Wesley Gifford Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington, Dc

Washington, Dc

-Serving directly under the project manager, met daily with upper management and key project staff to develop, coordinate, and implement the review and release of Secretary Clinton’s over 30,000 emails-Created from scratch a spreadsheet of over 40 thousand lines to track the review of the emails. This spreadsheet tracked each email through the dozens of internal and external review processes, quality control checkpoints, and clearances required for release-Created a program that saved over 500 man-hours of data entry by automatically integrating and validating data from the Department’s proprietary case management system into the above spreadsheet -Ensured that the project manager’s decisions were communicated to and understood by all necessary members of the 50-plus person team-Selected, assigned, and trained new team members as the project grew-Acted as project manager in her absence; trusted with critical, time-sensitive decisions

Washington, Dc

-Managed all aspects of Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and Mandatory Review cases-Coordinated the Department's response to FOIA requests between bureaus and government agencies-Negotiated the terms and scope of FOIA requests between with the Congressional Offices, advocacy groups, journalists, and lawyers who submit them-Researched and analyzed active and retired State Department records-Managed my caseload of 300-400 cases by developing custom, automated Excel spreadsheets-Trained all other case managers to use my spreadsheet, which is now the standard for the Department-Was the highest producing case manager every year of my employment-Area of responsibility included Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Executive Secretariat, international organizations, and the Intelligence Community

Washington, Dc

-Researched, translated, and analyzed Russian and Ukrainian news sites, government websites, and social media that I used to produce reports, memos, and talking points for policymakers-Analyzed hundreds of photos from news and social media purporting to show Russian interference in Ukraine-Successfully used geographic and metadata analysis to validate a photo proving the involvement of a Russian-backed, Chechen paramilitary group in the conflict before it was reported in the media-Coordinated the State Department's response to Russian aggression in Ukraine between the relevant bureaus, embassies, and executive offices-Translated, summarized, and produced a table explaining hundreds of proposed Ukrainian laws and constitutional amendments for English-speaking policymakers

Supervisory position in a retail outlet

Rutland, Vermont

Set-up and maintained the network and computers at a multi-branch veterinary clinic.

International Affairs, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

Bachelor Of International Relations, International Politics

Graduated Cum Laude Studied at St. Petersburg State University in Russia from January to June, 2010.