MICHAEL FUSCO
Roanoke,TX
Summary
Effective leadership skills and the ability to motivate team members across areas of expertise, including business partners, analytics and security. Motivated individual always willing to accept new challenges and changes. A results-driven individual with over nine years’ experience in law enforcement, surveillance, investigations, risk assessments, data analysis using processes to drive change.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Global Security Operations Manager
Prosegur
11.2025 - Current
- Risk assessment and planning, conduct site advances, threat assessments, and vulnerability analyses to ensure comprehensive protective planning. Develop contingency plans and emergency response procedures for executive movements.
- Program oversight with managing daily operations for executive protection teams, including personnel assignments, scheduling, and deployment logistics across multiple client locations and events.
- Leadership and team development to mentor and train security professionals to maintain a high standard of service, confidentiality, and situational awareness. Conduct regular evaluations to ensure ongoing professional development and compliance with Prosegur standards.
- Operational excellence to establish and maintain efficient processes for scheduling, travel logistics, resource allocation, and coordination of protective operations. Implement performance metrics to evaluate operational effectiveness. Led cross-functional teams tp optimize operational workflows and enhance service delivery.
- Incident and crisis management responding to incidents or emergencies with composure and strategic problem-solving. Oversee documentation, debriefs, and corrective actions following incidents or operational irregularities.
Executive Protection Agent
Salient Operations Group
04.2022 - Current
- Provide armed and unarmored close personal protection for the welfare and physical protection of High Net Worth individuals and VIP/celebrities both domestically and abroad.
- Responsible for supervisory roles regarding: Training new protection agents at various sites throughout the US and abroad on procedures, tactics, driving, scenarios, and client interactions. Overseeing security for high-profile visitors including coordination of resources, meetings, and transportation. Developed new protective programs, SOPs and procedures for new sites throughout the US. Maintained close relationships with clients, drivers, and pilots along with liaison with local law enforcement. And negotiations with potential new clients regarding security needs, risk assessments, financial terms, and scheduling.
- Selected as the subject matter expert for new clients and/or sites involving executive protection and residential protection.
- Perform protective advance planning, threat vulnerability assessments, route reconnaissance, route overlays, emergency evacuation planning, surveillance, and counter surveillance.
- Transport the client and/or family members to events and appointments, using evasive and/or defensive driving tactics, as needed, using various vehicles.
Executive Protection Agent/Team Leader
Caterpillar Inc (Prosegur)
06.2023 - 10.2025
- Part of a small team assigned to help develop the Executive Protection program developing Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs), advance planning, and training.
- Provide armed and unarmed close personal protection for the welfare and physical protection of the CEO and C-level suite executives of a Fortune 500 company.
- Develop and implement security plans for executive events, including conferences, meetings, and public appearances, coordinating with event organizers and local security personnel.
- Agent in Charge for the planning, execution, and oversight of operational meetings involving 20+ executives related to; coordination of foreign and domestic security teams, vendor management, planning of assignments, duties, hours, and scheduling, threat vulnerability assessments, route reconnaissance, route overlays, emergency evacuation planning, surveillance, and counter surveillance, point of contact for local law enforcement, and supervision of 2-10 agents internationally.
- Collaborate with internal teams including Executive Assistants, Legal, Human Resources, Travel, and external partners like local law enforcement and security vendors to ensure seamless execution of security plans.
- Manage the development and maintenance of methods and systems for measuring the degree to which the goals, objectives and metrics of the Executive Protection Program are being met.
- Assist Executives with situational awareness training and personal safety responses; at times, this may include training for any party traveling with their Executives.
- Transport of principals to events and appointments, using evasive and/or defensive driving tactics, as needed, using luxury vehicles.
- Liaison for direct contact of local law enforcement, security manager/directors of facilities visited.
- Presents risk analysis, threat vulnerability assessments, and investigations for domestic and international travel.
- Training of new protective agents on driving routes, residential security, mobile protection, risk/threat analysis, and corporate procedures.
- Operational coordination of drivers and protective agents for local and international transports and protective details for executives within the company.
Executive Protection Agent
Gavin De Becker and Associates
09.2021 - 04.2022
- Provide armed close personal protection for the welfare and physical protection of High Valued governmental asset domestically.
- Part of a small, dynamic team that built a command center and established new policies for a brand-new detail for the company.
- Single handedly developed new arrest, containment, and transport for trespassers on property.
- Performed advance planning, threat vulnerability assessments, route reconnaissance, route overlays, emergency evacuation planning, surveillance and counter-surveillance.
- Transport of client and/or family to events and appointments using evasive and/or defensive driving tactics using armored and unarmored vehicles.
- Maintained and wrote shift logs, activity reports, and incident reports.
Employee Relations Senior Investigator
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
10.2020 - 07.2021
- Manage and conduct thorough investigations of high-risk, sensitive workplace cases to include fraud, theft, harassment, retaliation, etc. received through employee ethics reporting site.
