Joseph Cicini

About Joseph Cicini

Joe Cicini has over thirty-five (35) years of safety and security experience. Before joining Secure Event Solutions, Cicini spent ten (10) years as the Senior Director of Security for the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium. During his tenure at Hard Rock Stadium, in addition to directly supporting player and ownership security needs, Mr. Cicini led security programming efforts in support of all major events hosted at the Stadium. Noteworthy events held at Hard Rock Stadium during Joe’s tenure include but are not limited to: Super Bowl LIV, CFP National Championship, Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, El Clasico Soccer and Miami Open Tennis to name a few. Under Mr. Cicini’s leadership, Hard Rock Stadium received SAFETY Act Designation and was rated as the safest facility in the National Football League.

Under Cicini’s guidance, the core infrastructure of Hard Rock Stadium’s Security Program took shape as he maintained responsibilities for key plan development, stakeholder deployments, security technology investments, exercise facilitation, threat assessments and conformance with governing best practices and evolving industry standards.

Previous to his role as Senior Director of Security, Mr. Cicini had a distinguished twenty-three (23) year career working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Joe retired out of the Miami Division of the FBI where he supervised the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) during which time he was responsible for oversight of all major special events in South Florida. Joe also served tours embedded with the United States military in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe is a certified law enforcement instructor and has provided crisis management training to the NFL, MLB, NBA, colleges and universities around the country.