About Speaker Doug Haines:

Doug is a career security professional. He retired from active duty with the US Air Force in 1993. He spent the next 20 years working for the U.S. Government, primarily overseas in Europe. He has over 50 years of experience in conducting physical security vulnerability assessments and risk analysis. He’s been teaching these concepts to architects, engineers, planners, facility managers, security professionals and others involved in developing mitigation strategies and building design planning since 2006. He’s both a guest lecturer and Adjunct Professor teaching access control concepts and security systems integration in academia. He’s widely sought after to share his knowledge at industry conferences around the globe. Whether in India, Saudi Arabia or New York his audiences gain valuable knowledge in solutions strategies they can take back to the office. He regularly contributes to security industry publications. He’s considered a subject matter expert in integrating antiterrorism and “soft security design” strategies into high occupancy inhabited spaces.

About Speaker Hector Alvarez:

Mr. Alvarez is a security expert who specializes in workplace violence prevention and is a Certified Threat Manager™ by the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. He holds a MS in Forensic Psychology and a BS in Criminal Justice. He has built over 25 years of threat management, security, domestic terrorism and crisis management experience serving as a Security Director protecting one of our nation's most sensitive critical infrastructures, to working as a city police officer and as a professional security consultant. He understands the challenges individuals and organizations face when addressing the threats of violence because he has responded to them. In addition, he has helped organizations recover from significant incidents of violence, was a responder to both the Loma Prieta Earthquake and the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

He has personally assessed and/or responded to thousands of potentially violent situations, developed numerous violence prevention programs and trained tens of thousands of employees and managers in the areas of crisis intervention, active shooter response, violence prevention, domestic terrorism and emergency management.

He is frequently called upon as commentator, public speaker and has made numerous media appearances. He has been featured on ABC10, KCRA3, CBS13, FOX40, Univision, KFBK, Sacramento Bee, Folsom Telegraph, Sacramento Business Journal, and Society for Human Resources (SHRM). Clients include a broad range of industries from the public and private sector.