Mike Magee is a Criminal Justice Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Prior to his university career, he had a 32-year career in local, federal, and government contract law enforcement. He served as Homeland Security Deputy Field Office Director in San Diego, where he oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in detention, security, and transportation contracts. He retired from Homeland Security Headquarters, where he was a Section Chief managing national programs and contracts. He supervised the drafting of RFPs for a wide variety of services and oversaw the contract award process.

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Since his retirement, he has been a consultant to Akal Security, Akima (AGS), Communication Concepts (CCI), Gordan & Reese, and Raytheon. He worked on business development, such as congressional and government liaison, presenting unsolicited proposals to the government, and drafting responses to RFIs and RFPs. These contracts included detention management, security, training, and a response to a $1.2 billion RFP to train and modernize Saudi Arabian national law enforcement agencies. 

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He was the Vice President of LCS Correctional Services and the primary liaison to federal, state, and local government customers. He developed responses to RFPs and led contract negotiations with government agencies. He was successful in the development of hundreds of millions of dollars in new business, improving standards compliance, and increasing the efficiency of operations at all LCS facilities.

 

Magee has served on government, college, and congressional advisory boards, commissions, and committees. He has testified before congressional committees regarding law enforcement and labor management issues. He has been a volunteer arbitrator and mediator for the Better Business Bureau for over a decade. He was a 1st Class Hospital Corpsman, Fleet Marine Force (HM1/FMF) and served twelve years in the U.S.A. and Asia in the US Navy and Naval Reserve onboard ships, in Marine Corps units, a Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit, and at the Aerospace Physiology and Water Survival Training Unit.

 

Magee holds a Bachelor’s in Biology degree from the State University of New York, Regents College, Albany, a Master’s in Public Administration degree from National University, San Diego, and several years of PhD coursework in Criminal Justice at Walden University. He is also a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Education Program, the U.S. Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership in a Democratic Society course, and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Academy. 

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