• Senior program and global security specialist with over twenty five years of experience contracting with USAID, MCC, DfID, and other donors • Experienced in analysis and evaluation of risk for operations worldwide, including natural disaster mitigation planning • Site risk assessments for high profile, high risk projects• Experienced budget analyst, monitoring; financial management• Contract compliance, strategic planning, reporting• Multilingual: English (native), French, Spanish, Chinese• Familiar with challenging environments worldwide; responsible for networking (particularly communications and operations) of projects by country/by technical specialty• Experienced with project management and site security in: Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. • Developed corporate risk matrix and tripwire planning for assessment of viability of operations in high risk environments• Experienced with work/risk environments in conflict areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq• Active within the USAID contracting and security community and enjoy networking activities with others working in similar fields of specialization• Committed to collaborative efforts between colleagues, technical specialists, and other like organizationsSpecialties: project management, political and economic risk analysis, OTI rapid project start-up implementation, security risk analysis and development of emergency planning and preparation, USAID contract management expertise, financial monitoring and projections, communication skills, crisis management, writing capability, proposal writing, training and workshop facilitation