Focus on design and construction project development and management for new detention facilities construction. Twenty-four plus years of direct correctional supervisory experience, working at several California Department of Corrections (CDCR) medium and higher custody institutions. Experienced since 1987 in direct managerial responsibility for budgetary expenditures, prison facilities operations, staffing (sworn peace officers and non-sworn personnel), employee post assignment scheduling, budgetary process, inmate grievance and appeal processes, internal sworn peace officer custody and departmental procedural audit processes, labor contract negotiations, and managerial, supervisory and line staff training and recruitment. Direct involvement in drafting construction proposals for new municipal operated detention facilities (re-entry, medical services, general detention of state inmates, and fire protection and conservation camp facilities). Direct involvement in site surveys, architectural design ,development and revisions, and materials vendor and contract negotiations.

Increasing managerial responsibilities from Investigative Captain, Housing Unit Correctional Captain from October,1987 to December,1993; promoting January, 1994, to Correctional Administrator, Institutional Central Operations. Division-level managerial responsibilities for institutional uniformed personnel operations, for medium custody, 2700-plus inmates facilities operations, budgetary process , expenditures management , and both custody peace officer and non-custody staff labor contract negotiations. This involved both 270-plus sworn peace officer and non-sworn personnel. Reviewed as institutions' Chief Disciplinary Officer all inmate disciplinary Hearings for procedural correctness and due process. This included reviews of institution level responses to all inmate written grievances ensuring due process and fairness requirements were met. Division level administrator at several California state prisons, both male and female, medium and higher custody levels. Directly involved at the institution level for federal court mandated injunctions for court ordered compliance and audit of court orders adherence involving inmate housing, access to recreation and law library, disciplinary procedural requirements, and medical care delivery and best practices. A lead instructor for department training branch for newly promoted custody managers. Expert instructor for new second line supervisors in custody Post Assignment Scheduling (PAS). Additional responsibility as institutional emergency response team/ hostage negotiation team coordinator.(Retired April, 2003).

Managerial responsibility as both Correctional Captain and Program Administrator for medium custody prison housing unit operations for 900-plus inmates. Under direction of a Correctional Administrator, responsible for day-to-day functions of 45-plus sworn, uniformed staff activities in a medium custody program unit. Duties include chairing inmate classification committees, inmate disciplinary and grievance appeal reviewer, and reviewing custody peace officer staff scheduling assignments, monitoring all unit budgetary expenditures, and direct involvement in custody peace officer and medical staff labor union negotiations and staff labor contract issues.Directly involved in and lead manager for institution's recycling program of recycling and salvaging scrap metal, plastic, paper, wood, and other recycled materials, netting sizable cost savings and returned funds to the institution.

Investigative managerial responsibility for institution-level criminal investigation unit and special security squad San Quentin State Prison. As a trained and certified criminal investigator, this responsibility included criminal investigations of criminal activities, and street and prison gang activities, evidence preservation and court testimony. Regularly met with outside law enforcement agencies and the Marin County District Attorney's staff and investigators. This included direct investigative involvement and court testimony in high profile inmate gang racketeering prosecution submissions.

Government Program Analyst, Institutions Division. CDCR Headquarters, involved in responding for CDCR on departmental legislative and policy inquires and drafting departmental policy and procedural issue statements. This regularly involved responding to State level Legislative and other State agencies contacts. Involved in state-wide institution operations audits of CDCR's prisons and conservation/fire prevention camps, and recommending procedural changes as needed. Regularly reviewing institutional budget change proposals for twenty-plus institutions'​ facilities' budgets before forwarding for upper level CDCR executive review. Monitored and conducted internal audits of state-wide emergency response preparedness exercises .

Supervising casework counselor directly involved in initial classification hearing committees for newly incarcerated inmates for initial programming , custody designation, and housing needs. This also included supervision of programming ,custody designation, and housing of medically designated inmates with psychiatric issues. This included outside department contacts with the Department of Mental Health (DMH) for potential transport and placement of medically designated inmates better housed with the DMH.

Public Information Officer and Relief Watch Commander, California State Prison at San Quentin. Institution spokesperson for media and outside local, state, national and foreign agency and media contacts. Routinely responded on institution's events, incidents, and procedural and operational practices inquiries. Custody duties involved second line supervisory relief watch commander and inmate disciplinary hearing officer.