U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington
USA
20472
Biographical Sketch: Jonathan H. Buckles is a Chemical Security Inspector for the Inspections & Enforcement Branch within the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) in the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the office within DHS responsible for chemical facility security regulations.
In this capacity, Mr. Buckles serves as a regulatory inspector for the Chemical Facility Anti-terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulation from Region 6, based out of Houston, TX. Mr. Buckles has served in this role since July 2009, having led and/or participated in countless Authorization Inspections, Pre-Authorization Inspections, Compliance Assistance Visits, Corporate Review Activities and Stakeholder Outreach meetings. Additionally, Mr. Buckles is a member of the ISCD Compliance Branch team that conducts the SSP Approval Process and recommends SSPs for the ISCD Director’s signature. Mr. Buckles has been with DHS since its creation in 2003 as he had been with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as a Stakeholder Liaison and regulatory inspector since October of 2002, prior to being absorbed by DHS from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Mr. Buckles has been with DHS Headquarters’ Office of Infrastructure Protection since 2009.
Mr. Buckles’ experience includes previous work as: a Transportation Security Inspector (Aviation) for the TSA, with seven years of regulatory inspection experience with that agency; the Deputy Director for National Security Programs with Defense Group Inc. (DGI), where he functioned as an in-house liaison to U.S. Senate and U.S. Congressional committees as well as targeted state congressional delegations, to represent defense products being sold by DGI; a Deputy Secretary for the Louisiana Department of State, where he was the primary public information officer and oversaw a museum program run by the agency; and a Staff Assistant for US Congressman Jimmy Hayes, 7th District of Louisiana.
Mr. Buckles has a B.A. from Louisiana State University.