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In addition, I served as a subject matter expert providing senior leadership with prompt, real time information regarding ongoing sensitive HSI investigations and significant enforcement operations. I monitored that all investigative program directives were implemented in conformance with agency priorities while evaluating the productivity of HSI field offices by conducting assessments to determine office strengths and identifying areas that could be improved. Finally, I served as an advocate acting as an extension of each domestic office I had the pleasure of representing keeping the best interests of those offices in mind with regards to securing funding for investigative operations, travel and training. During my tenure as an Operations Manager I had the honor and distinction of representing HSI\u00e2\u0080\u0099s largest and most productive Special Agent in Charge offices to include New York, Buffalo, Boston, New Orleans and Dallas. \n", "location": "Washington, DC", "title": "Operations Manager - HSI Domestic Operations Division", "startedOn": {"month": 1, "year": 2015}, "companyUrn": "urn:li:fs_salesCompany:533534"}, {"posId": 499195385, "new": false, "current": false, "endedOn": {"month": 1, "year": 2015}, "companyName": "U.S. House of Representatives", "description": "As a Congressional Fellow having served as the ICE liaison to U.S. Congressman Filemon Vela, Jr. I had the unique opportunity to advise the Congressman on HSI\u00e2\u0080\u0099s specialized mission as it related to border security. During my tenure, Mr. Vela served as a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, which is responsible for oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement while also sitting on the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies. 2014 marked a year of significant potential homeland security threats which included the West Africa Ebola virus outbreak, the largest outbreak in history having affected multiple countries as well as the Southwest Border\u00e2\u0080\u0099s massive influx of over 68,500 Unaccompanied Alien Children from Central America directly affecting the Rio Grande Valley and having major implications on Congressman Vela\u00e2\u0080\u0099s district. I led the office and participated in daily briefings of situational reports from a multitude of DHS agencies to include Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Health and Human Services\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Office of Refugee Resettlement. I briefed the Congressman on a regular basis keeping him apprised of breaking developments during the crisis. In addition to providing advice and guidance on matters related to homeland security, I also attended meetings related to issues covering education, energy and small business and wrote reports which summarized those meetings for the Congressman and his Chief of Staff. I served as the primary liaison during meetings with various federal, state and local government and private industry stakeholders. I communicated weekly and provided ICE HSI senior leadership details on policy issues that directly affected the Department of Homeland Security, specifically ICE. I routinely provided Congressman Vela and his staff with briefings and presentations on HSI equities. ", "location": "Washington, DC", "title": "Legislative Fellow - ICE Office of Congressional Relations", "startedOn": {"month": 1, "year": 2014}, "companyUrn": "urn:li:fs_salesCompany:3921"}, {"posId": 499195220, "new": false, "current": false, "endedOn": {"month": 1, "year": 2014}, "companyName": "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)", "description": "As an International Operations Manager assigned to the Europe Desk I represented HSI attach\u00c3\u00a9 offices located in Rome, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; and The Hague, The Netherlands. On a daily basis I planned, organized, and coordinated all operational and administrative duties and worked with directly with the Attach\u00c3\u00a9 and Deputy Attach\u00c3\u00a9 to support requests from HSI domestic field offices as well as other government agencies seeking information with regard to ongoing criminal investigations. I facilitated and coordinated all foreign travel requests with Department of State personnel stationed in foreign embassy\u00e2\u0080\u0099s for HSI special agents and accompanying personnel. I collaborated with ICE HSI headquarters\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Financial Management division team members to review office budgets to ensure attach\u00c3\u00a9 offices received sufficient funding allowing the offices to adequately perform all operational and administrative duties. Other obligations included representing ICE HSI International Operations on domestic diplomatic relation events with foreign embassy counterparts. Moreover, I had the distinction of briefing Ambassador Designate Timothy M. Broas on ICE HSI\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mission overseas prior to him assuming his role as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands. Further, I volunteered and successfully completed the congressionally mandated Visa Security Program (VSP) Information Training, a three week specialized course, designed to interdict criminals, terrorists, and others who would exploit the legal visa process to enter the U.S. Subsequently, I traveled to Indonesia for approximately three weeks to work at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta implementing my newly acquired skills in support of HSI Jakarta\u00e2\u0080\u0099s VSP initiative. \n\n", "location": "Washington, DC", "title": "Operations Manager - HSI Office of International Operations, Europe", "startedOn": {"month": 3, "year": 2013}, "companyUrn": "urn:li:fs_salesCompany:533534"}, {"posId": 499195171, "new": false, "current": false, "endedOn": {"month": 3, "year": 2013}, "companyName": "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)", "description": "As a Program Manager for HSI\u00e2\u0080\u0099s National Gang Unit (NGU) I oversaw four regional Operation Community Shield Task Forces based out of Special Agent in Charge offices located in St. Paul, MN; Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; and Birmingham, AL. Operation Community Shield is an international law enforcement initiative that combines HSI\u00e2\u0080\u0099s expansive statutory and civil enforcement authorities to combat the growth and proliferation of transnational street, prison and outlaw motorcycle gangs throughout the U.S. With assistance from state, local, tribal and foreign law enforcement partners, the initiative helps HSI locate, investigate, prosecute, and immediately remove gang members from the U.S. Under the auspices of Operation Community Shield, I provided support for local HSI office Gang Group Supervisors regarding case coordination and funding requests. I coordinated training and certified over 400 HSI and ERO personnel from over twenty-five offices on the ICEGangs database. In addition to training, I initiated a global information network comprised of approximately 100 HSI special agents and intelligence analysts used to disseminate current intelligence on outlaw motorcycle gang criminal activity. Further, I planned, strategized and executed various logistic and operational aspects for the NGU\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 2012 Training Course and Symposium in Atlanta, GA attended by approximately 250 HSI special agents. Most significantly, I was a member of the team that received the 2012 ICE Director\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Award for DHS Partnership for work on Operation Barbed Wire. Following the issuance of Presidential Executive Order 13581 entitled, \u00e2\u0080\u009cProtect the Financial System and Strategic Markets against Transnational Organized Crime\u00e2\u0080\u009d, HSI partnered with the Department of Treasury\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Office of Foreign Assets Control to officially designate MS-13 as a Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO). This is the first time a street gang has been designated as a TCO. 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As the Gang Investigation Coordinator I worked with various law enforcement partners to identify, locate and arrest violent transnational street gang members. I initiated numerous anti-gang enforcement operations resulting in over 100 federal criminal/administrative arrests. I served as the office Victim-Witness Coordinator working with multiple Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Finally, I frequently participated in public speaking engagements to various civic, religious and governmental organizations resulting in stronger relationships with the community. Recognized for my leadership ability and dedication, I was temporarily promoted as a GS-14, Acting RAC. From July 2010 to November 2010, I supervised four HSI special agents and one administrative Mission Support Specialist. 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