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FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER
Executive Profile

Now Ambassador to the Marshall Islands. Front Office positions since year 2000. Control officer for Presidential visits to Finland, Russia and Mexico. Lead negotiator for U.S.-Russian emergency response agreement. Temporary duty to Kabul and Konduz, Afghanistan leading business and counter narcotics delegations.

Skill Highlights

International Political Affairs, Negotiations, Science, Technology and Health Issues, Public Diplomacy.

As Diplomat in Residence recruited Foreign Service and Civil Service candidates in NY, NJ, CT and PA, administered oral assessment prep and taught two graduate level course at the City College of New York in Harlem. As Consul General in Vladivostok led post in the world's largest consular district, handled US Navy ship visits, American prisoners, commemoration of the Ford-Brezhnev Summit, and USAID, FAS, and Commerce Department activities in the Russian Far East.
  • Development and Disaster Assistance
  • Nuclear Affairs
  • Mentoring
  • Leading American Embassies and Consulates with a 97% approval rating as Chief of Mission versus State Department wide average of 75%.
Core Accomplishments
  • Career highlights include leading a year long drought response in the Marshall Islands.
  • Leading a counternarcotics delegation to Kabul and a business delegation to Konduz, Afghanistan.
  • Serving as lead negotiator for a U.S.-Russian Emergency Response Agreement.
  • Coordinating a humanitarian assistance flight to Magadan, Russia and taking an Arctic Survival Course in Greenland.
  • In Mexico, covered homeland security, migration and narcotics reporting and manage one of the top ten visa posts in the world with a staff of 57 in a stretch position.
Professional Experience
Foreign Service Officer 06/1988 to Current U.S. Department of State Washington, DC
  • HELSINKI, FINLAND - Deputy Director of the Soviet Support Office
  • HAVANA, CUBA - Non Immigrant Visa Chief
  • WASHINGTON, DC - Polar Affairs Officer
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Nuclear Affairs and Political Affairs Officer
  • NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - Consul General
  • NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, Masters from Naval War College
  • DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA - Consul General
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Diplomat in Residence
  • MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS - Ambassador
News Reporter 07/1987 to 05/1988 KGMB-TV, CBS Affiliate Honolulul, Hawaii
  • News Reporter covering environment, science, technology, criminal justice and politics.
Ambassador 08/2012 to Current U.S. Embassy Marshall Islands Majuro
  • Lead U.S. mission in the Marshall Islands, ensure good use of $70 million in Compact of Free Association funding, and.
  • support the U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll's space and missile defense work.
    08/1995
        06/2001 to 01/2003
        06/1988 to 01/2006
        Deputy Chief of Mission 07/2000
        07/2000 Spanish Fast
        Senior Commercial 07/2000
        06/2000 Adv Security O'Seas
        08/1999 EEO/Div Aware MGR
        07/1999 Political Tradecraft
        Russia/Belarus 06/1997
        06/1994 Sci & Tech for Political
        12/1993
        02/1993 Wash Tradecraft
        Education
        OC 10/2008 FO
        FO - 03 10/1994 MSI Commendation 10/1997 FO - 04 08/1992 Group - Superior 08/1993 FP - 04 06/2000
        MS 2004 Naval War College
        MA 2003 St. Mary's University International Relations George Washington Univ ND 1995 Int'l Science & Technology
        BA: Political Science 1980 Western Maryland College Political Science
        FP - 05 06/1989 Group - Superior 10/1990
        Personal Information
        PP - GR Date Description Date
        Additional Information
        • Promotions Awards PP - GR Date Description Date
        Skills
        ADMINISTRATIVE, Army, closing, oral, consultation, Council, government, HR, Office, migration, MSI, Navy, oil, reporting, Russian, scientific, Summit, teaching
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        Resume Overview

        Companies Worked For:

        • U.S. Department of State
        • KGMB-TV, CBS Affiliate
        • U.S. Embassy Marshall Islands
        • Spanish Fast
        • Adv Security O'Seas
        • EEO/Div Aware MGR
        • Political Tradecraft
        • Sci & Tech for Political
        • Wash Tradecraft

        School Attended

        • FO
        • Naval War College
        • St. Mary's University
        • Western Maryland College

        Job Titles Held:

        • Foreign Service Officer
        • News Reporter
        • Ambassador
        • Deputy Chief of Mission
        • Senior Commercial
        • Russia/Belarus

        Degrees

        • OC 10/2008
          FO - 03 10/1994 MSI Commendation 10/1997 FO - 04 08/1992 Group - Superior 08/1993 FP - 04 06/2000
          MS 2004
          MA 2003
          BA : Political Science 1980
          FP - 05 06/1989 Group - Superior 10/1990

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