James Atkinson

I provide expert technical, analytical and research capability for the detection, nullification, and isolation of eavesdropping devices, technical surveillance penetrations, technical surveillance hazards, and physical security weaknesses. This includes Bug Sweeps, Wiretap Detection, Detection of Covert Video Cameras, and related inspections.

Vulnerability analysis to provide senior management of clients with guidelines for the enhancement of security and reduction of the vulnerability of sensitive areas to the technical surveillance threat.

Research and Development of technical systems, devices, and tradecraft utilized by the technical counter-intelligence community.

Development of device drivers and related software to operate and integrate high performance test equipment used for Signals Analysis, SIGINT, TEMPEST, NONSTOP, HIJACK, and TSCM.

Intelligence Analysis and activities to determine the existence and capability of surveillance equipment being used against the governments, corporations, establishments, or persons.

Special emphasis is given to detecting and countering espionage and other threats and activities directed by professional eavesdroppers.

Analysis and tiger teaming of classified and unclassified computer and communications systems, and ferreting out the weaknesses in critical systems.

Research, design, and development of medical equipment for the non-invasive high density imaging of human neurological systems, to include mapping of the signal pathways of the heart, electronic isolation of individual pathways, and the monitoring and control of a single signal on a single pathway or fiber.

James Atkinson’s Specialties:

Considered to be the “Sun Tzu of Bug Sweeps”

Industry leader in Hard-Core Bug Sweeps, Wiretap Detection, TSCM, TEMPEST, NONSTOP, Emissions Security (EMSEC), Signals Intelligence and related fields.

Skilled engineer and programmer of device drivers, instrument control software, FFT algorithms, signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cryptographic siege engines in either C/C++ or high performance raw assembler language.

James Atkinson’s Experience

President and Sr. Engineer

Granite Island Group

(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)

August 1987 — Present (22 years 4 months)

Specializing in electronics engineering as it applies to using technical measures to protect classified, sensitive, or private information against eavesdroppers or spies.

Focus on hunting down the spies devices through technical means, and advising the client on best practices to protect against future leaks, exploitation, or penetrations.

Widely published, countless interviews, quotes, articles, and mentions in major national and global media.

Clients include government agencies, foreign governments, major multi-national corporations, corporate executives, senior political leaders, bio-tech companies, defense, and other customers.

Specialty in performing bug sweeps and penetration testing of highly classified communications systems, networks, and facilities.

Development of specialized electronic devices, instruments, and software to enhance the performance of bug sweeps. Also, developer of hardware based cryptographic siege engines, and similar equipment.

Research, design, and development of medical equipment for the non-invasive high density imaging of human neurological systems, to include mapping of the signal pathways of the heart, electronic isolation of individual pathways in real-time, and the monitoring and control of a single signal on a single pathway or fiber.

See website www.tscm.com for more details
Founder, President, and Sr. Engineer

Granite Island Group

(Defense & Space industry)

August 1987 — April 1992 (4 years 9 months)

Founded a small government contractor that provided highly specialized engineering and training services to several Boston and DC area government agencies and defense contractors, including defense contractors and government agencies in Canada, England, and Australia.

The nature of the engagements were engineering services and products to protect classified information on secure networks or systems.

Analysis to detect the manipulations or exploitations of secure systems or the compromise of cryptographic equipment.

Design, sale, installation, and maintenance of specialized systems to supervise the electromagnetic environment, telephones, and data networks of a location to detect any technical espionage activities, and to ensure immediate related technical counter-measures.

Development of high performance cryptographic siege engines, and similar technical systems used exclusively by government customers.

Contract teaching at several government schools including the Army Intelligence School at Fort Devens, MA; Fort Huachuca, AZ; San Antonio, TX, and the Washington DC area.

In April 1992 (Post Gulf War) we began to partially diversify into the non-government sector, and began offering goods and services to both government customers, and also to large corporations, small business, start-ups, and private individuals.
Communications Engineer

United States Air Force

(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

May 1985 — August 1987 (2 years 4 months)

Assigned to multiple deployments in regards to the design and implementation of secure and covert communications systems for combat air crews including communications systems used by B-52 and B-1 Nuclear Bomber crews on alert, ICBM Missile launch crews, A-10 Warthog pilots, and support crews.

Assisted in the development of a new ground based electronic warfare simulator located at White Sands specifically for the testing of the stealthiness of the new models of stealth aircraft and missiles.

Development of navigational software for the Air Launched Cruise Missile (ACLM) system.

Taught combat aircrew communications methods, electronic warfare operations, covert survival communications, and escape and rescue methods (using electronics) for downed combat aircrew members.

Taught courses and seminars in regards to signals exploitation and what was needed to realistically secure our systems against such exploitation, and to ensure that our adversaries can not be allowed access to our classified information.

Taught courses and engaged in activities regarding the interception and exploitation of foreign signals with a speciality of exploiting the highly classified cryptographic systems of foreign countries.
Computer and Switching Systems Technician

United States Air Force

(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

October 1980 — August 1987 (6 years 11 months)

Cold War military veteran, Specializing in the USAF "Big L" and WWMCCS communications systems to include (in order of proficiency):

465L - SACCS (Strategic Air Command Control System), AKA SACDIN

407L - TACS (Tactical Air Control System); now called GTACS (Ground Theater Air Control System)

490L- AUTOVON DCS (Automatic Voice Network of the Defense Communications System)

441L - AFSATCOM (Air Force Satellite Communication) System

493L - AUTOSEVOCOM (Automatic Secure Voice Communications)

487L - SLFCS (Survivable Low Frequency Communication System); now called MEECN (Minimum Essential Emergency Communication Network)

486L - Wide-band Troposcatter

E-4 NEACP (National Emergency Airborne Command Post, Nightwatch)

TACAMO

AUTODIN

Trained, qualified, and certified as a master computer and switching systems technician and worked on some of the most highly classified, dangerous, and sophisticated computer equipment used by the United States government.

Member of SAC Nuclear Detonation (NUDET) Detection team, and Contingency Group Deployment team for post nuclear or biological holocaust communications recovery.

Cross-trained into data and voice cryptographic systems, satellite communications and specialized in automated signals intelligence and related disciplines.

Studied the sophisticated methods that countries use to spy on each other, and helped develop TSCM, TEMPEST, and related emissions security standards, protocols, and procedures that are vital to not only our own national defense, but the defense of our allies as well.

Senior Engineer on the ELF-ONE, ABLE ARCHER, and other projects.

Heavy experience in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, AFOLDS, JOVIAL, PASCAL, ADA, and ASSEMBLER. Also, developed software programs for USAF medical diagnostics lab instruments.

Initially enlisted as a reservist, but switched to full active duty, with my civilian job at Bell Labs being held open until I returned from active duty military service.
Computer Programmer

CompuServe

(Public Company; CSRV; Internet industry)

May 1976 — August 1987 (11 years 4 months)

Started working on a moonlight project outside of my normal day job at Bell Labs. Developed a series of high-level programs which could be offered to the general public on a "minutes-of-use basis" that permitted businesses or hobbyist computers system users to be tied into a mammoth scale, time shared system, and network.

The programs ranges from simple programs to balance personal check books and perform personal finances, and also to maintain retail inventory level based on the use of a small computer systems as one of the very first retail "active" POS cash registers where the small computer was being linked to CompuServe as a "glass teletype".

Some of the programs included classic recreational on-line games, scientific calculations, finance, various card games, checkers, and a chess Game and similar board games to get users to spend million of dollars having during all night sessions of romping though the computers and spending money for every minute of it..

Also, developed an entire small business accounting software package to include General Ledger, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Personnel/Payroll, and related functions for dial up users.

Paid strictly on a percentage-of-play basis, so that I only got paid from the billable proceeds where/if customers were spending their money. In 1978 this became the Radio Shack and MicroNET project, and it exploded in popularity, and eventually lead the way towards the Videotex services.

I continued to perform part-time moonlight programming while in the military and continued to come out with some fairly popular programs, which brought in million of dollars over 11+ years. I also started, administered and moderated several popular discussions forums of technical subject matters.

Heavy work in PDP-10 Assembler Programming.

Sold the rights to all software fully to CompuServe in 1987 to start Granite Island Group,partly for cash, and partly for stock. (70001.xxx user name plank owner).
Computer Programmer

AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover

(Public Company; T; Telecommunications industry)

May 1977 — October 1980 (3 years 6 months)

Developed a sophisticated assembly language compiler to port existing instrument control programs to newly emerging desktop computers.

Became extremely proficient with the development of software in raw assembler language for the HP2100 and single chip 6502, 8080, and Z-80 CPUs. Spent a significant amount of time translating HP2100 Assembler code, and legacy programs previously written in BASIC, FORTRAN, or other language into raw Z-80, 6502, and 8080 Assembler.

Development of software and hardware drivers to control laboratory grade test equipment for analysis of the RF spectrum, TSCM, TEMPEST, and related signals intelligence activities.

Early work with complex software defined virtual instruments, computer controlled test equipment, and connecting diverse arrays and racks of complex test equipment across a range of manufactures to create a single test instrument under seamless computer control for fully automated measurements.

Extensive full time work in FORTRAN, ALGOL, BASIC and ASSEMBLER. Also worked with PL/I "Programming Language One" in several dialects, plus work in COBOL, and RPG.

Gained invaluable experience with automated measurements, and exposure to a wide range of both laboratory grade test equipment, and state-of-the-art computer interfacing.
Computer Programmer

AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover

(Telecommunications industry)

September 1975 — April 1977 (1 year 8 months)

Ported legacy software in multiple languages to and from IBM and DEC platforms to the HP2100, PDP-8, PDP-10, and PDP-11 mini-computers.

Spent a lot of time translating and compiling programs written in BASIC and FORTRAN into HP2100 Assembler code.

Development of HP2100 software and hardware to control laboratory grade test equipment for analysis of the RF spectrum, TSCM, TEMPEST, and SIGINT.

The HP2116 was the core of the HP Model 8580A ASA or Automated Microwave Spectrum Analyzer, and the "grand-dad" of all modern automated spectrum analyzers. Experience with the systems that pre-dated the 8566, 494, 2784 and other 3rd and 4th generation systems introduced in the 70's, 80's, 90's and used in TSCM, TEMPEST, COMINT, and SIGINT.

