John Lowrey

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

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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.

SELECT CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Fraud Examiner (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners)
Professional Certified Investigator (ASIS International)
Certified Inspector General Investigator (Association of Inspectors General)
Certified Forensic Interviewer (International Association of Interviewers)

SELECT TRAINING

Advanced Interviewing & Interrogation (John E. Reid & Associates, Inc.)
Advanced Interviewing & Interrogation (Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates)
PEACE Investigative Interviewer (Forensic Interview Solutions)
Hostage Negotiations and Crisis Intervention (Phase 1 & 2), (Public Agency Training Council)
Cognitive Interviewing (Dr. Ronald P. Fisher)
Advanced Counterintelligence Strategy Skills (The CI Centre, Langley, VA)
Counterintelligence Interviewing (Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, Eldridge, MD)