Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters is recruiting for an Executive Protection Specialist/Bodyguard located in New Brunswick, NJ.
The Executive Protection Specialist/Bodyguard will interface with executive management to provide personal protection and transportation to top-level executives assigned to the Executive Garage. This person will identify and avoid potential hazardous and/or life-threatening situations, and provide cover and remove passengers from harm to a safe location. Maintain high level of confidentiality with regards to Corporate Executives to include family contact information, residence locations, and residence security systems.

Establish and maintain an identification code system for use in an event of an emergency. Drive company/leased passenger vehicles or other types assigned to the company Executive Garage. Transport executives assigned to the Executive Garage and visitors to and from corporate facilities, special events, and specified locations within local and outlying areas. Perform miscellaneous transport services, such as delivering mail packages to designated locations and running errands to business establishments. The Executive Protection Specialist/Bodyguard will also oversee the overall appearance and operation of company limousines and provide proper maintenance and service as required. This person will also assist in managing the Executive Garage office and follow company safety procedures and practices, and perform other duties as assigned.

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These are the words that come to mind when I think about my mentor and friend, the man who taught me about working hard, and helped me on my career path:

Strong.
Funny.
Firm.
Competitive.
Outgoing.

Most people recognized him back in the day–At 6’8″ nearly 400 pounds, and with his distinctive Santa Claus beard, Charles”Big Chick” Huntsberry became something of a celebrity in his own right. Prince’s former bodyguard had a cameo appearance in the film Purple Rain, and served as his lead bodyguard until 1985.

Hard to believe it has been 17 years since his passing. He was only 49.

I first met Big Chick when my buddy Brown Mark invited me along to a few band rehearsals. Big Chick had been in Law Enforcement in Tennessee at one time, and worked for the band AC/DC. After meeting Chick, I was inspired to do this type of work, and thankfully, Brown Mark put in a good word for me. I was a big guy, but both guys pretty much laughed when I naively stated “I want to be a bodyguard, too.” I spent the next 6 months working out like crazy –yes, I was under the assumption you just needed to be big to be a bodyguard (see What It Means To Be Professional) to learn the truth about this career!) Big Chick thought I had the right personality and attitude for the job, and saw the work I’d put into getting physically fit. He gave me my first job as a bodyguard.

He then taught me there was a lot more to the work than being a big man.

Big Chick and I spent a lot of time together on the road in the mid-1980s, working on the Purple Rain tour. He was a funny, funny guy who loved to laugh, loved to cuss, and was constantly busting me with practical jokes. I remember the one time I got him pretty good, though. I went to his room and knocked on his closed and locked hotel door…well, what he didn’t know was that I had my stun gun on the metal door handle, and hit the juice, so when he tried to open it to let me in, he got a little jolt. He yelped, then tried it again. Another jolt. “What’s wrong?” I asked, “I keep getting shocked when I touch the M.F. door,” he replied. (Insert any number of colorful expletives) I told him it was probably a malfunction with the electronic card reader, and to try again. Well, I zapped him a coupla times, then put away my stun gun. (more…)

My condolences to those victims and their families of the 35W Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis. The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge a major Minneapolis artery was in the middle of being repaired and two lanes in each direction were closed when the bridge buckled and fell about 65 feet into the Mississippi river during evening rush hour traffic Wednesday. Authorities lowered the death toll to four, but warned the final number could change as divers search the wreckage for as many as 30 people still missing.

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