Started as an part-time apprentice programmer, and worked my way up from there through increasing levels of responsibility, with larger and larger projects.
Keypunch Operator

AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover

(Public Company; LU; Telecommunications industry)

September 1974 — August 1975 (1 year )

Part-time student job keypunching Hollerith cards and paper tape at a research facility. Cards and tape contained programs for IBM S/360 & S/370, and Hewlett-Packard HP2100, in ALGOL, FORTRAN, and BASIC for controlling instruments that performed TSCM measurements and signals Intelligence related assignments with large racks of automated test equipment.

Machines used included the now antique IBM 026 Printing Card Punch (which used vacuum tubes), the venerable IBM 029 (no vacuum tubes), and the IBM 129 ("modern machine").

Also worked with the Teletype Corporation's ASR33 to generate paper tapes of programs for the HP2116 systems and HP Model 8580A ASA.

This position resulted in my becoming an apprentice mainframe and mini computer programmer the following year, and gave me a start in TSCM on the software development side.

Eight years later, I would go to school via the military at IBM and Teletype to learn how to service and repair these units on which I had launched my career.

James Atkinson’s Education

Government School

Technical Surveillance Counter Measures 2009 — 2009

Two week operators course in using a series of computer program to control a bank of software defined radios in order to monitor the radio spectrum during TSCM sweeps.

The goal was to passively detect any elevation of the noise floor within a given band, quickly inventory it, and pass the signal to a hand-off receiver for closer analysis and further monitoring. Taken Back-to-Back with a National Instrument LabVIEW course seqence, at a government facility.
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 2009 — 2009

Three week review of software applications and drivers to include LabVIEW version 8.2, and then using the software to configure and control laboratory grade test equipment and other scientific equipment to perform complex automated measurements.
American Heart Association

PALS , Emergency Medicine - Pediatric Advanced Life Support , 2008 — 2008

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification course.

The goal of the American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support course is to aid the emergency pediatric healthcare provider in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to efficiently and effectively manage critically ill infants and children, resulting in improved outcomes.

Skills taught include recognition and emergency treatment of infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest; the systematic approach to pediatric assessment; effective respiratory management; defibrillation and synchronized cardioversion; intraosseous access and fluid bolus administration; and effective resuscitation team dynamics.

Activities and Societies:

American Heart Association, AHA
American Heart Association

BLS Healthcare Provider , Emergency Medicine , 2008 — 2008

The BLS Healthcare Provider Course is designed to provide a wide variety of health-care professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.

Note: I repeat this or a similar course approximately every six months in order to maintain an extremely high level of proficiency, and have been certified in professional level or healthcare level CPR since 1981, and prior to that certified at the lay responder level.
American Red Cross

Emergency Response , First Aid, CPR, and Emergency Medicine , 2008 — 2008

This was a 58 hour course designed for training first responders, the comprehensive course followed the 1995 US DOT First Responder National Standard Curriculum and meets ECC Guidelines.

Key content areas included: First Aid for injuries and sudden illnesses, Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation on Adults, Children, and Infants, Automated external defibrillation, Preventing disease transmission/ blood-borne pathogens, Using basic and supplemental oxygen breathing devices, Spinal injury management, Muscle, bone, and joint injuries, Special considerations for seniors and children, Critical incident stress debriefing, Healthy lifestyle tips. Emergency childbirth, Metered dose inhalers, Epi-Pens

This was a repeated class that was taken to renew my periodic DOT First Responder re-certification (repeated yearly since 1995), and was used to supplement my CLS skills.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

PDS , Emergency and Disaster Management , 2008 — 2008

The very first TSCM specialist in the world to complete this highly coveted and prestigious program and to receive PDS certification by FEMA.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

ICS-100 , Incident Command System Introduction , 2008 — 2008

ICS 100, Introduction to the Incident Command System, introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training.

This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

The Emergency Management Institute developed its ICS courses collaboratively with: National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States Fire Administration’s National Fire Programs Branch.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

ICS-200 , ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents , 2008 — 2008

ICS 200 is designed to enable personnel to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the Incident Command System (ICS). ICS-200 provides training on and resources for personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within the ICS.

The Emergency Management Institute developed ICS its ICS courses collaboratively with: National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), U.S. Department of Agriculture, United State Fire Administration’s National Fire Programs Branch

Primary Audience: Persons involved with emergency planning, response or recovery efforts.

NIMS Compliance: This course is NIMS compliant and meets the NIMS, Baseline Training requirements for I-200.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

ICS-300 , Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents (EMI Course Number: G300) , 2008 — 2008

FEMA recommends that all mid-level management personnel should take ICS-300. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command staff, section chiefs, strike team leaders, task force leaders, unit leaders, division/group supervisors, branch directors, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center staff. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.

Approved ICS-300 level training which included the content and objectives stated in the NIMS National Standard Curriculum Training Development Guidance.

ICS Staffing and organization to include: reporting and working relationships and information flow. Transfer of Command, Unified Command functions in a multi-jurisdictional or multi-agency incident. ICS forms, Resource Management, Interagency mission planning and procurement
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

ICS-400 , Advanced ICS Command and General Staff—Complex Incidents (EMI Course Number: G400) , 2008 — 2008

FEMA recommends that all command and general staff personnel should take ICS-400. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command or general staff in an ICS organization, select department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.

Approved ICS-400 level training has been developed by the United States Fire Administration (USFA), the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), the National Wildland Coordinating Group (NWCG) as well as other Federal government agencies. These organizations have included the content and objectives outlined in the NIMS National Standard Curriculum Training Development Guidance dated March, 2007 in the training.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Principles of Emergency Management 2008 — 2008

Understanding the fundamental principles and practices of emergency management provides a framework for the future professional growth of every emergency manager and responder. This 20 hour course is designed to provide a basic framework of understanding of emergency management in the following areas:

Overview of the Integrated Emergency Management System, The emergency management cycle, The Plan as program centerpiece, Planning and coordination, Functions of an emergency management program, Emergency management program participants, Applying emergency management principles
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Emergency Planning 2008 — 2008

Being able to use all the basic elements of the planning process gives emergency managers, planners and other stakeholders a basis for working together to shape the community’s disaster response to all types of hazards and problems.

This course is designed to prepare planners to use the standard terminology and concepts of a properly structured Emergency Operations Plan in the following areas: The planning process, Hazard analysis, The basic Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), Annexes and appendices, Implementing instructions
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Effective Communication 2008 — 2008

Being able to communicate effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job of every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This 16 hour course is designed to improve emergency and disaster communication skills. It addresses:

Basic communication skills, How to communicate in an emergency or disaster, How to identify community-specific emergency communication issues, Using technology as a communication tool during a disaster, Effective oral communication. How to prepare an oral presentation during an emergency situation.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Decision Making and Problem Solving 2008 — 2008

Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively during a disaster is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This 8 hour course is designed to improve decision-making skills under difficult conditions. It addresses: The decision-making process, Decision-making styles, Attributes of an effective decision maker, Ethical decision making and problem solving
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Leadership and Influence 2008 — 2008

Being able to lead others during emergencies – to motivate them to commit their energies and expertise to achieving the shared mission and goals of the emergency management system – is a necessary part of the job for every emergency manager, planner and responder. This 16 hour course is designed to improve leadership and influence skills. It addresses: Leadership from within, How to facilitate change, How to build and rebuild trust, Using personal influence and political savvy, Fostering an environment for leadership development.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Developing and Managing Volunteers 2008 — 2008

This course is for emergency managers and related professionals working with all types of volunteers and coordinating with voluntary agencies. The 16 hour course provides procedures and tools for building and working with voluntary organizations during disasters and emergencies. Topics include: Benefits and challenges of using volunteers, Building a volunteer program, Writing job descriptions, Developing volunteers through recruitment, placement, training, supervision and evaluation, Coordinating with voluntary agencies and community-based organizations, Special issues including spontaneous volunteers, liability, and stress
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Exercise Design 2008 — 2008

Emergency managers, emergency services personnel, and individuals who are part of the emergency preparedness and response communities at all levels need to be able to use the fundamentals of exercise simulation and design as an integrated system of resources and capabilities. This 24 hour course is designed to develop their exercising skills in the following areas: Comprehensive emergency and disaster exercise program, The emergency and disaster exercise process, Emergency and disaster exercise design steps. Tabletop, Functional, and Full-scale emergency and disaster exercises, Exercise evaluation, Exercise enhancements, Designing a Functional exercise
FEMA

EOC , Emergency Operations Center Management and Operations , 2008 — 2008

This course examined the role, design, and functions of Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) and their relationships as components of a multi-agency coordination system. The course provided training about staffing and organization, information, systems, communications and equipment needs at the EOC; activating and deactivating the EOC; EOC operations; and EOC testing, emergency communications, training and exercising.

The course used activities and case studies about Emergency Operations Centers and multi-agency coordination systems at the local, State and Federal levels of government.

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Management is the capability to provide multi-agency coordination (MAC) for incident management by activating and operating an EOC for a pre-planned or no-notice event.

Activities and Societies:

EOC management includes EOC activation, notification, staffing, and deactivation; management, direction, control, and coordination of response and recovery activities; coordination of efforts among neighboring governments at each level and among local, regional, State, and Federal EOCs; coordination public information and warning; and maintenance of the information and communication necessary for coordinating response and recovery activities.
Private School

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured 2008 — 2008

Introduction to Emergency Medical Care, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues, The Human Body, Baseline Vital Signs and SAMPLE History, Lifting and Moving Patients, Airway, Patient Assessment, Communications and Documentation, General Pharmacology Respiratory, Cardiovascular, and Neurologic Emergencies, The Acute Abdomen, Diabetic Emergencies, Allergic Reactions and Envenomations, Substance Abuse and Poisoning, Environmental Emergencies, Behavioral Emergencies, Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies, Kinematics of Trauma, Bleeding Shock, Soft-Tissue Injuries, Eye Injuries, Face and Throat Injuries Chest Injuries, Abdomen and Genitalia Injuries, Musculoskeletal Care, Head and Spine Injuries, Pediatric Emergencies, Geriatric Emergencies, Assessment and Management, Ambulance Operations, Gaining Access, Special Operations, Response to Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction, ALS Techniques, Advanced Airway Management, Intravenous Therapy, Cardiac Monitoring
Private School

Emergency Medicine Refresher 2008 — 2008

Course regarding emergency medicine, running the gamut from burns, orthopedic injuries, cardiac and respiratory, sedation, ECG, behavioral emergencies, labs, and related subjects which might be seen in an emegency room or trauma unit.
American Red Cross

Volunteer Instructor , Emergency Medicine , 2007 — 2008

Series of courses, and refresher courses, leading up to becoming fully certified as a volunteer American Red Cross instructor, and becoming an Authorized Provider to teach Red Cross curriculum in First Aid, CPR, AED, and related subjects to lay responders, professional rescuers (police, fire, EMS), and to health care workers.

