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Colonel Dennis Treece, United States Army (ret.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Treece Press Release

Experience over more than 30 years includes:

During the Persian Gulf War, providing General Norman Schwarzkopf details of the terrorist threat throughout the combat theater, leading the counterintelligence effort, and working closely with Allied police and security forces
Intelligence duties related to military operations in Bosnia and Kosovo
Ensuring the physical and virtual security of the Army's computer networks throughout Europe
Various postings domestically and abroad in a variety of tactical intelligence, counterintelligence, and technical security jobs
Two years as the battalion commander of the 527th Military Intelligence Battalion in Germany
U.S. Army assignment in Vietnam as an intelligence analyst in 1972
Fourteen and a half years in Europe participating in the Cold War and assisting in the transition to a post-Cold War peacekeeping mode of operations for the Army
Receiving the Purple Heart Medal, three Bronze Stars, two Legions of Merit, the Air Medal for Valor, the CIA's Balkans Service Medallion and numerous other awards and decorations

In addition, Treece served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1995 to 1997. He first served as a U.S. Army War College Fellow and then as Chief of the Military Coordination Group developing and implementing programs to improve CIA support of the armed forces and military operations. With 27 years of top secret security clearance, Treece has worked closely with NATO forces in Europe on counterintelligence and counterespionage operations and collaborated with officials from the White House, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Most recently, Treece has spent the last two years working at Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) based in Atlanta, Georgia. His work there included designing, building and staffing a global threat operations center to monitor the domestic and foreign threats to corporate and government computer networks. As the company's senior threat analyst, he conducted intelligence assessments and issued security alerts to business clients and the federal government. At the end of July 2001, Treece was instrumental in alerting the country to the "Code Red" computer worm that had the potential for bogging down the Internet unless defensive measures were taken promptly.