
Dynamic leader with extensive experience at the United States Postal Service, excelling in team motivation and operational efficiency. Proven track record in coaching and mentoring staff, enhancing communication skills, and implementing analytical solutions to improve service delivery. Adept at fostering a collaborative environment while ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
• Adjudicate complex and difficult personnel security investigations and security clearance requests.
• Review Reports for Investigations (ROI) for completeness and identify any derogatory information developed during the background investigation; recommending management adjudication.
• Analyze and resolve the most complex personnel security problems with investigations such as the use of highly unusual evidence or testimony.
• Help resolve general clearance paperwork problems.
• Analyze a variety of the most complex conditions and make precedent-setting determinations.
• Grant complex security clearances, and when circumstances warrant, deny security clearances.
• Provide administrative support and leadership to the extent that correspondence and documents are prepared according to the Agency policies and procedures.
• Identify the nature of issues involved and research guidelines to identify the general policies and procedures that apply to the solutions.
• Serve as liaison to schedule and lead Bureau AMS training, initial security briefings, annual security briefings and foreign travel briefings.
• Prepare a variety of non-standard written materials that include investigative findings, analyses, and recommendations for resolving straightforward cases and situations.
• Knowledge of and practical experience with Executives Order 10450 and 12968.
• Knowledge of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (FOIA) guidelines.
• Knowledge of the DOD Regulation 5220.22-M and the National Industrial Security Operating Manual.
• Knowledge of the functions and jurisdictions of other investigative, security, intelligence, law enforcement, Federal, state, and local agencies.
• Coordinate all communications with applicants, employees, supervisors, and contract technical representatives (COTR) for investigation submissions and requirements for any position as described in the OPM Position Designation Tool (PDT)
• Provide support and initiates background investigations via Electronic Questionnaires for Investigation Processing (e-QIP) System.
• Ensure all documents and forms are completed in accordance with OPM.
• Ensure that security clearance are kept up-to-date with agency policies.
• Provide support filing required security records required by the NISPOM.
• Conduct security briefing weekly/monthly.
• Coordinate and drive security clearance process for all new Foreign Service Officer candidates.
• Work with candidates, human resources staff, and security and field investigation personnel to coordinate the processing of top secret clearances for all incoming personnel.
• Manage the process from the initiation of an SSBI into e-QIP, field investigations, and the scheduling of fingerprints and security interviews, through the completion of a final adjudication of clearance.
• Create and maintain a tracking system that provides up to date status information on all pending security clearance investigations, creating transparency and significantly reducing delays in the process.
• Advise the Office of Security and Human Capital and Talent Management leadership on security protocols and procedures pertaining to the Foreign Service.
• Conduct security administrative duties providing support to customers for e-QIP, JPAS / JCAVS, CATS, and Scattered Castles.
• Provide support and process visits for the site visit clearance certification program.
• Monitor sensitive compartmented information (SCI) security clearance requests for background omissions and discrepancies.
• Review SCI security packages for completion and accuracy.
• Generate Form 2018 for SCI processing and compile all required documents such AID 500-3 and the applicant’s current top secret investigation package.
• Coordinate with the CIA on the processing of SCI requests in a timely manner.
• Ensure applications are submitted as required by regulations and in compliance with DOD guidance.
• Access and review various governmental databases such as National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Credit Bureaus, Defense Central Index of Investigations (DCII), and Select Service to determine suitability for employment and to provide support for an adjudicative decision.
• Conduct special requirements such as performing as the Office of Security Duty Officer.
• Independently identify unique and unrelated security actions required for completion of a variety of conventional work assignments.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying, analyzing, and presenting investigative facts to Special Agents and management either in oral and written format.
• Analyze all available resource materials and secure the background of past practice or decisions on sensitive administrative matters.
• Analyze physical security situations with variations in level of security required.
Adjudicated complex personnel security investigations and clearance requests.
Reviewed investigation reports for completeness, identifying derogatory information for management's review.
Analyzed and resolved complex security issues involving unusual evidence or testimony.
Provided administrative support, ensuring compliance with agency policies and procedures.
Granted or denied security clearances based on thorough analysis of circumstances.
Coordinated communications with applicants and supervisors regarding investigation requirements.
Conducted weekly and monthly security briefings for staff and personnel.
Managed tracking system for pending investigations, enhancing transparency and reducing delays.