Activities and Societies:

Granite Island Group is an Authorized Provider of CPR, First Aid, and related Red Cross courses, and all courses are taught so that the students develop an extremely high level of knowledge and proficiency.
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Incident Command System , Incident and Emergency Management , 2006 — 2008

The very first TSCM specialist in the world to become fully NIMS (National Incident Management System) and ICS (Incident Command System) trained. ICS Certified at all levels for single resources and specialized strike teams (ICS-100); intermediate (ICS-200) or expanding incidents (ICS-300), and for extremely large and extremely complex expanding incidents (ICS-400).

Also,
IS-800.b National Response Framework, An Introduction

IS-100.HC Introduction to the Incident Command System for Health-care/Hospitals

IS-200.HC Applying ICS to Health-care Organizations, Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents

Over 50 additional FEMA courses.
Analog Devices

Blackfin , Electronics Engineering , 2007 — 2007

System development and programming with the Analog Devices high performance Blackfin processor family

Engineering course that is designed to systematically teach how to use the Blackfin processor to its fullest potential.

Emphasis is placed on understanding the steps required to create an efficient Blackfin CPU based system in the way that Analog Devices had intended the processor to be used.

The VisualDSP++ IDDE covered in detail, including topics on projects and project configuration, the build process, and debug features. Tools based optimizations including compiler and linker optimization are covered. Architecture topics covered include loop/branch optimization and interrupt handling, L1 Memory configuration (ie L1 SRAM and Cache), specialized instructions including the quad 8-bit Video ALU operations, and DMA operation between peripherals and memory, as well as from memory to memory.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 2007 — 2007

Nine days of Advanced TSCM equipment specific training, heavy focus on performing TSCM on Telephone Methods and Procedures
DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

IS-1900 , National Disaster Medical Services (NDMS) Federal Coordinating Center Operations Course , 2006 — 2006

Course provides training to address the needs of Federal Coordinating Centers (FCCs) in the event of a large scale national medical disaster.

The purpose of this course is to: Provide the training necessary to ensure all Federal Coordinating Centers as being proficient to perform their duties. Provide flexible training for Federal Coordinating Centers which will not sacrifice training quality or standards. Provide a forum for Federal Coordinating Center development through individual participation. Acclimate Federal Coordinating Centers to function during incidents of national significance. Acclimate Federal Coordinating Centers to function in support of Department of Defense operations.

The primary audience of this NDMS Operations Course are Federal Coordinating Centers Directors as well as FCC Coordinators and staff. Secondary audiences include others who support NDMS patient movement and definitive care components.
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 2006 — 2006

Two week update course for LabVIEW version 8.2.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 2006 — 2006

Five days of Advanced TSCM equipment specific training, heavy focus on RF Methods and Procedures.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 2004 — 2004

Eight days of TSCM equipment specific training.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

x86 , Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Design and Programming , 2003 — 2003

Hardware design course, coupled with programming the chips in assembler language.

These courses were AMD "design in" sessions using the Athlon and Opteron as a FFT engine to convert the RF spectrum (frequency domain) into datasets for analysis of a variety of signals.
Analog Devices

ADSP-2106x , Electronics Engineering , 2003 — 2003

Update on the Analog Devices ADSP-2106x series of DSPs signal processing microcomputers for use as a pre-processor of signals and development of DSP to CISC interfacing.
Avaya

Telecommunications 2003 — 2003

Course on the design, installation, configuation, and administration of the Avaya Media Gateways and instruments.
Private School

Emergency Medicine Refresher 2002 — 2002

This was a 160 hour course regarding trauma level emergency room medicine, involving extremely injured patients brought to the hospital.

Involved 80 hours of classroom instructions and labs, followed by 80 hours of observational time in multiple types of trauma units.
U.S. Government

CLS - Combat Lifesaver , Emergency Medicine , 2002 — 2002

The combat lifesaver (CLS) is a team member trained to provide immediate emergency care. Each field team must have at least one member trained to be a combat lifesaver.

On the battlefield or in hostile zones, the ability of trained medical personnel to provide immediate, far forward care is limited. Immediate far-forward first aid is essential on a widely dispersed and fluid battlefield to prevent soldiers and civilian contractors from dying of wounds.

Medical personnel may not be able to reach all wounded operators at all points on the battlefield in a timely manner. The CLS is usually a nonmedical person specially trained to provide advanced first aid and immediate lifesaving procedures beyond the level of self-aid or buddy aid.

The CLS is not intended to take the place of medical personnel, but to slow deterioration of the wounded until medical personnel arrive. Functioning as a CLS is a secondary mission undertaken only when the tactical situation permits.
U.S. Government

CT/MRI Refresher , Emergency Medicine , 2002 — 2002

120 hour refresher course on ordering and reading the CT and MRI images of trauma patients, plus the logistics of setting up a field portable system, and getting a trauma patient quickly into and out of a CT/MRI scanner.

Heavy emphasis on "wet reading" of the scans, and using software tools to rapidly triage combat injured patient in a quasi-tactical environment.
U.S. Government

EKG Refresher , Emergency Medicine , 2002 — 2002

Ninety six hour, crash course on using recently developed EKG systems for use in forward tactical situations, and in battlefield staging areas and hospitals.

The course included 24 hours of actual machine instruction and classroon practicum, followed by 24 hours of supervised clinical internship, then 32 hours of determining both common and complex arrhythmias, with 16 hours of supervised internship beyond that in a clinical environment.
Agilent Technologies

PSA , Electronics Engineering , 2000 — 2000

Comprehensive course on the PSA spectrum analyzer including use, repair, and calibration. Special emphasis on programming for remote instrument control, and setting up testing masks, templates, and macro's for automated testing with ultra-high performance laboratory equipment.
Private

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 2000 — 2000

Short one week course provided by a company who manufactured and marketed very low end spy-shop toys, and how they use flash, sizzle, hype, and deceit to perform what they consider to be sweeps. Really learned nothing of value in the course, other then how so many spy-shop get away with their illicit business so well.
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 1999 — 1999

Ten day course on LabVIEW Real-Time, with a heavy emphasis on control Watkins-Johnson equipment and high speed digitizers.
Private School

Black Bag , Technical Intelligence Operations , 1999 — 1999

Three week course (120 hours) focusing strictly on sophisticated telephone eavesdropping methods, and the TSCM measures that can be used to detect each of them. Heavy study of the essential phone circuits and subtle modifications which can be made to either the instrument or the transmission path to exploit either for technical eavesdropping.
Private School

X-Ray Tech. , Industrial 3-D X-Ray Tomography , 1999 — 1999

Long course on the industrial use of X-Ray imaging equipment to detect extremely tiny, and often microscopic anomalies inside something being tested.

High emphasis on using the equipment to create 3-D images of a near microscopic item being imaged, and optimizing equipment to obtain the maximum clarity of details.

Also, trained of reverse engineering of circuit boards, components, and development of schematics based solely on the analysis of X-Ray plates and data files, and the analysis of cryptographic devices and systems through X-Ray based micro-tomography.
Sony/Tektronix

RTSA , Electronics Engineering , 1999 — 1999

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the Sony/Tektronix 3066 and 3086 Microwave Real Time Spectrum Analyzer.

Led to the purchasing and then transplanting of two fully configured 3086 systems with option 1S into customized suitcases with panel mounts for use as TSCM instruments. This became the very first RTSA used by any TSCM or bug sweep firm on a regular basis.
Hewlett-Packard

HP4407/ESA , Electronics Engineering , 1998 — 1998

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the Hewlett-Packard HP4403, HP4407 and ESA series of Spectrum Analyzers.
Watkins-Johnson/Condor Systems

WJ-32320 , Coyote - Operation, Maintenance, Service, and Programming , 1998 — 1998

Training of an early version of the WJ-32320 (Coyote) mobile networked ELINT/ESM DF and training system as it applies to mobile and in-motion TSCM platforms.

The WJ-32320 was a truck-mobile, self-deploying 0.5 to 18+ GHz ELINT/ESM system with a high probability of intercept threat-warning broadband IFM receiver. It has an omnidirectional and monopulse instantaneous direction-finding antenna subsystem, a high-sensitivity and precision analysis superheterodyne subsystem, and a high-gain spinning direction-finding antenna subsystem.

Capabilities include: extended pulse and waveform analysis; emitter AOA determination, parameterisation, library identification and analysis; emitter geolocation and tracking with integrated GPS, compass and colour mapping; digital recording of signal data, maps, logging, reports and mission scenarios; digital simulation of emitters for multi-emitter/multiplatform/multi-operator training and RF simulation of emitters for training and testing.
Electro-Metrics

Electronics Engineering 1996 — 1998

Careful hands-on study of the operation, programming, and use of the EM series of analyzers, switching systems, preselectors, preamplifiers, turntables, towers, probes and antenna for laboratory and test range evaluation of cryptographic devices and classified systems to detect signal, data, or cipher leakage. This was a follow-on and update to the courses I had taken in 1986 and 1991.
Analog Devices

ADSP-2106x , Electronics Engineering , 1997 — 1997

"Design in" course for the Analog Devices ADSP-2106x series of DSPs signal processing microcomputers, with an focus on development of Electronic Warfare, SIGINT platforms, and Software Defined Radios. Included both hardware design, and software development.
Massachusetts State Police Academy

Criminal Interview and Interrogation 1997 — 1997

Course to refine the eliciting of information from a cooperative or uncooperative subject in a major criminal or felony case though the use of subtle psychological conditions, controls, manipulations, and exploitations.

Course also involved the methods to "read" the facial gestures, physical mannerisms, behaviors, and statements to provide leads towards actual facts versus fabricated information.

Exposure to the interviewing and interrogation of serial killers, arsonists, mass murders, murderers, rapists, and child molesters. Training on the interviewing of the mentally ill, or people pretending to be mentally ill, and the interviewing and interrogation of both sociopaths and psychopaths.
Morrow Technologies

Electronics Engineering 1997 — 1997

Engineering and computer programming course for the V9085 (8.5 GHz) and V9054 (1.6 Ghz) VXI -Based Spectrum Analyzers, and MU-8000 VXI Communications Decoder.

