Brian J. Aurelio

·       Promoted to a senior position February 2023.

·       Evaluate, investigate, and make determinations on civil rights complaints by reviewing the complaint and additional documentation, interviewing the complainant, sending recipients data requests, interviewing recipient employees, and onsite visits as appropriate.

·       Mediate settlements to resolve civil rights complaints.

·       Monitor resolution agreements to ensure ongoing compliance with civil rights laws.

·       Completed Partnership for Public Service’s Excellence in Government Fellowship program for the 2020-2021 term where I led my team to develop automated dismissal templates for the OCR-Dallas office.

·       Member of National Auto-text Team

·       Chaired the Case Processing Subcommittee of various Employee Engagement councils under two administrations.

·       Supervised a group of 11-14 employees including attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, and IT professionals. This includes providing training and reviewing decision drafts for four new attorneys and one new paralegal. Recognized within the region for improving performance of the attorneys I supervised, resulting in an attorney from another office assigned to me to improve performance.

·       Responded to labor relations issues in consultation with the Regional Office to ensure uniformity, including grievance responses, conducting and note taking in Weingarten meetings, an EEO response, and making recommendations on conduct and performance actions.

·       Advised Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) on a variety of issues including dismissals, special needs trusts, potentially fraudulent claims, overpayments, and negotiating amended alleged onset dates with representatives based on earnings.

Participated in cadres for new decision writer training and Hearing Office Case Analyst training where I helped develop training material and deliver training on mentoring, reviewing decisions to provide feedback, and drafting dismissals.

·       Drafted disability determination, overpayment, and continuing disability review decisions for ALJs.

·       Advised ALJs on complex legal issues arising from their cases including reopening a prior decision for fraud or similar fault, common law marriage for survivor’s benefits, and contract enforceability for determining in kind support for Title 16.

Participated in Employee Engagement Team on two consecutive 120-day details where I assisted Senior Executives and the Team with all major projects including national leadership training for all managers, creating a new pilot position within the hearing office, a training satisfaction survey, and drafting multiple communications sent to all ODAR employees from ODAR headquarters components.