[MSN] Biography of Anthony M. Amore, Director of Security for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Biography of Anthony M. Amore, Director of Security for the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum
  Sunday, March 16, 2008  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Gardner Heist
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Anthony M. Amore is the Director of Security for the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

Prior to joining the Gardner Museum, Mr. Amore spent 14 years with the
federal government in the law enforcement and security field. Most recently,
he served with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation
Security Administration as a key adviser to the Federal Security Director at
Logan International Airport in Boston. Mr. Amore served as the Operations
Officer and oversaw the training, equipping, and deployment of more than
1000 federal screeners. In addition, he was responsible for the
implementation of the nation's most advanced checked baggage screening
program at Logan Airport as part of the federal response to the attacks of
September 11, 2001. Mr. Amore then assumed the role of Assistant Federal
Security Director for Screening and was directly responsible for all
security screening operations at Logan Airport, Hanscom Field, and Worcester
Airport. He also served the TSA as the Assistant Federal Security Director
for Regulatory Inspections, responsible for the enforcement of federal
transportation security laws and regulations at the aforementioned airports.
Mr. Amore was the primary author of key documents, such as the agency's
first local strategic plan; the study that helped shape the reorganization
and regionalization of the national agency; and an analytical study of the
effectiveness of the federal screening program. He was also the agency's
first Assistant Federal Security Director to introduce behavioral
observation training with the TSA workforce.

Prior to joining the TSA, Mr. Amore served as a Special Agent with the
Federal Aviation Administration's Security Division, where he oversaw all
federal security operations at T.F. Green State Airport in Rhode Island
after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In this capacity, he was one of five
Special Assignment Managers in the nation and oversaw not only the
deployment of the nation's first federal screeners, but also the
installation of more than $15 million of explosive detection equipment. In
December of 2001, Mr. Amore served as the FAA's lead agent responding to the
attempted terrorist attack by Richard Reid, the so-called "Shoe Bomber."

He has also served as an Inspector and Port Intelligence Officer with the
Department of Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service in Boston.

In 2002 and 2003, Mr. Amore was nominated by his superiors for a Service to
America Medal.

Mr. Amore holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rhode
Island and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University's John
F. Kennedy School of Government.
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