2006 November - wins the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy.[26] 2007 June - Charge D'affaires, U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan 2009 July - Nominated as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea; confirmed by the US Senate on December 24, 2009.[27] 2012 March - Coordinator for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC).