Experience

Aquaculture Consultants
• United States
• Fisheries
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Aquaculture Consultant

  • Mar 2019 - Present

PRAIRIE AQUATECH
• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Co-Director of Product and Feed Development

  • Jun 2015 - Mar 2019


Aquaculture Associates

• Principal

  • Dec 2014 - Jan 2016

  Aquaculture Associates, formed in December 2014 with Dr. H. William Harris, was a consulting company which specialized in providing technology applications and development as well as consultation for companies in the global aquaculture industry. We worked with open ocean net pen operations, high density recirculation systems, raceway and pond systems. Species consulted on included cobia, Florida pompano, yellow perch, rainbow trout and coho salmon. Aquaculture Associates, formed in December 2014 with Dr. H. William Harris, was a consulting company which specialized in providing technology applications and development as well as consultation for companies in the global aquaculture industry. We worked with open ocean net pen operations, high density recirculation systems, raceway and pond systems. Species consulted on included cobia, Florida pompano, yellow perch, rainbow trout and coho salmon.



Virginia Cobia Farms

• United States
• Farming

• Group Leader Nutrition

  • Mar 2008 - Feb 2015

  In my position as Group Leader Nutrition at LSI, I was responsible for all dietary formulations for cobia and Florida pompano, from brood stock through to market sized fish, grown under low salinity conditions in recirculating aquaculture systems. I was responsible for the development and commercial implementation of the first commercial fish meal-free aquafeed designed for marine carnivorous fish--cobia and Florida pompano. Along with the Chief Scientific Officer, H. William Harris, MD, Ph.D, I made novel nutritional discoveries in marine fish by linking physiology and nutrition, which I continue to utilize to the present day in all of my commercial feed formulations.



Virginia Tech

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor, Va/Md Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Jul 2001 - Mar 2008

  Served as an Associate Professor of Aquaculture Nutrition in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, where my research program focused upon quantitative nutritional requirements for emerging aquaculture species, development of species-specific diets for candidate species, alternative protein and lipid sources for aquafeed incorporation, organic nutritional research, interactions between nutrition and immune function and final product quality. During my time at Virginia Tech, I authored over 45 peer-reviewed papers in the scientific literature and I served as chief aquafeed formulator for Southern States Cooperative from 2001 through 2004. I have over 28 years of nutritional and biochemical experience with warm water marine fish and shrimp, emphasizing high-density, recirculating aquaculture systems.