Nearly four decades across state police command and private-sector executive protection — for U.S. Presidents, foreign dignitaries, Fortune-level executives, and the buildings that hold what matters most.
Steven began his career with the New Jersey State Police in 1988 and spent twenty-five years on the job, retiring as a Staff Sergeant. His command experience includes supervising a Special Task Force in Irvington, NJ, running Field Operations across five State Police stations with more than sixty troopers reporting to him, and executive protection details for U.S. Presidents, foreign diplomats, and government officials — work that put him in direct coordination with the U.S. Secret Service on diplomatic security and transportation.
In the fourteen years since retirement, that judgment has been applied almost entirely in the private sector — protecting people and property where the standard has to be set from scratch, not inherited from a department manual.
He's provided full-time executive protection for the CEO of a national apparel company, overseeing the security of a five-floor corporate headquarters. He's managed security and transportation scheduling for a Sotheby's warehouse holding high-value inventory. He's run security and threat assessments for corporate closures — including a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Montvale, NJ and a Colgate-Palmolive manufacturing plant in Morristown, NJ — and provided executive protection for private families and VIP guests at red-carpet events with hundreds of attendees.
He currently serves as an Executive Protection Specialist for RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey's largest academic health system — direct, ongoing exposure to the exact ambulatory and campus security questions this practice now advises other healthcare portfolios on.
What the practice sells is a written assessment, not a résumé. Board certification through ASIS — the PSP, Physical Security Professional — is in progress, and closes the gap between decades of operational judgment and the documentation standard that a lawyer, an insurance broker, and a hospital risk manager all recognize on sight.
The practice never staffs guards and never takes compensation from a vendor. That independence isn't a preference — it's the reason a report from this practice means something a free one doesn't, and the reason the answer on cross-examination is always a clean no.
Executive protection details for U.S. Presidents, foreign diplomats, and government officials, coordinating directly with the U.S. Secret Service on planning, protection, and transportation.
Full-time protection detail for a national apparel company's CEO, including oversight of security across a five-floor corporate headquarters.
Security and transportation scheduling for a Sotheby's warehouse — the same category of high-value, member-and-client-facing asset protection this practice now brings to collector storage clients.
Security and threat assessment for the closing of a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Montvale, NJ and a Colgate-Palmolive plant in Morristown, NJ — direct experience with dealer-group and industrial risk.
Currently an Executive Protection Specialist for RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey's largest academic health system — live exposure to the campus and ambulatory security questions this practice advises on.
Assessment and detail coordination for VIP and celebrity events with 350–400+ guests, including venue security assessment and full event-security planning.
Decades of vehicle stops, narcotics interdiction, and fugitive apprehension taught him how someone casing a property actually behaves — where they look, what they test, what they exploit. That's pattern recognition built from thousands of real encounters, not a threat model copied from a textbook.
He supervised more than sixty troopers across five stations and personally reviewed their performance for compliance. He knows exactly how a post check gets phoned in, how a "routine" round gets shortened, and what a written standard has to specify to actually get enforced — because enforcing it was his job.
Fired on more than once in the field, first on scene at fatal accidents, present for barricaded-subject standoffs and presidential-level protection details. The protocols he writes for your staff come from having lived the situations they're meant to cover — not from a template.
That's the difference this practice sells: not a checklist written by someone who has only ever seen a security problem on paper, but a standard written by someone who has stood in the middle of one.
Every engagement is organized the same way, whether it's a single site or a sixty-location portfolio — a small, accountable structure rather than a large staff, so the standard never drifts between reports.
Every report is reviewed and signed by a certified principal — the person whose credentials are on the line if the report is ever tested in a deposition. Nothing leaves this practice without that personal sign-off.
For multi-site and portfolio engagements, vetted contract surveyors — typically retired law enforcement or security professionals — execute the standardized site visit against the practice's own checklist. They gather; the principal reviews and signs.
Drafting and formatting support that keeps every report to the same structure and turnaround, so principal time goes to judgment and sign-off rather than paperwork.
This is a deliberate structure, not a staffing shortcut: a lean, principal-led model scales to a large portfolio without diluting the standard a single generalist consultant would eventually stretch too thin.
Steven is a recurring guest on the John Rondi Show (36,000+ subscribers), speaking firsthand about his 25 years with the New Jersey State Police. It's the same skill this practice depends on in a deposition or on the stand: the ability to explain what happened, and why it matters, clearly enough that people outside the field actually understand it.
A career in this field gets paid for being somewhere — one place at a time, earning only while present. This practice gets paid for what that experience knows, written into a document a client keeps and acts on long after the visit ends.
Every engagement, every written standard, and every vendor held to account is built on the same premise: the only useful advisor in this field is one who has nothing to sell you but the truth.
