Present Activities:

• Member of the Working Group on Disruptive Passengers in the Legal Bureau at ICAO.
• Serve on the Facilitation Panel at ICAO.
• Served on the Aviation Security Panel at ICAO, 1997 – 2003

• Deputy Sheriff - King County, Washington, 1967 to 1972.
• Managed the initial anti-hijacking and in-flight bomb threat management training on Northwest Airlines for flight deck and cabin crew. Taught all classes at all bases. This was the program that was the basis for the Common Strategy.
• Chairman of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations’ Security Committee and IFALPA Security Representative to ICAO.
• Served on a broad range of security-related working groups of ICAO, of the IAEA, of the US DOT, of IATA, and of ASIS – 1985 - present

• A pilot for Northwest Airlines for 35 years, the last twelve years as a captain on the Boeing 747 and the Boeing 747-400, flying between North America, the South Pacific, East Asia, and Europe.
• Safety & Security Consultant – ICAO.
• 2002: Wrote ICAO Doc 9811, RESTRICTED, Manual on the Implementation of the Security Provisions of Annex 6, (Guidance for flight deck and cabin crew in the handling of incidents of unlawful interference -62 pages)
• 2003: Nepal, India, Pakistan: COSCAP-SA Developed and taught five-day courses: An introduction to aviation security training for flight crew and cabin crew, with particular emphasis on implementation of the security provisions of Annex 6 – Operation of Aircraft. Course participants: The CAA operations inspectors, airline crew training development staff, and in-flight security personnel training staff of six States of the region (Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka).
• 2004: Taught a four-day course in Maritime Security and Aviation Security to the security personnel of the Port of Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis).

• US Airline Transport Pilot License – Airplane Multi Engine Land and Sea
• B-727 B-747 B-747-4
• US Flight Instructor (CFI) – Airplane single & multi-engine
• Pilot Flight Hours: B-747 / B-747-4: 7200 TTL HRS: 19,585

• BA in Criminal Justice (Concentration in Administration and Law Enforcement), Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington (1987).
• Became actively involved in aviation security in 1968, and have been so since that time. Participated in the early development of flight crew security training, security concepts and systems at airports, and other security programs.
• In 1973, completed the Aircraft Accident Investigation Pre-Mishap Course of the Institute of Aviation Safety at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Completed a number of law enforcement and security courses conducted by U.S. government agencies and other institutions. Among these schools the FBI’s in-service school held for agents to be on the Bureau’s tactical (SWAT) teams, the FBI’s Hostage Negotiation Course, the DEA’s Conspiracy Investigation Course, Tactical Explosive Entry School, and the Treasury Department’s Seaport Security and Antiterrorism Program.
• Completed the Aviation Security Audit and Inspection Course at the Jordan Regional
• Centre for Aviation Security and Safety – 2002
• Completed the ICAO / Concordia University Aviation Security Management Overview Program course, receiving resultant formal certification in Aviation Security Management - 2004