Gene Moss

Gene Moss serves the Secure Community Network (SCN) as Regional Director for the Region X. In this role, he is responsible for the direct oversight, development, and implementation of SCN’s Regional Security Advisor (RSA) and Community Security Director (CSD) programs for FEMA Region 5. He conducts outreach, engagement, and the delivery of security consultation, threat and vulnerability assessments, training, and incident response for Jewish communities and organizations that lack direct access to community-based security professionals. Gene also serves as a liaison with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners across the region. 

Gene joined SCN in 2019 as the Regional Security Advisor for the Portland area, including serving as director of security for the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland and handling security matters for Oregon and southwest Washington state. In addition to serving as a trusted advisor for Jewish organizations in the region, his responsibilities included addressing security concerns through consultation, education, training, and physical security assessments; maintaining and creating effective partnerships with local, state, and federal law enforcement and emergency management agencies; implementing a region-wide emergency communications system; monitoring intelligence related to terrorism and public safety; and assisting with the coordination of security for major events in the community. 

Gene has over 32 years of experience in law enforcement and corporate security, including as a chief of police and enforcement division commander. He served in executive-level and operational leadership roles within law enforcement, including leadership of various special operations teams and numerous training capacities such as SWAT, narcotics, gang enforcement, active threat program, and survival skills. Gene’s experience also includes creating, implementing, and directing holistic security programs focused on safety, protection, physical security, counterintelligence, crisis management, disaster recovery, and training for a nonprofit health care organization.