●Healthcare, Defense, Public Affairs, International Relations, Startups, Corporations.●Support clients and executives with strategic communication, government relations, and policy translation to achieve business goals.●Utilize my 13+ years of relationships, connections, healthcare and national security expertise to build diverse stakeholder coalitions and creative solutions.●Interpret and foresee government policy and priorities to provide businesses with opportunities to engage and mitigate risk.●Write advocacy strategies to address government programs, policies, regulations, legislation, and political issues.Active Top Secret Clearance TS SCI

● Provided public affairs and policy guidance to clients to achieve legislative and program goals.● Facilitated connections between industry stakeholders and key Defense offices.● Collaborated with high-ranking Defense, Health, and Forgein Policy professionals to achieve strategic objectives.Active Top Secret Clearance TS SCI

●Business Development and Client Engagement. Strategy, Analytics and M&A; Customer and Marketing; Core Business Operations; Human Capital; Enterprise Technology & Performance.●Manage and develop federal health, defense, and global affairs business by providing communications and government strategy. (DOD, DHS, HHS, CMS, FDA)●Leverage my experience creating partnerships, maintaining relationships, and translating policy to deliver financial performance.●Provide customers with strategic planning, technology implementation, digital transformation, performance measurement and evaluation, process improvement, communications and marketing, workforce development, and data analytics.●Develop federal health and technology accounts, translate funding rules and timelines to bolster private sector industrial expansion.● Security Clearance: Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) Clearance.

● Directly served The President of the United States, Vice President, First Lady, senior West Wing staff, Secretaries of multiple agencies, and diplomats by developing priorities and negotiating policy and legislation on healthcare, economics, and technologies.● Collaborated in a high pressure work environment focused on health, domestic, and foreign policy to reach swift consensus with U.S. government components: National Security Council, National Economic Council, 27+ HHS divisions, OMB, and Treasury.● Wrote policies and communications for multi-billion dollar priorities: State of the Union, Executive Orders, rules, and regulations.● Increased public-private partnerships, bipartisan stakeholder engagement, and compliance with statutory requirements.● Reformed policy for NIH, CMS, CDC, FDA to improve health preparedness, chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS relief, drug and device development, kidney care, rural and telehealth, tackling rare and infectious diseases, the opioid epidemic, and sensitive classified issues.● Negotiated policies and wrote announcements to improve: manufacturing and purchasing, medication adherence and reimbursement, providers flexibilities, national security, and allocating funds from the CARES Act to reach heroes on the front lines.● Developed interagency working groups with colleagues across the government, and remain connected with valuable key players.● Security Clearance: Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TSSCI) Clearance.

● Office of the Secretary, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy (S/GAC)● Advised the Secretary of State and Ambassador-at-Large on policy and programs.● Implemented the historic foreign affairs program: The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).● Directed events and teams for VPOTUS and Secretary Pompeo with global leadership, including shaping the PEPFAR Extension Act of 2018, a bipartisan legislative achievement reauthorizing PEPFAR for 5 years.● Launched activities across eight agencies to combat global diseases.● Supported allocation of $100 Million dollars to priority community organizations, stood up a multi-country initiative, increased communications to highlight accomplishments, and reengaged the private sector to improve epidemic control.● Strengthened partner country policies, presented data to improve performance, and wrote congressional notifications and budget memorandums for senior leadership.● Synergized global health approaches with UNAIDS, World Bank, UNICEF, Global Fund, to move towards countries’ self-reliance.

● Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Secretary (OGA/IOS)● Advised the Secretary and Acting Secretaries on policy issues, international engagements, and negotiations.● Implemented health policy across 27+ HHS divisions, in consultation with Commerce, DOD, USTR, USDA, USAID, EPA, DOE.● Wrote policy, strategies for bilateral meetings, international speeches, and op-eds e.g. World Health Day.● Represented the U.S. by securing our policy interests in protecting health, national security, intellectual property, and a range of issues with private sector and multilateral groups: G7, G20, APEC, NAFTA, AGOA, Global Fund, World Health Organization, UN.● Negotiated with foreign delegations, advised 70+ person staff, 6+ health attachés, CDC Directors, and 5 global regional offices.● Reformed health and economic policy for multibillion-dollar programs and activities: PEPFAR, Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, & Malaria, GHSA, PMI, Flu, Ebola, opioids, drug demand reduction, U.S.-Mexico Health Commission, and other multilateral affairs.● Approved budgets, grants, and evaluated candidates for positions in international organizations and to hire within the office.

Beachhead and Landing Team - Healthcare, Global Affairs, Public Policy

● Conducted bilateral and multilateral negotiations on security and health issues. Collaborated with multiple states to draft resolutions for policy and diplomatic change. Drafted policy positions for senior officials in the General Assembly of the United Nations Economic and Financial Committee; and General Assembly of the United Nations Social, Humanitarian Affairs, and Cultural Issues.● Certified in International Negotiations & Decision Making in the UN context from UNITAR Clingendael Academy.● Developed and researched foreign policy, managed conference logistics, updated and facilitated the “Manual of Protocol.”

● St. John’s University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences● Analyzed health policies related to Medicaid, SNAP, CHIP, ACA, and published research in scientific journals.● Collected and analyzed qualitative data on homeless populations’ health using epidemiology and Atlas.ti software.● Led weekly workshops on cardiovascular health, food security, and resiliency to educate and improve outcomes.● Conducted in-depth interviews, focus groups, and video storytelling with women and children living in a shelter.

● Led teams to execute a global medical and public health brigade in West Africa.● Chapter founder of the worlds largest student-led global health and sustainable development movement.● Financial lead for purchasing drugs and vaccines, medical supplies, and grants for Ghanaian village Ekumfi, Attakwa.● Advised patients on healthcare options to continue treatment and drug coverage.● Provided medication to fight infectious and non-communicable diseases in-country at the grassroots level.● Quantified disease determinants using epidemiology, Health Informatics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).● Recruited student volunteers and medical professionals forming a medical unit in Ghana, Panama, Nicaragua & Honduras.