Janiel Buitrago

APHIS PPQ AID

● Engage in conversation with the travelers to find out whether any tainted agricultural items are in their luggage and to provide pertinent details about any applicable regulations.

● Safeguards U.S. agriculture and natural resources against the entry, establishment, and spread of economically and environmentally significant pests, and facilitates the safe trade of agricultural products.

● Apply federal laws, policies, and regulations related to the job.

● Recognize the agricultural element in primary X-ray scanning and quickly refer to secondary inspection.

● Assemble the information required for each confiscated agricultural product from the passenger. (Where is the product brought from and where was it intended to be taken to)

● Educate and orientate passengers on the dangers and risks of exporting prohibited agricultural products to the mainland.

● Safely transport quarantine material intercepts to the contraband inspection area.

● Cut and inspect the daily fruit and vegetable contraband to identify any plague or pest the agriculture product may have.

● Identify plagues and pests such as mealybugs, fruit worms, and fly larvae such as the fruit fly, among others that could affect agriculture.

● Help refill safety products (trash bags, gloves, and alcohol) in each working station.

● Performed Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Monitoring (AQIM) random survey of passengers in order to accordingly maintain risk analysis and risk management

African Swine Fever (ASF)

● Prevent the passage of prohibited swine products avoiding the spread of African Swine Fever to the US mainland by removing the product from the passenger’s luggage during inspection.

● Assist the African Swine Fever Technicians in the data entry task by uploading daily recovered African Swine Fever data in the agency shared OneDrive.

● Assist in entering the recovered data to the Agricultural Resource

Management Survey (ARMS) Program to ensure the information available is updated for economic and agricultural issues purpose.

• Managed contracts, negotiations, and all aspects of sales to finalize purchases and exceed customer expectations.
• Negotiated, facilitated, and managed real estate transactions.
• Communicated with clients to understand property needs and preferences.
• Educated clients looking to sell or buy on current market conditions, legal requirements, pricing, and mortgages.
• Reviewed and executed confidential documents, contracts and disclosures.
• Maintained connections with clients to encourage repeat business and referrals.
• Presented purchase offers to sellers for consideration.

40 hours per week