Joshua Becker

Experience

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  AmeriCare Ambulance and McCormick Ambulance

  May 2009 - Nov 2013

  Paramedic

  Delivered advanced, gold-standard patient care in austere, chaotic conditions by thoroughly assessing patients’ condition, collecting information from bystanders, and developing/implementing treatment plans that were both tailored to patient needs and able to adapt to changing medical conditions. Communicated with hospital personnel and dispatchers to provide updates on patient condition and ensure adequate resource allocation.• Used exceptional patient assessment skills to determine that an elderly patient’s fever was caused by sepsis and delivered the patient to the hospital in stable, but critical condition. Show less

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  Gavin de Becker & Associates (GDBA)

  Nov 2013 - now

  Promoted to oversee and optimize firm’s new employee orientation/training program for 300+ employees per year. Diversify instruction methods by integrating technological resources into each course. Develop improvements that enhance instructional effectiveness, including new training courses, after evaluating program success and assessing staff members’ skill gaps.• Created and deployed new training programs for medical emergency, safety, and security procedures.• Decreased company’s cost per certification >50%, while improving agents’ CPR and first aid certification level to emergency medicine standards, by changing the certifying agency to the American Heart Association.• Improved agent trauma skill proficiency 34% by using military standards of care to develop a trauma response/care course that has been given to 1,000+ security agents since 2018.• Cut leader overtime by 4 hours per new employee and significantly decreased on-the-job training time by reorganizing company’s 12-day new hire academy to increase agents’ readiness for command center duty assignments. Show less Strategically planned and directed security details throughout the United States. Collaborated with top executives to deliver security and threat assessments and review/implement recommendations for improvement. Safeguarded clients, employees, and guests—on and off-site—by regulating and enforcing security policies/procedures, best-practice logistics planning, and effective communications. Partnered with multi-agency teams to plan for and ensure client safety and security.• Brought in significant revenue for a restaurant and enabled a very high-profile public figure to safely dine there without a reservation by placing the protectee’s table out of the public eye and securing entry into the building through the kitchen.• Increased a high-profile client’s security and safety, thus allowing him to eat lunch once a week at a favorite restaurant, by redistributing resources and implementing a surveillance detection team. Show less Created, developed, implemented, and maintained security protocols for assigned properties. Planned and performed regular service, maintenance, and physical assessments of all security systems across multiple properties. Maintained staff’s readiness and alignment to each property’s security plans by conducting training drills.• Maintained extraordinary standards for client safety and confidentiality in a variety of fast-paced, dynamic environments.• Significantly reduced wildfire risk to a client’s $MM property by partnering with the estate manager to implement weed abatement and install a sprinkler system along the property line. Show less

  • Director - Training & Tactics

    Jun 2018 - now

  • Security Operations Director

    Jan 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Protector and Detail Leader

    Nov 2013 - Jan 2016
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  CITY OF SCHERTZ EMS

  Nov 2024 - now

  Volunteer Paramedic

  Providing emergency medical care for the City of Schertz and surrounding cities.Working alongside an incredible team of first responders dedicated to high quality emergency response.