About Me

I am currently working as Special Counsel and Deputy Division Chief for the Stategic Analysis and Negotiations Division in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.

Previously 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. Bill is now a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP.

This is my second tenure at the federal goverment. I started in 2001 working in the Competition Policy Division of the Bureau. My first round at the FCC was from 1995 to 1998. I spent my first six months working for Commissioner Rachelle B. 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, including the First Local Competition Report and Order (pdf file).

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 Hasting College of the Law (part of the University of California) and spent my undergraduate years at California Polytechnic State University.