Member Spotlights

What is your role at RTX?

I am the senior director of the Ethics & Business Conduct team at Raytheon, an RTX business. I am responsible for reinforcing the company’s commitment to acting with integrity by building an ethics program focused on empowering all employees to model the guiding principles and values in our Code of Conduct to promote a Speak Up culture and achieve business goals. 

What is one way that you and your organization use DII?

At RTX, we use DII as an important resource for our Ethics & Compliance teams to engage on key topics in our field and for networking with our colleagues in the government and at other companies.  The webinars and the Best Practices Forum are great ways for us to stay on top of emerging issues and to help shape how our industry is tackling complex issues.

What is a fun fact about yourself?

While I was born and raised in southern California, I consider myself a Francophile at heart and was lucky enough to live in Lyon, France, in college, although my language skills today aren’t what they were 20 years ago.  C’est la vie!

What is your role at Guidehouse?

I provide support through our legal department by analyzing the various risks to the company and employees and then creating solutions that can balance the needs of both while being a trustworthy and empathetic resource to employees.

What is one way that you and your organization use DII?

We’ve been able to reach out to other defense professionals for advice on how they have handled ethics and compliance situations. I think the annual forum provides such rich knowledge to bring best practices to our ethics and compliance program.

What is a fun fact about yourself?

The industries I supported earlier in my career were very far from government contracting (residential and commercial real estate), but my positions have had an element of ethics and compliance, so it was definitely meant to be for me to eventually work in Ethics & Compliance

What is your role at Microsoft?

I lead Microsoft Federal Legal Compliance, Governance and Operations (CGO) Group with a team of attorneys and business professionals in the legal department focused on compliance for our $6B Microsoft Federal business unit which provides technology solutions like cloud, AI, and mission related technologies to the US government. We work closely with Microsoft’s Global legal compliance team, as well as compliance business and legal partners in state, local and regulated industries.

What is one way that you and your organization use DII?

We really embrace being a part of a forum where members share compliance and ethics best practices. We benefit greatly from the collective knowledge of hundreds of years of deep defense industry experience within DII when it comes to driving a culture of compliance throughout organizations.

What is a fun fact about yourself?

I spent the first part of my career as a Navy Surface Warfare Officer traveling to over 35 countries as part of deployments and missions with the UN and NATO.

What is your role at L3Harris?

I lead a team of about 18 E&C professionals to manage and continuously improve our company’s ethics program (our company is about 47,000) employees with 6,000+ in other countries like Canada, UK, Australia, and Italy).

What is one way that you and your organization use DII?

To me the most valuable part of DII is networking with other members offline using Member Connect and in-person during the annual Best Practices Forum (BPF) to share ideas and learn how others are implementing their respective ethics programs.

What is a fun fact about yourself?

I love traveling and I love tennis (watching and playing). I just recently visited Indian Wells, California to watch some of the best tennis players in the world complete up close which was exciting.

Why did Louis Berger Services join DII?

We wanted to join and be part of a group of defense contractors who have committed to reasonable ethical principles. Joining is an extension of our own commitment to business ethics/government contractor compliance, and provides Louis Berger Services a networks of professional advice, templates, and tools suitable for DOD contractors.

What is one way that you and your organization use DII?

The goal was to have Louis Berger be part of an organization specifically focused on Ethics that aligns with our business. Louis Berger Services plans to utilize DII to gather more insight on new ideas, strategies, best practices from those more closely tied to our industry to ensure continuous improvement of the ethics & compliance program.

What is a fun fact about yourself?

At 16, when I was living in Southern California, I finished high school early and ran away to Europe. I taught myself how to work on cars and became an auto mechanic which helped me pay for my local college courses. I also learned how to ride a Harley and traveled throughout the continent. I lived there for 4 years. I was a lot more adventurous then.