01 // WHAT IS YOUR GROUP FOCUSED ON RIGHT NOW?
We are currently focused on the roll-out of our newly developed Halliburton Code of Business Conduct online training courses. We tailored these courses to different categories of Halliburton employees, and we are working to provide these classes in multiple languages, via multiple learning methods, so that we can effectively reach every employee at Halliburton worldwide. Under our training strategy, all Halliburton employees will participate in Code-related learning activities at least once every two years by taking our general Code course and/or issue-specific courses such as FCPA, Conflicts of Interest, Discrimination, and Harassment. We are also implementing a program to enhance our corporate focus on due diligence, monitoring, and management of international commercial agent relationships. The guiding principles of this program establish that international commercial agents may only be used when there is a clear business need for services that we cannot provide internally. In such cases, we will consider the use of in-country agents who have the staff, infrastructure, and expertise to provide locally visible representation in a transparent and law-abiding basis. This comprehensive program incorporates checks and balances from legal, finance and accounting, audit, and outside counsel.

02 // WHAT SPECIFIC INITIATIVES HAVE WORKED WELL THAT YOU CAN SHARE WITH OTHERS?
Given the size of Halliburton, we couldn’t possibly reach our entire employee base unless we offered online training in addition to instructor-led training. Our in-house learning management system has enabled us to coordinate and track online and traditional training for all types of employees in all countries. Training on the more complex international commercial agent program required a different approach: we established a training team that traveled to all of our regional sales centers to provide live training to small groups of employees assembled from the regions.

03 // WHAT IN YOUR BACKGROUND HAS MOST PREPARED YOU FOR THIS POSITION?
I spent the better part of my early legal career working side by side with sales and operations for a Halliburton subsidiary. While account managers and business development managers may tend to see ethics and compliance training as a waste of their revenue-generating time, they will pay close attention and will interact if you can make the topics relevant to their daily lives. Preparation and tailoring is the key.

04 // WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT?
Despite all of the training and communication with our internal clients, you never can be certain what employees are really thinking. Are they buying into the message, or are they just telling you what you want to hear so that you will leave them alone? You can’t just train and forget; an effective compliance program obviously requires more. Our approach has been to reinforce training with all of the other elements outlined in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to help promote a culture of compliance.

05 // WHO DO YOU REPORT TO? WHAT ROLE HAS HE OR SHE PLAYED IN THE COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS PROGRAM?
I report to Assistant General Counsel Richard Mize. Richard is the Director of the Halliburton Code of Business Conduct Group. He reports to the General Counsel, and he also provides quarterly reports to the Audit Committee and regularly attends Board of Directors meetings.

06 // WHAT IS THE MOST SATISFYING ASPECT OF YOUR CURRENT JOB?
I have greatly enjoyed being involved in new projects and initiatives from inception to production. It’s been fun envisioning new training courses and web-based tools and working with developers to turn these ideas into tangible tools. When we’ve received positive feedback from users, it really makes me feel like I’m making a difference.