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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

The Institute for Building Technology and Safety is nonprofit organization established to provide professional services, while enhancing the communities in which we work. IBTS and it's predecessor entity has been serving for over 40 years.• Building Dept. Services: Code compliance and regulatory expertise; third party inspections, plan review, permitting• Community Planning: Comprehensive and master plans, code updates, economic development• Disaster Management: Planning, mitigation, and recovery; federal disaster/ mitigation funding expertise • Energy Services: Energy efficiency program management, energy audits, energy code compliance, training• Municipal Services: Local government staffing and expertise, complete municipal support, shared services, green building verification • Grants Management: Grant writing, federal grants administration and compliance• Manufactured Housing: Labels verification, design review, in-plant inspection, and State Administrative Agency third-party monitoring• Market Research: Focus groups, in-depth interviews, surveys, concept testing, market analysis, strategic outreach planning • Program Management: Program setup, financial management, oversight, procurement, staffing, closeout• Resilience Planning: Resilience assessments, including equitable climate resilience assessments; project prioritization and planning• Solar Quality Management: Solar inspections and plan reviews, solar quality data storage and tracking solutions, training• Workforce Development: Needs assessments and gap analysis, custom training solutions, module development

Virginia

Deputy to the 3rd ranking officer in global 14,000+ organization• Integrate activities at NGA to ensure and enable the national security mission.• Evolve the Agency wide business operations tasking system. Innovation increased speed of oversight submissions by nearly 30% in less than two months and the overall fidelity of information through 100% paperless execution.• Revamping the Agency governance structure to reduce the overall forum by 50% optimizing a timely and effective ability to prioritize decision making clearly linked to the Agency's strategy.• Created a first of its kind algorithm affording senior leadership the strategic forecasting capability of when and how their engagement advance NGA’s mission outcomes.• Leads a cross-Agency team of senior leaders and subject matter experts in the development and implementation of the NGA COVID19 Reimagination, Reconstitution and Recovery Plan to ensure the safety of NGA teammates during the execution of our intelligence mission.• Established landmark capability for on-site screening testing of operational risk areas to mitigate the risk of asymptomatic COVID19 positive members transmitting in our workforce.• First to establish a workforce-based communications built on weekly virtual town halls with the workforce; now exceeding 30 sessions with attending of over 1,000 workforce members regularly, comprehensive and robust contact tracing capability, and leader within the DoD in establishing telework opportunities forover 75% of the workforce.• Sponsored, led, and participated in Agency diversity and inclusion events to include Women's Day, Asian Pacific Island month celebration, senior champion for Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations, and training for diversity and inclusions.

• Led a team of 41 professionals comprised of senior executives, senior attorneys, administrative staff and contractors ensuring and enabling management of a portfolio comprised of administrative law and litigation, equal opportunity and employment, diversity and inclusion, contract and acquisition law, mission and international law, and intelligence oversight.• Accountable for enabling timely and comprehensive legal advice and counsel in response to over 1,000 requirements for legal opinions annually; second largest number of customer requirements of all NGA components.• revamped the operating model and establish a cross-divisional and multi-legal discipline enclave of capability to better ensure timely, accurate and comprehensive legal counsel on a host of mission issues to include the White House’s “Initiative in the Artic,” disaster relief, and CLASSIFIED missions resulting in a sustainable customer-focused and in-time legal opinions process influencing mission decisions.• Created unique scenario-based training to help senior managers understand the legal implications of managing a diverse workforce essential for creating alignment for consistent application of law and Agency policy and procedures.• Collaborated with Equal Opportunity Office and DIA OGC's office on the development and execution of live training related to equal opportunity issues and DIA equal opportunity cases that was applauded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as a revolutionary way to educate the workforce.• Selected by the Director to be DIA's Initiative Team Lead for the “Reshape DIA's Culture Initiative” with the scope of realigning DIA's organizational culture to DIA's core values. Developed a plan that impacted the culture of DIA's global workforce.

• Assisted the Department of Justice (DOJ) with prosecution of claims; developedwatershed legal theories that reduced potential damages by several milliondollars.• Successfully managed highly sensitive personnel and employment/labor litigationmatters involving special units in the Agency, to include representing the Agency inadjudications including written briefs, memoranda, and oral briefings.• Provided senior leadership at the DOL with pre-litigation counseling andnegotiation strategies on over 10 critical cases.

• Assessed and analyzed Title VII, Section 1981, Family Medical Labor Association(FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act(ADEA), Americans with Disability Act (ADA), adverse employment actions and abroad array of workplace issues on behalf of corporate clients and plaintiffs.• Appeared on behalf of clients before State and Federal courts, Appellate courts,administrative Agencies, Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Labor Relations, and internalFederal Equal Employment Opportunity offices, providing full scope of litigationsupport from discovery, memorandum, oral arguments, and depositions.• Trained management on comprehensive policies, procedures, includingimplementing corporate solutions to address various employment-related matters.

• Litigated and negotiated civil liberties and civil rights.• Implemented strategies and amassed vital witness testimony to position cases forsettlement valued at over $500,000.• Valued cases at intake within 5% of actual jury verdict and settlement award.• Published Federal opinion regarding the viability of state law claims (tortiousinterference with business expectations and intentional infliction emotionaldistress) in relation to Federal law claims.

• Represented clients on cases involving employment law, contracts, medicalmalpractice, professional liability, workers' compensation, construction law,environmental law and insurance coverage in the Supreme Court of Virginia, Stateand Federal court, and administrative agencies.• Established benchmark workers' compensation case law that saved the client inexcess of $100,000 and set new model for the application of this law to seasonalemployees resulting in reduced employer liability.• Deposed over 50 deponents.

• Hon. Leonard Braman, Tim Murphy, Peter Wolf, Stephen F. Eilperin and Herbert Dixon Jr. (temp.). Managed and assisted with caseload and judicial matters. • Drafted orders and complex opinions. Researched civil and criminal matters including breach of contract, wrongful death, traffic/misdemeanors, habeas corpus, show cause, and trust/estates. • Analyzed and discussed complicated issues of law with the judges in order to thoroughly address all issues raised by the litigants. • Attended court proceedings including pretrial conferences, scheduling conferences, trials, and motion hearings.

• Assistant to Counsel and Deputy Counsel to the President. Worked directly withHonorable Charles F.C. Ruff and Cheryl Mills, Counsel and Deputy Counsel to thePresident, drafting legal memoranda and correspondence on Presidential issues.• Co-Founder and elected Chairperson of the White House Intern Committee on ChildAdvocacy.

Jurisdoctorate

Ba, Government And Women Studies