Esteban Ponce

Salary: $34 per hour.

Hours per week: 40+ hours per week.

• Managed field operations, maintaining compliance, and safety across numerous locations.
• Implemented strategic patrol routes, enhancing security efficiency, and response times.
• Coordinated scheduling and payroll for a workforce exceeding 50 employees across 10+ locations.
• Utilized conflict resolution skills to manage and de-escalate potential incidents.
• Lead a team of officers, fostering collaboration, and maintaining high morale.
• Built, improved, and maintained effective relationships with the client, employees, and guests.
• Conducted risk assessments and implemented strategic improvements to enhance site safety protocols and operational efficiency.
• Maintained a detailed inventory-tracking system for all firearms on-site.
• I interviewed prospective employees.
• Compiled new hire paperwork and documents for onboarding purposes.
• Performed detailed background checks on visitors and contractors to ensure security at the Army Ammunitions plant.
• Executed comprehensive vehicle checks for all incoming visitors and contractors at the Army Ammunitions Plant.
• Performed fingerprinting procedures for all company employees for security purposes.
• Conducted annual physical training tests for guards, ensuring fitness and readiness.
• Facilitated biannual firearms qualification for guards to maintain operational standards.

Salary: $30 per hour.

Hours per week: 40 hours per week.

• Investigate, counsel, and provide continuous supervision for youth offenders.
• Document and report disruptive, or disturbing, behavior and security breaches.
• Create and update daily reports and logs used in the housing unit pertaining to behavior, school, medical, and unit separation.
• Respond to emergency situations such as riots or disturbances with appropriate force measures.
• Conduct searches of inmates, cells, and prison grounds to detect contraband, or illegal activities.
• Monitor residents for compliance with regulations, safety protocols, and behavior standards.
• Counsel juveniles on life skills, such as anger management, problem-solving, and conflict resolution.
• Provide crisis intervention as needed.
• Work effectively and independently under pressure.
• Handcuff juveniles and transport to and from Court hearings.

Salary: $30 per hour.

Hours Per Week: 60 hours per week.

• Was responsible for being the first contact for officers with any issues.
• Secured and protected items that have been deemed sensitive or vital.
• Planned and carried out the armed security of a high-value target.
• Monitored and escorted incoming illegal aliens and alien smugglers.
• Carried a Glock 40.
• Pat them down for weapons, drugs and other contraband.
• Worked alongside Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents.
• Communicated and gave verbal Spanish commands to Spanish-speaking illegal aliens and smugglers.
• Trained and mentored new or less experienced staff members to effectively secure illegal aliens.
• As a lieutenant, I monitored employee productivity, made sure everyone complied with company policies, made the schedule, and filed daily reports.
• Provided information regarding customs regulations and procedures.
• Tasked with and responsible for a company vehicle.
• Fully restrained detainees with handcuffs, belly chains, and leg restraints before departing the station.

Salary: $21 per hour.

Hours per week: 70 hours.

• Inspected cells, and conducted random searches of common areas.
• Transported detainees from point to point.
• Enhanced situational awareness.
• Investigated suspicious behavior.
• Employed de-escalation techniques, verbal commands, and physical and mechanical restraints to address unruly inmates.
• Seized illegal substances and banned items during searches.
• Locked down pods due to behavior.
• Maintained discipline and tact while dealing with high-stress situations, such as suicidal subjects, riots, and verbal and physical altercations.
• Wrote detailed reports documenting all relevant information related to daily operations, as well as for incidents involving prisoners or staff.
• Administered first aid when required due to injury illness sustained by an inmate while under supervision.
• I multitasked the responsibility for the transport of arrestees to the local County Courthouse while maintaining accountability and the safety of the arrestees and other responsibilities.
• I served cases to inmates, asked them if they pleaded guilty or not guilty, and if they wanted a witness.
• Restrained inmates with handcuffs to transport them to doctors' appointments, hospitals, and court hearings.