Studied instrument control via C programming libraries, LabView, and other Graphical User Interfaces.
Private School

Black Bag , Technical Intelligence Operations , 1997 — 1997

Four week (320 hours), Black Bag and Surveillance Operations Course taught by ex-government operators to private espionage students. Heavy emphasis on covert photography and video, bugging, and wiretapping. Moderate teaching of vehicle surveillance. Heavy emphasis in physical surveillance and tracking of targets both via vehicle based options and while on foot using both large team operations, and small one-on-one details.
Private School

Executive Protection 1997 — 1997

Four week (320 hours), Executive Protection Course taught by ex-government operators to high profile private security and corporate protection details. Heavy emphasis on offensive and defense driving, motorcade operations, bomb detection, firearms, first aid, martial arts, and related subjects.

A moderate amount of introductory TSCM was taught, but more of what can be performed in a matter of minutes as opposed to real sweeps which take days.
Watkins-Johnson

WJ-8991 Independent Collection Equipment (ICE) Tactical Man-pack DF System 1997 — 1997

Operations, field service, maintenance, and programming of small, highly deployable man-pack based signals intelligence system. Training in rapid deployment of antenna, covert set up of listening post, and network communications of collected intelligence to SIGINT analyst.

My prime focus in this course was to learn to successfully interface the ICE into another system being developed for the U.S. Government, with a heavy focus on software development for Signals Intelligence, COMINT, and TSCM along with networking these units together to provide highly covert coverage of an area.

Included both assembly level and component level field repair of the WJ-8996 Correlative-Vector DF Processor
Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

WJ-8711A, WJ-8712A, HF-1000 Operations and Intermediate Level Maintenance 1997 — 1997

Three day overview of the receiver functions and capabilities as they apply to signals intelligence, and TSCM.

Instructions on rack mounting, special unit configurations, remote address settings, external connectors, and resident signals.

Detailed instructions on the use of the instruments front panel controls, displays, indicators for Direct tuning, channel programming, F1-F2 scans, and step scans.

Basic introduction to remote control capabilities, interface protocols, and remote command sets.

Functional descriptions of the major electronic circuits of the receivers including signal tracing and analysis with block diagrams and schematics. Established functional relationships between inputs and outputs of each assembly.

Maintenance to the assembly level: Using BIT and status registers; Performance testing; Troubleshooting/signals analysis; Assembly removal and replacement.
Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

WJ-8607A Operations and Intermediate Level Maintenance 1997 — 1997

Four day overview of the receiver functions and capabilities as they apply to signals intelligence, and TSCM.

Instructions on rack mounting, special unit configurations, remote address settings, external connectors, and resident signals.

Detailed instructions on the use of the instruments front panel controls, displays, indicators for Direct tuning, channel programming, F1-F2 scans, and step scans.

Basic introduction to remote control capabilities, interface protocols and remote command set, direct tuning, channel programming, sweep, and scan steps.

Functional descriptions of the major electronic circuits of the receivers including signal tracing and analysis with block diagrams and schematics. Established functional relationships between inputs and outputs of each assembly.

Maintenance to the assembly level: Using BIT and status registers; Performance testing; Troubleshooting/signals analysis; Assembly removal and replacement.
Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

WJ-8691A/CCS & WJ-8690A/MRS Operations and Intermediate Level Maintenance 1997 — 1997

Three day overview of the receiver functions and capabilities as they apply to signals intelligence. Overview of the WJ-8691A/CCS & WJ-8690A/MRS Intercept Systems.

Overview of the communications systems; cellular systems infrastructures, Call setups, hand-offs, frequency plans, Cell phone intercept strategies.

Instructions on special unit configurations, remote address settings, external connectors, and resident signals. Detailed instructions on the use of the instruments front panel controls, displays, indicators for Direct tuning, channel programming. Use of the PC-Driven applications program, including system surveys, creating target lists, analysis results; Control post-processing options and system peripherals.

Remote control capabilities, interface protocols and remote command set, direct tuning, channel programming, sweep, and scan steps. Study of the major electronic circuits of the receivers including signal tracing and analysis with block diagrams and schematics.
Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

WJ-8611 Operations and Intermediate Level Maintenance 1997 — 1997

Three day overview of the receiver functions and capabilities as they apply to signals intelligence, and TSCM.

Instructions on rack mounting, special unit configurations, remote address settings, external connectors, and resident signals.

Detailed instructions on the use of the instruments front panel controls, displays, indicators for Direct tuning, channel programming, F1-F2 scans, and step scans.

Basic introduction to remote control capabilities, interface protocols and remote command set, direct tuning, channel programming, sweep, and scan steps.

Functional descriptions of the major electronic circuits of the receivers including signal tracing and analysis with block diagrams and schematics. Established functional relationships between inputs and outputs of each assembly.

Maintenance to the assembly level: Using BIT and status registers; Performance testing; Troubleshooting/signals analysis; Assembly removal and replacement.
Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

WJ-9548 Operations, Programming, and Organizational Level Field Maintenance 1997 — 1997

Four day overview of the system functions and capabilities as they apply to signals intelligence and intercept systems.

Overview of channel selections, CCITT 960/2700 plans, and system programming for effective signal interception, and collection of intelligence.

Instructions on special unit configurations, remote address settings, external connectors, and resident signals. Detailed instructions on the use of the instruments front panel controls, displays, indicators for Direct tuning, channel programming. Use of the PC-Driven applications programs, including creating target lists, analysis results; Control post-processing options and system peripherals.

Remote control capabilities, interface protocols and remote command set, programming.

Study of the major electronic circuits of the system including signal tracing and analysis with block diagrams and schematics.

Assembly diagnostics, removal, and replacement.
AT&T

Optical Multiplexing , Electronics Engineering , 1996 — 1996

Two weeks of training on the AT&T optical multiplexing products, from both a hardware and software perspective.

Courses included:
LW2212 DDM-2000 OC-3 and OC-12 Apps & Arch.
LW2312 DDM-2000 OC-3 and OC-12 Engineering

LW2248 FT-2000 OC-48 Apps and Arch.
LW2348 FT-2000 OC-48 Engineering
Cisco Systems

7500 Series , Computer Science , 1996 — 1996

Cisco 7500 series high performance router installation, set-up, and administration course. Heavy focus on photonic or optical systems and topologies for backbone and infrastructure operations
Condor Systems, Inc.

Spinning DF, Search and Collection Antennas 1996 — 1996

"Design in", interface, and programming course for a wide range of military grade spinning DF systems to include both the antenna itself, all control systems, and display, networking, and connectivity.

Hands-on installation engineering, field repairs and maintenance, sub-system interfacing, and software development and control of networks.

Included training on the AS-105, AS-106, AS-135, AS-159, AS-9157, AS-9203, AS-9213, CS-9184 providing spinning DF coverage to 110 GHz.

Also intensive training on hardware interfacing to the CS-8050 3-Axis Antenna System, and software control of the CS-8050.

Plus programming the C-128 Antenna Control and Display Unit, and the C-861 Controller/Display (WJ-49861) into world-wide networks of other fixed and mobile SIGINT assets being used for both TSCM and hostile SIGINT/COMINT collection.
Hewlett-Packard

HP4411 , Electronics Engineering , 1996 — 1996

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the Hewlett-Packard HP4411 Spectrum Analyser which represented HP entering their "Third Golden Age of Spectrum Analysers".
Private School

Technical Intelligence Operations , Audio Surveillance , 1996 — 1996

Two week technical surveillance course focusing on audio eavesdropping methods, techniques, equipment, operations, and procedures from the perspective of legal (and sometime illegal) law enforcement and/or government based operations. Training included extensive acoustic training, microphone placement, active and passive filtering methods, and both hardwired and wireless methodologies. Studied and refined a significant breadth and depth of knowledge, along with extensive practical exercises.
Private School

Technical Intelligence Operations , Video Surveillance , 1996 — 1996

Two week technical surveillance course focusing on covert video eavesdropping methods, techniques, equipment, operations, and procedures from the perspective of legal (and sometime illegal) law enforcement and/or government based operations. Training included extensive video camera training, camera placement, overt and covert lighting methods, and both hardwired and wireless methodologies. Studied and refined a significant breadth and depth of knowledge, along with extensive practical exercises.
Watkins-Johnson Company

WJ-30103 1995 — 1996

Comprehensive training on all aspects of the WJ-30103, 500 MHz to 40 GHz Microwave interception system, involving all sub-systems, and sub-components including the WJ-49213 spinning DF antenna, WJ-31200 Windjammer Premium Search Receiver, various digital demodulator's, FDM demultiplexers, voice grade channel processors, system controller, and voice, fax, and data logging systems for extended operations.

Instruction on both module or assembly replacement, and component level field repair.

Extensive training of programming all elements of the WJ-30103 and all sub-components, with an emphasis on writing code in C on Unix platforms.
AT&T

Autoplex , Electronics Engineering , 1995 — 1995

A 656 hour crash course on the AT&T Autoplex 1000 system including the designing of cellular and micro-cell sites, site mapping, drive testing, system administration, and hardware maintenance.

TC1600 AT&T Telessentials Curriculum

CL2501 Autoplex System 1000 Cell Site Maintenance Introduction
CL3501 Series I, Mod 2 Cell Site
CL3501 Series II, Cell Site
CL3501 Series II, Micro Cell Maintenance

CL3504 MSC Maintenance
CL1505 Autoplex System 1000 Translations DB

CL1507 Fundamentals of Performance Modules
CL1509 Performance Optimization w/ PA Tools
CL1510 Intro to PACE Cellular Engineering Tools
CL1511 Advanced Cellular Engineering using PACE Tools

CL4401 Series II, Cell Site Installation
CL4403 Series II, Micro Cell Installation
Apple Computer

970MP , Electronics Engineering , 1995 — 1995

Three weeks, PowerPC 970MP, Hardware Design and Development course.
Cubic Communications

Electronics Engineering 1995 — 1995

Software development course on the VXIbus based products, to include the VXI-3250 LF-HF DSP Receiver, VXI-3550 VHF/UHF DSP Receiver, VXI-3350 LF/HF Tuner, VXI-3700 VHF/UHF Tuner, along with frequency extenders, distribution systems, and shared phase locked frequency standards.

Also, attended training on Visual Interactive Surveillance and Target Acquisition (VISTA) with an emphasis on DSP controlled systems operating under remote control as a TSCM solution for in-place monitoring and supervision of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Hewlett-Packard

E3238S Scanning Signal Analysis System 1995 — 1995

Set-up, configuration, operation, and programming of the HP E3238S Scanning Signal Analysis System based on a VXIbus platform with a HP9000 V743 controller. Included control of both Watkins-Johnson, Rockwell, and Cubic VXIbus receivers and tuners for TSCM and TEMPEST instrumented inspections both on a local and remote control basis.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1995 — 1995

Two, one week courses on TSCM - Technical Surveillance Counter Measures.

