Ryan Gabriel

• Serve as a Policy Analyst on the Watchlisting and Vetting team in the Screening and Vetting Office (SVO) within the DHS Headquarters Office of Policy (PLCY), Counterterrorism, Threat Prevention, and Law Enforcement Policy (CTTPLE) section

• Provide support and technical assistance to senior leadership and management, including at the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and Under Secretary level, in research of legislation, legislative history, policies, precedents, regulations and laws to support the development of guidance and planning materials, agency directives, policy decisions and development, resource requirements, and the interpretation of homeland security-related policy issuances and regulations, on watchlisting and vetting issue affecting strategic-level U.S. national security interests and international equities

• Provide supporting analyses, evaluations, recommendations, and documentation for section of reports, Congressional Q&As, and briefings delineating policy issues, policy differences, differences of perspectives and opinions, or political, economic, foreign policy, and security complications or consequences of current and proposed policies

• Lead PLCY efforts for the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Actor Detection Program (TADP), managed DHS efforts to transition the TADP from a pilot into a full program, and made Special Protected Classes (SPCs) eligible for TOC watchlisting through collaboration with the interagency and the National Security Council (NSC)

• Served as a Pathways intern with the Resource, Planning, and Evaluation (RPE) team in the Criminal Division's Office of Administration

• Served as member of the deployment team tasked with working with a technology contractor to roll out a new case management system; observed project management lessons learned that are applicable to future project work

• Conducted legislative language research on Criminal Division programs, which was been used in meetings attended by the Division’s Chief of Staff and the Department’s Appropriation Liaison