Dr. Strentz is a professional anti-terrorism expert with a background and expertise in hostage taking, negotiations, instruction, and survival.  Backed with extensive experience in the FBI, he has been involved in resolving terrorist situations world-wide. He utilizes his expertise for organizations and individuals who work and travel in high-risk areas; such as domestic and international air lines, law enforcement, government agencies and the military.  A proven administrator, instructor, public speaker, consultant, author and training film producer, he has concentrated his academic and professional efforts instructing persons in the physical and psychological tactics needed to survive hostage situations.  He designed, developed and directed the FBI hostage negotiations program, was on loan to several countries to assist them in similar programs, helped create the FBI Hostage Rescue Team selection program, was a pioneer in psychological profiling of criminal and terrorist offenders.  He developed and refined aircraft hijacker and terrorist profiles currently used internationally. He is the Co-instructor in the POST accredited hostage negotiators course at San Jose State University in California and teaches similar material in a Department of State Anti-terrorism course.  He is retained to investigate/negotiate kidnapping in South and Central America.                    

He has worked with the U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice, State, Transportation and Treasury as well as domestic and foreign police, government, and military units.  Assignments include establishing the FBI hostage negotiator selection and instruction program, research on hostage survival as part of the FBI preparation of its counter-terrorist forces for the 1984 Olympics, the debriefing of the Teheran, TWA 847, Pan Am 73 and Kuwait 422 hostages. He represented the FBI on the Presidents Inter-agency task force on Aviation Terrorism, was an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia and was the Distinguished Alumni from California State University, Fresno in 1992. 

He is the editor of The Negotiator and author of The Psychological Aspects of Crisis Negotiations and serves as a Vice President in the Louisiana Association of Crisis Negotiators.
 

He is regularly retained as an expert witness in US District, State and County courts on aviation counter hijacking procedures, victim reaction to the stress of captivity, prison and hostage situations.  He has traveled to dozens of countries to every state to deliver lectures and provide instruction on preparations for hostage situations, criminal and terrorist profiling, counter terrorist training, hostage negotiations, kidnap investigations, and post traumatic incident recovery procedures.  

He is continuously called upon by national and international air lines, police, business, and government organizations to advise and consult on hostage survival, kidnapping, and crisis intervention, prevention, investigation, and recovery issues. 

The Academy Group

Editor, The Negotiator

Instructor at FBI Academy

Institute for Defense Analysis

Psychiatric Social Work Supervisor

JMARC Associates Video Productions

Helliwell Associates Video Productions

Instructor at San Jose State University

American Society for Industrial Security

Adjunct Professor University of Virginia

Social Worker in Child Welfare/Protection

Adjunct Professor George Mason University

Expert Witness in Superior Court on Hijacking

Expert Witness in U.S. District Court on Training

California Police Officers Standards and Training

Kidnap Investigations in Central and South America

Editor California Association of Hostage Negotiators

Vice-President Louisiana Crisis Negotiators Association

Expert Witness in Circuit Court on Hostage Negotiations

U.S. Department of State Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program

Distinguished Alumni Award California State University Fresno