Ramon F. Feliciano
CBP Office of Field Operations (OFO), International Operations Advisory Directorate (IOAD)
Charles Town,USA
23
Years of experience
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer with over twenty years of experience in international operations, program management, and intelligence liaison. Accomplished and proven expertise in managing complex global targeting systems, fostering interagency collaboration, briefing foreign leaders and delivering critical training to U.S. partners. U.S. citizen, fluent in Spanish and active TS/SCI clearance.
Work History
CBP Officer / Program Manager, GS-14/07
8 Years 2 Months- $170,985
- Program Manager with the Global Targeting Advisory Division (GTAD), International Operations and Advisory Directorate (IOAD) U.S. CBP, manage the implementation and development of the Automated Targeting System – Global (ATS-G), a CBP/Department of Homeland Security (DHS) vetting program. GTAD establishes information sharing agreements with foreign governments to increase the amount of information available to CBP’s National Targeting Center (NTC). ATS-G supports the United Nation (UN) Security Council Resolutions 2396 and 2178, requiring countries to address the Foreign Terrorist Fighter (FTF) threat by developing and implementing a system that can collect biometric data, create watch-lists and develop the capability to collect, process, and analyze Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR). ATS-G is currently deployed in over 15 countries in the Western Hemisphere (WHEM) and over 45 countries around the world.
CBP Officer / Program Manager, GS-1895-13/06
6 Years 10 Months- $113,132
- Expand the U.S. zone of security beyond the nation’s borders by disrupting human smuggling and trafficking networks through analytical research, targeting and intelligence gathering. Enhance collaboration among entities within the agency such as the Joint Security Program (JSP), the Immigration Advisory Program (IAP), other U.S. government entities and international intelligence partners to effectively expand investigations, arrests, and prosecutions.
Program Manager, GS-12/13
1 Year 11 Months- $74,958
- Responsible for conducting time sensitive in-depth research of high-risk passengers (related to terrorism, criminality, customs, and immigration issues), providing support to U.S. ports of entry. Worked with the Terrorist and Visa Revocation (TVR) Unit and the Pre-Departure teams.
- Became a member of the TVR Unit. This unit work passengers with lookouts or records that couldn’t be vetted during the normal NTC vetting processes, and conducted additional research to find a resolution and decide if the passenger was allowed to travel or was to be offloaded, and kept from traveling to the U.S.
Education
Bachelor’s degree - Criminal Justice
GPA: 3.4
Skills
Program Management: ATS-G
Global Operations
Strategic Planning
Interagency Coordination across 15 countries and 17 locations within the Western Hemisphere
ensuring operational effectiveness and strategic alignment.
Intelligence & Targeting: Human Smuggling & Trafficking
Counter-Network Operations
Passenger Analysis Cargo Examination
Leadership & Communication: International Briefings
Training & Development
Liaison Activities
Cross-Cultural Communication
Language Proficiency: Fluent in Spanish (Read
Write
Speak)
Biometric systems expertise
Policy enforcement
Government policy regulations
Threat assessment
Report writing
Intelligence analysis
Analytical skills
Customs regulations
Accomplishments
- Manage the Automated Targeting System (ATS-G) program for 15 countries in the Western Hemisphere (WHEM), presenting and negotiating user agreements, coordinating system support, upgrades, and providing user training. Engage foreign partners at various levels of government, from the ATS-G system users to agency Secretaries/Ministers, and U.S. government officials at each U.S. embassy.
- Through training and briefings to partners, CBP shares targeting best practices with foreign governments to improve their capabilities to build their own risk management centers that partners with CBP's National Targeting Center (NTC).
- While providing training, learn the needs of each partner. Shared data with NTC to develop rules and effectively target current trends and passengers of interest.
- Represented CBP as part of a DHS headquarters delegation during the October 2021 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) Country review of Chile. Evaluated Chile’s security measures for compliance and contributed to the development of a comprehensive workplan with established deadlines to ensure continued program eligibility.
- Represented CBP on the following assignments:
- CBP Liaison Officer (LNO) to the Department of Defense Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force, Operation Gallant Phoenix in Zarqa, Jordan from March to July 2017. Provided operational and targeting support to DOD’s Foreign Fighter Task Force personnel and the U.S. Law Enforcement Team. This relationship enhanced the amount of actionable intelligence used in CBP systems to make sure these Foreign Fighters don’t travel outside the combat zones.
- CBP LNO to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), from August to November 2016. Provided technical expertise and advice to the SOCOM Commander, on pertinent CBP strategic plans, policies, and activities, in support of CBP and SOCOM strategic interagency relationships. This relationship enhanced the amount of actionable intelligence used in CBP systems to target and share intelligence to build cases and arrest and prosecute Special Interest Aliens and their smugglers, who facilitated their routes through the WHEM into the U.S.
- Joint Security Program Representative (JSP) – Represented NTC/CND on three temporary assignments to Panama (10/2012 to 11/2013 for JSP/NTC data sharing, 03-04/2015 for the Summit of the Americas, 05-06/2016 for Operation Citadel). This relationship enhanced the amount of actionable intelligence used in CBP systems to analyze and target passengers of interest to the U.S.
- Carrier Liaison Program (CLP) Representative – Represented CBP for training assignments to Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Guatemala and Barbados, teaching immigration, customs, airline, and security personnel on how to identify fraudulent documents to enhance border security.
- Acting Watch Commander at NTC floor operations from December 2014 to March 2015.
- While at NTC's Counter Network Division (CND) Alien Smuggling Group:
- CBP Representative to the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, Washington, D.C.
- Representative to the Extraterritorial Criminal Travel (ECT) Leverage Group – Cooperation with DOJ, FBI, HSI, and NSA to identify and prosecute human smugglers and/or traffickers.
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
CBP Officer / Program Manager, GS-14/07
CBP Office of Field Operations (OFO), International Operations Advisory Directorate (IOAD)
04.2018 - CurrentRead More
CBP Officer / Program Manager, GS-1895-13/06
CBP NTC Counter Network Division (CND), Human Smuggling Team
06.2011 - 04.2018Read More
Program Manager, GS-12/13
National Targeting Center-Passenger (NTC-P)
07.2009 - 06.2011Read More
Purdue University Global (Kaplan)
Bachelor’s degree from Criminal Justice
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