Gabriel Garcia - Director of Counterintelligence and Threat Assessments

Gabriel Garcia brings to the Director of Counterintelligence and Threat Assessment role something that cannot be replicated by a single-discipline career: a professional arc that has moved deliberately through nuclear security operations, statewide critical infrastructure protection, and origin-and-cause investigation — each demanding a different kind of analytical rigor, and each reinforcing the same core competency. His academic credentials anchor that arc directly. An M.S. in Security and Intelligence Studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a B.A. in Criminology and Justice Studies from Humboldt State University gave formal structure to instincts already being developed in the field, producing a practitioner who thinks in terms of adversarial behavior, threat characterization, and the evidence that reveals both.

That combination of academic grounding and cross-domain operational experience shows up clearly in how Gabriel has worked. As Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Program Manager for the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, he assessed risk and threat conditions across an entire state, building intelligence-sharing partnerships with federal agencies including CISA and developing the interagency fluency that serious threat assessment requires. As a State Fire Investigator with the New Mexico State Fire Marshal's Office, he led origin-and-cause investigations into large-loss, fatal, and arson incidents, constructing case files that demanded the same behavioral reconstruction and pattern analysis that counterintelligence tradecraft is built on. Gabriel operates across domains that few security professionals bridge. That range is precisely what the counterintelligence and threat assessment function at Praxnor requires.