>> My name is Sherika Shaw, and I am currently
the Assistant Director for Workforce Management
at the US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency.
At ICE we're responsible for the
detention and removal of illegal aliens,
domestic criminal activity,
cybercrimes and things of that nature.
I currently support the Chief Financial
Officer's organization, the CFO,
and there I am responsible for the
hiring, the performance management
and training of over 500 employees.
I wish I could say that my job
was more proactive than reactive.
There are some cyclical activities
that happen on a yearly basis.
One of the things that we're working
on right now is performance management,
so managing employees' performance objective
and standards and measuring them against them.
So right now we're looking at employees and
their performance for FY12 so the fiscal year
that ended November-- I'm sorry, September
30th, 2012 and just reviewing performance
and issuing performance awards
and that type of thing,
so that's something that happens every year.
Something else that goes into our-- my job on
a daily basis is the training of our employees.
We do have mandatory training
that is required as an employee
of the Department of Homeland Security.
However within the CFO space, we
do have some training that we would
like our employees to participate in.
That includes project management,
financial management
and there's also what we call the Certified
Financial Government Manager, with is the CGFM,
Certified Government Financial
Manager certification program
that we actually train our
employees to sit for so
that they can become Certified
Government Financial Managers,
so we participate in that training as well.
Additionally, hiring; we
facilitate all of the hiring.
Most of our employees are located here in
Washington, DC in our headquarters offices.
However, we have two field offices, one
in Dallas, Texas as well as Burlington,
Vermont that primarily handle a lot of our daily
financial processing, so invoicing, payments,
accounts receivable, accounts
payables and things like that.
The typical hours I would say are between 9 and
5:30, but just depending on what we're doing,
especially right now as we look to
reengineer the performance management process.
We've been putting in some
additional hours here and there,
so I would say the average day is probably more
like 9 to 6, with occasional late evenings.