- Collect and perform analysis of employment-related data in support of investigation or appeal outcomes, as required.
- Prepare comprehensive investigation reports with findings to include evaluation of any process gaps or practices that create legal risk in order to mitigate organizational liability.
- Manage employee due process through appeals review of employment actions. Analyze all employee and management actions leading to the employment action, including proposed outcome.
- Maintain and protect accurate, confidential records regarding investigations within ethics reporting system.
- Identify and report, through the investigation and appeals processes, practices that create legal risk in order to mitigate organizational liability.
Compliance Analyst III
Moneygram International
10.2019 - 08.2020
- Investigate alerts generated by internal model that are indicative of suspicious activity, investigate and resolve AML related and sanctions alerts, and report findings to management in a timely manner.
- Correspond with account officers and banking officers for additional information related to customers and accounts.
- File SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) if deemed necessary based on account holder's behavior.
- Ensure efficient identification and scoring of risky customers while maintaining a current understanding of all trends and typologies in AML to include: terrorism trends, human trafficking/smuggling, criminal typologies, and tax evasion.
Reserve Police Officer
Denton Police Department
06.2019 - 05.2020
Personal Protection Officer (Executive Protection Agent)
Private Client
04.2016 - 02.2020
- Provide armed and unarmored close personal protection for the welfare and physical protection of an Ultra High Net Worth individual and family both domestically and abroad.
- Perform protective advance planning, threat vulnerability assessments, route reconnaissance, route overlays, emergency evacuation planning, surveillance, and counter surveillance.
- Coordinate contingency plans and medical responses to emergencies.
- Transport the client and/or family members to events and appointments, using evasive and/or defensive driving tactics, as needed, using various vehicles.
Reserve Police Officer
Honey Grove Police Department
08.2016 - 05.2019
Police Officer
McKinney Police Department
04.2015 - 07.2016
- Enforced state, local ordinances, and traffic laws, arrested suspected violators of the law, conducted investigations and surveillance, identified, collected and preserved evidence and affidavits, prepared reports and documents to complete investigations.
- Undercover/covert operations of vehicle, habituation, and building burglaries using surveillance and undercover vehicles.
- Patrolled assigned districts in order to deter crime and show an active presence in the area.
- Maintained community policing by visiting the local stores and housing districts to maintain close relationships with citizens.
- Trained and led new officers on departmental procedures and assisted detectives with ongoing investigations and perform write ups.
Police Officer, SWAT, Gang Unit
Garland Police Department
09.2011 - 04.2015
- Enforced state, local ordinances, and traffic laws, arrested suspected violators of the law, conducted investigations and surveillance, identified, collected and preserved evidence and affidavits, prepared reports and documents to complete investigations.
- Patrolled assigned districts in order to deter crime and show an active presence in the area.
- Maintained community policing by visiting the local stores and housing districts to maintain close relationships with citizens.
- Trained and led new officers on departmental procedures and assisted detectives with ongoing investigations and perform write ups.
- Conducted investigations, gathered and analyzed intelligence, and surveillance related to narcotics and street gangs, and certified criminal street gang members and associates for documentation. Executed search warrants on such individuals.
- Assigned to the Special Weapons and Tactics Team with operations executing high risk search warrants, covert and undercover operations, surveillance, hostage situations, and dignitary protection.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal
Marywood University
Scranton, PA01.2008
Skills
- Personnel Management
- Advanced driving
- Threat/Risk Analysis
- Surveillance/Counter Surveillance
- Leadership
- De-escalation Techniques
- Policy and Firearms Training
- Reconnaissance
- Report/Technical Writing
- Process Management
- Protection
- Investigations
Certification
- Garland police academy 2012
- Garland EVOC driving school 2012
- Garland Police Academy Best Defensive Tactics award 2012
- Garland basic SWAT 2014
- Basic rappelling 2014
- Gavin de Becker and Associates Executive Protection Academy 2021
- AS3 Counter Ambush Driving School 2025
- TX DPS level 4 certification
- TX CCW license
- American Heart Association CPR and First Aid 2025
Timeline
Global Security Operations Manager
Prosegur
11.2025 - Current
Executive Protection Agent/Team Leader
Caterpillar Inc (Prosegur)
06.2023 - 10.2025
Executive Protection Agent
Salient Operations Group
04.2022 - Current
Executive Protection Agent
Gavin De Becker and Associates
09.2021 - 04.2022
Employee Relations Senior Investigator
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
10.2020 - 07.2021
Compliance Analyst III
Moneygram International
10.2019 - 08.2020
Reserve Police Officer
Denton Police Department
06.2019 - 05.2020
Reserve Police Officer
Honey Grove Police Department
08.2016 - 05.2019
Personal Protection Officer (Executive Protection Agent)
Private Client
04.2016 - 02.2020
Police Officer
McKinney Police Department
04.2015 - 07.2016
Police Officer, SWAT, Gang Unit
Garland Police Department
09.2011 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal
Marywood University