• Asked by national franchisor to retake ownership of sold club in 2019 due to interim owner's failure to properly adhere to franchise requirements, which caused significant damage to club's membership numbers, profitability, and reputation.• While working out of state and with a business partner, brought club back to profitability with a large increase in membership and brand reputation, despite difficulties presented by the interim owner's damage and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on fitness facilities

• Conduct deep-dive periodic and trigger reviews of high-risk bank customers in a variety of industries including casinos, marijuana-related businesses, medical groups, law firms, and pawn shops, thoroughly reviewing the customer and the customer’s accounts for instances of potentially unusual financial activity to include money laundering (ML), terrorist financing (TF), and fraud, using both internal databases and external investigative tools.• Perform quality control on reviews conducted by new or temporary employees, providing feedback on specific items needing improvement as well as identified trends.

• Supervised and developed team of financial industry specialists conducting deep dive analysis of business entities and ongoing contractual relationships to ensure risks align to current assigned controls, governance, and industry standards, tracking employee metrics for monthly report to management.• Conducted quality control reviews of team’s work to ensure alignment to SOPs and Due Diligence/AML/BSA investigation procedures.• Used as a subject matter expert (SME) for financial investigations, process enhancements, and risk identification• Led group dedicated to reviewing charity and non-profits, assisted in development of procedures and group processes, and created training for onboarding new analysts

• Hired and managed numerous employees across two facilities with over 1,200 members at each location, emphasizing development, performance management, and retention of employees, tracking a variety of business and team metrics.• Created and implemented controls and business continuity planning within an environment that not only was heavily regulated but was also prone to personal injuries and accidents.• Conducted capital and resource management, continually evaluating the ideal allocation of funds to ensure a positive outcome for both the membership and business, balancing the needs of each• Decreased brand, regulatory, and financial concerns by coordinating regular business evaluations, quickly implementing mitigation for identified issues, as well as provided ongoing training to employees on policies, procedures, and regulatory compliance requirements.• Elevated both franchise locations to top 10% of all Anytime Fitness locations in the United States (over 2,000) based on six-factor metric system that included profitability, customer rating, and number of members.

• Conducted transactional and account analyses using a risk-based approach of instances of potentially suspicious financial activity to include money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud, using both internal databases and external investigative tools. • Produced, reviewed, and submitted reports analyzing and documenting suspicious activity in inputs such as subpoenas, third-party wires, and personal savings accounts, and, when appropriate, filed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) with FinCEN.• Selected as Suite Advisor, responsible for taking on complex cases and risk reviews, assisting with internal alignment and calibration, development and coaching of other analysts, and being a subject matter expert.• Assisted Sanctions group with special project dealing with a significant influx of alerts related to politically exposed persons and OFAC-sanctioned individuals and entities needing to be screened, quickly becoming a team lead to assist, mentor, and review work of other analysts• Performed quality control, escalation review, and filing of alerts initially assigned to other analysts.• Part of a train the trainer group that developed and taught a curriculum teaching presentation and instructing skills.

• Responsible for a multitude of verticals during tenure, to include, but not limited to, as a sergeant overseeing detectives within the Financial Crimes Unit who investigated cases involving embezzlement, identity theft, credit card fraud, elder abuse/vulnerable adult exploitation, and check fraud, in addition to conducting internal investigations of police officer applicants and participating as a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force/Vulnerable Adult Abuse Task Force.• Developed standard operating procedures used within the Financial Crimes Unit and conducted periodic unit reviews to mitigate potential risks that could arise from inappropriate implementation of activities by staff resulting in potential negative media exposure and civil and criminal penalties.• Headed the strategic planning committee that examined patrol schedules, response times, and potential community concerns, and then reviewed newly created processes addressing multiple identified gaps, resulting in a proposal decreasing response times and man hours, while also reducing the organization’s residual risk.• Participated with numerous other law enforcement, public safety, and government agencies in incident management to resolve situations and mitigate risk with often rapidly unfolding events, including crisis situations and disaster recovery.• Created and presented multiple presentations to various groups on topics involving fraud, ID theft, and elder abuse.• Subject matter expert and instructor of comprehensive dispatch, paperless reporting, and records-keeping computer system that was implemented at over 50 public safety agencies.• Performed background investigations of entry-level and lateral police applicants.