Possesses a considerable range of experience working in a variety of scientific disciplines. Areas of expertise include work and education in chemistry, pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, conservation biology, wildlife field biology, and ecology. Employers vary from government agencies to profit-based companies, as well as non-profit organizations. Non-profit and for-profit companies in conservation biology and environmental consulting primarily for the purpose of protection and survival of threatened and endangered wildlife species. Surveying and researching forest raptors throughout northern California, including the Coast Range and Sierra Nevada Mountains, with an emphasis in spotted owls (Strix occidentalis) and black-backed woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus). Has experience with biological resource surveys, training, and monitoring, for utilities projects in a variety of habitats throughout central and northern California and the San Francisco Bay regions. Experience with terrestrial species including but not limited to: burrowing owl (Athene cuniculari), salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris), California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus), and California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii). Has developed and performed genetic analysis on multiple spotted owl subspecies and populations and performed extensive fieldwork locating, monitoring, and mapping owl territories.