C. Joshua Villines is the Executive Director of the Human Intelligence Group, an agency that specializes in training law enforcement and investigative personnel in interviews and interrogation, intelligence collection and analysis, firearms and tactics, crime prevention, threat assessment, and related topics. Joshua holds the CPP, PCI, and PSP certifications from ASIS International, and the ICPS Designation from the International Association of Crime Prevention Specialists. He presently sits on the Professional Certification Board for ASIS.
Prior to embarking on his professional career, Joshua worked as a technical writer and a journalist covering the computer game industry. His one lone use as a footnote in a Wikipedia page is a testimony to that work.
Joshua is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute (Russian), the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School (Interrogation), the U.S. Army Airborne School, the British Joint-Services Interrogation Course, the Primary Leadership Development Course (Honor Graduate), and the Basic Non-Commissioned Officer's Course. Joshua held a Top-Secret (SSBI) Clearance and earned DoD certification as a Russian (3/2+) and a Spanish (3/3) linguist.