Designed for students with little or no prior technical training or background. Rather many of the students came from prior law enforcement, corporate, or private investigator backgrounds. A strongly non-technical course, for non-technical people.

This course provided a better understanding of why private investigators and police have historically had a really tough or impossible time actually finding bugs and wiretaps, and why PI's and police should never be engaged to find bugs or wiretaps.
Private School

Black Bag , Technical Intelligence Operations , 1995 — 1995

Two week course on government black bag operations, lock picking, safe cracking, alarm bypassing, general burglary, bugging, wiretapping, camera installations, and vehicle tracking, document copying, and related technical intelligence tasks and operations.
Private School

Tactical EMS , Emergency Medicine , 1995 — 1995

Tactical EMS Operations course, involving the medical concerns relative to injuries suffered by SWAT or dynamic entry teams, distraction devices, chemical weapons, explosive breaching, and traumatic tactical firearms related injuries.
Private School

Technical Intelligence Operations , Telephone Surveillance , 1995 — 1995

Two week technical surveillance course focusing on telephone eavesdropping methods, techniques, equipment, operations, and procedures from the perspective of legal (and sometime illegal) law enforcement and/or government based operations. Training included extensive instrument training, outside plant and facilities access, wiretap placement, active and passive filtering methods, and both hardwired and wireless methodologies. Studied and refined a significant breadth and depth of knowledge, along with extensive practical exercises.
Private School

Technical Intelligence Operations , Wireless Communications Eavesdropping , 1995 — 1995

Two week technical surveillance course focusing on the detection and interception of cellular telephones, paging devices, alpha-numeric pagers, and cordless telephones. Techniques, equipment, operations, and procedures from the perspective of legal (and sometime illegal) law enforcement and/or government based operations. Training included extensive mapping of the RF spectrum to detect signal activities, and then selection and use of actual intercept equipment. Studied and refined a significant breadth and depth of knowledge, along with extensive practical exercises.
Virginia State Police Academy

FMA , Financial Manipulation Analysis , 1995 — 1995

Two week course on the enhanced methods of investigation, analysis, and prosecution of criminal cases involving large scale financial manipulation and subversion of business and banking systems for moving and disguising funds gaining from illegal activities.

Heavy emphasis on counter-narcotics operations, and counter-terrorism.
Virginia State Police Academy

AIA , Advanced Intelligence Analysis , 1995 — 1995

Advanced intelligence analysis course on utilizing various computer software to automate the processing and basic analysis of raw data, and using the computer to form inferences and assessments in regards to various types of highly complex major cases.

Also using the computer to create detailed charts and graphs, with link charts, traffic charts, telephone call analysis, and so forth.

Development of presentations and exhibits in regards to intelligence analysis, and building a case from these exhibits.

Heavy use of both proprietary analysis software, as well as Excel spreadsheets, flowcharts, various graphics packages, and related equipment.
Watkins-Johnson

TN-180 Ultra-Wideband VXI Microwave Tuner 1995 — 1995

Twelve days of training learning to "design in" the TN-180 into other systems to utilize the 10 MHz to 40 GHz coverage with extremely wide bandwidths, and extremely high probability of detection of even the most covert of radar or pulsed signals on a real time basis.

Included extensive programming training on getting the TN-180 integrated into other designs and controlling it via the VXI bus in order to capture sub-nanosecond pulses of very low amplitude, or signals of very wide (and often covert) bandwidth.

Primary application was for TSCM, but also invaluable in national defense to detect stealth aircraft and covert communications.
Boston Police Academy

CIA , Criminal Intelligence Analysis , 1994 — 1994

A two week (80 hour) course in criminal intelligence analysis techniques for organized criminal activity; racketeering, economic crime, narcotics trafficking, terrorism, corruption, computer hacking, and related complex criminal conspiracies.

Designed to equip intelligence analysts and field investigators with the skills needed to analyze large amount of raw information from a variety of sources and to develop accurate intelligence from this information. Because the ultimate value of the analytical process is to obtain meaning from the available information, the course emphasized the development, assessment, and communications of inferences.

A great deal of time was spent of developing intelligence through completely manual methods in order to ensure the complete education of the student.
Massachusetts State Police Academy

Advanced Interview and Interrogation 1994 — 1994

Refining the eliciting of information from a cooperative or uncooperative subject in a minor criminal or civil case though the use of subtle psychological conditions, controls, manipulations, and exploitations.

Course also involved the methods to "read" the facial gestures and physical mannerisms to provide leads towards actual facts versus fabricated information.

Primary focus was on corporate security situations, and insurance fraud interviews, where the goal is the obtain a confession from a sneak thief, white collar criminal, or insurance fraudster.
Massachusetts State Police Academy

Interview and Interrogation 1994 — 1994

Introduction to the eliciting of information from a cooperative or uncooperative subject in a minor criminal or civil case though the use of subtle (or not so subtle) psychological conditions, controls, psychological manipulations or twisting, and emotional exploitation of the subject.

Course also involved the methods to "read" the facial gestures, verbal cues, and physical mannerisms to provide leads towards actual facts versus fabricated information and to coerce the subject into letting their guard down and making admissions of wrong doing.

Primary focus or goal is to casually obtain a voluntary confession or admission from a sneak thief, white collar criminal, shop lifter, or retail fraudster.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1994 — 1994

TSCM Course from a company considered a luminary of the TSCM business, and originator of classified TSCM equipment for the government agencies for several decades.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1994 — 1994

Two, one week back to back TSCM courses. Nothing really earth-shaking or leading edge, but more of my just attending every TSCM school that was out there at the time. The instructor spent most of the class teaching basic electronics, and not actually teaching of value about TSCM. Most of the students who attended were certainly not technical people, and many learned to solder for the first time in this class.
Private School

Executive Protection 1994 — 1994

Intense two week (180 hours), comprehensive executive protection course for private security or corporate protection details. Heavy emphasis on defense driving, motorcade operations, bomb detection, firearms, first aid, martial arts, etiquette, and related subjects.

A moderate amount of introductory TSCM was taught, but more of what can be performed in a matter of minutes as opposed to real sweeps which takes days.
Rockwell International - Collins Avionics & Communications Division

MSS-2100 Miniature Surveillance System 1994 — 1994

Training on MSS-2100 hardware operations and usage of the briefcase sized system as a versatile TSCM platform, and training on software usage and development for both the WJ-8710, WJ-8607, and WJ-8608 Miniceptor receivers.

Also included training on the DF-2100 Direction Finding platform, MR-2100 Modulation Recognizer, Power Line Antennas, and related accessories.
Apple Computer

ATC - Apple Technical Coordinator , Computer Science , 1993 — 1994

In-depth technical course for the internal technical support, IT, and Hardware repair specialists who worked inside Apple Corporate facilities on their own in-house systems. These courses and this level of certification allowed me to refine my Apple technical skills to an absolute maximum level. As a result I became the very first non-Apple employee to ever complete this very intense certification program.
Private School

Locks , Locksmithing and Safe Cracking , 1993 — 1994

Just over ten weeks of technical training of locksmithing, safe and vault technologies, safe cracking, lock picking, and in general how to properly install, maintain, and repair all major locks and vaults.

Included specialized training on how to examine and evaluate a lock or safe to determine if it has been picked, bypassed, or manipulated in any way.
Siecor

Fiber Optics , Electronics Engineering , 1993 — 1994

Four weeks of advanced courses on fiber optics fusion splicing of both single and multi-mode fiber optics cable, both in an indoor, and outdoor/field environment and products. This was a very important cutting edge course as the students were taught how to tap into an in-service single mode fiber without actually breaking it or inducing any kind of service outage or detectable signal drop or anomaly.
AT&T Bell Labs

Electronics Engineering 1992 — 1994

A series of eleven weeks of electronics engineering courses regarding photonics, fiber optics, and emerging optical carrier technologies for engineers developing emerging technologies or leading edge products.

Much of this training involved fiber optic networking and/or photonics, multiplexing, protocols or services being developed to operate over photonic networks.

Completed the following courses:

SW2100 Switching Fundamentals
SW2101 Signaling and Traffic Engineering
SW2102 Electronic Switching
SW2103 Customer Switching
SW2104 Packet Switching
SW2105 Photonic Switching

GC3400 Asynchronous Transfer Method (ATM)
DC2115 High-Speed Networking
DC2250 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)

OC3000 Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
OC4000 Optical Fiber Communications
OC4500 Optical Area Networks
OC4010 Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
OC5400 HDTV
OC4600 Trends in Optical Communications
OC4700 Photonic Switching & Optical Computing
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)

SGI , Computer Science and Software Development , 1992 — 1994

Attended over 1800 hours of advanced training on every workstation, server product, and peripheral which Silicon Graphics made up until that point. Courses included comprehensive studies of IRIX, intermediate and low level code development, graphics and database programming, advanced modeling applications, direct assembler code development, hardware maintenance and admin; and component level repair of high performance workstations and hardware.

Attended over sixty Silicon Graphics courses over a 2 year period, involving long periods spent in SGI facilities near Boston, DC and on the West Coast. Heavy focus on refining software development skills for a special project, involving the coding of low level, extremely high performance SW, and utilization of the SGI hardware to develop a fully automated suite for SIGINT and high performance fixed and portable RF monitoring systems for TSCM, and related technical counterintelligence activities.
Apple Developer Program

Apple Developer , Hardware and Software Development , 1985 — 1994

Completed 630 hours of software plus 320 hours of hardware design courses.

Attended multiple ADPA, Apple Developer University, Mac Developer Program, and related design courses.

Became certified as both a software and hardware developer on the original Macintosh platforms.

Primary focus was using the Macintosh as a high performance signals intelligence workstation where the superior performance of the Mac (at the time) was leveraged.

As a result of these courses I learned enough about Mac to design several high speed digitizers and frame grabbers, plus a modulation recognition hardware and software product used for SIGINT and TSCM.

Developed the methods involved in modifying TSCM equipment and electronic test equipment to give the Mac workstations direct memory access so that the high speed memory of the test equipment essentially became the extended memory of the Mac itself (something that was tough to do with IBM PC's at the time).
AT&T

5ESS-2000 , Switching Systems , 1993 — 1993

Advanced 5ESS-2000 hardware course series in Lima, including the designs, set-up, and operation of a Central Office Based on the 5ESS-2000 switch, DDM-2000, and related equipment.
Cisco Systems, Inc.

