Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is former FBI agent Shahna Richman, 48, who’s now the owner and CEO of Richman Forensic & Security Consulting.

I’m now fully retired in good standing from the FBI, and I own a forensic and security consulting company. The bulk of my work is large-scale event security planning. Clients hire me to design, plan, and execute security services for their events. In Chicago, I am familiar with almost every large-scale venue. I’m looking at entry points, exit points, vulnerabilities. We provide everything—armed security, unarmed security, explosive-detection canines.