Meet Your Instructors

Steve Tarani

Professional educator, author, keynote speaker, and defensive tactics subject matter expert Steve Tarani has served the United States defense, law enforcement, and intelligence communities for over 30 years. Tarani is a former fulltime Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) protective-programs employee and was formerly on staff at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Security Institute (Security Force Training Dept.) at Kirtland Air Force Base (NM). He served on the POTUS 45 pre-election executive-protection detail and is a DoD and FLETC-certified firearms instructor. Specializing in awareness-based training, Tarani contributes monthly to numerous industry periodicals, remains a private-sector protective agent and also serves on the National Sheriffs’ Association School Safety and Security Committee.

Learn more: www.stevetarani.com

Tom Rovetuso

Tom served 24 years as a Deputy Sheriff for the Lake County (IL) Sheriff's Office, where he was assigned to the Highway Patrol, Criminal Investigations and Training Divisions. For 23 years, in addition to his primary assignments, Tom also served on the department's SWAT team and as a firearms and tactics instructor. During his last five years of service Tom was assigned full time to the Training Division as the senior instructor for both firearms and defensive tactics. During this 5 year period, Tom instructed over 5960 hours of in-service, tactical & sniper training. Tom holds instructor certifications in: pistol, shotgun, carbine rifle, sniper, shoot house, defensive tactics, oc spray, taser, pepperball, SWAT tactics and simunition scenario-based training.

Learn more: www.angelonetraining.com

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