• John Lowrey


    Senior Special Agent (Retired) | U.S. Department of State, Office of Inspector General | U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service

    Top Secret Security Clearance

    Dynamic and collaborative senior investigator, security officer, and trainer with over twenty-one years of experience delivering strategic investigatory, security, and threat management solutions. A demonstrated career of professionalism, strong organizational skills, attention to detail, critical thinking, efficient multitasking, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment under high stress conditions. Outstanding verbal and written skills, coupled with the ability to produce accurate and objective investigative and security reports that bring complex, sensitive, and special investigations and inquiries to timely and logical conclusions.

    About Me

    John Lowrey

    Please explore this website as a way to find out more about my background and skillsets, and by all means feel free to contact me for more information or if you think I might be a good fit for your company or organization!

    Undergraduate: Virginia Tech, B.A. Political Science (1993)

    Graduate: Virginia Commonwealth University, M.S. Criminal Justice (1999)

    Additional: Cornell University, Certificate in Executive Leadership (Negotiations) (2022)

    Looking For: Remote Work Hybrid Work In The Savannah, GA to Jacksonville, FL Area Will Consider Relocation For The Right Position

    Telephone/Text: 703-708-4148

    Mail: jrlowreyva@proton.me

    Linkedin: @johnlowreyssi

    SUMMARY

    John Lowrey is a retired Senior Special Agent with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Inspector General. Over the course of his law enforcement career, he spent twenty-one years investigating a wide variety of criminal activities involving waste, fraud, abuse, gross mismanagement, as well as insider threats, counterintelligence, background investigations, and professional responsibility. 

    As both an investigator and a law enforcement instructor, John specialized in interviewing and human communication in order to elicit and obtain information from a wide variety of different individuals. John not only applied these skills throughout his field work, but also spent the last part of his career teaching them to hundreds of federal criminal investigators at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA and the Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy (IGCIA).

    Since his retirement, John has continued to concentrate on
    investigations and interviewing by serving as a Contact
    Background Investigator for a number of companies on the
    following federal contracts:

    Unicycle
    Paperproof
    Excalibur
    Postal
    Mojave
    DHS

    John recently completed New Investigator Training (NIT) through Peraton for the Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency (DCSA).

    DETAILS

    Special Agent Lowrey entered federal law enforcement in
    2002 when he was selected to join the Diplomatic Security
    Service where his assignments included tours of the
    Washington Field Office, Office of Counterintelligence, and
    Criminal Fraud Investigations.

    John’s investigative responsibilities included passport and
    visa fraud, human trafficking, labor trafficking,
    counterintelligence, grant fraud, contract fraud, bribery,
    kickback schemes, import and export violations, conflicts of
    interest, as well as investigations of high-level Department of
    State officials.

    His dignitary protection assignments included a multitude of
    visiting foreign ministers, Secretaries of State Colin Powell
    and Condoleezza Rice, as well as extended overseas
    assignments as the Shift Leader on protection details for the
    Interim President of Haiti and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

    In addition, John served in various counterintelligence and insider threat capacities, conducting both background and counterintelligence investigations regarding Department of State employees who were potentially being targeted by hostile foreign intelligence services.

    In 2007, John completed an intensive language immersion program at the Foreign Service Institute before a two-year assignment as the Assistant Regional Security Officer in Havana, Cuba.

    In 2011, John joined the Department of State’s Office of
    Inspector General in the Office of Investigations, where his
    duties included conducting investigations into allegations of
    waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct within the Department
    of State, including investigations of high level officials. He
    also served as liaison to Homeland Security Investigations at
    the Counter-Proliferation Investigations Center in Sterling,
    Virginia.

    Based on his experience and subject matter expertise, John
    was selected to serve as an Instructor in FLETC’s Behavioral
    Science Division, where he taught new federal criminal
    investigators skills related to law enforcement interviewing,
    including both Subject, Source (Witness), and Victim
    interviewing.

    John was personally taught the Cognitive Interviewing
    Technique by one of its co-founders, Dr. Ronald Fisher, and
    participated in multiple laboratory experiments that Dr. Fisher
    used to continue to refine the technique. John then used
    these teachings and instruction to teach hundreds of federal
    criminal investigators this groundbreaking technique.

    In 2017, John was selected to serve as the Accreditation
    Manager at the Inspector General Criminal Investigator
    Academy (IGCIA), as well as an Instructor and Program
    Manager.

    As a Program Manager at the IGCIA, John ran training
    programs for Inspector General professionals, including the
    Hotline Operator Training Program, the In-Service Training
    Program, and the Investigative Writing Training Program. As a
    highly experienced instructor, John also taught blocks of
    instruction in IGCIA training programs, including those
    involving interviewing, law enforcement communication, and
    Use of Force.

    John’s collateral duties included ensuring that the IGCIA’s
    flagship program, the Inspector General Investigator Training
    Program, remained professionally accredited with Federal
    Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA) in both 2018
    and 2023.

    As part of his duties as IGCIA Accreditation Manager, John served as both a FLETA Assessor and Team Leader. In 2022, John was honored for his professionalism and accreditation excellence by being awarded the FLETA Team Leader of the Year Award.

    John is a FLETC trained Firearms Instructor, a Certified Fraud Examiner, Professional Certified Investigator, Certified Forensic Interviewer, and Certified Inspector General Investigator.

    Prior to becoming a federal agent, John honorably served in the 82nd Airborne Division as an anti-armor Infantry squad leader.

    John graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.A. in Political Science and from Virginia Commonwealth University with an M.S. in Criminal Justice. He also holds a Certificate in Executive Leadership from Cornell University.

    John is a native of Richmond, Virginia, and a proud Eagle Scout.

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