Experience

Self-employed

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant in biodiversity conservation, forest managment, climate change

  • Mar 2016 - Present



TetraTech/ARD

• Chief of Party, India Partnership for Land Use Science (Forest-PLUS)

  • Oct 2013 - Mar 2016

  Forest-PLUS is a USAID-funded project to help strengthen REDD+ capacity in India, collaborating closely with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). Forest-PLUS works at national, state and site levels to:• address sectoral barriers to the adoption of REDD+;• build human and institutional capacity to implement REDD+;• develop and deploy tools, techniques, and methods to improve forest ecosystem management and increase carbon sequestration in forests;• develop and deploy methods for forest carbon inventory and reference baselines; and• analyze and implement social and economic incentives for REDD+ policies and practices.Forest-PLUS is piloting REDD+ activities at sites in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, and Sikkim.



Tetra Tech ARD

• Senior Technical Expert - Climate Change

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2013

  Provide technical advice to the USAID Global Climate Change Initiative through its GCC Monitoring and Evaluation Project. Provide technical advice to the USAID Global Climate Change Initiative through its GCC Monitoring and Evaluation Project.



Development Alternatives, Inc.

• Chief of Party, Improved Management and Conservation of Critical Watersheds (IMCCW)

  • Sep 2009 - Mar 2011

  Director of USAID Improved Management and Conservation of Critical Watersheds project.(IMCCW). Watershed management, protected areas management, endangered species protection (sea turtles), sustainable natural resources economic development, natural resources policy Director of USAID Improved Management and Conservation of Critical Watersheds project.(IMCCW). Watershed management, protected areas management, endangered species protection (sea turtles), sustainable natural resources economic development, natural resources policy



Conservation International

• Country Director, Equatorial Guinea

  • Jun 2004 - Sep 2009

  Director, CI's Equatorial Guinea Country Program, Manager, Monte Alen-Monts de Cristal landscape consortium for USAID CARPE, tropical biodiversity conservation, biodiversity conservation education, conservation NGO capacity building, protected areas development and management, biodiversity and natural resources policy Director, CI's Equatorial Guinea Country Program, Manager, Monte Alen-Monts de Cristal landscape consortium for USAID CARPE, tropical biodiversity conservation, biodiversity conservation education, conservation NGO capacity building, protected areas development and management, biodiversity and natural resources policy



The Nature Conservancy

• Senior Conservation Ecologist, Caribbean

  • Feb 2000 - May 2004

  Marine and insular Caribbean ecoregional planning, conservation area planning, interim TNC Jamaica Country Program Director, biodiversity conservation in the Caribbean and Central America, Marine and insular Caribbean ecoregional planning, conservation area planning, interim TNC Jamaica Country Program Director, biodiversity conservation in the Caribbean and Central America,



Fairchild Tropical Garden

• Conservation Biologist

  • Jun 1993 - Feb 2000

  Endangered species conservation, conservation biology graduate education, conservation biology research, south Florida, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Central America Endangered species conservation, conservation biology graduate education, conservation biology research, south Florida, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Central America