Watch Commander, Fines, Penalties, & Forfeiture Office, Miami International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Branch Chief, Tactical Operations, Miami International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Director, Miami CTPAT Field Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Over the next decade, Mr. Ginn served in a variety of positions, to include Supervisor of the Carrier Initiative Program (CIP), Business Anti-Smuggling Coalition (BASC) and the America’s Counter Smuggling Initiative (ACSI). He has also served on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) review boards for aircraft investigations representing the US Customs Service. Mr. Ginn also reviewed penalties to establish culpability and mitigating factors prior to issuance as well as penalty petitions submitted by shareholders for mitigation and off-set.
Following the events of 9/11, Mr. Ginn was called to headquarters of the newly established U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to join a team and developed the framework for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT). In 2003, Mr. Ginn was selected as the Director of the Miami CTPAT Field Office. As the Director of the largest CTPAT office, Mr. Ginn was a primary force for the largest and most successful industry-government partnership programs in the world.
Over the next thirteen years, Mr. Ginn continued to help develop the CTPAT program from the original seven (7) members to over ten thousand (10,000) members. He traveled throughout the world promoting and performing capacity building of the program. In 2014, Mr. Ginn was assigned to begin the development of mutual recognition with Japan Customs. Mr. Ginn traveled to Tokyo and met with government officials to begin the development.
Over the years, Mr. Ginn continually helped to develop the program as well as create new benefits for the program. Mr. Ginn was the author and force for the creation of the Advanced Qualified Unlading Approval Lane or AQUA Lane. This benefit enabled CTPAT sea carriers to preschedule their unlading times with local CBP Ports of Entry. This allowed the sea carriers to have all of their logistics lined up before the vessel arrived saving millions of dollars in shore labor, fuel costs and container delivery.
In 2016, Mr. Ginn returned to the Miami Field Office and served as a Watch Commander for the Miami Airport Tactical Unit. Mr. Ginn was in charge of day-to-day operations for the Anti-Smuggling Unit, Outbound Enforcement, Internal Conspiracy Group, K-9 Unit, Advanced Targeting Unit and Firearms.
In 2023, Mr. Ginn served as Watch Commander for the Fines Penalty & Forfeiture (FP&F) unit which included the Seized Property Warehouse and the Miami Forensics Lab. In 2025, Watch Commander Ginn retired from CBP.