Corporate Investigations · Security · Safety · Resilience

Aldrin A. Andres, JD

Security, Safety, Investigations & Resilience Leader

Corporate Investigations Enterprise Security Crisis Management Business Continuity Occupational Safety

Security, safety, investigations and resilience leader with more than 25 years of combined law enforcement and corporate security experience — including 23 years with the Philippine National Police and country-level security management for a French multinational infrastructure contractor and a Philippine property management group.

  • Law Enforcement
  • Rail Infrastructure
  • Property Management
  • Enterprise Security

Executive Profile

Principal security advisor across multi-site, multinational operations

Aldrin A. Andres is a security, safety, investigations and resilience leader with more than 25 years of combined law enforcement and corporate security experience, including 23 years of progressive service with the Philippine National Police and country-level security management for a French multinational infrastructure contractor and a Philippine property management group.

A career-long investigations practitioner, he has run the full case lifecycle — intake and triage, investigative planning, evidence handling and chain of custody, subject and witness interviews, findings documentation, and referral for administrative, civil or criminal action — coordinating with police, prosecutors and regulators on cases carried through to filing. As principal security advisor to site and business leadership he has also owned physical security, guard force and vendor governance, occupational safety, and emergency preparedness across multi-site operations.

A Juris Doctor with working command of Philippine evidence, labour, data privacy and cybercrime law, he works to the standards that govern institutional security programs — ISO 22301, ISO 31000, ISO 22320/22361 and ISO 27001 — applied through the design of GSOC, crisis management, business continuity, investigations and threat assessment programs.

  • Corporate investigations & case management
  • Interviews, evidence & chain of custody
  • Security strategy & governance
  • Crisis & emergency management
  • Business continuity (ISO 22301)
  • Occupational safety (SO3)
  • Guard force & vendor governance
  • Law enforcement, NBI & prosecutor liaison
25+ Years
Law enforcement & corporate security
23 Years
Philippine National Police
80/200 Properties / guard force
Governed at country level
Top 6 nationally Certified Security Professional — 89.09% (Philippine Society for Industrial Security)

Areas of Expertise

Capabilities across the security and resilience program

Security Strategy & Governance

Enterprise security strategy, program governance, policy and standards, executive and stakeholder advisory.

Country Security Program Management

Multi-site security operations, SLA / KPI and budget management, third-party risk and compliance.

Crisis & Emergency Management

Incident and crisis response mapped to ISO 22320 / 22361, evacuation and exercise programs, emergency preparedness.

Business Continuity

ISO 22301-aligned programs: business impact analysis, recovery strategy, testing regime and management review.

Security Risk Assessment

Site and facility assessments, risk registers and treatment plans, threat and geopolitical monitoring, board-level risk reporting.

Physical Security Systems

Access control, CCTV / VMS, intrusion detection and alarms, visitor management and mass notification — design and readiness.

Investigations & Case Management

Criminal and corporate investigations, evidence handling and chain of custody, interview protocol, prosecution referral.

Guard Force & Vendor Governance

Outsourced guard force management, post orders and deployment, PNP-SOSIA licensing compliance, vendor SLA and performance review.

Law Enforcement & Regulator Liaison

PNP, BFP, LGU and barangay networks; audit and regulatory inspection support; public-order and convoy interfaces.

Executive Protection & Travel Risk

Travel risk management (ISO 31030), executive protection, high-risk movement and event security, duty of care.

Professional Experience

Career timeline

Senior Safety and Security Manager

Aug 2023 – Jan 2024

Pro-Excel Property Managers, Inc. (Filinvest Group) · Metro Manila, Philippines

Country-level safety and security accountability for a managed commercial and mixed-use property portfolio.

  • Program ownership — Directed safety and security operations across 80 managed properties as principal security advisor to property management leadership, building administrators and tenant stakeholders.
  • Guard force & vendor governance — Managed an outsourced guard force of 200 personnel across 80 sites; governed service providers against contracted SLAs covering post orders, deployment strength, PNP-SOSIA licensing compliance under RA 11917, training currency and monthly performance review.
  • Physical security systems — Oversaw operational readiness of access control, CCTV / VMS, alarm and intrusion detection, visitor management and emergency notification; specified security requirements for fit-out and renovation works.
  • Investigations — Directed investigations into theft, trespass, tenant and workplace incidents and policy violations; standardized intake, documentation, evidence handling and closure reporting; coordinated with HR, Legal and local police on escalation.
  • Emergency preparedness — Maintained emergency response and evacuation procedures, emergency response team structures, and fire and earthquake exercise programs aligned with RA 9514 (Fire Code) and BFP requirements.
  • Occupational safety compliance — Served as certified Safety Officer 3 and Health and Safety Committee lead, driving compliance with RA 11058 and DOLE D.O. 198-18 and closing regulatory inspection findings.
  • Risk assessment — Conducted security and life-safety risk assessments across the portfolio, issuing prioritized treatment recommendations and periodic risk briefings to leadership.

