Prior to his arrival at VCU he served in the Department of Homeland Security in several senior executive level positions, including the Department’s Senior Representative to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; acting Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis (Intelligence); the first Associate Director for Homeland Security at the Presidential directed Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) and as special assistant to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Parrish currently serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Academe, Policy and Research Senior Advisory Council to the Department of Homeland Security and also serves as a member to the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Advisory Council.