7000 Series , Computer Science , 1993 — 1993

Cisco 7000 series high performance router installation, set-up, and administration course.
FBI National Academy, Quantico, VA

TIA , Terrorism Intelligence Analysis , 1993 — 1993

A two week (80 hour) course in intelligence analysis techniques for uncovering organized terrorism activity; detecting recruiting, tracing funding, locating safe houses, revealing logistics, exploiting covert communications and computer usage, and related subject matters.

Designed to equip intelligence analysts and field investigators with the skills needed to analyze large amount of raw information from a variety of sources and to develop accurate intelligence from this information in real-time.

Because the ultimate value of the analytical process is to obtain meaning from the available information, the course emphasized the rapid development, assessment, and communications of inferences to uncover, exploit, and neutralize all types of terrorist activities.

A great of time was spent of developing intelligence through completely manual methods in the field in order to ensure the in-depth education of the student.
Hewlett-Packard

Computer Science 1993 — 1993

A series of courses involving 52 days of system admin and programming training on the HP9000 series of computers which had evolved from the HP2100 series.

Included:
HP-51434B Fundamentals of UNIX
HP-51436D W/S Admin (300/400/700)
HP-51482D System Admin (Series 800)
HP-2550S Network Administration
HP-H5001A OpenView Network Management
HP-H5278A Series 800 Performance and Tuning
HP-H5001A Security Seminar
HP-B3312S Netware for the HP9000
HP-H5278A ANSI C Programming
HP-B1810S C++ Programming
HP-H5366S Fundamentals of X Windows and HP Vue
HP-50767S Programming with OSF/Motif

The end result of taking these courses was the development and implementation of HP workstations in a TSCM related programming and hardware design instrumentation project.
IBM

PowerPC , Electronics Engineering , 1993 — 1993

IBM PowerPC 601, 603, 604, 620 Summer Boot Camp including component level design, and development of low level device drivers.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1993 — 1993

Two week course, focusing heavily on law enforcement TSCM skills and products, and the basic TSCM equipment that could be carried in only one or two briefcases and operated by non-technical people.

This course only involved the equipment made by this particular company, but while the equipment taught was very limited it did involve a huge amount or range time and practical exercises.
Sun Microsystems

Computer Science 1993 — 1993

A series of 58 days of training on the Sun version of Unix, system administration, network operations, hardware maintenance, and related subjects for a comprehensive understanding all of the hardware that Sun had in production at the time, or which was being supported under their legacy programs.

SA-101 System Administration Essentials
SA-270 System Administration 4.1.x
SA-370 Advanced System Administration
SA-340 Network Management w/ SunNet Manager
SA-271 SunOS 4.x to Solaris System Administration
Sun SPARC Programming
Printer Maintenance
SM-210 SPARC Desktop Systems Maintenance
SM-220 SPARC Deskside/Datacenter Systems Maintenance

Also attended three weeks of the advanced C++ software development training series on Sun platforms.

The end result of taking these courses was the development and implementation of Sun workstations in a TSCM related programming and hardware design instrumentation project.
Tektronix

Spectrum Analyzers , Electronics Engineering , 1993 — 1993

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the Tektronix 2794 series of Spectrum Analyser (10 kHz to 325 GHz).
Watkins-Johnson

WJ-8654 Miniature VHF/UHF/SHF Microcepter Receiver 1993 — 1993

Four day Operations, diagnostics, alignment, and component level repair of the Microcepter.

Eight Day program of programming the Microcepter for TSCM, TEMPEST, and Signals Intelligence Applications on both DOS/Windows and later to the Apple Macintosh platforms in C. I would later migrate these programs to the SparcBook and Toughbook systems.
AT&T

Electronics Engineering 1992 — 1992

Several weeks of classroom and field based courses on network distribution which focused solely on the physical layers of the network to include both copper based and fiber optical based media.

Trained on all AT&T copper and fiber products in production at the time as well as many of the legacy and emerging products which could be encountered in the field.

Included installation, repair, certifications, acceptance testing, troubleshooting, and engineering considerations.

ND2633 Fiber Optic Installation and Splicing
ND2634 Fiber Optic Installation and Maintenance Testing

ND3600 Premises Distribution Systems Installation and Maintenance
ND4200 Electronic Wire and Cable Applications
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 1992 — 1992

Two week course for LabVIEW version 3.0 for Sun Solaris OS (first version of LabVIEW that NI published outside of the original Macintosh version).
Novell, Inc.

CNE , Certified Netware Engineer , 1992 — 1992

Certified Netware Engineer courses leading to full certifications on Novell Netware to permit desktop computers to communicate.
Private School

TSCM , Soviet and Warsaw Pact TSCM , 1992 — 1992

Intense course (1140 hours) in Soviet and Warsaw Pact technical surveillance operations and covert physical penetrations methods; TSCM/countermeasures methods; technical espionage operations management; and TSCM equipment. Included physical and electronic inspection methods and how and where the Soviets most frequently installed their devices, and how those devices could be found without tipping off the eavesdropper. Special emphasis was spent on TSCM tradecraft, TSCM equipment, and TSCM methods used by both the Soviet and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War from 1948 until 1991 at which time the instructor defected to the West.

Course was taught by a (then recently) defected KGB officer who was an instructor at the Red Banner Institute for several decades, and who was a high level electronics engineering expert within the USSR on Soviet and Warsaw pact eavesdropping methods.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1992 — 1992

Two week course in Europe on the RF and Telephone TSCM equipment used by NATO governments, and popular in Europe.
Watkins-Johnson

Miniceptor Programming 1992 — 1992

Operation and computer programming course for the Watkins-Johnson Miniceptor family to include the WJ-8609 VHF/UHF Wide Bandwidth Surveillance Receiver and the WJ-8607 VHF/UHF Receivers and WJ-9607 Multi-Receiver Front Control Panel. Included traning in setting up large arrays and strings of Miniceptors in equipment frames for local and remote Net control in order to perform TSCM specific operations.
Antenna Research, Inc.

Electronics Engineering 1991 — 1992

In depth series of courses on antennas made by ARA and used for SIGINT, COMINT, EMC, ECM/ECCM, TEMPEST, TSCM, and related specialized measurements.

Special focus on those antennas which were mounted in SIGINT/COMINT aircraft or ground vehicles, and those which could be broken down and transported for covert or quasi covert usage during RF surveys, instrumented TEMPEST inspections, and TSCM sweeps.

Heavy emphasis on the actual engineering of the antenna and the development of performance models and correction tables for various types and usage to predict performance in advance of field usage. Included broadband and extremely broadband reception systems for both E-Field, and magnetic field measurements.
AT&T

Systimax Premises Distribution Systems , Electronics Engineering , 1991 — 1991

Nine week series of engineering and design courses on Structured Premises Distribution Systems used for complex voice and data communications. Coverage of Fiber Optics, Coaxial, UTP, and STP media. While the focus of course was how to design-in structured cabling systems, three extra weeks of time was spent learning how to perform extremely effective TSCM inspections on these cabling systems.

Included Four weeks of engineering, two weeks of installation methods, three weeks of certification and inspection methods.
Lotus Development Corporation

Lotus Notes , Computer Science , 1991 — 1991

Course taught by Lotus on how to install, set-up, and administer Lotus Notes version 2.0 servers, and user machines.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1991 — 1991

Two weeks of TSCM Training in telephone systems, with RF, telephone, and audio analysis
Watkins-Johnson Company

WJ-8999 , Portable EMC/TEMPEST Test Receiver , 1991 — 1991

Operators Course, followed by Programmers Course, and then the Component Level Repair and Calibration courses.

Progression from the WJ-8940 courses taken a few years previously.
AT&T

System 25/75 , Electronics Engineering , 1990 — 1990

Hardware courses for the design and installation of large scale Systems 25 and System 75 PBX systems followed by component level repair courses.

Included 41 days of training in the following courses:

SW2106 Definity Communications Systems
SD7100 System Design Presentation on Definity

Merlins and Partner Systems
System 25 Administration
System 25 Maintenance and Installation

BC1000A Definity/Sys 75-Generic 3/4 Admin.
BC1004A Audix System Admin
BC1005A Audix System Networking

T105 Sys 75-Level 1 Maintenance
T106 Sys 75-Level 2 Maintenance
Tektronix

TDR , Electronics Engineering , 1990 — 1990

Repair and Calibration courses on the Tektronix 1502C and 1503C "Modern" Time Domain Reflectometers. Plus training on the 1502, 1503, 1502B, and 1503B Legacy TDR's.
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 1989 — 1989

One week update on LabVIEW on the Macintosh, Version 2b (Beta Version).
Private School

EMI , RF Anechoic Chamber Operations , 1989 — 1989

Design and operation of medium to large scale anechoic chambers and outdoor ranges as RF measurement lab for both civilian and government EMI/EMC measurements.

Actual hands-on training on chamber layout, wall treatments, and platform and quiet zone calculations.

Heavy emphasis on compliance with military and intelligence agency technical standards, and taking measurements of equipment being examined or certified in order to minimize compromising emanations and thus to stop classified information from leaking from the equipment. Included FCC, MIL-STD, VDE and TEMPEST Testing standards.

Included training on operating fixed and turntables both in closed indoor ranges or chambers (3 meter, 10 meter, etc.) and large open outdoor ranges (30 meter, 100 meter, 300 meter, and 1000+ meter ranges).
Watkins-Johnson

WJ-9009 Portable Receiving System 1989 — 1989

Operators Course, Programmers Course, and Assembly Level Repair courses.
BISCI

Electronics Engineering 1988 — 1988

Early design course, involving Telecommunications Distribution Methods, and structured wiring design.
Fairchild Electro-Metrics

EMI , Electronics Engineering , 1988 — 1988

Electromagnetic interference measurement course involving every major Fairchild Electro-Metrics EMI product built up to that date, including some of the specialized products provided only to government agencies.

Training included all major EMI and TEMPEST inspection antenna's, amplifiers, filters, controllers, and receivers available from Fairchild Electro-Metrics at the time.

Refined methods and techniques used to isolate and extract extremely low power, covert signals out of a dense RF environment. This allowed extremely low powered (and highly covert) bugging devices to be detected from a considerable distance.
Hewlett Packard

MMS , Electronics Engineering , 1988 — 1988

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the HP MMS platform including high performance 71000 series of Spectrum Analysers.

