Major Ivan M. Consiglio is a TV-news executive producer, and served up to July 2012 as a multi-media journalist and communications coordinator at Headquarters, Armed Forces of Malta. His duties and responsibilities included event photo-assignment coverage management, picture editing and general videography. Since July 2013, he is also Managing Director at Malta24 Ltd. He studied art and photography at St. Aloysius College and at the Malta School of Arts. During his adolescent years, he photographed mostly those outdoor activities and those related to general aviation. When he enlisted in the army, his photography matured to focus on the chronicling of military events going on around him. He enlisted in the Maltese military in 1987, and initially served on inshore patrol boats. Selected as an Officer-Cadet that same year, he trained at the Italian Army's Infantry & Cavalry School in Rome. He went on to further his training and studies at the US Army's Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia in 1991 and again 1997. Experienced in physical/electronic security, risk analysis and threat assessments, executive VIP protection and aviation security, he followed courses with Group 4 Securitas International, Interpol, British Army, and worked with White House Secret Service during Bush-Gorbachov Summit in Malta. He later transitioned to light air defence artillery, qualified from Italian Army's School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Sabuadia as a L40/70 AA-gun battery commander and tactical radar control officer. After a brief stint of battery-command time, appointed Unit Adjutant & Public Relations Officer at HQ 2nd (Composite) Regiment AFM. On 30 Oct. 2006, moved to brigade HQ as the new AFM's Public Relations' cell staff officer in charge of all public and press information operations. He considers himself a ‘late-convert’ to digital photography, and when it happened, he scooped every opportunity to capture news events that featured Maltese soldiers in action