I currently serve as a Natural Resources Manager for the Montana Department of Military Affairs, supporting the MTARNG at the Fort Harrison and Limestone Hills Training Areas. I am entering my seventh season building a program that had remained static since its inception.

My natural resources career began in the Midwest working for the Illinois Natural History Survey as a fisheries technician assisting with fishery sampling on small midwestern streams to the much larger waters of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Following that, much of my career has been spent working for private consultants as a wetland scientist. Geographically, my field of work has ranged from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia to southwestern Montana surveying energy infrastructure corridors, wind farm locations, and wetland mitigation banks.