Eduardo Garcia
Eduardo (Ed) Garcia Ugartechea, is a professional instructor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, since July 2009. Mr. Garcia brings over 30 years experience in industrial, institutional, state, and federal government security management, operations, and consulting throughout the U.S., Central America, and Mexico. Some of the projects he has managed have involved the U.S. Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Aviation Administration, TRW Space & Defense, Hughes Aircraft, and General Motors.
Mr. Garcia’s areas of expertise are in project management, security system design, public safety, crime prevention, adequacy of security analysis, policy, and administration. He has testified extensively in court throughout the U.S. and has consulted insurance companies and corporations in the areas of security policy, crime foreseeability, and premises liability. Mr. Garcia comes from a long family heritage in the security services business dating back from 1910. In 2000, he founded and later successfully sold a security and law enforcement training academy in Texas for state and federal government training and continuing education. Through his faculty teaching career he has served at the University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, Webster University, and ITT Technical Institute.
EDUCATION:
M.S. Criminal Justice / Security Management, California State University at Long Beach, 1990
B.S. Criminal Justice, University of Texas at El Paso, 1984
CERTIFICATIONS:
Contractor Special Security Officer, U.S. Department of Defense
Facility Security Officer, U.S. Department of Defense
Industrial Security Management, U.S. Defense Security Institute
Security Management Program, California State University at Long Beach
Law Enforcement Classroom & Firearms Instructor, Texas & New Mexico
Insurance Loss Control Representative, Texas Department of Insurance
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Security Management
Environmental Security
Government Contracting
Global & Domestic Terrorism
Law Enforcement Education
Project Management
PUBLICATIONS:
Wrote Chapter in Latin American Terrorism in Terrorism Today – The Past, The Players, The Future, 2nd Ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004
Security Policy Manuals for multiple industrial, institutional, & government security projects.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Member, American Society for Industrial Security International
Advisory Board, Academic Programs in Colleges & Universities, American Society for Industrial Security International
Member, Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice