PUBLIC SAFETY
DRONE CONFERENCE

Mic Bonin is a Professional Mantracker with over 22 years of MIL/LE experience in SAR Tracking, Investigative (Forensic) Tracking and Combat/Tactical Tracking Operations. Mic Bonin has over 10 years of experience in SWAT Operations, having served as both Entry Team Leader as the Sniper Section Team Leader. He now leads the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Tracking & Reconnaissance Unit (TTU). In addition to SAR, TTU is responsible for tactical manhunts and other specialized intelligence gathering missions where sUAS has proven highly effective.Mic Bonin has been recognized as a Subject Matter Expert and Master Tracker by the prestigious Scott Donelan Tracking School and Ty Cunningham’s Government Tracking Institute. He has trained all levels of Law Enforcement across multiple States, to include Federal, State, and Local levels. Mic Bonin also works with and trains select combat arms & special operation personnel within the Military and Intelligence Communities.

Over the past decade of his Law Enforcement career, Mic Bonin has successfully utilized his VT skills to capture felons, rescue children, save lives, and close numerous cases, being featured in the News and in publications for his tracking abilities. His SAR and Tactical Tracking successes and lessons are used around the world by Top Visual Tracking Instructors for training new Military & Law Enforcement Combat/Tactical Trackers.

Dave Lee teaches Level I Thermography, Level 1 sUAS Thermography, and Level 1 sUAS Public Safety Thermography. He is also involved with curriculum development for ITC’s sUAS courses and was the creator and host of the FLIR DELTA video series on drone thermography. Dave has trained over 4,500 airplane and helicopter crews on the tactical employment of airborne thermal imaging systems for militaries, coast guards, federal and local law enforcement agencies all around the US and in 33 foreign countries. A skilled technical communicator, he has also published over 400 articles in magazines, trade publications and academic journals, and served as adjunct faculty at numerous colleges and universities. Before joining ITC Dave was an airline pilot and flight instructor for Private, Instrument, Commercial, and Multi-Engine flight students.

David Lee
Instructor, Level III Thermographer
FAA part 107 Remote Pilot
FAA Airline Transport Pilot

Joe Mazel serves as the Chief of the FBI’s Operational Technology Law Unit, and in that position, leads the development of legal and policy advice to senior executive managers and agents in the FBI concerning the use and worldwide deployment of applied scientific and technological investigative capabilities to support the collection of evidence and intelligence in criminal and national security investigations. Joe has supported the integration and deployment of unmanned aircraft within the FBI and the Department of Justice for a number of years as a member of the Department of Justice’s Unmanned Aircraft Working Group, and was a principal contributor to the Department’s Policy on the Use of UAS. Joe also is one of the leaders of efforts with respect to counter-UAS. Joe is a member of the National Security Council’s Policy Coordinating Committees on Counter-Drone and Aviation Security, and was a key leader in drafting and obtaining the passage of the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which provided both the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security with counter-UAS authority. Joe continues as a key leader in writing and implementing the Administration’s C-UAS and aviation security policies. Joe serves as the chair of the Interagency Legal Working Group on countering Unmanned Aerial Systems, which includes representatives of DOJ, DOD and DHS, where he has drafted requirements documents for industry and the FAA to facilitate C-UAS operations, and consulted the FAA with respect to its UAS rulemaking and legislative initiatives.Prior to the FBI, Joe was a civilian legal advisor to the Department of Defense’s Office of Military Commissions, served on active duty with the United State Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he deployed in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, and served as an assistant district attorney with the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office in New York, NY.

Joe is a licenses private pilot and has received the Bronze Star Medal, the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Federal Lawyer Award in 2005, and the United States Army’s General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award in 2001. He received his Juris Doctor from the Pace University School of Law in White Plains, NY, and his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and New Jersey, the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.