Project Security Manager

Nov 2022 – Jul 2023

Bouygues Travaux Publics — LRT-1 Cavite Extension / North-South Commuter Railway · Metro Manila & Cavite, Philippines

Security lead for major rail infrastructure works delivered by a French multinational contractor.

  • Multi-site security command — Owned project security across 50 active work fronts spanning approximately 27 km of alignment, including casting and laydown yards, batching plants, viaduct works, equipment compounds and site offices.
  • Guard force operations — Directed a contracted guard force of 150 personnel on 24/7 rotation; issued post orders, deployment plans and shift governance standards, and held vendors to performance metrics and manpower compliance.
  • Asset loss reduction — Designed and executed a multi-site materials-loss program addressing theft of copper, reinforcing steel, fuel and construction consumables — combining perimeter hardening, gate and materials-movement controls, CCTV coverage and informant-led investigation — reducing reported losses by approximately 80% over 6 months.
  • Community risk & conflict prevention — Led engagement with informal settler communities, barangay officials and local government units along the alignment, defusing tensions that threatened work stoppages, blockades and confrontation — preserving the construction schedule and avoiding standdown costs.
  • Security risk assessment & design review — Conducted assessments for new work fronts, site establishment and high-value equipment mobilization; embedded security requirements into site layout, access and lighting design.
  • External agency liaison — Maintained working relationships with the PNP, Bureau of Fire Protection, LGUs and traffic authorities for incident response, heavy-haul and convoy movements and public-order interfaces.
  • Reporting & escalation — Produced weekly security situation reports and incident escalations for project and expatriate leadership, translating local threat conditions into decision-ready guidance for non-Filipino executives.

Police Executive Master Sergeant (Retired)

Sep 1998 – Nov 2021

Philippine National Police · Philippines

Twenty-three years of progressive service across investigation, mobility and patrol operations, public order and safety, and operational reporting — recognized with 55 commendations, including a Letter of Commendation from the Chief, Philippine National Police. The capabilities below translate directly into corporate security leadership.

  • Criminal investigation — Conducted and supported investigations, including a mass-casualty incident, applying scene management, evidence preservation, witness and subject interviewing, and case-file preparation to prosecutorial standard.
  • Operational reporting & command support — Received and consolidated reports submitted by 51 Mobility PNCOs, producing consolidated operational reporting for command review and decision-making.
  • Public order & civil disturbance management — Deployed on crowd control, assembly and demonstration management, election-period security, and disaster and emergency response operations.
  • Conflict prevention — Mediated disputes involving informal settler communities and private landholders, preventing escalation to violence and property destruction.
  • Inter-agency network — Built durable working relationships across PNP national and regional units, LGUs, the Bureau of Fire Protection and barangay structures — directly transferable to corporate law enforcement liaison and regulatory engagement.
  • Team leadership — Supervised, mentored and evaluated junior personnel; delivered briefings, operational orders and after-action reviews.
  • Recognition — Awarded 55 commendations for operational leadership, investigative excellence and community-safety initiatives; cited by the Chief, PNP for the successful neutralization of a major robbery–hold-up syndicate and the resolution of a high-profile series of retail and transit robbery cases.

Transferable corporate capabilities

  • Incident command
  • Investigations
  • Crisis response
  • Operational planning
  • Risk assessment
  • Personnel management
  • Public safety
  • Stakeholder coordination
  • Emergency response
  • Decision-making under pressure

Corporate Investigations

Investigations, end to end — from intake to referral

A career-long investigations practitioner: 23 years of Philippine law-enforcement casework and corporate internal investigations across multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments, grounded in a Juris Doctor and a sustained police, NBI, prosecutor and regulator network.

