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and to ensure that strategic trade benefits U.S. companies and allies while
denying attempts by adversaries to acquire sensitive U.S. Technology.

Before retiring, I served as the Unit Chief, Programs, NSPD, reporting di-
rectly to the Assistant Director of NSPD and managed: the FBI Chicago
Task Force Section, Entity List Submissions, Entity List Appeals, Tempo-

rary Denial Orders, Investigative FOIA Appeals, and security-related spe-
cial projects. In addition, I served as OEE’s senior liaison to the U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia’s Law Enforcement Manager Task

Force. Simultaneously, I was the senior enforcement liaison to four State
Department working groups dealing in missile, nuclear, and technology
transfer interdiction efforts.

Prior to my reassignment to NSPD, I served many years as the BIS Deputy
Director for Programs at the Export Enforcement Coordination Center,
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Department of Homeland

Security (DHS). At DHS, I was permanently ‘on loan’ from BIS, serving
as an HSI manager reporting to an HSI executive. My primary responsi-
bility was to manage the deconfliction of investigations between DHS and
BIS and the over 10 inter-agency law enforcement partners. In addition,

amongst the various agencies, I was responsible for the coordination of
investigative leads, licensing, outreach, and statistical reporting.

Before the DHS assignment, I was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge

(ASAC) of the OEE Washington Field Office. As a longtime ASAC, I
oversaw the day-to-day operation of a field office with an investigative
jurisdiction covering nine states. Serving as ASAC, I led the arrest of

criminal suspects and oversaw search warrants at multiple sites simultane-
ously. To ensure that the OEE Washington Field Office was kept abreast
of trends, I attended high-level enforcement and intelligence briefings in
Northern Virginia, Northern and Central Maryland, Ohio, and Washington,

D.C.

My assignment before ASAC was Unit Chief, International Programs, Of-

fice of Enforcement Analysis (OEA), BIS. As the International Programs
Unit Chief, I was responsible for ‘standing up’ the office and managing the
eight Special Agents stationed at our U.S. embassies abroad; serving as an
Export Control Officer (ECO), charged with representing our interest at

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