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Roel Rodriguez

Harlingen,TX

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Services Professional / Registered Rep

NY Life Insurance/ NY LIfe Securities
12.2015 - Current

I have over 8 years of experience offering financial services and products that meet a number of insurance and financial needs like college funding, retirement, managing costs, long term care, individual disability income, employee benefits and lifetime income strategies.


I am a licensed Agent providing insurance through my company and various other companies and I am a Registered Representative offering securities products through my company.

Deputy Patrol Agent In Charge

U.S. Border Patrol
09.1988 - 12.2015

I had 27 years 11 months experience as a US Border Patrol Agent. My career covered 8 years of patrol enforcement operations and almost 20 years in federal law enforcement Supervision/Management leadership positions. These positions entailed field command of a unit of 10 employees to a US Border Patrol station of 700 employees. My leadership experience encompassed first line field command to oversight of intelligence and special intelligence operations to special projects and task forces and assignment at the USBP Headquarters in Washington DC. My specialty was in Unified Command/Whole of Government coordination and operations based on NIMS and FEMA ICS processes.


Career Skills & Accomplishments:

  • 8 Years As a Border Patrol Agent
  • Certified Canine Handler
  • 4 Years of US Border Patrol Academy Supervisory Instructor
  • Spanish Instructor Certified
  • Driver Training Instructor Certified
  • 15+ Years of US Border Patrol Supervisory/Management
  • 3 Years of Supervisory Border Patrol Agent in command of a unit consisting of 10 direct reports and oversight of 40-50 BP Agents
  • Certified as Contracting Officer Technical Rep (COTR)
  • Liaison for US Border Patrol for construction of Fort Brown Border Patrol Station
  • 3 Years of Field Operations Supervisor commanding 9 first line supervisors direct reports and oversight of 100+ Border Patrol Agents
  • Certified National Incident Management System (NIMS) and FEMA Incident Command Systems in support of CBP Office of Anti-Terrorism post 9-11
  • Charged with building all hazards CBP Office of Incident Management for CBP Lead Field Coordinator with all CBP personnel and resources in 5 state region (TX, NM, OK, LA, AR) to align with FEMA Region 6.
  • Deployed to multiple regional and state level critical incidents
  • 4 Years as Assistant Patrol Agent in Charge of RGV Sector Office of Intelligence with oversight of +180 employees handling intelligence analysis, operations, command center, signals intel, task forces, CI program, surveillance and working with many foreign governments and all local, county, state and federal agencies
  • Rest of career served as Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge at 3 different locations
  • Served as Acting Agent in Charge during 2014 Humanitarian Crisis specializing in family unit and unaccompanied children care and disposition.
  • Assisted with building inaugural Centralized Processing Center for unaccompanied migrant children
  • Served 9 months with the DHS Joint Task Force West to align all DHS resources and personnel across the USA

Education

No Degree - Criminal Justice

Pan American University
Edinburg
05.2026

940 Hours of Course Work - Federal Law Enforcement

US Border Patrol Academy
Brunswick, GA
09.1988

High School Diploma -

Sharyland High School
Mission, TX
04.1983

Timeline

Financial Services Professional / Registered Rep

NY Life Insurance/ NY LIfe Securities
12.2015 - Current

Deputy Patrol Agent In Charge

U.S. Border Patrol
09.1988 - 12.2015

No Degree - Criminal Justice

Pan American University

940 Hours of Course Work - Federal Law Enforcement

US Border Patrol Academy

High School Diploma -

Sharyland High School
Roel Rodriguez