For up to 90 days, I join your ATIP shop as an extra set of experienced hands — on your equipment, inside your security perimeter, where sensitive records belong. I take on the review and severing so your analysts can keep the rest of the queue moving. Not intake, not tasking. Just the severing, done right.
Hands-on review and severing of your release packages — and advice on the ATIP process that produces them.
Working in your case-management and redaction tools, I go through the records page by page — identifying what must be protected and severing it cleanly and consistently across the package.
Every severance is mapped to the right provision so the decision holds up — to the requester, to the OIC, and on review.
You receive a finished release package with severances applied, citations attached, and a short recommendation note for your delegated decision-maker.
Standing up a new ATIP function, or improving one that's straining? I help departments map, streamline, and strengthen the process from intake through release — so files move faster and decisions hold up.
AdvisoryI'm there to take the review and severing off your team's plate — not to run intake, manage consultations, or coordinate tasking. Just the part that needs the most judgment, done alongside your analysts on your own systems, so nothing sensitive ever leaves your environment.
Set up like any term employee — your equipment, your network, your security. The records stay where they belong.
Scope and dates, up to 90 working days, focused squarely on review and severing.
A department laptop, network access, and your case-management and redaction tools — inside your perimeter.
Line by line, applying the exemptions and exclusions consistently, alongside your analysts.
Severances applied and cited, with recommendations for your delegated decision-maker — who keeps the final call.
As a recent retiree engaged on a casual basis, my time with any single federal department is limited to 90 working days per calendar year, per department. Worth talking dates and volume early so we scope the term to make those days count.
Over twenty years inside the federal Access to Information and Privacy world — reviewing records, applying the Acts, and preparing packages that stand up to scrutiny.
After taking early retirement, I'm offering that experience directly to ATIP offices that need reliable, judgment-heavy review without a permanent hire. For the term, I work as part of your team — careful, confidential, and done on time.
Tell me a little about the file — volume, deadline, and the kind of records involved — and I'll let you know how I can help.