The case lifecycle

  1. 01Intake & triage
  2. 02Investigative planning
  3. 03Evidence & chain of custody
  4. 04Subject & witness interviews
  5. 05Findings & documentation
  6. 06Referral & action

Case types handled

Workplace & employee misconduct

Policy violations, harassment and disciplinary cases, established to a documented, defensible standard.

Fraud & financial anomaly

Financial irregularity and process abuse, traced from anomaly to method, actor and control failure.

Insider threat

Behavioural and access-based insider risk, screened with structured threat-assessment instruments.

Theft & asset loss

Materials, equipment and inventory loss — method of removal identified and exposure closed.

Vendor & third-party misconduct

Contractor and third-party integrity cases, with contractual and regulatory exposure assessed.

Interview & evidence work

Subject and witness interviews, evidence handling and chain of custody to prosecutorial filing standard.

Law-enforcement foundation, mapped to corporate application

  • Field experience

    Lead investigator owning every incident during assigned duty — full case load, end to end, under command scrutiny.

    Corporate application

    Ownership and accountability for concurrent, high-stakes corporate investigations.

  • Field experience

    Crime-scene processing, evidence collection and witness/subject interviews under RA 7438 custodial due-process.

    Corporate application

    Legally defensible interview and evidence-documentation standards that withstand challenge.

  • Field experience

    Judicial affidavits and sworn court testimony as complaining and investigator witness.

    Corporate application

    Litigation support, regulatory testimony and disciplinary-hearing participation.

  • Field experience

    Formal case reporting — spot, progress, special and full investigation reports for command and prosecution.

    Corporate application

    Executive-grade case documentation that supports decisions and stands as a record.

  • Field experience

    Serious crimes-against-persons caseload — the most sensitive, time-critical cases — carried from first response through to filing under intense scrutiny.

    Corporate application

    The discretion, sensitivity and rigor demanded by workplace-violence and threat investigations.

  • Field experience

    Property-crime and negligence caseload — robbery and qualified theft; traffic, drowning and BFP-coordinated fire incidents.

    Corporate application

    Loss and fraud investigations, and workplace safety-incident investigations.

  • Field experience

    Covert surveillance and controlled/decoy operations to identify and interdict illicit activity.

    Corporate application

    Discreet inquiries and integrity testing where overt investigation would compromise the case.

Leadership

My Approach to Security Leadership

01

Protect People

Security begins with protecting people and enabling them to operate safely.

02

Manage Risk

Identify threats, assess vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and implement practical mitigation measures.

03

Prepare for Crisis

Effective crisis management depends on preparation, communication, coordination, and decisive action.

04

Enable the Business

Security should protect the organization while supporting business continuity and operational objectives.

Continuing Professional Development

Self-directed security, risk and resilience program development

Feb 2024 – Present · Quezon City, Philippines. A deliberate period devoted to closing the gap between operational security practice and enterprise security program leadership, undertaken alongside certification and the conferment of the Juris Doctor.

Independent professional development — not a consulting practice or client engagement.

GSOC Management Handbook

A 100+ chapter reference covering console operations, alarm triage, escalation matrices, travel and traveler monitoring, shift governance and operator competency standards.

Business Continuity Program Manual

An ISO 22301-aligned program manual covering BIA methodology, recovery strategy selection, exercise and testing regime and management review cycle — supported by BCP, ERP, CMP and BIA instruments.

Crisis Management Scenario Response Manual

Scenario playbooks spanning workplace violence, natural disaster, civil disturbance, extortion and kidnap, and reputational and data incidents — mapped to ISO 22361 and ISO 22320.

Corporate Security Investigation Manual

An investigations manual anchored to 2024 Department of Justice circulars: case intake, interview protocol, evidence handling and chain of custody, documentation standards and prosecution referral.

Behavioral Threat Assessment Console

A structured threat assessment tool applying WAVR-21, TRAP-18, JACA, CTAP-25 and HCR-20 instruments to workplace and targeted violence triage.

Security Analytics & Risk Tooling

A SOC KPI dashboard, an enterprise risk register, board-level risk reporting formats, and an integrated security risk management web application — 402 assessment questions across 20 domains.

Information Security & Standards

An ISMS Manual and a security standards compendium consolidating ISO, ASIS and Philippine regulatory requirements into a single control reference.

