Experience

(Retired Account) Naval Criminal Investigative Service

• United States
• Law Enforcement
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Assistant Director, Office of Strategic Communications

  • Jan 2023 - Present

• Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Global Engagements

  • Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

  Served as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service central planner and coordinator for agency-driven foreign engagements and partnership development..

• Special Agent in Charge, Southeast Asia Field Office

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2022

  Responsible for the execution and mission direction of complex criminal investigations, operations, and force protection effecting the Department of the Navy in the Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Indo-Pacific Area of Operation.

• NCIS Senior Representative to Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps

  • May 2017 - Jun 2019

• Executive Assistant to Executive Assistant Director for Global Operations

  • Aug 2016 - May 2017

  Served as Executive Assistant to Executive Assistant Director for Global Operations and the Resident Agent in Charge for the Office of Forensic Support and the Office of Technical Surveillance Countermeasures. As Executive Assistant, Special Agent Acosta serves as a conduit between the Executive Assistant Director for Global Operations and Special Agents in Charge comprising the Global Operations Directorate. As Resident Agent in Charge to the Office of Forensic Support and the Office of Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, Special Agent Acosta overseas forensic crime scene support and programs design to protect classified information and critical infrastructure from being compromised by technical means within the Department of the Navy (DON). Show less

• Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Protective Operations Field Office

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2016

  Protective operations utilize all security and law enforcement measures to identify threats or vulnerabilities to specific High Risk Billets and provides security for those principals, execute the necessary and appropriate response to a threat and/or attach on principal, and prevent terrorism and/or criminal attack on principals under the Naval Criminal Investigative Service protection coverage.The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Protective Operations Field Office supports 12 Department of Defense/Department of the Navy (DOD/DON) High Risk Billets (HRB) by providing Personal Security Advisors consisting of Special Agents, Military Protective Service Specialists, and Investigators directly managing protection details. Additionally, the Protective Operations Field Office is one of the Protective Providing Organizations that provide direct support to Defense Foreign Liaison Office, protecting designated foreign defense officials.To supplement the operational mission, The Protective Operations Field Office maintains an internal Protective Intelligence Unit to identify potential threats that could affect a principal, understand a principal's level of vulnerability to any given threat, and use available intelligence to mitigate threats and/or risk to a principal. The Protective Operations Field Office works extensively with the U.S. Secret Service, Pentagon Force Protection Agency, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the U.S. Marshals Service, amongst other Federal Law Enforcement organizations. Show less

• Resident Agent in Charge Force Protection Detachment Ghana

  • Jun 2012 - Jul 2015

  The primary mission of the Force Protection Detachment (FPD) is to detect and warn of threats to Department of Defense (DoD) personnel (military, civilian, and dependents) and resource in-transit under Combatant Commanders authority in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. The mission further includes serving as a force multiplier for the US Embassy Country Team in support of the DoD presence and mission, which includes, but is not limited to: Host nation liaison; Defense threat assessments; Route surveys; Threat briefings; DoD investigative lead reporting; Threat reporting; and Conducting or assisting in the production of vulnerability assessments of ports, airfields, and routes used by in-transit forces. Show less

• Special Agent, NCIS Resident Agency Rota, Spain

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2012

• Special Agent, Contingency Response Field Office, ODT-BLUE

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

• Special Agent, Northeast Field Office

  • Mar 2005 - Jan 2006

• Marine Special Agent, NCIS Resident Agency Okinawa, Japan

  • Jan 2001 - Feb 2005

• Marine Special Agent, NCIS Resident Agency Miramar

  • Mar 2000 - Jan 2001



Hispanic American Police Command Officers' Association-National Capitol Region

• Civic and Social Organizations

• Vice President - National Board

  • May 2018 - Present

  HAPCOA, the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association, established in 1973, is the oldest and largest association in the U.S. of Hispanic American command officers from law enforcement and criminal justice agencies at the municipal, county, state and federal levels. With members in hundreds of agencies across the United States and Puerto Rico, many of whom are active in local chapters, HAPCOA is a national organization with a local presence. HAPCOA, the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association, established in 1973, is the oldest and largest association in the U.S. of Hispanic American command officers from law enforcement and criminal justice agencies at the municipal, county, state and federal levels. With members in hundreds of agencies across the United States and Puerto Rico, many of whom are active in local chapters, HAPCOA is a national organization with a local presence.



United States Marine Corps

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Sergeant of Marines

  • Aug 1994 - Feb 2005

  Military Occupational Specialty MOS: - Motor Vehicle Operator (3531) 1994-1998 - Military Police Criminal Investigator/Marine Special Agent (5821) 1998-2005 Military Occupational Specialty MOS: - Motor Vehicle Operator (3531) 1994-1998 - Military Police Criminal Investigator/Marine Special Agent (5821) 1998-2005