David V.
Kitchen
President
Mr.
Kitchen began his professional career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
shortly after graduating from West
Virginia
University in
1972. During his 28-year career,
Special Agent Kitchen conducted extensive investigations and surveillances of
violent criminals, drug cartels, and espionage agents in
New York
City;
Washington,
D.C.;
Newark,
New
Jersey;
San
Diego,
California; and
Albuquerque,
New
Mexico.
Mr.
Kitchen conducted post-graduate studies at
Harvard University, the U.S. State
Department’s Foreign Service Institute, and the FBI’s
National Academy in
Quantico, Virginia. He subsequently developed investigative
experience in interviews and interrogations, conduct and preservation of crime
scenes, and counterintelligence investigations to include double agent
operations, recruitment of agents-in-place, and surveillance of clandestine
targets.
In
July 1989, as a result of the expertise he developed in counterintelligence
investigations, Mr. Kitchen was appointed as the Director of Counterintelligence
Programs on the National Security Council Staff by General Brent Scowcroft,
National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. During his tenure at the White House,
Mr. Kitchen coordinated the National Security Review of United States
Counterintelligence Policy and the National Industrial Security Program during
the demise of the Soviet
Union and the fall of East
European communism at the end of the Cold War. The counterintelligence and security
policies Mr. Kitchen implemented during the Bush Administration remain in existence
today.
Mr.
Kitchen became a member of the FBI’s Senior Executive Service on
March 1,
1996, upon his selection as
Inspector in Charge of the FBI’s Field Information Support Section of the
Information Resources Division at FBI Headquarters. On August 3,
1998, Mr. Kitchen was promoted
to his final FBI assignment as the Special Agent in Charge of all FBI operations
in the State of New
Mexico.
On
May 31,
2000, Mr. Kitchen retired after
a successful career as an investigator, administrator, and senior executive with
the FBI. Drawing upon his
investigative expertise, Mr. Kitchen founded the Proficient Group, Inc., in
San
Diego, California, and currently serves as
the President and CEO. Through its
two divisions, Proficient Investigations and Proficient Consultant Services, PGI
has provided invaluable services to a wide variety of clients.
As President of Proficient Investigations, Mr. Kitchen has
effectively established the firm as a leader in providing comprehensive yet
affordable pre-employment screening and background investigations to corporate
clients throughout the United
States.
Mr. Kitchen is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of
California (# PI21643) and a
member in good standing of the following organizations:
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