Followed by a long systems design course to permit plug-in module development and complete systems design which integrated a wide range of components for use as a SIGINT and TSCM platform.
Rockwell International - Collins Avionics & Communications Division

MSS-1200 Miniature Surveillance System 1988 — 1988

Training on MSS-1200 hardware operations and usage of the suitcase sized system as a versatile TSCM platform, and training on software usage and development on several internal receivers.

Also included training on the Direction Finding platform, MR-1 Modulation Recognizer (DSP based), Power Line Antennas, and related accessories used for TSCM and SIGINT.
Watkins-Johnson

WJ-8990 , Man-pack Tactical Intelligence System (MANTIS) , 1988 — 1988

Operations, field service, maintenance, and programming of small, highly deployable man-pack based signals intelligence system. Training in rapid deployment of antenna, covert set up of listening post, and network communications of collected intelligence to SIGINT analyst.

My prime focus in this course was to learn to successfully interface the MANTIS into another system being developed for the U.S. Government.
Apollo Computer

Computer Science 1987 — 1987

Four weeks of systems administration, computer programming , and related training on the DN and DSP series of Apollo/Domain Workstations.
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 1987 — 1987

Two week developers course to design additional instrument drivers for LabVIEW on the Macintosh, and the development of virtual instruments or VI's to control search receivers and spectrum analysers.

As a result of this course I was able to port a number of my own TSCM programs which I had previously written in C, Assembler, BASIC, and FORTRAN over to "G" for LabVIEW in order drive Hewlett-Packard, Watkins-Johnson, and Micro-Tel gear. At this point the best option for controlling TSCM equipment was still a Zenith Z-151T or Z-80 black box controller, but the Macintosh was a close contender.
Tektronix

Spectrum Analyzers , Electronics Engineering , 1987 — 1987

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the Tektronix 494 and 2710 series of Spectrum Analysers.

Included programming and interfacing with MATE and CIIL
Motorola

DSP56000 , Electronics Engineering , 1986 — 1986

Five week firmware and hardware design course for the DSP56000 (56K) Digital Signal Processor chip. Heavy emphasis on high performance voice and data encryption, and cryptographic siege engine applications.
National Instruments

Electronics Engineering 1986 — 1986

One week study of the original Macintosh version (v 1.0) of LabVIEW to configure and control spectrum analyzers, EMI instruments, related receivers, multiplexers, digitizers, oscilloscopes, signal switches, oscillators, frequency counters, time bases, and laboratory grade test equipment to perform complex automated TSCM measurements.
U.S. Government

Foreign Instrumentation Signals Externals , Electronics , 1986 — 1986

Electronic intelligence analysis course involving the collection and exploitation of signals from ground, airborne, missile, and earth satellite assets. Electronic analysis, telemetry and beaconry, signal analysis and recognition, radar types and function, radar signal analysis, traffic analysis, signal signature analysis, and electronic orders of battle.

Training on equipment to record and analyze the minute fluctuations in signal parameters, and to prepare technical analysis reports.

Instruction on both manual and automated analysis of virtually any kind of electronic emissions found on the radio spectrum.
USAF

Cryptographic Communications , Electronics , 1986 — 1986

Course on the installation, maintenance and repair of hardware based cryptographic systems.

Training included module and component level troubleshooting, repair of the TSEC/KG-13, TSEC/KY-65, TSEC/KY-75, TSEC/KG-84, and TSEC/KG-30 encryption devices. Also included training on the TSEC/KY-3, and several related ciphering systems including the older legacy KW-26 systems, and systems of historical interest.

Extensive training in communications systems operations, safeguarding of classified information, TEMPEST methods, identification of COMSEC materials, COMSEC Courier certification, and technical counter-intelligence operations.
Hewlett Packard

HP 8566 Spectrum Analyser 1985 — 1985

Programming, Service, and Calibration courses on the HP 8566 and HP 8569 Spectrum Analysers.

Two month course overall, including 3 day operators course, 10 day programmers course, 5 day module level repair and maintenance, 15 day component level repair, 10 day laboratory calibration course.
USAF

Shelter Manager , Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Shelter Operations , 1985 — 1985

Course on the management, operation, and leadership of short term Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological shelters and hardened locations both in a strategic and tactical theater.

Primary focus was on bunkers, military shelters, and improvised shelters for short notice occupation. Instruction on large scale foraging and commandeering of supplies and premises, and how to survive the initial strikes and counter-strikes of a nuclear holocaust.

Methods of shelter and bunker selection, construction, set-up, logistics, security, occupant intake, screening, release, as well as sanitary, medical, and legal aspects.
Watkins-Johnson

WJ-8922 , TSCM Receiver , 1985 — 1985

Course on the operations and programming of the WJ-8922A TSCM Receiver..

Small briefcase system, with sub-carrier capabilities, raster analysis, and of having the capability to have the upper range increased significantly into the high microwave ranges.

One of great Watkins-Johnson products that was on par with the Micro-Tel line of briefcase sized TSCM gear.
Watkins-Johnson Company

WJ-8940 , EMC, EMI, TEMPEST and Wide-Band RF Ambient Receiver , 1985 — 1985

Operators Course, followed by Programmers Course, and then the Component Level Repair and Calibration courses. Preparatory course for the use of the WJ-8940 as a TEMPEST, TSCM, EMI, and EMC instrument

Several years after taking this course I was able to locate a large shipment of these systems that had been seized by Customs due to export law violations. I was able to bid on and purchase four complete, intact, never unpacked highly customized systems that had originally be destined for a foreign intelligence agency. Ownership and operation of this equipment provided to a huge asset to my TSCM operations as this was the best-of-the-best signals intelligence gear available which I retrofitted into a mobile lab environment, which Granite Island Group could bring to any site in North America. I also wrote tens of thousands of lines of code to customize both this and other related equipment to provide the most sophisticated mobile TSCM and TEMPEST testing systems available anywhere.
AT&T

5ESS , Switching Systems , 1984 — 1984

Initial 5ESS hardware installation and maintenance course series in Lima, along with system admin training on the 3B.
Apple Computer

Macintosh , Service and Maintenance , 1984 — 1984

Apple Macintosh Computer Service and Maintenance Course. This was the first service course on the Apple Macintosh Service taught to people from outside the company.
Private School

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Counter Measures , 1984 — 1984

Two week course focusing on the performance of corporate bug sweeps and TSCM efforts. Heavy emphasis on operating under narrow time constraints, and the usage of very limited equipment. Essentially, this course focused on performing a rapid 4-6 hour sweep (typically a board room or single office), using no more then a couple of briefcases of equipment, but no advanced or sophisticated equipment.
USAF

Relational Databases , Computer Science , 1984 — 1984

Several weeks of training on large scale relational databases, and system administration and maintenance of relational databases on Burroughs 3500 and 4700 mainframe computers.

Included programming in FORTRAN, COBOL, and the AFOLDS query language.

Introduction to Maintenance Data Processing
Maintenance Management Information and Control Systems
Air Force Online Data Systems
Introduction to Online Systems
Loops and Arrays
Data Input and Branching
Computer Numbering Systems Course
Computer Components Course
Remote Terminal Operators Course
USAF

COBOL , Computer Programming , 1984 — 1984

Top Down Structured COBOL course for the Burroughs 3500 and 4700 mainframes.

Follow-on COBOL Programming course for the Phase IV mainframes that were being used as a transition from the B3500/B4700.
Zenith Data Systems

Z-151T , Computer Installation, Maintenance, and Repair , 1984 — 1984

Comprehensive course on site preparation, installation, maintenance, repair, and on-going inspection of the Zenith Z-150 series of PC computers, to include servicing of the Z-151T TEMPEST complaint version and TEMPEST certified peripherals, monitors, printers, and related equipment.

The Z-151T was used in a TSCM and SIGINT capacity to control test equipment and to process classified information, so it was critical to maintain extremely low emissions or leakage from all equipment.
Honeywell

Level-6 , Computer Science , 1983 — 1984

Special hardware maintenance course on the Honeywell GCOS Level-6, but of a custom government variant that was approved for classified information up to the level of Top Secret, including codeword, special access, and data used by the intelligence community.
Cray Research

X-MP , Computer Programming , 1983 — 1983

Nine weeks of training for writing programs for the Cray X-MP multiprocessor computer, and methods of using a Vector Processor as a cryptographic and signals intelligence siege engine.
Micro-Tel Corporation

Micro-Tel , Electronics Engineering , 1983 — 1983

Repair, Calibration, and Programming course for various Micro-Tel products including the PR-700, PR-707, MSR-904, 903, 902, IO-1000, WR-550, RAS-550, FCS, VDA, 1200 and related products.
Texas Instruments

TMS32010 , Electronics Engineering , 1983 — 1983

Programming and hardware design course for the TMS32010 Digital Signal Processor chip.
U.S. Government

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Fusion , Intelligence , 1983 — 1983

Course on photographic interpretation and preparing intelligence analysis products based on the matching of aerial and satellite imagery with signals and communications intelligence to identify strategic and diplomatic communication facilities or infrastructure and exploitation points for the purpose of hostile intelligence operations, eavesdropping, bugging, monitoring, and wiretapping.

Extensive training on studying aerial reconnaissance of overt and covert ground stations, and evaluation of other photography to determine systems being used, antenna capabilities, transmission paths, cable routes, and estimating communications capabilities, manning requirements, logistical issues, and developing plans to exploit, potentially destroy, or sabotage the facility.
Hewlett-Packard

HP856X Spectrum Analyzer 1982 — 1982

Four day operators course on the HP 8566 and HP 8569 Spectrum Analyzers.
IBM

026/029/129 , Service and Maintenance , 1982 — 1982

Service and Maintenance course on the top three IBM keypunch machines still in use by the government at the time. Heavy emphasis on the IBM 029 and 129 which we were still in heavy use. Legacy training on the older IBM 026 which was still in use in some government locations.
Teletype Corporation

ASR-33 , Service and Maintenance , 1982 — 1982

Service and Maintenance course for the ASR-33 and KSR-33 Teletype Terminals both with and without paper tape readers/punches.
U.S. Government

TSCM , TSCM , 1982 — 1982

Classified course on the basics of TSCM. Review of microwave spectrum analysers, search receivers, NLJD's, TSCM antenna, and other equipment such as phone analysers and audio amplifiers.
USAF

Analex Printer , Electronics , 1982 — 1982

Maintenance of the high speed Analex Printer equipment of SACCS. Theory of operation, alignment, adjustment, preventive maintenance routines, malfunction analysis, and use of pertinent aerospace ground equipment.

