Experience

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  Afghanistan War Commission

  • Budget Analyst

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  The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration

  • Temple, Texas / Arlington, VA, United States

  • Finance Coordinator

    • Mar 2022 - Present
    • Temple, Texas / Arlington, VA, United States

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  National Commission on Military Aviation Safety

  • Temple, TX / Arlington, VA, United States

  • Budget Analyst

    • Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
    • Temple, TX / Arlington, VA, United States

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  National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service

  • Temple, TX / Arlington, VA

  • Budget Analyst

    • Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
    • Temple, TX / Arlington, VA

    Managed the budget and execution of the $15 mil. appropriated by Congress to review the military selective service process (commonly referred to as "the draft") and to consider methods to increase participation in military, national, and public service. The commission's mission was to listen to the public and learn from those who serve and have yet to serve to recommend ideas to foster a greater ethos of military, national, and public service to strengthen the American democracy.

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  Pharma Intelligence | Informa

  • telework

  • Reporter

    • Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
    • telework

    Freelance, then full-time, reporter at online trade journal covering regulatory, legislative, legal, scientific and market developments across the personal-care, cosmetics and over-the-counter drug sectors

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  National Commission on the Future of the Army, U.S. Dept of Defense

  • United States
  • Armed Forces
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Budget Analyst

    • Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

    • Lead Budget Analyst in commission under the Office of the Secretary of Defense that conducted a comprehensive study of the roles, structure, and policy assumptions related to the size and force mixture of the Army• Managed the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of ~$10 million funds• Enforced language in the National Defense Authorization Act, which provided NCFA’s statutory authority • Coordinates, analyzes, processes, tracks and obligates all financial requirements in accordance with financial management regulatory and statutory requirements• Security Clearance: Active Secret

  • Lead Budget Analyst

    • Feb 2011 - Mar 2015

    • Lead Analyst in the Comptroller’s office of TFBSO, an expeditionary task force under the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Policy, DoD, that coordinated economic development projects in Afghanistan. Worked with Program Managers and Acquisition staff to manage the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of ~$250 million yearly funds• Prepared weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual and situational reports to Army Central Command, OSD Comptroller, Government Accountability Office, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress• Coordinated, analyzed, processed, tracked and obligated all financial requirements in accordance with financial management regulatory and statutory requirements• Assisted TFBSO Director and Comptroller in programming annual budget for presentation and justification to Congress• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures document to establish best practices and train incoming budget staff• Security Clearance: Active Secret

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  American Association for Justice

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Press Secretary

    • Dec 2009 - Jan 2011
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Promoted the civil justice system and interests of AAJ members through press releases, pitching stories to reporters, and connecting reporters to appropriate legal experts• Managed communications concerning the 2010 BP oil spill through regularly working with major broadcast, print and radio news outlets to book interviews with Gulf Coast disaster victims while promoting AAJ’s legislative agenda in aftermath of the spill • Wrote opinion editorials for AAJ President that appeared regularly in The Huffington Post, as well as in newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and Roll Call (a Washington, D.C. newspaper that covers Capitol Hill)

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  Elsevier

  • Rockville, MD

  • Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Reporter, "The Pink Sheet"

    • Feb 2007 - Dec 2009
    • Rockville, MD

    • Covered clinical, regulatory and legislative issues affecting the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for daily and weekly print/web trade publication• Regularly interviewed pharma and biotech CEOs, scientists, FDA officials and industry experts • Assigned to the “regulatory” beat, primarily covering FDA advisory committee meetings, where expert panels review clinical trial data in New Drug Applications, recommending for or against FDA approval of drugs and biological medications• Covered House and Senate hearings on issues concerning the pharma industry; late-stage (Phase II and III) clinical trial results; quarterly industry sales and earnings reports

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  Roll Call

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Editorial Intern

    • Sep 2005 - Dec 2005
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Reporter for “Around the Hill” section of Roll Call, a Washington, D.C., newspaper that covers national politics and Capitol Hill

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  The Hour

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Washington Correspondant (Intern)

    • Sep 2005 - Dec 2005
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Covered Connecticut’s 4th District U.S. House and Senate delegation for daily Norwalk, CT newspaper• Interviewed members of Congress, press secretaries, field experts and constituents for news and feature stories

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  NPR

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Music Unit Intern

    • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Script writer for classical music show Performance Today