AML Compliance Investigations - led and managed a team responsible for conducting internal compliance reviews to determine the level of compliance with regulations related to the Bank Secrecy Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control, USA Patriot Act, KYC and more.• Conducted internal account/customer reviews to identify potentially suspicious activity• Prepared Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in compliance with established regulatory guidelines and time frames• Directed high level, complex case investigations that include customer account activity in response branch referrals, automated alerts, OFAC alerts, internal referrals, legal action, subpoenas, court orders, 314(a) and 314(b) requests• Reviewed and approved investigations and resulting SARs for correct investigation techniques, proper identification of suspicious activity and accuracy before filing with FinCEN

Senior field manager (Homeland Security Investigations, USICE, DHS) with both administrative and operational responsibility for over 300 employees, comprised of enforcement and support personnel, assigned to offices in Douglas, Nogales, Sells and Tucson, Arizona. • Managed, planned and directed significant and successful investigations in all HSI investigative disciplines - investigations were complex and long term in nature• Implemented numerous priority investigative operations and programs• Conducted numerous congressional briefings for U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and a myriad of congressional staff members• Conducted numerous briefings for Senior DHS Staff, to include the Director, ICE, and numerous senior HSI officials• Conducted numerous media interviews, to include both print and television

Senior field manager with both administrative and operational responsibility for over 50 employees, comprised of special agents and support personnel, assigned to offices in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga, whose area of responsibility encompassed the entire state of Tennessee.

Field manager with both administrative and operational responsibility for approximately 15 employees comprised of special agents and support personnel, assigned to Indianapolis, whose area of responsibility encompassed the entire state of Indiana.

U.S. Customs Service/Office of Investigations - Supervised a financial investigations group/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force comprised of Special Agents from U.S. Customs, FBI and DEA; and Detectives from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, the Pima County Attorney’s Office and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, charged with financial/money laundering investigations and asset forfeiture.

U.S Customs Service/Office of Investigations - Program manager responsible for the development and delivery of a block of instruction to students attending the Strategic Investigations Training Course at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center regarding U. S. Customs’ role in combating terrorism and acted as a subgroup leader (Chaired by the Deputy Assistant Secretary/Enforcement, Treasury) on the National Security Council’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness, Consequence Management and Protection Group.

U.S. Customs Service/Office of Investigations - Planned, organized and conducted significant and successful investigations in the investigative disciplines of money laundering, customs fraud, intellectual property rights, export enforcement and drug smuggling. Conducted a successful three-year trade based/hawala money laundering investigation, the significance of which was featured in Forbes Magazine and Money Laundering Alert. In 1997, served on a one year detail to the U.S House of Representatives, Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

Office of Inspector General/Office of Investigations - Conducted investigations related to fraud against the government, false claims, false statements, bribery, embezzlement, conflicts of interest, collusion, kickbacks and various other Federal statutes.