - 09.2018
- Trained, drilled, and supervised CG Lahore's 425 person security team consisting of MSGs, armed bodyguards, armed Local Guard Force (LGF), Punjabi Rangers, and Punjabi Constabulary. The security team supported all movements off compound by COM personnel and reacted to security threats on or near Mission property.
- Planned, led, and supervised a movement security team that facilitated the CG's overland travel to the Multan Division of Pakistan.
- Managed a full range of RSO security programs and served as acting RSO for two months.
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Embassy Caracas
10.2015 - 05.2017
- During a period of deteriorating relations with the host government and amid large-scale protests, led the Mission's emergency planning and preparedness efforts ahead of Post's eventual closure.
- Managed a 120-person direct hire guard force that provided security for Embassy property and residences.
- Supervised an OBO fence construction project that increased security near the consular section and brought Post into compliance with Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recommendations.
- Organized counterintelligence and contact reporting briefings for all sections of the Mission.
- Served as acting Deputy RSO for three months.
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Embassy Monrovia
03.2013 - 03.2015
- Served as acting-RSO for a five month period at the height of the Ebola Crisis in Liberia. Oversaw security functions related to Post's Ordered Departure and developed security plans for the deployment of Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and medical personnel responding to the crisis in country.
- Led a security construction project that developed a facility that met Overseas Security Policy Board (OSPB) standards and was used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to research Ebola virus vaccines.
- Supervised the installation of security upgrades and negotiated the OSPB setback waiver process on two apartment buildings increasing the size of Post's housing pool by thirty percent.
Special Agent
Diplomatic Security (DS) San Francisco Field Office (SFFO)
08.2010 - 12.2012
- Conducted investigations of passport and visa fraud in the SFFO area of responsibility. Testified in court and before grand juries.
- Provided close protection services to visiting foreign dignitaries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Honolulu, Dallas, and Rochester.
- Provided TDY assistance to the Secretary's Detail (SD) and supported travel to Chennai, Brussels, London, Rabat, and Beijing.
Timeline
Unit Supervisor, Embassy Operations Center (EOC)
U.S. Embassy Baghdad
08.2025 - Current
Unit Chief
Office of Mobile Security Deployments (MSD)
03.2022 - 08.2025
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Embassy Bamako
10.2019 - 01.2022
Desk Officer
Diplomatic Security (DS) Overseas Criminal Investigations (OCI)
10.2018 - 07.2019
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Consulate General Lahore
09.2017 - 09.2018
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Embassy Caracas
10.2015 - 05.2017
Assistant Regional Security Officer
U.S. Embassy Monrovia
03.2013 - 03.2015
Special Agent
Diplomatic Security (DS) San Francisco Field Office (SFFO)
08.2010 - 12.2012
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