Negotiating preclearance agreements and providing advice on related issues

• Responsible for overseeing four sections (Trade, Transportation and Cargo, Financial Investment Risk Management, and Counter Illicit Trafficking) and for handling fiscal, personnel, and administrative matters, with a staff of 20 analysts. • Authored agency-wide policies and positions endorsed by the Secretary on security of international mail, use of unmanned aviation systems, and trade enforcement.• Represented DHS in the White House National Security Council interagency policy committee meetings on such matters as global supply chain security, counter narcotics, the Arctic, maritime security, export reform, and 100% scanning of maritime cargo.

• As Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement, supervised six attorneys providing legal advice to senior leadership on enforcement and security matters relating to agency operations and supported a legal division of over 1000 attorneys on enforcement issues.• In collaboration with the Assistant Secretary for Policy, concluded an agreement with a coalition of Caribbean nations (“CARICOM”), to improve regional security by the sharing and vetting of advance passenger information of air travelers to the region to identify known or suspected terrorists and criminals. • Awarded the General Counsel’s Award for Extraordinary Achievement in National Security Law or Homeland Security Law in 2008 for contributions to two Secretarial priorities concerning the expanded and novel use of advance passenger information both globally and within the interagency community to identify travelers associated with known and suspected terrorists and criminals.• Served as lead departmental representative to the President’s Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), an international initiative designed to disrupt the transfer of materials to proliferators of weapons of mass destruction.• Detailed to the White House Transition Planning Office in 2003 to implement the start-up of the DHS while simultaneously overseeing the work of a talented team and handling unique legal issues that arose throughout the transition and start up. Nominated by the General Counsel for the Federal Bar Association’s Transportation Attorney of the Year.

• Provided extensive advice to Treasury senior leadership on transition matters: the transfer of over 50,000 personnel, the preservation of records, and $1 billion in budgetary impacts in anticipation of the establishment of DHS.• Provided legal advice and services to the General Counsel, and senior Treasury leadership and six Treasury enforcement bureau heads on such matters as money laundering, anti-terrorism, trade, international cooperation, intelligence operations, and information sharing while supervising the Assistant General Counsel (Enforcement) staff and Bureau Chief Counsels for ATF, Customs, Secret Service, FinCEN, FLETC, and the Asset Forfeiture Office.

• Supervised staff attorneys in the Enforcement section with respect to regulatory, administrative, legislative, litigation, and international matters and charged with the designation and monitoring of work assignments, the review of attorney work product, and the daily operations of the section in the absence of the Associate Chief Counsel.• Handled the most complex and difficult enforcement matters including undercover operations, fraud litigation, and sensitive export cases, recovering millions of dollars in penalties and unpaid revenue, as a staff attorney and later as a senior attorney. Received the Commissioner’s Award for my role in the negotiation of a settlement in a criminal/civil fraud case that resulted in the defendant’s criminal plea and payment of a sum in excess of $14 million, leading a team from a wide variety of Customs disciplines that included agents, auditors, import specialists, inspectors and attorneys.• Seconded to Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise Solicitor’s Office the United Kingdom. • Addressed the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (“ICAO”) on Customs authority to seize common carriers illegally transporting controlled substances. • Negotiated numerous international agreements, including the Preclearance Agreement with Aruba in 1994. In 2008, after negotiating an amendment to the agreement to expand the scope to include the preclearance of private aircraft, the Prime Minister, at the Secretary’s signing ceremony, publicly recognized my contributions to both agreements.• Directed, in 1991, at the request of the Commissioner of Customs, a multidisciplinary team in responding to requests and subpoenas from Congress relating to closed and related on-going investigations of a bank in Atlanta for which I received the Commissioner’s Award.