Program Manager/Special Agent (Retired)
Extensive Project Management background and previous Program Manager of a field office DOJ/DHS/ICE/HSI Certified Program involving international finance and counter proliferation import/export laws. Ensures program compliance with federal and local laws, as well as multi-agency policies and directives. Continuous successful recertification of the program through a highly visible and critical review process. Developed, monitored, and controlled a semiannual budget. A key stakeholder and change leader in the creation of an enterprise level system designed to modernize an HSI program. Has extensive knowledge in operations management, intellectual property theft, identity and benefit fraud, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and war crime investigations.HSI has broad legal authority to conduct federal criminal investigations into the illegal cross-border movement of people, goods, money, technology and other contraband throughout the United States. HSI utilizes these authorities to investigate a wide array of transnational crime, including: terrorism; national security threats; narcotics smuggling; transnational gang activity; child exploitation; human smuggling and trafficking; illegal exports of controlled technology and weapons; money laundering; financial fraud and scams; worksite and employment crimes; cybercrime; intellectual property theft and trade fraud; identity and benefit fraud; and human rights violations and war crimes. HSI special agents build criminal cases against Transnational Criminal Organizations, terrorist networks and facilitators, and other criminal elements that threaten the United States. HSI works with prosecutors to indict and arrest violators, execute criminal search warrants, seize criminally derived money and assets, and take other actions designed to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations operating around the world.