Digital Forensic Lead (CBP)

Evidence handling follows chain of custody every time, not only when a case looks like it will matter.

Your process would survive being challenged by someone whose job is to find the flaw in it.

Nothing you needed for an analysis is missing because it was not preserved in time.

Your analysis answers the question that was actually asked, not the version of it that was easiest to investigate.

Where evidence is ambiguous, you say so rather than rounding up to a conclusion the evidence does not fully support.

Timelines you build reconcile activity across systems rather than describing one system in isolation.

Incident response, threat hunt, and insider threat monitoring get findings framed for what they need to act, not a raw technical dump.

Findings that support disciplinary, legal, or law enforcement action are documented to the standard those processes require.

You can explain a technical finding to a non-technical decision maker without losing what matters about it.

Case types that recur get a faster, more consistent process each time, not reinvestigated from scratch.

Tooling and technique choices get reviewed against what actually worked in real cases.

Lessons from a case change the program's practice, not just that one investigation.

You have led digital forensic investigations that produced findings used for disciplinary, legal, or law enforcement action, not only internal analysis.

You can describe how you maintain chain of custody and why it matters for a finding to hold up.

You have worked forensics in a federal or highly regulated environment and know what that adds to evidentiary standards.

You have delivered a forensic finding to a non-technical audience, legal, HR, or leadership, and can describe how you framed it.

You hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance. Any of these shortens your start date.

Certifications such as GCFE, GCFA, or EnCE are useful, but they are not a substitute for having produced findings that held up.