Carissa Hudgins

-Serves as a member of the F1 Visa Student Fraud Team, assisting and training other Immigration Services Officers with cases where applicants are attending schools with suspected fraudulent behaviors, threats to National Security, or who have been hired by suspected fraudulent employers across the United States.

-Independently reviews and adjudicates the Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, student categories, to include pre and post-optional practical training, STEM extensions, Economic Hardship, Special Student Relief, and Off-Campus Employment for qualifying international organizations.

-Conducts independent research concerning the eligibility of applicants using a variety of Immigration systems to include ELIS, PCQS, CPMS, SEVIS, BADS, etc.

-Affectively adjudicates the Form I-765 c(5) category which is employment authorization for the spouse or child of a J-1 visa exchange visitor.

-Adjudicates the Form I-765 c(8) category, which is employment authorization for Asylum seekers.

-Assisting with planning, organizing and directing team and task force efforts within the Student Fraud Team.

-As a member of the Student Fraud team, I give guidance to other officers on specific items that need to be asked for in requests for evidence, reviewing the evidence once its received, and making recommendations on whether or not pre or post adjudication referrals to the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate are necessary.

-Mentored six new Officers to the division who had recently learned how to adjudicate the Form-I-765 c(8). Reviewed cases with them, assisted with TECS related issues and resolution memos, and ensured availability for any questions.

-Assists in the planning and development of divisional meetings, creating powerpoints, spreadsheets, and other material to be shared.

-Handles administrative duties and clerical duties for the Division and Site Operation.

-Provides customer service and support to employees within the office building who need to reserve conference rooms or other spaces for various events or meetings.

-Expertise with the use of Microsoft applications such as Word, Powerpoint, and Excel.

-Researching documents, compiling and charting statistical data within the Site Control database, making updates or closing out controls as needed.

-Manages the timely responses given for controls due for the Site Operation in Outlook.

-Requests quotes from vendors for the various contracts utilized by the Site Operation.

-Handles all procurement within the Site Operation and is the current purchase card holder that is in charge of monitoring the budget, creating purchase requisitions, shopping carts, and order logs for items needed by the staff.

-Records and uploads to the Sharepoint site the meeting minutes for the weekly staff meeting and Leadership council meetings.

-Keeps track of the Site Operations Employee Performance Folders, ensuring that all necessary documentation is included.

-Manages various staff members calendars, accepting calendar invites and responding on their behalf.

-Keeps the Program Manager advised of developments and progress concerning various issues that arise within the division.

-Follows-up with the responsible official to expedite the necessary action as well as the final settlement of such issues.

-Performing in office mail duties such as receiving and sending mail for others within the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

-Uses a variety of Microsoft and IRS applications to input, update, retrieve, gather, and generate data.

-Manages internal administrative assignments; monitors activities to ensure timeliness, consistency and completeness; and review responses, reports, and memoranda to develop consolidated responses on behalf of the organization.

-Maintains the Outlook eFax and Rhode Island email inbox. -Uploads and forwards all documents related to Case Advocate's individual cases into the TAMIS system.

-Reviews outgoing correspondence for proper format, grammar, punctuation, and mathematical correctness. Corrects and removes typographical/grammatical errors or returns the document to the originator for correction.

-Assists with screening Case Advocate and Intake Advocate voicemails, and makes call backs to taxpayer's to confirm receipt of documents or to request more information.

-Generates local Outreach events in the Outreach Database, and assists with finding recruitment events in the local area.

-Manages the Local Taxpayer Advocate's calendar, schedules in person/virtual meetings with various individuals and organizations.

-Procures and maintains supplies needed for office and individual employees.

-Extracts and distributes the Next Actions Reports to the team.

-Records the meeting minutes during weekly team meetings and uploads to the Sharepoint webpage.

-Validates employee's time in the IRS timekeeping system, and ensures that all members have correctly input their hours worked, and leave time.

• Established radio communications and operations with mariners in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Pacific, East China Sea, etc
• In charge of personnel security with up crew members, and keeping 150 members up to date with their security clearances
• Established and maintained air guard communications with Coast Guard pilots during search and rescue missions up to 6 times a day
• Gained qualifications on basic firefighting and damage control
• Gained navigational skills
• Worked with a team in order to perform specific tasks related to search and rescue and navigation
• Skilled at Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Word programs
• Performed a variety of administrative duties to include answering telephones, tracking spreadsheets, logistical coordination and procurement, postal duties, office organization, and writing up summaries for various Coast Guard missions accomplished

• Established radio communications operations with mariners in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska
• In charge of personnel security with communications station members, and keeping members up to date with their security clearances
• Established air guard communications with Coast Guard pilots during search and rescue missions
• Collected, arranged and input information into database system