The equipment was located in every major SAC Command Post, Intelligence, War Planning, and Force Status office.

The most secret of the Top Secret material of the Cold War came across these machines, and they were considered the "Doomsday Printers" as they would print the coded orders to launch World War III or initiate a nuclear holocaust.
USAF

SRCC/Sub-C , Electronics , 1982 — 1982

Maintenance of SRCC and Sub-C equipment of SACCS. Theory, routine malfunction analysis, and use of pertinent aerospace ground equipment.

This is the equipment in the SAC missile silos, missile launch control centers, and at remote communications facilities.
USAF

AMPEX Tape Drives , Electronics , 1982 — 1982

Comprehensive training course on the maintenance and repair of the entire range of AMPEX military data and wide-band tape drives.

Included training on high speed 1/2" reel-to-reel vacuum column data decks, intermediate bandwidth instrumentation, 1" & 2" wide-band instrumentation, and large wide-band, high speed signals intelligence decks.

Theory of operation, alignment, adjustment, preventive maintenance routines, malfunction analysis, and overhaul.
American Heart Association

CPR , CPR and First Aid , 1981 — 1981

Two day military course on CPR, taught by instructors from the American Heart Association.

While this was not my first CPR course, it was the first time that I received serious professional level training in CPR.

I also learned that lay responder type CPR is valuable for the general public, but that anybody involved with public safety, a technical trade, sports, or who works in an profession where someone could get severely hurt really needs to attend professional level training such as this, and practice... practice... practice...
Hewlett-Packard

1981 — 1981

Component level repair and calibration course for the HP 140 series oscilloscope mainframe and the entire 855X Spectrum Analyzer Plug-in series.

Included the older 8552A and 8553L twin plug-ins and the 141S Display section (1 KHz to 110 MHz) to create a "Fully Calibrated Frequency-Domain Measurement System" which had been popular since the late 60's and throughout the 70's.

Also trained on the 8554L (500 kHz to 1250 MHz) and 10 MHz to 18/40 GHz (8555A) RF plug-ins as well as the low frequency section that covered 20 Hz - 300 kHz (8556A) and two Tracking Generators (8443A, 0.1 to 110 MHz) and (8444A, 0.5 to 1300 MHz).
U.S. Government

TSCM , Technical Surveillance Threat Awareness , 1981 — 1981

Ten day classified course taught during the height of the Cold War to expose the student to the threat of modern technical espionage, and methods used to detect such hostile penetrations, or exploitation. Course was based on historically what had been found, and also on what should be getting found, but was not. Main thrust of the course was that we must be ever vigilant and always pay close attention to the details.

Heavy study of the technical espionage operations of other countries directed against the United States both at home and abroad. Emphasis on the operations of the Soviets against military and diplomatic targets, but also Soviet targeting and successful penetrations of our domestic communications infrastructure.
USAF

Computer and Switching Systems Technician , Electronics , 1980 — 1981

1000+ Hour Course on Cold War era Computers and Switching Systems.

Including training on:
Card Input/Output Systems
Data Processing Multiplexing Equipment
Static and Dynamic Computer Memory
Magnetic Core Memory
Magnetic Drum Memory
Central Process Units
Computer System Troubleshooting
Advanced Memory System
Drum, Tape, and Peripheral Devices
High Speed Printers
Timing and Control
Machine Language Programming
Computer Systems
Peripheral Data Buffering
Computer Math
Electronic Principles and Circuits
Vacuum Tube Principles
Soldering Techniques
Solid State Circuits

Focused on large mainframe systems used in all SAC Command Posts, Missile Silo's, NMCC, ANMCC, E-4, CMC, and related strategic and SIOP facilities.

Also trained on tactically deployed systems for forward combat control and communications, or used during the period after a post nuclear or biological holocaust.
Motorola

MC6800 , Computer Science , 1980 — 1980

Three week MC6800 and MC68000 assembler language programming course.
AT&T Bell Laboratories

C , Computer Science , 1978 — 1978

Three week introductory course on C, followed by five weeks of intermediate and advanced labs using C in various applications. Part of the course was taught by Dennis Ritchie, and other AT&T Bell Labs developers. Some of the applications work was on an early prototypes of the 3B
Hewlett-Packard Corporation

HP 9845 , Computer Programming , 1978 — 1978

Long course on programming the HP 9845 Technical Computer and HP 9872 Flatbed Scanner for the advanced control of laboratory electronic test equipment.
Zilog Corporation

Z-80 , Computer Programming , 1978 — 1978

One hundred twenty hour course (3 weeks) on Z-80 Assembly Language Programming, followed by forty hours (1 week) of hardware CPU development, and twenty hours (3 days) of external interfaces.

I initially attended the computer programing course to fine-tune my Z-80 software development skills, but was invited to stay for the hardware design courses as well even though I was not an electronics engineer at the time.

This course proved to be a major catalyst in my future as it got me excited about low level hardware development and instead of working on the "upper layers" of the computer and merely writing software I developed an intense hunger to work with and develop things at the circuit board and component level.
Hewlett-Packard

HP2116 , Computer Programming , 1977 — 1977

Long series of course on writing code of the Hewlett-Packard HP2100 and HP2116 mini-computer in BASIC, FORTRAN, and Assembly language.

Programming for the control of multiple data acquisition boards, instrument controllers, proprietary bus configurations, and wide band data collection system to include wide band magnetic tape for instrumentation.

Instruction on the control of HP Model 8580A ASA and spectrum analyser components and modules for the automated detection and analysis of RF signals.
Hewlett-Packard

HP2116 , Advanced Assembly Language Programming , 1977 — 1977

Eight day course on writing code of the Hewlett-Packard HP2100 and HP2116 mini-computer in Assembly language.

High performance programming for the control of multiple data acquisition boards, instrument controllers, proprietary bus configurations, and wide band data collection system to include wide band magnetic tape for instrumentation.

Instruction on the control of HP Model 8580A ASA and spectrum analyser components and modules for the automated detection and analysis of RF signals through Assembly language programs and drivers.
Hewlett-Packard

Electronic Instrumentation 1977 — 1977

Course on the operation, and programming of the Hewlett Packard 8580A Automatic Spectrum Analyzer that combined both the HP2100 Computer and the HP855X spectrum analyzer plug-in family and created the worlds very first Fully Automatic Spectrum Analyzer System.

The 140 series oscilloscope mainframes and 855X SA Plug-in series were basic core of these systems, so I first had first to learn to master running the (all analog) Spectrum Analyzer system using numerous modules to cover the 20 Hz - 40 GHz spectrum.

These were used for automated "Spectrum Monitoring" to detect bugs present in high risk areas and to maintain watching over the airwaves of an area. Also used for surveillance, system monitoring, electronic compatibility testing, TEMPEST testing, and electronic intelligence.

This was the very first HP fully computerized and fully automated spectrum analyzer, until replaced by the HP8566 and HP8569, which became the flagship Automatic Microwave Spectrum for HP.
AT&T Bell Laboratories

IBM , Computer Programmer , 1975 — 1975

In-house (160 hours) training course in FORTRAN and Job Control Language on an IBM System/360 and System/370 mainframe for an entry level, full time technical position at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

This course started me on the path of becoming a computer programmer, and thus became a type of seed course for my career with computers.
AT&T Bell Laboratories

IBM 029 , Keypunch Operator , 1974 — 1974

In-house training course for new keypunch operators, for the IBM 029 Hollerith card punch machines. Attended in order to learn how to keypunch computer programs written in FORTRAN onto large decks of cards for an entry level, part time technical position at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

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James Atkinson’s Interests:

Professional Interests: Hard Core, Bare Knuckled, Hands-On, Full Contact Spy Hunting, Bug Sweeping, Wiretap Detection, Communications Security, Emissions Security, and related subject areas. The use of exhaustive scientific protocols for performing bug sweeps with high performance laboratory test equipment. High level of expertise working on methods to detect, analyze, and exploit covert signals deep within the noise floor. Significant interest in expedition, jungle, wilderness, and street emergency medicine. Volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (Licensed EMT), Emergency First Responder, teaching CPR, first aid, and disaster preparedness. Non-Professional interests: Opera, Classical Symphony, Old School Blues, Fine Arts exhibitions, French Cooking. I play the Oboe, Violin, Cello, and Saxophone. Interested in both fine arts and portraiture photography in very large format (8*10 and larger negative formats). Active in Tai chi chuan, Aikido, and related subjects..

James Atkinson’s Groups:

Police Marksman Association, PMA, Association of Old Crows, AOC, AFCEA, AFA, ASIS, Associated Locksmiths of America, National Safeman's Organization, FGBA, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, AFIO, National Rifle Association, NRA, NTOA, NAEMT, several others.

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James Atkinson’s Honors:

Discovered a mechanism by which Soviet spies were able to penetrate classified encrypted communications networks, thus allowing the United States to seal a major 20+ year old breach.

Recipient of multiple and significant government awards involving current area of expertise.

Testified before Congress several times, and has been consulted or engaged by the Executive branch, Kings, Prime Ministers, Sheiks, Directors, Actors, Physicians, Musicians, and some of the most powerful people in the world.

Top Secret Security Clearance, including authorizations for SIOP, SCI, Codeword, Crypto, etc.

The single most published person on Earth on the subject matter of TSCM. Regarded as THE international subject matter expert on bug and wiretap detection, and methods to protect against their installations or usage.

The very first person on the Internet to publish anything related to TSCM on the Internet.

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President and Sr. Engineer

Granite Island Group

Founder, President, and Sr. Engineer

Granite Island Group

Communications Engineer

United States Air Force

Computer and Switching Systems Technician

United States Air Force

Computer Programmer

CompuServe

Computer Programmer

AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover

Computer Programmer

AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover

Keypunch Operator

AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover

James Atkinson’s Education

Government School

National Instruments

American Heart Association

American Heart Association

American Red Cross

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

FEMA

Private School

Private School

American Red Cross

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

Analog Devices

Private School

DHS/FEMA - Emergency Management Institute

National Instruments

Private School

Private School

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Analog Devices

Avaya

Private School

U.S. Government

U.S. Government

U.S. Government

Agilent Technologies

Private

National Instruments

Private School

Private School

Sony/Tektronix

Hewlett-Packard

Watkins-Johnson/Condor Systems

Electro-Metrics

Analog Devices

Massachusetts State Police Academy

Morrow Technologies

Private School

Private School

Watkins-Johnson

Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

Watkins-Johnson Company - Telecommunications Group

AT&T

Cisco Systems

Condor Systems, Inc.

Hewlett-Packard