Shara serves as a  Trust Compliance Consultant & Fraud Analyst responsible for assisting trust organizations in areas of risk assessment and compliance while her fraud expertise is utilized in compliance oversight, risk assessment and policy development. Additionally, she will be responsible for fraud investigation and resolution, including data analysis to identify patterns of suspicious activities and compliance breaches.

Prior to joining FiPar, Shara served as a Frost Banker for 25 years in Fiduciary Compliance & Fraud Detection & Resolution..

Shara's specific areas of training, expertise and responsibility have included Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML), Currency Transaction Report (CTR), Suspicious Activity Report (SAR), Monetary Instrument Log (MIL), Know Your Customer (KYC), Currency and Monetary Instrument Report (CMIR), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Customer Identification Program (CIP) and Politically Exposed People (PEP). Additionally, she possesses working familiarity and experience with select provisions of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), USA PATRIOT Act, Volcker Rule, Reg D, Reg O and Reg R, plus a host of interrelated fraud detection and resolution strategies.

Shara's educational background includes graduation from San Antonio College, SST Travel School as an International Travel Agent and multiple trust curriculums.

She serves as an active animal rescue and rehabilitation volunteer and member of numerous animal, environmental and conservationist associations.