Swanson, James

Jim Swanson is currently the Director of the Cargo and Security Controls Division, for Cargo and Conveyance Security, CBP Office of Field Operations.  In that role, he has oversight over cargo release issues, export and bonded facility programs.  This is his second time with these programs as after 9 years as an Inspector with the former U.S. Customs Service he spent 8 years as a program manager/Branch Chief overseeing a number of different cargo programs including cargo release and truck manifest.  He then served as the Area Port Director of Baltimore, Maryland and followed that with four years assigned to the ACE project as the lead for Ocean/Rail manifest development and deployment and the Operational Test Agent for all ACE projects currently under way.