• Lead USDA’s initiatives on plastic packaging sustainability, representing the department in the interagency working group negotiating an international plastics treaty under the UN Environmental Program (UNEP).• Lead the management of a $10 million grant program focused on sustainable packaging innovation research and commercialization.• Co-chair (with NIST) Stakeholder Briefing Series for the interagency plastics delegation, facilitating interagency discussions with NGOs, industry, and academics.• Proposed and implemented the 2024 USDA Summit on the Future of Bioplastics.• Analyze foreign technical regulations in the WTO TBT Committee, providing expert policy advice on trade compliance.• Served as the USDA representative to the Section 301 Committee for multiple trade investigations, including those related to China, Vietnam, and France.• Strategic advisor on USDA’s involvement in high-level trade negotiations with China and India.• Design annual case studies for the USDA/FAS Agricultural Export Market Challenge, an international business plan competition for students at Minority Serving Institutions.

• Led strategic initiatives for addressing plastic pollution through federal policy coordination and public-private partnerships to promote recycling and reusable packaging and service ware systems.

• Managed the USAID/ANSI Standards Alliance and explored initiatives in e-commerce for international development.• Worked on regulatory reforms to improve trade practices in developing countries, emphasizing capacity building and trade policy implementation.

• Focused on the drafting and implementation of the regulations for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), ensuring compliance with food safety regulations for U.S. and foreign producers.• Collaborated with FDA legal and technical teams to address international issues in food safety regulations including WTO compliance.

• Led USAID-funded programs on trade capacity building and legal reform in Vietnam, focusing on WTO obligations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA.• Designed and implemented training programs for Vietnamese government ministries on trade facilitation, dispute resolution, and trade policy.

• Led agriculture tariff elimination negotiations in FTAs with Korea, Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE.• Worked with industry, USTR General Counsel, and USDA to resolve market access issues and trade barriers, including those related to SPS and TBT.

• Administered a steel safeguard measure that imposed 30% tariffs on $5 billion of steel imports.• Served as lead U.S. Delegate to the OECD Committees on Steel and ShipbuildingLed efforts to protect U.S. steel industry interests through effective trade measures and negotiations.

• Provided policy analysis, research, and voting recommendations on defense, national security, and foreign relations issues.