He works on various applications processing and regulatory drafting matters and co-leads a team of attorneys in the division's Banking Regulation and Policy group focusing on control of depository institutions under the Bank Holding Company Act and Change in Bank Control Act. He joined the Board in 2006, shortly after receiving his J.D. from Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law. While in law school, he clerked for the Department of Justice and for a sole practitioner in private practice, and was associate editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Washington, D.C. He also holds an M.A. in English from the University of Delaware and B.A.s in English and Honors from Villanova University.