Industries Served
United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Conducted financial analysis of over $3-billion dollars of state/tribal awarded funds and provide economic guidance to implement economic programs to create sustainable programs serving communities affected by economic insecurity.
- Conducted reviews, evaluation suspension, debarment policies, and procedures to determine gaps where additional guidance is needed to analyze the impact of new, or proposed legislation on Departmental suspensions and debarment cases, transactions, and operations.
- Responsible for programmatic and fiscal oversight of over $3 billion dollars in ACF grant funds while conducting, planning, development, implementation, and assessment of grant programs that support economic development policies designed to target local, state, and tribal communities.
- Reviewed acquisitions and grants community regulations and other policy issuances for conformity with Department-wide policies for efficacy to maintain internal control of HHS agency’s best practices, and business interests.
United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Conducted financial analysis of over $3-billion dollars of state/tribal awarded funds and provide economic guidance to implement economic programs to create sustainable programs serving communities affected by economic insecurity.
- Conducted reviews, evaluation suspension, debarment policies, and procedures to determine gaps where additional guidance is needed to analyze the impact of new, or proposed legislation on Departmental suspensions and debarment cases, transactions, and operations.
- Responsible for programmatic and fiscal oversight of over $3 billion dollars in ACF grant funds while conducting, planning, development, implementation, and assessment of grant programs that support economic development policies designed to target local, state, and tribal communities.
- Reviewed acquisitions and grants community regulations and other policy issuances for conformity with Department-wide policies for efficacy to maintain internal control of HHS agency’s best practices, and business interests.
United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Conducted financial analysis of over $3-billion dollars of state/tribal awarded funds and provide economic guidance to implement economic programs to create sustainable programs serving communities affected by economic insecurity.
- Conducted reviews, evaluation suspension, debarment policies, and procedures to determine gaps where additional guidance is needed to analyze the impact of new, or proposed legislation on Departmental suspensions and debarment cases, transactions, and operations.
- Responsible for programmatic and fiscal oversight of over $3 billion dollars in ACF grant funds while conducting, planning, development, implementation, and assessment of grant programs that support economic development policies designed to target local, state, and tribal communities.
- Reviewed acquisitions and grants community regulations and other policy issuances for conformity with Department-wide policies for efficacy to maintain internal control of HHS agency’s best practices, and business interests.
United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Responsible for programmatic and fiscal oversight of over $3 million dollars in grant funds while conducting, planning, development, implementation, and assessment of grant programs that support justice policies designed to target local, state, and tribal justice communities.
- Developed, analyzed, and interpreted grant and/or cooperative agreement policies, standard operating procedures, (SOP’s) and guidelines for 200 grantees by ensuring they implement programs to serve law enforcement agencies in the Northeastern regions of the United States.
- Responsible for coordinating and reviewing grant policies, managing, and evaluating the effectiveness of DOJ grants and cooperative agreement programs during the cradle to grave grant process for over $3 million dollars of grant funds ensuring the successful implementation of grant programs for law enforcement agencies from the Mid-Atlantic to Northeast regions of the United States.
- Performed a variety of post-award grants, and cooperative agreement management tasks including conducting post-award reviews and analyses to identify and resolve management, financial, and administrative issues while providing training, technical assistance, oversight, ethical advice, expertise, and consultation to program officials, awardees, and recipients, establishing performance measures and monitoring for over 130 grantees.
Department of Homeland Security(DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Led meetings with external and internal stakeholders performing related work, coordinated innovative ideas and developments. Managed and participated in the development of required economic analysis to support any system decision paper. Expert knowledge of resource allocation procedures such as workforce requirements, programming, budgeting determinations, distribution methods, and related documentation processes.
- Provided expert technical advice and guidance to the agency concerning operational efficiency issues and evaluation of administrative support, staff activities, in the process, prepare complex action plans and schedules for various phases of the program accomplishments, both short and long-range; ensure that plans are consistent with service goals, schedules, and policies affecting state, national and local stakeholders.
- Managed all taskers and responses to the Executive Branch in an appropriate response time and ensuring branch supervisors respond within a specific period; while providing managers, executives and external stakeholders advice on the overall goals and objectives of disaster relief programs leading to millions in cost savings to state and national stakeholders during disaster periods.
United States Department of Education (DOE)
- Conducted in-depth analyses of program data, requirements, and impact; identify problem areas and determine how to resolve them; prepare agency directives, memorandums, service-wide policy statements, and other written guidelines and recommendations relating to the program.
- Created performance measures and logic models to analyze benchmarks of projects supported by federal funds while providing appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedules, and cost for over $5 billion dollars in grant funds.
- Responsible for Program Management undertaking, including aspects such as progress tracking, timelines, scope, cost, while adhering to applicable compliance requirements and federal guidelines for grant programs affecting 99 HBCUs and 24 HBGI programs to improve cost-savings outcomes for $24 million dollar program.
- Provided expert guidance on the development and/or refinement of procedures and systems for establishing, operating, and assessing the effectiveness of administrative systems, such as those designed to prevent fraud waste, loss, (FWA) and the unauthorized use or misappropriation of assets.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S Customs & Border Protection (CBP)
- Provided studies to National Import Specialist (NIS); Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) in communications about companies, trade associations, and other government agencies on CFR policies 19 USC and 18 USC policies, trade, economic and political policy initiatives to facilitate trade within the import community.
- Designed statistical parameters using multiple variables to calculate, target, restrict, and examine anomalies using a variety of technology systems, logical models, and financial methods/formulas to derive high value merchandise. Coordinated the drafting of press releases, safety alerts, and other public notices.
- Worked closely with the Trade communities, Marketing, Business Development, Operations, Legal Counsel, and other stakeholders to define and orchestrate various business strategies, mandates, and regulatory obligations to prohibit dangerous merchandise from entering ports of the United States.
- Served as trade subject matter expert and key source of knowledge and opinion on the classification of millions of commodities imported to the commerce of the United States leading to the recovery of over $2 million in illegal, illicit, and dangerous merchandise from entering U.S commerce.
United States Department of Transportation(DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Provided grant experience and comprehensive knowledge of grants programs to develop grant plans, operating guidelines, strategies, methods to identify, and established grant program requirements, activities to enable selection of highly qualified grant recipients; executed sound awards; and monitor progress. Prepared and submitted required reports; ensure closeout activities are finalized in accordance with OMB requirements.
- Led work groups in identifying and resolving challenging problems, or issues that often cross organizational boundaries impacting the accomplishment of strategic objectives while applying knowledge of FAA's policies and objectives to identify, define, and organized resources for large projects/programs/work activities. Acquired and allocated resources to accomplish activities within established schedules and budgetary requirements.
- Prepared grant award documents to support appropriate levels of effort in compliance with OMB 2 CFR 200, relevant statutory requirements, and legal and other guidance for Aviation and Maintenance grant portfolio of over $3 billion dollars while coordinating with OST as required to prepare annual congressional required reports, assured closeouts activities are completed for all grant awards over $3 billion dollars.