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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.
• 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

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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Co-Founder and elected Chairperson of the White House Intern Committee on ChildAdvocacy.

Jurisdoctorate

Ba, Government And Women Studies