Rita Miranda
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
Objective: Import Manager role in a global aerospace or defense organization where I can leverage 25+ years of trade-controls expertise to streamline operations, drive cost savings, and maintain best-in-class compliance.
- An experienced compliance professional specializing in trade controls with increasing responsibilities in the commercial and defense industries.
- Fulfilled a crucial role in Honeywell's unprecedented achievement of exiting its Department of State (DoS) Consent Agreement ahead of its stated termination date by overhauling export compliance procedures.
- Designed and implemented a process to capture and report $200 million in annual engineering assists to CBP.
- Drove closure of $8.4 million in Temporary Import Bonds and managed customs bonds across 50 importer numbers.
- Launched a CBP Reconciliation Prototype Program covering 36 Importer-of-Record numbers, $1.5 billion in entries, and 84 % of the total business unit imports.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Export Compliance Officer/Training and Comms Lead
Honeywell International Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
01.2022 - Current
- Supported the successful exit of an external audit of an Aerospace site mandated by the DoS consent agreement by documenting the interviews with site personnel, providing updates to auditors on process improvements implemented after a previous audit, and helping gather and provide auditors with requested documents and records.
- Reviewed license requests in OCR EASE Global Trade Management Software and managed Department of Commerce license applications.
- Collaborated with the Compliance Investigations team to collect and analyze data related to ITAR-regulated hardware returns, identifying root causes and supporting resolution of regulatory issues during the import process.
- Deployed the Export & Sanctions Certification Program consisting of 8 Modules: moderated 50+ sessions, certifying 600+ employees.
- Redesigned the quarterly Export & Sanctions Certification Program, saving 70+ team hours per quarter.
- Oversaw the execution, organization, and facilitated monthly all hands meetings and Export Bulletins that are disseminated to the entire organization.
- Reviewed, updated, and implemented comprehensive export compliance training to drive overall compliance with export laws and regulations.
- Successfully rolled out the updated Export Certification Program for Q3, resulting in an improvement that will save the overall team more than 70 hours per quarter during the training availability.
- Established an end-to-end process for developing and publishing new export compliance procedures, as well as regularly reviewing and updating existing export procedures and forms.
- Partnered with business and functional teams across the enterprise, as well as Export Compliance personnel, to implement corrective actions resulting from two external audits.
- Project-managed a major Technology Control Plan refresh: tracked updates across 100+ global sites.
Lead Import Compliance Officer
Honeywell International Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
11.2007 - 01.2022
- Supervised 14-member team and compliance for 59 sites: classification, valuation, origin declarations, CBP inquiries, and FTAs while driving savings initiatives and cycle-time reductions.
- Recovered $3 million from a non-performant supplier by consolidating claim-support data.
- Developed and implemented a business-wide automated process to notify the Import Compliance Team of upcoming imports to enable assigning a Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) in advance, which resulted in cutting Customs Broker queries by 40%.
- Launched a CBP Reconciliation Prototype Program covering 36 Importer-of-Record numbers, $1.1 billion in entries, and 84 % of the total business unit imports.
- Key data contributor to a Honeywell petition to the U.S. International Trade Commission to obtain temporary duty suspension on aircraft brake segments via the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB), which delivered $1.5 million in duty savings.
- Designed and implemented a process to capture and report $200 million in annual engineering assists to CBP.
- Conducted internal audits and supported CBP audits, provided details to outside counsel to submit prior disclosures to CBP, reviewed internal processes and procedures, and implemented corrective actions.
- Centralized recordkeeping for 95 importer numbers across 15 servers, boosting accessibility and audit readiness for the Reconciliation Prototype and Duty Drawback Program processes.
- Maintained HTSUS updates provided by Customs Info in Global Trade Services (GTS) and trained new GTS and SAP users.
- Drove closure of $8.4 million in Temporary Import Bonds and managed customs bonds across 50 importer numbers.
- Trained, interfaced, and improved communications with multiple, vital functional departments to resolve issues and ensure that established procedures continued to provide the necessary information for import compliance.
Manager, Import Compliance Operations
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Baltimore, MD
01.2006 - 07.2007
- Optimized import-compliance workflows across multiple sites; led cross-functional teams to standardize procedures.
Export/Import Specialist and Foreign-Trade Zone Administrator
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Baltimore, MD
01.2001 - 12.2005
- Ensured all shipments met US Customs, EAR, and ITAR requirements.
- Administered a Foreign-Trade Zone program, achieving $350 K in duty savings.
- Managed a duty-drawback initiative yielding $100 K in annual refunds.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Webster University
BS - Business Administration, International Business with an emphasis in Latin America
University of Arizona
Certificate - Leadership Development Program
Johns Hopkins University
Skills
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- US Customs Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
- SAP Global Trade Service (GTS)
- OCR EASE Global Trade Management Software
- Records management
- Change management
- Problem solving
- Process improvement
- Document review
Timeline
Senior Export Compliance Officer/Training and Comms Lead
Honeywell International Inc.
01.2022 - Current
Lead Import Compliance Officer
Honeywell International Inc.
11.2007 - 01.2022
Manager, Import Compliance Operations
Northrop Grumman Corporation
01.2006 - 07.2007
Export/Import Specialist and Foreign-Trade Zone Administrator
Northrop Grumman Corporation
01.2001 - 12.2005
MBA - Business Administration
Webster University
BS - Business Administration, International Business with an emphasis in Latin America
University of Arizona
Certificate - Leadership Development Program
Johns Hopkins University
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