15 Dec John W. Piper
John W. Piper, senior counselor, ASERO Worldwide, is a domestic and international security consultant who retired from the U.S. Secret Service in 1991 after serving as a manager of the Forensic Sciences Division and the Technical Security Division. He held responsibility for security engineering and risk management at the White House and Treasury Department complexes along with a number of other related facilities. Mr. Piper was chairman of the White House Information Systems Security Advisory Group for six years and implemented CIA and NSA trusted system criteria.
Mr. Piper went on to hold the position of vice president, Special Projects Sector, for Scientech Engineering and was primarily engaged in technical security projects for U.S. Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Transportation. He then served 13 years as the manager of global security engineering and risk management for ExxonMobil Corporation and since September 2006 has worked as a consultant to both government and private sector organizations.
Mr. Piper holds considerable experience in the security domain for all phases of gas production from the wellhead to market. In a security capacity, he has worked on a number of projects for countries and regions including Malaysia, Indonesia, the Gulf Coast, the United States, the Netherlands, the North Sea, Scotland and Russia Sakhalin Island. Mr. Piper has applied elements of integrated security management systems as well as considerations regarding facility exposure into his international risk management decision science techniques.
While at ExxonMobil, Mr. Piper developed risk management and security engineering best practices. He implemented these through the conduct of over 450 risk assessments in virtually all aspects of petrol chemical operations. He sat on U.S. Department of Homeland Security advisory panels with regard to liquefied natural gas security and petrol chemical sector security. Mr. Piper was also a member of the ExxonMobil Information Systems Security Committee for 12 years.
Mr. Piper holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Forensic Science and Engineering Departments at George Washington University for 12 years. He has attended over 40 specialized training sessions over his career, mostly in technical and information security and possesses an active top secret national security clearance.