Co-founder and facilitator of the UConn-Greenwich Collaboration, a multidisciplinary partnership to research and mitigate the pollution sources in the Long Island Sound and the effects of climate change.Developer of the strategic and marketing plans for an $11 million capital campaign for the Collaborative.

---Ownership and responsibility of strategic planning, financial and programmatic expansion, and fundraising initiatives for NYS's oldest environmental education center.---Authored and implemented quality control policies for the organizations' finances, facilities, administration, and communications.---Created advanced timelines to achieve strategic goals and programmatic expansion and secured the resources to achieve these goals.---Increased the Center’s earned income profitability by more than 20% and donor capacity by 30% in eighteen months.---Guaranteed programmatic excellence by initiating rigorous evaluations of stewardship and environmental programs.---Ensured effective systems to track and measure program outcomes and successes for over 8,000 annual school children from NYC and Long Island and communicate said outcomes to all stakeholders.

Directed daily operations; strategic planning, authorship of development plan, cultivation of board of directors, and oversight of the organization’s multimillion-dollar budget and programs that severed over 7,000 members.

I was a monthly guest as on Darby's 60-minute evening program. We spoke about au-courant science topics that pertained to the daily lives of Greenwich Citizens.

Monthly science contributor.

Fundraising and strategic planning.

I helped develop multi-disciplinary programming with other local not-for-profits to increase awareness about the importance of trees.

Accountable for: researching, curating, and authoring temporary and permanent exhibitions; developing new collections to expand research and educational facilities, developing outreach programs and evaluations, advancing the strategic plan and fundraising initiatives.Established collaborative programming with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the United Nations, National Audubon, University of Connecticut, NOAA, among others.

Authored strategic plans for exhibition development and capital campaigns; recruited company's board of directors, managed all organizational projects.Created and international interdisciplinary team of artists, designers, scientists, writers, architects, etc.

Facilitating collaborative relationships and fund raising.

Curated a $3.5 million award-winning permanent exhibition: The Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land.Editor of a 26-chapter research volume on mammalian evolution.

Postdoctoral Research Internship, Entomology Molecular Lab, 1996–1997Extraction, isolation, and analysis of sturgeon DNA.Frick Doctoral Fellow, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1990-1997Graduate Student.Project Coordinator, Department of Exhibitions, 1989-1990Development of a $45 million budget for the renovation of the six Halls of Vertebrate Evolution, creation and management of an international team of artists and scientists.

Compiled and managed specimen/artifact, graphic, illustration, and artwork lists for exhibitions. Conducted topic research and exhibit scripting.

Launched and managed the first captive-breeding program for the endangered peccary, Catagonus wagneri, in collaboration with the San Diego Zoo.