Araan Holloway

Hours per week: 40

Series: 1801 General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, and Compliance Series

Pay Plan: SV - Transportation Security Administration Employees Other Than Executives

Grade: F band

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

• Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft.
• Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, search of property, etc.), conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 50lbs.
• Controlling terminal entry and exit points.
• Interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries.
• Maintaining focus and awareness while working in a stressful environment which includes noise from alarms, machinery and people, crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive and angry passengers, in order to preserve the professional ability to identify and locate potentially life threatening or mass destruction devices, and to make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements.
• Retaining and implementing knowledge of all applicable Standard Operating Procedures, demonstrating responsible and dependable behavior, and is open to change and adapts to new information or unexpected obstacles.

Accomplishments and Related Skills:

• First in my class to become TSO certified.
• Volunteered in assisting K9 unit in training K9s.
• Volunteered to travel to neighboring airports to test their TSOs
• Volunteered to help hiring staff interview potential officers
• Received model employee award
• Received multiple firearm and covert detection awards

Shadowed multiple LTSOs during their duties

• How to run a mod set
• How to write a daily rotation
• How to resolve multiple issues
• How to complete daily paperwork (incident reports, etc.)

Certifications:

AT

CT

BPS

CAT I

CAT II

EDS

Baggaged

OSARP

Duties, accomplishments, and related skills:

• Maintaining a 24-hour surveillance operations center.
• Contacting appropriate emergency staff, fire, police, and/or FAA personnel, assisting in enforcement of airfield security.
• Provide surveillance of airport property by observing CCTV monitor, monitoring the fire alarm system and by patrolling the property.
• Control access to restricted areas by checking identification and clearance list through computer software, respond to access control system alarms, conduct preliminary investigations as to cause; refer to law enforcement officials, as needed; and make reports.
• Assist in securing the aircraft apron by escorting non-airport vehicles into secure areas and by controlling airfield gates by contractors and vendors.
• Communicate with air traffic control to inspect the airfield runways and taxiways for anomalies, and issue work orders to the right channels to rectify those anomalies.
• Spot check secure areas for breeches by patrolling the airfield perimeter to inspect the fences, hangars and buildings, and by identification card requirement.
• Initiate and coordinate emergency response for the Authority by identifying the appropriate agency or department to contact, making the call and providing clear and accurate information.
• Act as an information liaison between among the public, tenants, and Authority staff by giving messages via telephone and paging on the public address system.
• My fellow Operations Specialist II and I received zero discrepancies during our FAA airfield inspection audit during 2017 & 2018