Built and led a highly effective investigations program and created a high-performance efficient and skilled organization of three teams of 15 individuals performing over 1,000 varied mission-critical investigations of violations of U.S. sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering laws and regulations as well as breaches of corporate policy Collaborated across numerous Compliance divisions such as multiple Anti-Money Laundering units financial crime investigations teams and business units worldwide as well as both in-house and external counsel * Oversaw and implemented a program delivering approximately 500 voluntary self-disclosures (VSDs) license requests and other pertinent reporting to the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as well as U.S. government bodies such as the Office Clients Served Acting Deputy Country Attach� for OFAC - Mexico City, worked closely with executive level U.S. Embassy-Mexico officials and Mexican banks * Lead sanctions investigator for Afghanistan/Pakistan narcotics division, provided management and guidance in the absence of leadership to a staff of seven investigators in Washington, DC and Kabul, Afghanistan * Protected U.S. financial system through sanctions of ten foreign narcotics traffickers, organized crime groups and businesses * Produced 100+ leads for OFAC narcotics designations through aggressive contact with Government of Mexico, Mexican banking sector, and U.S. Embassy channels (Customs and Border Protection, Drug Enforcement Administration, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Immigration, Customs Enforcement, and State Department and others) * Traveled to Berlin and Munich, Germany to liaise with German law enforcement and intelligence services to further domestic and German law enforcement and OFAC investigations against narcotics traffickers * Produced Presidential (Kingpin) designations, named by the President of the United States and Secretary of the Treasury * Targeted narcotics and organized crime organizations in Afghanistan, Colombia, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela * Granted removal of at least 10 reformed sanctioned individuals from OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals list CIA FBI Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) * Disrupted at least 15 foreign narcotics and money laundering networks * Disseminated approximately 250 analytical intelligence products throughout the intelligence community to shed light on intricate details about foreign narcotics trafficking organizations * Liaised with foreign law enforcement entities in order to disrupt and dismantle several narcotics networks Made recommendations to Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) based on analysis of foreign companies attempting to
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