Jason Guthrie Email & Phone Number

Centreville, Va, Us

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Bureau of Trade Analysis – Office of Agreements:Establish and communicate office strategic plan, set analysis parameters and assign incoming agreements and amendments to a staff of two industry analysts for review and long-term project oversight. Formulate political appointee recommendations including in-depth competitive analyses of complex agreement filings under tight time constraints. Cultivate strong working relationships with maritime attorneys and ocean transportation industry stakeholders. Participate in national conferences addressing goods movement and logistics industry issues.Select Accomplishments:• Cut administrative burden in half and enabled instant web publishing of agreements by leading the development and implementation of the eAgreements system, migrating 2,000+ documents in the archaic paper-based system to digitized documentation filing, review, analysis and archival.• Spearheaded the multi-office task force charged with agreement review process overhaul resulting in coordinated agency-wide resource usage.• Established new model for competitive analysis of incoming Agreements to better reflect the current economic and trade conditions within the ocean transportation industry.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Office of Consumer Affairs & Dispute Resolution (CADRS):Utilized alternative dispute resolution (ADR) skills to provide timely dispute resolution assistance to shipping community members in lieu of costly and time-consuming formal legal avenues. Select Accomplishments:• Successfully resolved over 200 CADRS complaints in two years.• Increased awareness and use of services throughout the industry by representing the Commission at industry meetings throughout the United States.• Improved technical capabilities and leadership and staff needs assessment by using business process analysis to lead the enterprise database redesign. • Took a lead role in writing the Federal Maritime Commission's 50th Anniversary Publication and the Study of Inland Containerized Cargo Moving Through Canadian and Mexican Seaports.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Bureau of Trade Analysis – Office of Agreements:Served as allowance agreement subject matter expert, handling more complex or controversial agreements filed. Supervised office in Office Director’s absence. Advise Industry Analysts as needed. Select Accomplishments:• Provided the competitive analysis of the most complex and controversial agreements filed with the Federal Maritime Commission• Trained new industry analysts on the analysis and development of recommendation memoranda for incoming agreements• Co-authored federal rulemakings to streamline maritime agreement filing and ocean transportation monitoring processes.• Served as acting Office Director when Office Director was on leave

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Bureau of Trade Analysis – Office of Agreements:Performed legal and market analysis for anti-trust law allowance agreements filed with the Commission under the Shipping Act of 1984. Provided appropriate recommendations. Select Accomplishments:• Steadily promoted from Industry Analyst to Senior Industry Analyst within two years.• Developed templates to assist with the development of more streamlined and efficient analyses that are still used within the Office of Agreements.• Chosen to represent the Office of Agreements and the Bureau of Trade Analysis at high-level executive meetings within the Federal Maritime Commission, with outside federal agencies such as the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Transportation (DOT) and with members of Congress.

Reston, Va

Managed development of two federal projects and one sub-contracting project with a combined value of $1.7 million including project personnel, technical development, database architecture, interface design, client interaction and content research and development. Served as company-wide quality assurance contact, ensuring the products and designs reflected community needs and were presented in a professional, user-friendly format.Select Accomplishments:• Promoted to Project Director and Principal Investigator within one year, immediately securing two projects through the creation and implementation of simplified financial plans and deliverables schedules.• Established a system of project-wide daily protocols for project team members and a new workflow process that reduced version deployment time from months to days.