Jim Magdaleno,

   CFE, CPS, President of CPIT, President of Magdaleno Investigative Services (MIS)

Jim has been conducting high level background investigations for Federal Government working with Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other government agencies.  Jim was a fireball full of life and energy and he also provided various types of investigative needs for many other clients.  Jim has been involved and instrumental in solving many high profile cases.  He has also been involved in private investigative training and has his hands in many fires.

Jim was in the corporate security, loss prevention and law enforcement fields for twenty-eight years. He graduated from the Northern California Criminal Justice Center, Santa Rosa. He also graduated from Western College of Criminology, Torrance, CA; Executive Security International, Aspen, CO; and has received his California Teaching Credential from UC Berkeley.  Jim has completed course work at numerous professional training institutes including: polygraph examiners training, background investigations at NCCJTC, the Reid Interview and Interrogation training Center, Chicago, IL, and unconventional warfare studies at the Ranger Outreach Center, Pecos, NM.  Jim has been invited to instruct and lecture at the NCCJTC and has returned to the Ranger Outreach Center on numerous occasions to assist with research and development of small unit police tactics and equipment and has co-instructed and lectured to students from around the world. Jim has held positions as a security director for a property management company, polygraph examiner and investigator for a large west coast retailer, and as a police officer and background investigator for an East Bay municipality.

Jim spent twelve years as a Corporate Security Investigator for one of the world's largest petroleum companies, handling a wide variety of investigations including external crime activity affecting his company, as well as all manner of internal white collar crime, executive protection, risk assessments, attorney work product, security education of employees and management, and security investigations and assessments for multi-national locations. 

Jim is a long time member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLETS); Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE/CPS).  He is a Certified Fraud Examiner & Certified Protection Specialist.  Jim is the author of  "The Protection Agent in the Corporate World", currently in use as a text book at a prominent executive protection training school.  Jim is also a California Licensed Private Investigator, #24254 and he is an active member in California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI).