About Ray Hilburn, SME
Summary
Decorated peace officer, investigator, major crimes case agent, undercover operative and instructor; Service in a variety of diverse assignment including international law enforcement in support of American military missions in the Middle East to include counterterrorism assignments as an operative, trainer, advisor, manager and in executive leadership positions.
SpecialtiesMajor/Organized Crimes Investigations * Field Training Evaluator * Forensics/SSE * Latent Print Examiner * Arson Investigator * Counter Terrorism SME * COIN * Counter IED TTP * ICITAP Master Instructor * Senior Level Management * LE Patrol * International Law Enforcement * Military Advisor * SME * Rule of Law * Middle Eastern Political/Cultural Information and Operations.
Experience
Law Enforcement industry
Currently holds this position: Training Manager and Developer JIEDDO/JCOE
Master Peace Officer, State of Texas
Instructor, State of Texas
Master Instructor, ICITAP, Iraq
Instructor, Biometric Data
Collection, Ministry of Interior, Iraq
Defensive Tactics Instructor, ICITAP, Iraq
Arson Investigator, State of Texas
Senior Crime Scene, Analyst, IAI Certified
Latent Print Examiner, FBI/Louisiana State University
Top Secret Security Clearance (SCI) (2015)
Home Location:
Wimberley, Texas
International Affairs
Ray Hilburn, SME (Subject Matter Expert)
Past:
Internatinal Police Trainer and Law Enforcement Professional at MPRI
Education
International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program Department of Justice, June 2011
University of St. Thomas
1967 - 1974
Public Profile
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ray-hilburn-sme/2/323/391
Decorated peace officer, investigator, major crimes case agent, undercover operative and instructor; Service in a variety of diverse assignment including international law enforcement in support of American military missions in the Middle East to include counterterrorism assignments as an operative, trainer, advisor, manager and in executive leadership positions.
Specialties
Major/Organized Crimes Investigations * Field Training Evaluator * Forensics/SSE * Latent Print Examiner * Arson Investigator * Counter Terrorism SME * COIN * Counter IED TTP * ICITAP Master Instructor * Senior Level Management * LE Patrol * International Law Enforcement * Military Advisor * SME * Rule of Law * Middle Eastern Political/Cultural Information and Operations
JIEDDO/JCOE
International Affairs industryJuly 2011 - Present (4 months) National Training Center, Fort Irwin, CA
Conduct AAR with units coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan to determine lessons learned, best practices and Red and Blue TTP in order to make recommendations to SECDEF and Director of JIEDDO to improve training for units that will deploy next. Evaluate effectiveness of IED tools and equipment for contractor awareness of the good and bad elements of the tools we send into battle.
Law Enforcement Professional
L-3 Services (MPRI)
Law Enforcement industry
2006 - Present (5 years)
Honors and Awards
Internatinal Police Trainer and Law Enforcement Professional
MPRI
International Affairs industry
February 2005 - June 2011 (6 years 5 months) Al Kut, Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, Basra, Iraq
Trained Iraqi Police and Border troops for 21 months in Al Kut, Iraq along the Iranian border. Worked as an FSR for the TIGR program in Baghdad for a short time. In 2006 embedded with 4IBCT/1ID, FOB Falcon during the Surge and then spent three years as the DIV LEP 1 for the 34th ID, 1st ID and 36th ID in Basra, Iraq.
JIEDDO/JCOE Lessons Learned Team
July 2011 to Present
JIEDDO/JCOE
Team Members: Ray Hilburn, SME Training Manager and Developer for the Training Support Division- Lessons Learned Team at the National Training Center (NTC) located at Fort Irwin, CA. The mission of this team is to gather intelligence from deployed Armed Services and Special Forces units in Iraq and Afghanistan on tactics, techniques and practices (TTP) that were proven effective in defeating Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)...more
Law Enforcement Professional - DIV
January 2007 to June 2011
Services
(MPRI) Team Members: Ray Hilburn, SME Law Enforcement Professional (LEP) embedded with the US military in Iraq. This mission was developed by the US military to identify, interdict, disrupt and destroy the organizations responsible for the deployment of IED's in the Iraqi and Afghanistan Theater of Operations using specially trained civilian investigators. Originally assigned to and served on a Brigade Combat Team Command Staff with..more
Team Members: Ray Hilburn, SME International Police Trainer (IPT) stationed in Al Kut, Iraq. Assigned as Lead Instructor, Defensive Tactics (DT). Subsequent duties included classroom instructor and mentor for Iraq Police (IP) and Department of Border Enforcement (DBE) cadets in conducting ICITAP/CPATT related curriculum and development of same. Established Biometric Data Collection Center vetting incoming cadets and trained...more.
Certifications
- International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program
Department of Justice - License Master Instructor Certification
March 2006 - Site Exploitation Course T3
United States Army
March 2009
Honors and Awards
Awarded for service during operations at FOB Falcon, Baghdad and signed by MG Joseph Fil
July 2008
For service as the DIV LEP to the 1st Infantry Division, signed by MG Vince Brooks
June 2011
For service to 36th Infantry Division HQ and LEP 1, signed and presented by MG Eddy Spurgin.
June 2011, In appreciation and performance in support of the CPATT/ICITAP mission in Iraq as an International Police Trainer and Department of Border Enforcement Instructor
Groups and Associations:
International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association<
International Association of Identification - Senior Crime Scene Analysis
Texas Law Enforcement
Intelligence Unit Association United States Attorney's Law Enforcement
Coordinating Committee Fraternal Order of Police,
Texas and Charter Member, Baghdad, Iraq
Lion's Club International
Knights of Columbus - 4thDegree
Personal Information
Phone:
512 636--8498 (Mobile)
Address:
POB 934
Wimberley, Texas 78676
Marital status: Married
* SME - Subject matter expert, a work role description
A subject matter expert (SME) or domain expert is a person who is an expert in a particular area or topic. When spoken, sometimes the acronym "SME" is spelled out ("S-M-E") and other times voiced as a word ("smee").
The term domain expert is frequently used in expert systems software development, and there the term always refers to the domain other than the software domain. A domain expert is a person with special knowledge or skills in a particular area of endeavor. An accountant is an expert in the domain of accountancy, for example. The development of accounting software requires knowledge in two different domains, namely accounting and software. Some of the development workers may be experts in one domain and not the other.
Domain knowledge is that valid knowledge used to refer to an area of human endeavour, an autonomous computer activity, or other specialized discipline.
Specialists and experts use and develop their own domain knowledge. If the concept domain knowledge or domain expert is used, we emphasize a specific domain which is an object of the discourse/interest/problem.
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