Daniel Pond

About Daniel Pond

Mission-driven professional with 20+ years of experience in security and intelligence operations. Senior Team Leader and SME in JTTF who provides guidance to case agents, veteran and junior analysts. Routinely interact with leadership and agents in field offices, clarifying requests and answering any outlying questions. Represent the agency and its interests in interactions with external parties. Ensure interactions with and information provided to outside parties reflect positively on the agency. Enhance trust and credibility in the agency and its mission through effective professional interactions with others outside the organization. Professional and tactful with external parties in difficult, tense, or emergency situations. Anticipate situations with potential for conflict and take effective steps to minimize escalation. Engage with others in a manner that reflects positively on the agency. Accomplish tasks in a highly efficient and effective manner and make high impact contributions. Take initiative to expand knowledge about resources available and make useful suggestions that increase efficiency. Identify and use effective methods to gather information in a highly efficient manner. Demonstrate a business process enhancement that increases timeliness, quality, or quantity; reduces cost; or ensures accountability. Experience working with the Intelligence Community (IC) as well as other government organizations (Foreign & Domestic). Worked and coordinated with Foreign Intelligence Organizations, military, local police, U.S. Special Forces, CIA, FBI, DOD and the State Department on advance trips for the President’s foreign and domestic visits. Reviewed intelligence received in response to requests and worked to identify gaps in the information bias in order to have a successful Presidential visit. Conducted many intelligence briefings to personnel with authorized security clearance and collaborated with and personnel to include the aforementioned entities. Specialties: 250 (+) hours of extensive Anti-Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence Training via various government agencies and organizations.

Experience

1. Senior Intelligence Specialist Protective Intelligence Division

   U.S. Secret Service

   Feb 2010 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Senior Team Leader and SME in JTTF.• Conduct extensive research on terrorism threat streams, trends and tactics.• Write Protectee and Country Threat Assessments.• Collect, review and disseminate pertinent protective and investigative information.•Coordinate, evaluate, disseminate and maintain information pertaining to domestic, international and transnational terrorism, provide analytical products to effectively implement counter-terrorist strategies. •Collect, evaluate, disseminate, and maintain information relative to the use of technology, such as weapons, explosives, and hazardous materials, by individuals and organizations involved in international terrorism. • Served as WHIP of Critical Protective Analysis Group (CPAG).•Maintain on-going liaison with members of the intelligence Community regarding foreign threats, threat potential, and terrorist activity.

Education

• American Military University

  B.A., Intelligence Studies/Terrorism and Analysis

  2007 — 2009

• Penn State University

  B.S., Science

  1992 — 1996

• American Military University

  M.A., National Security Studies with an emphasis on Terrorism

  2010 — 2011