I currently serve as the Deputy Assistant USTR for ICT Services and Digital Trade at the Office of the United States Trade Representative.  I joined USTR in 2011.

Prior to that I worked at the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2011.  Most recently, beginning in 2006, I served as Special Counsel in the International Bureau.  Prior to that, I worked in the Wireline Competition Bureau, most recently as Assistant Bureau Chief.  Prior to that position, I served as Senior Legal Counsel to the former Bureau Chief, William Maher. 

This is my second tenure at the federal government.  My first round at the FCC was from 1995 to 1998. I spent my first six months working for Commissioner Rachelle Chong before I began work as a staff attorney in what was then called the Policy Division of the Common Carrier Bureau (essentially the same place I came back to in 2001). I worked on a number of the rulemakings that implemented the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Between stints at the FCC, I worked as an associate in the Communications, Media and Information Technology Group at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, a law firm based in Seattle, Washington, but with a number of offices across the country. I worked fairly extensively with companies such as NEXTLINK (now known as XO) and AT&T Wireless, and a number of other competitive local exchange carriers, Internet service providers and other entities offering new and innovative communications services and technologies.

I graduated from the University of California Law School at San Francisco (formerly Hasting College of the Law) and spent my undergraduate years at California Polytechnic State University.