ABOUT ME
Johnie Wood is a retired Vice President, Corporate Security & Audits at a Fortune 400 corporation where he was responsible for Corporate Security, Executive Protection and Computer Security. He led an investigations unit which assisted law enforcement agencies in arresting over 500 criminal suspects in seven years.
He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Criminal Justice Administration from Chapman College and Central Missouri State University, respectively.
He retired from the U. S. Air Force as a Major in 1990 after 24 years of service, initially serving in the Telecommunications and Computer Operations fields and 13 years as a Security Police Officer. He served tours as a nuclear missile security officer, Chief of Police. He served a tour on a small team of security specialists who tested nuclear security by attempting to penetrate nuclear weapons storage areas. His last tour in the Air Force was as a Director of Security for a classified operating location attached to the National Reconnaissance Office.
After his Air Force career, he worked in the defense industry in Los Angeles, CA and Colorado Springs, CO managing security and technical teams including providing security advisors to the satellite launch programs at both the eastern and western launch test ranges and shuttle launch security operations. His immediate position prior to joining J. B. Hunt in 1998 was as a Senior Regional Operations Director, Trident Data Systems, managing five security and technical teams including a computer penetration test team.
He has written numerous security articles and presented security training classes both in the private and public sectors. Some of those presentations includes, “What Does Your Organization Look Like From The Outside,” and “Internet and The Law.”