Standards, Regulatory & Technical Proficiency

The frameworks the work is built on

International standards

  • ISO 22301 — Business Continuity
  • ISO 22320 & ISO 22361 — Incident & Crisis Management
  • ISO 31000 — Risk Management
  • ISO 31030 — Travel Risk Management
  • ISO 27001 — Information Security
  • ISO 45001 & ISO 45003 — OSH & Psychosocial Risk
  • ASIS International standards & guidelines

Philippine regulatory framework

  • RA 11058 & DOLE D.O. 198-18 — Occupational Safety & Health
  • RA 9514 — Fire Code
  • RA 11917 & PNP-SOSIA licensing — Private Security Services Industry Act
  • RA 10173 — Data Privacy Act
  • 2024 Department of Justice prosecution circulars
  • Anti-Terrorism & public order statutes

Security technology

  • Access control systems
  • CCTV & video management systems
  • Intrusion detection & alarm monitoring
  • Visitor management
  • Mass notification
  • GSOC / SOC design & console operations

Analysis & reporting

  • Security risk registers & heat mapping
  • KPI & metrics dashboards (Excel & web-based)
  • Incident & case management reporting
  • Board & executive-level risk reporting
  • Structured professional judgment instruments — WAVR-21, TRAP-18, HCR-20, JACA

Certifications, Trainings & Credentials

Formal credentials, specialised training and credentials in progress

Professional certifications & credentials

  • Awarded Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)ISC²
  • Awarded Certified Security Professional (CSP)Philippine Society for Industrial Security — ranked Top 6 nationally, 89.09%
  • Awarded Security Risk Management Professional (SRMP)International NGO Safety & Security Association (INSSA)
  • Awarded Career Service ProfessionalCivil Service Commission of the Philippines
  • Awarded Safety Officer 3 (SO3)Advanced Occupational Safety and Health, University of the Philippines Manila (DOLE-accredited)
  • Awarded Safety Officer 2 (SO2)Basic and Construction Occupational Safety and Health (BOSH / COSH), DOLE-accredited

Trainings & specialised courses

  • Course Psychological First AidJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (online course)
  • Course Essential Project Management Skills and ToolsDe La Salle–College of Saint Benilde
  • Course General Administration for Investigation Training CourseKorean National Police Agency
  • Course Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryPackt
  • Course Supply Chain and Transit SecurityASIS International
  • Course Determination of Work-Related Injury, Illness & Accident InvestigationOccupational Health and Safety Center (OHSC), DOLE
  • Course Work Environment Measurement & DOLE D.O. 160-16Occupational Health and Safety Center (OHSC), DOLE
  • Course Basic Logistics CoursePhilippine National Police

In progress

  • In progress Physical Security Professional (PSP)ASIS International
  • In progress Professional Certified Investigator (PCI)ASIS International
  • In progress Certified Protection Professional (CPP)ASIS International

Credentials in progress are shown as such and are not represented as completed.

Education

Academic background

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation — College of Law. Bachelor of Laws completed 2004; conferred as Juris Doctor in 2025 under the LLB-to-JD conversion program.

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Major in Industrial Management. Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation · 1997.

Achievements & Recognition

Track record

Full lifecycle

Investigations Practitioner

Cases run end to end — intake, evidence and chain of custody, interviews, findings and referral to prosecutorial filing standard.

~80%

Materials-Loss Reduction

Reported losses cut by roughly 80% over six months on a multi-site rail program, driven by informant-led investigation.

80/200

Properties & Guard Force Governed

80 managed properties and a 200-strong outsourced guard force at country level.

50/27 km

Rail Alignment Secured

50 active work fronts across approximately 27 km of rail alignment.

Top 6

Certified Security Professional

Ranked Top 6 nationally at 89.09% (Philippine Society for Industrial Security).

23

Years of PNP Service

Progressive service; retired at the rank of Police Executive Master Sergeant.

55

Commendations Awarded

For operational leadership, investigative excellence and community-safety initiatives over a 23-year PNP career.

Chief, PNP

Letter of Commendation

Cited by the Chief, Philippine National Police for neutralizing a major robbery–hold-up syndicate and resolving a high-profile series of retail and transit robbery cases.

2025

Juris Doctor Conferred

LLB-to-JD conversion, Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation — College of Law.

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Seeking to translate a 25-year security foundation into country security leadership within a regulated, multi-site environment — including regulated financial services — spanning enterprise security, crisis management, business continuity, investigations and operational resilience.

Filipino citizen with unrestricted right to work in the Philippines · Available for assignment and relocation · English (professional working proficiency) and Filipino (native) · References available on request.