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SPEAKER BIOS cases at both the national and international level. Sgt Casanova currently supervises a plain clothes street crimes unit where he continues to use social media and open source investigative techniques to advance his investigations. He is regularly sought out to assist other investigative details both at the state and federal level. He lectures extensively on social media investigations in both the public and private sector. Alberto Valbuena has over 20 years of public safety experience where he has served his community as a Firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, and a Public Safety dispatcher. He became interested in public safety during the horrific event on September 11 where he found out that he was unable to help unless he was a first responder, in public safety or in construction. A few years later after taking a Firefighter Instructor class he found his passion for teaching and has continued to improve it since. Alberto has since been teaching multiple subjects to a variety of students. · Training and re-training public safety dispatchers. · Fire safety in pre-schools, elementary schools, middle schools, daycare, and senior care centers. · Firefighter training and drills. · BLS CPR to First Responders, and medical providers. · CPR and first aid to families, employees, and community leaders. Richard Bryan is an honorably retired Texas and Federal Law Enforcement Officer and Retired Law Enforcement Academy Manager/Director. He is an active TCOLE certified Advanced Instructor and Federal Certified Police Instructor and has taught peace officers, corrections officers, and communication specialists since 2001. Richard attended specialized training in recruiting and retention, and service excellence methods and techniques. He is also a Texas Certified Public Manager, and has a Master’s Degree in Law Enforcement Leadership and Management. Richard planned and coordinated multiple police recruitment job fairs for police cadets and peace officers during his tenure as a Law Enforcement Academy Manager in the San Antonio area. Lee H. Duren is a proud graduate of both Sam Houston State University and Lamar University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, and a Master’s Degree in Education focusing on Digital Learning and Leadership. Lee is currently a Lieutenant for the Texas Board of Criminal Justice Office of the Inspector General. He is assigned to the Support Services Division of the agency, headquartered in Huntsville, Texas. Lee is the Training Coordinator for the agency, holds a Master Peace Officer Certification, has an Advanced TCOLE Instructor Certification, is a Firearms Instructor, and is a certified Field Training Officer (FTO). Lee graduated from the East Texas Police Academy in October 2002. Since then, he worked for the Walker County Sheriff’s Office as a Deputy and a Jailer. Lee also worked for the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office where he rose through the ranks to Sergeant Investigator. Since joining the Office of the Inspector General, as an Investigator, Lee was assigned collateral duty as a firearms instructor, patrol rifle instructor, and ALERRT instructor. Since moving to the training department full-time in 2019, Lee has traveled Texas training not only the Inspector General’s Investigators but other law enforcement officers across the state. Lee is a member of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) and in October 2021 was published in the ILEETA Journal. Duren, L. H. (2021, October). Is Your Training Enough? ILEETA.org. Retrieved October 21, 2021, from https://www. ileeta.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ILEETA-Journal-Volume-.... Frank Muñiz is a full-time Mental Health Officer, Detective, and Lead Trainer for the Katy Independent School District Police Department. He has been a policeman for over 29 years now and is certified as a Master Peace Officer. Frank’s career began in 1994 as a police officer for the University of Houston-Downtown Police Dept. In 2005, after obtaining his Police and Firearms Instructor certifications, Frank joined the Katy ISD Police Department where he continued to pursue his passion for training. As a result, in 2006, he attained his first Train-the-Trainer certification in Crisis Intervention. Shortly after receiving this certification, Frank was then appointed to his agency’s Training Division and Advisory Board where he currently serves as President. In 2012, Frank sought to find more training opportunities and he started working for the Greater Harris County 9-1-1 Emergency Training Center as an Associate Trainer. A short time later, this assignment also earned him an appointment to their Advisory Board as well. In 2018, out of numerous nominees from across the country, Frank was selected by 130 The BLUES

SPEAKER BIOS the Bob Pike Group to attend a complimentary, three-day “Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp Workshop,” which enhanced his instructor skills to levels that he never imagined possible. Collectively, Frank has been training and developing curriculums for over seventeen years now and has accumulated over a dozen Instructor/Train-the-Trainer certifications in a variety of topics and specializations. Antonio Zarzoza, better known by colleagues and students as “Instructor Z”, is an internationally recognized police & corrections trainer, he is a Below 100 Core Instructor, A Certified Force Science Analyst, and a Texas Master Peace Officer with over 20 years of combined law enforcement experience. He is a Certified Microsoft PowerPoint Expert and a Certified Microsoft PowerPoint Educator. He currently serves as the lead instructor & training coordinator for the University of Texas Advanced Law Enforcement Training Center in Edinburg, TX where he trains local, state, and federal law enforcement officers year-round. Zarzoza has been qualified in state & federal court as a Subject Matter Expert in police use of force, defensive tactics, and crisis intervention. Zarzoza is a contract trainer with the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training and has served with the US Department of State as an expert police trainer providing specialized training for law enforcement officials in Mexico, and other countries in Latin America. He is a published writer and an entrepreneur operating his own training firm as Instructor Z & Associates International, LLC. Tanida Mullen has a proven track record of excellence and has been a trainer in the hospitality and restaurant industry for over 20 years. With a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Business Administration from Texas A&M University-Central Texas, she has been able to tune into what customers want and create result-producing training programs to ensure that it benefits her client’s bottom line. Tanida has been selected to facilitate customer service programs for several divisions within her company and has created and led leadership and sales classes to promote employee development. Her success in working with teams has been the result of her creativity and thirst for knowledge. Tanida is a member of MPI Texas Hill Country Chapter and has served on the board for MPI THCC in communication & membership positions. Tanida has served as chair for the Global MPI Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee. Curator at The Savvy Young Professional, Tanida has built a platform for young professionals to garner career advice with a passion for helping teams build camaraderie and focus on creating the best experience for their target customer, Tanida focuses on using custom strategies for the unique needs of her clients. Stephen James, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University and core faculty in the Sleep and Performance Research Center. His research focus includes the interaction between physical stressors [such as sleep-related fatigue], law, policy, training, and practice and its effect on operational performance for military and law enforcement personnel. Dr. James strives to better understand the dynamics of performance in a wide variety of military and policing tasks, including driving, citizen encounters, crisis intervention, and deadly force encounters. Prior to becoming an academic, Dr. James spent more than 20 years in the British infantry as a soldier and officer, serving in Cyprus, the Former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and Afghanistan. Bret Batchelor: I serve as the is the 9-1-1 Training Coordinator for the North Central Texas Emergency Communications District. I have 13 years of service in Public Safety. I started her career as a 9-1-1 Telecommunicator and joined the North Central Texas Council of Government’s Regional 9-1-1 Program in 2019. I am certified TCOLE Instructor, and Master Licensed Telecommunicator. This topic covered in this presentation is the overview and steps for creation of a Regional CISM Program. I serve as an Administrator for the NCT9-1-1 Regional CISM Taskforce Coordinator. Dr. Marshall Jones leverages his combined experiences as a law enforcement practitioner, consultant, executive coach, trainer, educator, and applied researcher to explore problems impacting organizations. A practitioner at heart, Dr. Jones considers himself an “accidental academic,” who has earned much of his graduate education in criminal justice and industrial-organizational psychology while working full-time in law enforcement. He also holds a doctorate in business administration with a focus on organizational behavior. Marshall has trained and presented on a variety of policing topics at state and regional police chief and sheriff associations, IACP, FBI NA, FBI, National Advocacy The BLUES 131