Experience

Project Enhancement Corporation
• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Wildlife Biologist/Consultant

  • Jan 2022 - Present


Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, Pantex

• Wildlife Biologist/Environmental Science Senior Specialist

  • Oct 1999 - Nov 2021

  Wildlife and Habitat Management on 18,000 acres. Wildlife SME in NEPA process. Fauna Media Scientist. Through company and USDOE/NNSA support, developed Pantex into a player in wildlife research and a leader in accomplishments under EO 13186, Responsibilities of Federal Agencies to Protect Migratory Birds (5 agency nominations and an 'honorable mention' [since 2012], and his work won the USDOE the 2019 Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award). Research that expands beyond the property borders and through South America. Represent facility on regional wildlife initiatives. Member, Texas Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Working Group. DOE Migratory Bird Working Group, DOE Pollinator Protection Working Group, Public outreach. Work with university collaborators on research projects. Research: Black-tailed prairie dogs and community (Pantex/Texas Parks and Wildlife Department/Texas Tech University/USGS Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit), western burrowing owls (Pantex/Texas Tech University/USGS Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit); Texas horned lizards (Pantex/West Texas A&M University), prairie rattlesnakes (Pantex/West Texas A&M University); bobcats (Pantex/West Texas A&M University); Swainson's hawks (Pantex/West Texas A&M University/USGS Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Texas Tech University); effects of wind energy development on wildlife (Pantex/West Texas A&M University/USGS Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit); purple martins (Pantex/York University/ University of Manitoba/Purple Martin Conservation Association/Texas Tech University/Texas Ornithological Society); monarch butterflies, other flying insects that migrate, and other pollinators (University of Oklahoma/Oklahoma Biological Survey/Aeroecology Group; and milkweed (Pantex staff). Show less



Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Migratory Birds/Wetlands Biologist

  • Aug 1990 - Jul 1999

  Responsible for TPWD's Waterfowl, Wetlands, and Sandhill Crane Management Programs in the High and Rolling Plains (77 counties). Playa Lakes Joint Venture Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Team. Central Flyway committees. Playa Lakes Interagency Disease Council. Represented the Central Flyway on the Technical Committee of the Arctic Goose Joint Venture. Partners in Flight. Area Manager, Playa Lakes Wildlife Management Area. Technical guidance to landowners. Wetland projects on both public and private lands. Aerial surveys. Research on waterfowl, sandhill cranes, shorebirds, cavity nesting birds, least terns. Served on many state and regional working groups: highway right-of-way management, wetlands, neotropical migratory birds, Conservation Reserve Program. Show less



U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Biological Technician

  • May 1990 - Jul 1990

  Waterfowl surveys. Wetland compliance flights. Technical guidance to landowners. Project development, with cost-share. Nest dragging. Waterfowl surveys. Wetland compliance flights. Technical guidance to landowners. Project development, with cost-share. Nest dragging.