About Us
Sandra Ambotaite - Founder/Principal
Sandra Ambotaite spent eight (8) years in the U.S. Army and was medically retired in 2012. While in the U.S. Army, Sandra served as a Medical Administrative Specialist, Operations Specialist and Color Guard member. Her duty stations included: Ft. Belvoir, Virginia; Heidelberg, Germany and Ft. Carson, Colorado.
While deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 and 2006, Ms. Ambotaite was assigned to the 30th Medical Brigade as a Medical Regulating Office (MRO) Specialist. During deployment, her duties included overseeing and regulating mass casualty transfers and air evacuations to seven (7) major hospitals throughout Iraq as well as Kuwait and Germany.
While in the military, Ms. Ambotaite was awarded the Soldier of the Year Award, Distinguished Honor Graduate Award at the Leadership Academy, six (6) Army Commendation Medals, the Army Achievement Medal and two (2) Good Conduct Medals.
Since separating from the military, Ms. Ambotaite earned a bachelor’s degree in International Security and Conflict Resolution from San Diego State University, a Master of Arts in Peace and Justice from the University of San Diego and a Master of Business from University of Southern California. She has held a position as a Hearing Officer for the San Diego City and County Housing Commission. Ms. Ambotaite also interned as a mission support specialist with the Department of Homeland Security and the Public Affairs office at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Today, Ms. Ambotaite is focusing on helping wounded, injured and ill service members and fellow veterans to have a successful and seamless transition into civilian lives, attain meaningful employment and higher education.
John Fabbricatore - Principal
John Fabbricatore is a retired member of the Senior Executive Service, and former Field Office Director (FOD), for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO), The ERO Denver area of responsibility (AOR) includes Colorado and Wyoming, covering 200,000 square miles with 200 federal employees.
Mr. Fabbricatore served as the Denver Field Office, Deputy Field Office Director from June 2017 to May 2020. In 2018 he was detailed for six months to the DHS Joint Task Force – West in San Antonio, Texas, where he served as Deputy Chief of Staff. Mr. Fabbricatore oversaw the initial rollout of Operation Opioid Counter Strike, a multi- agency, cross-corridor operation at the federal, state, local, tribal and international level to disrupt Transnational Criminal Organizations trafficking in opioids.
Mr. Fabbricatore began his civilian federal career in 1996 with the Federal Protective Service (FPS) as a police officer for the General Services Administration (GSA), where he was assigned to the New York Terrorist Trials Operations Command in New York, New York. In 1997, FPS sent him to Denver, Colorado, to work on both Oklahoma City Bombing trials. Two years later, he became a Deportation Officer for legacy U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in Denver, CO.
In 2003, Mr. Fabbricatore was selected to be an instructor for the newly formed U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, where he taught in the Physical Techniques Division and the ERO Fugitive Operations Academy.
In 2005, Mr. Fabbricatore was promoted to Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer for the ICE Denver Field Office. There, he helped establish the Criminal Alien Program and the 287(g) Task Force. He was promoted in 2011 to Assistant Field Office Director (AFOD), where he presided over the Criminal Alien Program, ERO Criminal Prosecutions, Alternatives to Detention, and Fugitive Operations. He later served as the AFOD over Field Operations, Emergency Management, and Intelligence. Mr. Fabbricatore attended the United States Marshals Service Training Academy and completed the Fugitive Investigator Course.
Mr. Fabbricatore served in the United States Air Force from 1991-1996 as a Security Police/Security Forces member and is a founding member and former Vice Chairman of the Front Range Chapter of the Air Force Security Forces Association.
Mr. Fabbricatore has a degree in Professional Studies with a concentration in Organizational Leadership from Trident University.
John P. Martinez - Principal
John P. Martinez is a retired Managing Director with 25 years of experience leading high-profile federal law enforcement and security operations with global impact. He has administered annual operating budgets exceeding $100 million and directed development and implementation of strategy, mission, and operational plans for several, multi-jurisdictional U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices. Mr. Martinez is a people-centered leader, capable of spearheading, motivating, and promoting positive collaboration amongst large, cross-functional teams. He has been a core driver of change and modernization in the federal government, including implementation of new policy and technology that facilitated greater federal and state information sharing related to criminal activity in communities across 50 states and 4 U.S. territories.
Mr. Martinez most recently served as the Director of the Pacific Enforcement Response Center in Laguna Niguel, CA. His leadership and oversight of the center’s 100 employees ensured ICE’s ability to protect and defend the United States through the sharing of timely data and analytical insights with federal and state law enforcement partners nationwide. Mr. Martinez directed the efforts of 42 trained federal law enforcement officers responsible for coordinating with state officials on federal enforcement action on high-priority and high-risk criminals encountered across 42 states and 4 U.S. territories.
Prior to that, he was the Acting Field Office Director for the Phoenix Field Office. Encompassing 113,635 square miles, 15 counties and six (6) Ports of Entry in Arizona, the Phoenix Field Office is one of the largest field offices in the United States. Mr. Martinez was hand-selected by ICE leadership to serve in this role during a tremendous surge in unlawful migration across the Southwest Border of the United States.
Mr. Martinez began his federal law enforcement career as a U.S. Border Patrol Agent with the legacy U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1997. Between 2006 and 2010, he was promoted from Deportation Officer on the ICE San Francisco Field Office Fugitive Operations team to Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer in San Francisco, and ultimately, Detention and Deportation Officer at ICE Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Mr. Martinez was selected in 2011 as an Assistant Field Office Director for the Los Angeles Field Office, where he managed the Secure Communities Program. In 2012, Mr. Martinez was promoted to become the Deputy Field Office Director for the San Francisco Field Office. In 2015, Mr. Martinez was again promoted to the position of Unit Chief for ICE Air Operations before becoming Deputy Director to the Pacific Enforcement Response Center in 2018, where he was later promoted to Director.
Mr. Martinez holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the State University of New York at Cortland College and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati.